Meet the 2021 Golden Joystick Awards nominees

The year 2021 is slowly but surely coming to an end, which means that the season of awards and awards is coming. One of these awards will be the annual Golden Joystick Awards.

The GamesRadar portal has presented a list of nominees for 2021. You can vote for projects in 18 nominations, about which below.

Best plot

• Life is Strange: True Colors
• Psychonauts 2
• Wildermyth
• 12 Minutes
• Chicory: A Colorful Tale
• Tales of arise

Best Multiplayer

• Deathloop
• It Takes Two
• Chivalry 2
• Back 4 blood
• Valheim
• NARAKA: BLADEPOINT

Best visual design

• Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart
• Psychonauts 2
• The artful escape
• Little nightmares 2
• Hitman 3
• Genesis noir

Best Indie Game

• Death's door
• Chicory: A Colorful Tale
• Old world
• Wildermyth
• Bonfire peaks
• Sable

Studio of the Year

• Io Interactive
• Arkane
• Housemarque
• Double fine
• Capcom
• Draknek & friends

Best addition

• Ghost of Tsushima: Iki Island
• Final Fantasy 7 Remake: Episode Intermission
• The Outer Worlds: Murder on Eridanos
• Sims 4: Cottage Living
• Super Mario: Bowser's Fury
• DOOM Eternal: The Ancient Gods Part 2

Mobile Game of the Year

• Clap hanz golf
• Fantasian
• Overboard!
• Alba: A Wildlife Adventure
• Cozy grove
• League of Legends: Wild Rift

Best Sound

• Returnal
• Jett: The Far Shore
• Sable
• Little nightmares 2
• Resident evil village
• The artful escape

Best Performance by a Performance

• Jason Kelly - Deathloop's Colt Wan
• Erica Mori as Alex Chen from Life is Strange: True Colors
• Maggie Robertson as Lady Dimitrescu from Resident Evil Village
• Ozioma Akaga - Julianne Blake from Deathloop
• Jennifer Hale - Rivet from Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart
• Elijah Wood - Gristol/Nick from Psychonauts 2

Best gaming community

• Final fantasy 14
• No man's sky
• Dreams
• Monster hunter rise
• Destiny 2
• Magic: The Gathering Arena

PC Game of the Year

• Wildermyth
• Chivalry 2
• Old world
• Hitman 3
• Pathfinder
• The forgotten city

PlayStation Game of the Year

• Returnal
• Deathloop
• Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart
• Resident Evil: Village
• Death Stranding Director's Cut
• Kena: Bridge Of Spirits

Xbox Game of the Year

• Lost Judgment
• The ascent
• Psychonauts 2
• Microsoft Flight Simulator
• The artful escape
• 12 Minutes

Nintendo Game of the Year

• New pokemon snap
• Neo: The World Ends with You
• Monster hunter rise
• Bravely default 2
• WarioWare: Get It Together
• Metroid dread

Best gaming hardware

• PS5
• Xbox series x
• Xbox series s
• NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080
• Nintendo Switch OLED
• WD_BLACK SN850 NVMe SSD

Best Supported Game

• Apex legends
• Call of Duty: Warzone
• Final fantasy 14
• Destiny 2
• GTA Online
• Genshin impact
• Fortnite
• Tom clancy's rainbow six siege
• Rocket league
• Counter-Strike: Global Offensive

Most Anticipated Game

• God of War: Ragnarok
• Horizon forbidden west
• Halo infinite
• Marvel's Midnight Suns
• GTA V: Enhanced Edition
• Skate 4
• Elden ring
• LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga
• The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild 2
• Pokemon Legends: Arceus
• Starfield
• Gotham knights

Game of the Year

• Deathloop
• Psychonauts 2
• Resident evil village
• Ratchet and Clank
• Wildermyth
• Hitman 3
• The forgotten city
• It Takes Two
• Metroid dread
• Mass Effect Legendary Edition

Let's remind that last year The Last of Us 2 rules the ball. The creation of Naughty Dog won 5 nominations, including "Game of the Year", and who will be the best this year - we will find out on November 23rd.