Best Surprise of 2023

The staff and community votes for the winner here were pretty identical: 34.42% and 37.7% respectively. The runner-up was a fair way behind on 18.875% of the combined vote.

Interesting. Kinda assumed that was fifth since I hadn't heard much talk about it beforehand (the soundtrack that is).

Most Disappointing Game of 2023

This was the closest we came to a four-way tie: first place got 24.55%, second 22.90%, third 22.80%, and fourth 22.20%.

Most Anticipated Game of 2024

For me this was one of the weaker shortlists for this particular award in many years, but the staff and community alike had a clear favourite for 1st place. It won with 36.38% of the combined vote.

Just the Overall Game of the Year to go now!

While the winner for GotY seems fairly obvious I'm quite curious to how the shortlist and runner up turns out. I feel like the remaining five are actually relatively evenly matched on here

Overall Game of the Year 2023

The final award for the 18th annual VGChartz Game of the Year Awards! Here are the final results in full:

Thank you to everyone who took part and voted, and especially to the members of the writing team who wrote up the articles.

Until next year!

Thanks for hosting this again, always a nice event.

A spoiler about your spoiler:

Great to see Zelda take the top spot: it was a very strong year, but Tears was really something special. I also liked that Mario Wonder and Hifi Rush won some categories.

Thanks to the staff for running this, as always it's much appreciated.