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The 2011 Game of the Year is Dark Souls, and the runner up is a tie between Portal 2 and The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.

This was an extremely close vote, both originally and in the runoff.  Originally Dark Souls was just barely ahead of Skyrim right before the runoff.  But when the runoff started Portal 2 got an early lead.  In the end there really were 3 exceptional games in a year full of other great games like Minecraft and Arkham City.  However, you have to really git gud to beat Dark Souls.