The Game Award for Best Game Direction
The Game Awards · 52 nominations across 10 ceremonies · 10 wins
The Game Awards 2025 · 2025
- Winner Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 · Sandfall Interactive
- Nominee Hades II · Supergiant Games
- Nominee Ghost of Yōtei · Sucker Punch Productions
- Nominee Death Stranding 2: On the Beach · Kojima Productions
- Nominee Split Fiction · Hazelight Studios
The Game Awards 2024 · 2024
- Winner Astro Bot · Team Asobi
- Nominee Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree · FromSoftware
- Nominee Final Fantasy VII Rebirth · Square Enix
- Nominee Balatro · LocalThunk
- Nominee Black Myth: Wukong · Game Science
- Nominee Metaphor: ReFantazio · Atlus, Studio Zero
The Game Awards 2023 · 2023
- Winner Alan Wake 2 · Remedy Entertainment
- Nominee Baldur's Gate 3 · Larian Studios
- Nominee Super Mario Bros. Wonder · Nintendo Entertainment Planning & Development
- Nominee Spider-Man 2 · Insomniac Games, Nixxes Software
- Nominee The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom · Monolith Soft Inc., Nintendo Entertainment Planning & Development
The Game Awards 2022 · 2022
- Winner Elden Ring · FromSoftware
- Nominee Immortality · Half Mermaid Productions
- Nominee Horizon Forbidden West · Guerrilla Games, Sony Interactive Entertainment
- Nominee Stray · BlueTwelve Studio
- Nominee God of War Ragnarök · Jetpack Interactive, Santa Monica Studio
The Game Awards 2021 · 2021
- Winner Deathloop · Arkane Studios
- Nominee Psychonauts 2 · Double Fine
- Nominee It Takes Two · Hazelight Studios
- Nominee Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart · Insomniac Games
- Nominee Returnal · Housemarque
The Game Awards 2020 · 2020
- Winner The Last of Us Part II · Naughty Dog
- Nominee Final Fantasy VII Remake · Square Enix, Square Enix Business Division 1
- Nominee Half-Life: Alyx · Campo Santo, Valve Corporation
- Nominee Hades · Supergiant Games
- Nominee Ghost of Tsushima · Sucker Punch Productions
The Game Awards 2019 · 2019
- Winner Death Stranding · Guerrilla Games, Kojima Productions
- Nominee Resident Evil 2 · Capcom
- Nominee Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice · FromSoftware
- Nominee Control · Remedy Entertainment
- Nominee Outer Wilds · Mobius Digital
The Game Awards 2018 · 2018
- Winner God of War · Jetpack Interactive, Santa Monica Studio
- Nominee Red Dead Redemption 2 · Rockstar San Diego
- Nominee A Way Out
- Nominee Spider-Man · Insomniac Games
- Nominee A Way Out · Hazelight Studios
- Nominee Detroit: Become Human · Quantic Dream
The Game Awards 2017 · 2017
- Winner The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild · Monolith Soft Inc., Nintendo Entertainment Planning & Development
- Nominee Horizon Zero Dawn · Guerrilla Games, Sony Interactive Entertainment
- Nominee Super Mario Odyssey · Nintendo
- Nominee Resident Evil 7: Biohazard · Capcom
- Nominee Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus · MachineGames
The Game Awards 2016 · 2016
- Winner Overwatch · Blizzard Entertainment
- Nominee Uncharted 4: A Thief's End · Naughty Dog
- Nominee Doom · Bethesda Game Studios, id Software
- Nominee Battlefield 1 · DICE
- Nominee Titanfall 2 · Respawn Entertainment