Gamescom Award 2023 nominees detailed ahead of voting

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The Gamescom Award 2023 nominees have today been detailed ahead of voting by officials and players alike.

Here’s who is up for what:

Best Visuals

• Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon, From Software / Bandai Namco Entertainment
• Black Myth: Wukong, Game Science Interactive Technology
• REKA, Emberstorm Entertainment / Fireshine Games
• Sand Land, ILCA, Inc. / Bandai Namco Entertainment
• The Many Pieces of Mr. Coo, Gammera Nest / Meridiem Games

Best Audio

• Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon, From Software / Bandai Namco Entertainment
• Headbangers: Rhythm Royale, Glee-Cheese / Team17 Digital
• REKA, Emberstorm Entertainment / Fireshine Games
• Savant – Ascent Remix, D-Pad Studio
• The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, Nintendo

Best Gameplay

• Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon, From Software / Bandai Namco Entertainment
• Paper Trail, Newfangled Games
• Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew, Mimimi Games
• The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, Nintendo
• The Wandering Village, Stray Fawn Studio

Most Entertaining

• AK-xolotl, 2Awesome Studio / Playstack
• Core Keeper, Pugstorm / Fireshine Games
• Headbangers: Rhythm Royale, Glee-Cheese / Team17 Digital
• PAYDAY 3, Starbreeze Studios / Plaion
• Pizza Possum, Cosy Computer / Raw Fury

Most Epic

• Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon, From Software / Bandai Namco Entertainment
• Black Myth: Wukong, Game Science Interactive Technology
• Dwarf Fortress, Bay 12 Games / Kitfox Games
• Sand Land, ILCA / Bandai Namco Entertainment
• The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, Nintendo

Most Wholesome

• Pikmin 4, Nintendo
• Pioneers of Pagonia, Envision Entertainment
• Smushi Come Home, Mooneye Publishing
• The Wandering Village, Stray Fawn Studio
• Tiny Booskhop, neoludic games

Games for Impact

• A Space for the Unbound, Mojiken / Toge Productions
• Belonging, Farbspiel Interactive
• Dead Pets Unleashed, Triple Topping Games
• Fall of Porcupine, Critical Rabbit / Assemble Entertainment
• Sky: Children of the Light, thatgamecompany

Best Microsoft Xbox Game

• Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon, From Software / Bandai Namco Entertainment
• Enotria: The Last Song, Jyamma Games
• Mortal Kombat 1, NetherRealm Studios / Warner Bros. Entertainment
• The Wandering Village, Stray Fawn Studio
• Towerborne, Stoic / Xbox Game Studios

Best Nintendo Switch Game

• Fall of Porcupine, Critical Rabbit / Assemble Entertainment
• Figment 2: Creed Valley, Bedtime Digital Games
• Paper Trail, Newfangled Games
• The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, Nintendo
• The Smurfs 2 – The Prisoner of the Green Stone, Osome Studio / Microids

Best PC Game

• Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon, From Software / Bandai Namco Entertainment
• Dwarf Fortress, Bay 12 Games / Kitfox Games
• PAYDAY 3, Starbreeze Studios / Plaion
• REKA, Emberstorm Entertainment / Fireshine Games
• Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew, Mimimi Games

Best Sony PlayStation Game

• Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon, From Software / Bandai Namco Entertainment
• Enotria: The Last Song, Jyamma Games
• Mortal Kombat 1, NetherRealm Studios / Warner Bros. Entertainment
• Sand Land, ILCA / Bandai Namco Entertainment
• Tekken 8, Bandai Namco Entertainment

Best Mobile Game

• Genshin Impact, HoYoverse
• Marvel Snap, Second Dinner Studios / Nuverse
• Monster Hunter Now, Niantic / Capcom
• Paper Trail, Newfangled Games
• Sky: Children of the Light, thatgamecompany

gamescom Green Studio of the Year

• Frontier Developments
• Ubisoft
• Xbox

Fans will be invited to vote on select categories here.

We’ll have more from Gamescom 2023 as it develops.