Hades wins big at 2021 Game Developers Choice Awards

Results are now available for the 2021 Game Developers Choice Awards and it’s indie darling Underworld which has won numerous awards, including the coveted Game of the Year. Hades is available now on Nintendo Switch and will be available on Xbox Game Pass this month if you have a subscription. Here are the results of this year’s Game Developers Choice Awards:

BEST AUDIO Hades (Supergiant Games) The Last of Us Part II (Naughty Dog / Sony Interactive Entertainment) Doom Eternal (id Software / Bethesda Softworks) Final Fantasy VII: Remake (Square Enix) Ghost of Tsushima (Sucker Punch Productions / Sony Interactive Entertainment ) Honorable mentions: Half-Life: Alyx (Valve), Animal Crossing: New Horizons (Nintendo EPD / Nintendo), Ori and the Will of the Wisps (Moon Studios / Xbox Game Studios / iam8bit), Fuser (Harmonix Music Systems / NCsoft ) BEST DEBUT Phasmophobia (Kinetic Games) Umurangi Generation (Origame Digital / Playism, Origame Digital) Carrion (Phobia Game Studio / Devolver Digital) Mortal Shell (Cold Symmetry / Playstack) Raji: An Ancient Epic (Hodding Heads Games / Super! Com) Honorable mentions: Call of the Sea (Out of the Blue / Raw Fury), Röki (Polygon Treehouse / CI Games), If Found… (Dreamfeel / Annapurna Interactive) BEST DESIGN Ghost of Tsushima (Sucker Punch Productions / Sony Interactive Entertainment) Last of Us Part II (Vilain D og / Sony Interactive Entertainment) Hades (Supergiant Games) Animal Crossing: New Horizons (Nintendo EPD / Nintendo) Half-Life: Alyx (Valve) Honorable mentions: Final Fantasy VII: Remake (Square Enix), Crusader Kings III (Paradox Development Studio / Paradox Interactive), Spelunky 2 (Blitworks, Mossmouth / Mossmouth), Dreams (Media Molecule / Sony Interactive Entertainment) INNOVATION AWARD Microsoft Flight Simulator (Asobo Studio / Xbox Game Studios) Dreams (Media Molecule / Sony Interactive Entertainment) Half-Life: Alyx (Valve) Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout (Mediatonic / Devolver Digital) Hades (Supergiant Games) Honorable mentions: Astro’s Playroom (Sony Japan Studio / Team Asobi / Sony Interactive Entertainment), Ghost of Tsushima (Sucker Punch Productions / Sony Interactive Entertainment), The Last of Us Part II (Naughty Dog / Sony Interactive Entertainment), Watch Dogs: Legion (Ubisoft Toronto / Ubisoft) BEST MOBILE GAME The Pathless (Giant Squid / Annapurna Intera ctive) Genshin Impact (miHo Yo) Legends of Runeterra (Riot Games) Alba: A Wildlife Adventure (ustwo / PID Publishing) If Found… (Dreamfeel / Annapurna Interactive) Honorable mentions: Pokémon Café Mix (Genius Sonority / Nintendo / The Pokémon Company ), Reigns: Beyond (Nerial / Devolver Digital) BEST NARRATIVE Kentucky Route Zero: TV Edition (Cardboard Computer / Annapurna Interactive) Final Fantasy VII: Remake (Square Enix) Hades (Supergiant Games) The Last of Us Part II (Naughty Dog / Sony Interactive Entertainment) Ghost of Tsushima (Sucker Punch Productions / Sony Interactive Entertainment) Honorable mentions: Spiritfarer (Thunder Lotus Games), Half-Life: Alyx (Valve), Cyberpunk 2077 (CD Projekt RED / CD Projekt), If Found… ( Dreamfeel / Annapurna Interactive), Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales (Insomniac Games / Sony Interactive Entertainment), 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim (Vanillaware / Atlus) BEST TECHNOLOGY The Last of Us Part II (Naughty Dog / Sony Interactive Entertainment) Ha lf-Life: Alyx (Valve) Dreams (Molecule Media / Sony Interactive Entertainment) Ghost of Tsushima (Sucker Punch Productions / Sony Interactive Entertainment) Microsoft Flight Simulator (Asobo Studio / Xbox Game Studios) Honorable Mentions: Final Fantasy VII: Remake (Square Enix), Astro’s Playroom (Sony Japan Studio / Team Asobi / Sony Interactive Entertainment), Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales (Insomniac Games / Sony Interactive Entertainment) BEST VISUAL ART Ghost of Tsushima (Sucker Punch Productions / Sony Interactive Entertainment) Hades ( Supergiant Games) The Last of Us Part II (Naughty Dog) / Sony Interactive Entertainment) Ori and the Will of the Wisps (Moon Studios / Xbox Game Studios / iam8bit) Cyberpunk 2077 (CD Projekt RED / CD Projekt) Honorable mentions: Final Fantasy VII: Remake (Square Enix), Spiritfarer (Thunder Lotus Games), Umurangi Generation (Origame Digital / Playism, Origame Digital), Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales (Insomniac Games / Sony Interactive Entert ainment) BEST VR / AR GAME The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinn ers (Skydance Interactive) Paper Beast (Pixel Reef) Dreams (Media Molecule / Sony Interactive Entertainment) Half-Life: Alyx (Valve) Star Wars: Squadrons (Motive Studios / Electronic Arts) Honorable mentions: Phasmophobia (Kinetic Games), The Room VR: A Dark Matter (Fireproof Games), Iron Man VR (Camouflaj / Sony Interactive Entertainment), Microsoft Flight Simulator (Asobo Studio / Xbox Game Studios), Until You Fall (Schell Games) GAME OF THE YEAR Animal Crossing: New Horizons (Nintendo EPD / Nintendo) The Last of Us Part II (Naughty Dog / Sony Interactive Entertainment) Half-Life: Alyx (Valve) Hades (Supergiant Games) Ghost of Tsushima (Sucker Punch Productions / Sony Interactive Entertainment) Honorable mentions: Spelunky 2 (Blitworks, Mossmouth / Mossmouth), Doom Eternal (id Software / Bethesda Softworks), Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales (Insomniac Games / Sony Interactive Entertainment), Microsoft Flight Simulator (Asobo Studio / Xbox Game Studios), Final Fantasy VII: Remake (Square Enix), Genshin impact (miHoYo) Audience Award Pioneer Award Tom Fulp, creator of Newgrounds and co-founder of the Behemoth Lifetime Achievement Award Laralyn McWilliams, creative director of Free Realms and Senior Director of Full Spectrum Warrior

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