Finished with the Categories and Genres; Tally is up on the OT, here's what we got so far:
Best Indie
Lead: Stray - 31
Runners Up: SIFU - 8
Best Action
Lead: God of War Ragnarok - 12 😅
Runners Up: Bayonetta 3 & SIFU - 7
Best Action Adventure
Lead: God of War Ragnarok - 36
Runners Up: A Plague Tale Requiem - 6
Best Adventure
Lead: Stray - 9
Runners Up: Return to Monkey Island & Pentiment - 5
Best RPG
Lead: Elden Ring - 49
Runners Up: Xenoblade Chronicles 3 - 9
Best Fighter
Lead: Multiversus - 14
Runners up: SIFU - 8😵💫
Best Shooter
Lead: Call of Duty Modern Warfare II - 29
Runners Up: Metal Hellsinger & Tiny Tina's Wonderland - 3
Best Family / Party
Lead: Lego Star Wars Skywalker Saga & Kirby and the Forgotten Land - 5
Runners Up: Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope - 4
Best Horror
Lead: Signalis & The Callisto Protocol - 5
Runners Up: Scorn - 4
Best Strategy / Simulation
Lead: Total War: Warhammer III - 22
Runners Up: Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope - 10
Best Platformer
Lead: Kirby and the Forgotten Land - 7
Runners Up: Lego Star Wars Skywalker Saga & Stray - 3
Best Racing / Sports
Lead: Gran Turismo 7 - 41
Runners Up: FIFA 23 - 14
Best Puzzle
Lead: Return to Monkey Island - 3
Runners Up: Knotwords, Scorn, Lego Star Wars, We Were Here Forever, Stray, The Entropy Center, Last Call BBS & Never Alone - 1
Best Multiplayer / Co-Op
Lead: Call of Duty Modern Warfare II - 21
Runners Up: Splatoon 3 - 9
Best Ongoing / Live Service
Lead: Final Fantasy XIV - 12
Runners Up - Destiny 2 & Genshin Impact - 4
Best VR
Lead: Moss Book II - 10
Runners up: Compound, Hubris & Among Us VR - 2
Best Mobile
Lead: Marvel Snap - 10
Runners Up: Diablo Immortal - 7
Best DLC / Expansion
Lead: Cuphead: The Delicious Last Course - 10
Runners Up: Sunbreak, Valhalla & Witch Queen - 3
Best Remaster / Remake
Lead: The Last of Us Part I - 10
Runners Up: TMNT The Cowabunga Collection & Crisis Core Reunion - 2
Best Game Design
Lead: Elden Ring - 15
Runners Up: SIFU, Marvel Snap & GOW Ragnarok - 1
Best Game Direction
Lead: Elden Ring - 10
Runners Up: God of War Ragnarok - 4
Best Sound / Audio Design
Lead: God of War Ragnarok - 15
Runners Up: Elden Ring - 4
Best Music / Original Score
Lead: Elden Ring - 15
Runners Up: God of War Ragnarok - 14
Best Art / Visual Design
Lead: Elden Ring - 26
Runners Up: Horizon Forbidden West - 15
Best Story / Narrative
Lead: God of War Ragnarok - 46
Runners Up: A Plague Tale Requiem - 5
Best Accessibility
Lead: God of War Ragnarok - 3
Runners Up: The Last of Us Part I - 2
Best Performance(s)
Lead: Christopher Judge as Kratos in God of War Ragnarok - 14
Runners Up: Manon Gage as Marissa Marcel in Immortality - 2
Best Developer
Lead: FromSotware - 8
Runners Up: Asobo, Obsidian, Square Enix, Activision Blizzard? and PlayStation Studios? - 1
Some Notes:
-Pretty sure not everyone is counted, did my best to go through and find categories from everyone in the OT (most of them had them on another articles or page). Feel free to let me know if you find any.
-Action and Action Adventure Categories are a mess between all the sites. I did my best to keep things in line but as you can see sites consider GOW the best Action game and others consider it the best Action Adventure game.
-Best Fighter is hilarious. But I guess now we can lay off Geoff for having SIFU in the fighting category lol
-Surprisingly no Best Animation category aside from the big dev awards like DICE.
-I combined a lot of them due to the fact that many of the sites have them combined like Racing / Sports, Multiplayer / Co-Op and Art / Visuals.
-This was kinda interesting, will do it earlier for this year's tally.
-Might wait a little bit more for the other big awards before calling it in but most of these are cut and dried.
