Elden Ring, God of War: Ragnarok, Stray, and Pentiment are leading the finalists for 2023's Game Developers Choice Awards, the video game awards voted for by developers.
All four of these games feature in the Game of the Year category, alongside Sam Barlow's Immortality and Tunic. Elden Ring and Stray have a total of six nominations each while God of War: Ragnarok has five.
The results of the awards will be announced at 2023's Game Developers Conference on March 22, held alongside the Independent Games Festival Awards - the nominations for which were announced yesterday.
The full list of nominees can be seen below:
Best Audio
- Elden Ring
- God of War Ragnarok
- Horizon Forbidden West
- Metal: Hellsinger
- Stray
Best Debut
- Neon White
- Norco
- Stray
- Tunic
- Vampire Survivors
Best Design
- Elden Ring
- Marvel Snap
- Neon White
- Stray
- Tunic
Innovation Award
- Elden Ring
- Immortality
- Neon White
- Pentiment
- Stray
Best Narrative
- God of War Ragnarok
- I Was a Teenage Exocolonist
- Immortality
- Pentiment
- Return to Monkey Island
Social Impact Award
- As Dusk Falls
- Citizen Sleeper
- Endling - Extinction Is Forever
- I Was A Teenage Exocolonist
- OlliOlli World
- We Are OFK
Best Technology
- A Plague Tale: Requiem
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II
- Elden Ring
- God of War: Ragnarok
- Horizon Forbidden West
Best Visual Art
- Elden Ring
- God of War: Ragnarok
- Horizon: Forbidden West
- Pentiment
- Stray
Game of the Year
- Elden Ring
- God of War: Ragnarok
- Immortality
- Pentiment
- Stray
- Tunic
Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelancer and acting UK news editor. He'll talk about The Witcher all day.
