Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is as soon as once more sweeping award nominations, this time on the Game Developers Choice Awards, the place it has been nominated for all however one award.
The group introduced its nominees for the GDC Awards right this moment, with Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 garnering probably the most by far: eight award nominations out of 9 doable awards, together with Game of the Yr. The one award it didn’t obtain a nomination for was the Social Affect award.
In actual fact, a number of video games have been current in fairly a number of classes this 12 months. Ghost of Yōtei acquired 5 nominations and an honorable point out, and Blue Prince and Donkey Kong Bananza got here away with 4 nominations apiece.
The Game Developers Choice Awards will happen on Thursday, March 12 on the Game Developers Convention in San Francisco. Not like earlier years, the Impartial Game Pageant awards, which often happen on the identical day previous to the GDC Awards ceremony, will now happen the day earlier than on Wednesday, March 11.
Although there’s been some public debate about whether or not or not Clair Obscur qualifies as an “indie” sport or not, it didn’t obtain any nominations within the IGFs – presumably both due to not being eligible, or just not being submitted by its studio for consideration within the first place. Child Steps was the most-nominated sport within the IGFs this 12 months with 5 nominations, together with for the Seumas McNally Grand Prize.
Greatest Audio
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Sandfall Interactive / Kepler Interactive)
- Loss of life Stranding 2: On the Seaside (Kojima Productions / Sony Interactive Leisure)
- Ghost of Yōtei (Sucker Punch Productions / Sony Interactive Leisure)
- Rift of the NecroDancer (Brace Your self Video games, Tic Toc Video games / Klei Publishing)
- South of Midnight (Compulsion Video games / Xbox Game Studios)
Honorable Mentions:
ARC Raiders (Embark Studios), Donkey Kong Bananza (Nintendo EPD / Nintendo), Doom: The Darkish Ages (id Software program / Bethesda Softworks), Lumines Come up (Improve / Monstars Inc.), To a T (uvula LLC / Annapurna Interactive)
Greatest Debut
- BALL X PIT (Kenny Solar & Associates / Devolver Digital)
- Blue Prince (Dogubomb / Uncooked Fury)
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Sandfall Interactive / Kepler Interactive)
- Dispatch (Adhoc Studio)
Honorable Mentions:
ARC Raiders (Embark Studios), Devour Me (Jenny Jiao Hsia), Hole Knight: Silksong (Group Cherry), The Hundred Line: Final Protection Academy (Too Kyo Video games, Media. Imaginative and prescient Inc. / Aniplex), The Roottrees are Useless (Evil Trout Inc.)
Greatest Design
- BALL X PIT (Kenny Solar & Associates / Devolver Digital)
- Blue Prince (Dogubomb / Uncooked Fury)
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Sandfall Interactive / Kepler Interactive)
- Donkey Kong Bananza (Nintendo EPD / Nintendo)
- Break up Fiction (Hazelight Studios / Digital Arts)
Honorable Mentions:
Loss of life Stranding 2: On the Seaside (Kojima Productions / Sony Interactive Leisure), Ghost of Yōtei (Sucker Punch Productions / Sony Interactive Leisure), Kingdom Come: Deliverance II (Warhorse Studios / Deep Silver), The Alters (11 Bit Studios)
Innovation Award
- BALL X PIT (Kenny Solar & Associates / Devolver Digital)
- Child Steps (Gabe Cuzzillo, Maxi Boch, Bennett Foddy / Devolver Digital)
- Blue Prince (Dogubomb / Uncooked Fury)
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Sandfall Interactive / Kepler Interactive)
- Donkey Kong Bananza (Nintendo EPD / Nintendo)
Honorable Mentions:
CloverPit (Panik Arcade / Future Associates Video games), Devour Me (Jenny Jiao Hsia), REPO (Semiwork Studios), Sunderfolk (Secret Door / Dreamhaven), To a T (uvula LLC / Annapurna Interactive)
Greatest Narrative
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Sandfall Interactive / Kepler Interactive)
- Despelote (Julián Cordero, Sebastián Valbuena / Panic)
- Dispatch (AdHoc Studio)
- Ghost of Yōtei (Sucker Punch Productions / Sony Interactive Leisure)
- Break up Fiction (Hazelight Studios / Digital Arts)
Honorable Mentions:
Misplaced Information: Bloom & Rage (DON’T NOD Montréal, DON’T NOD), South of Midnight (Compulsion Video games / Xbox Game Studios), The Outer Worlds 2 (Obsidian Leisure / Xbox Game Studios), The Séance of Blake Manor (Spooky Doorway / Uncooked Fury)
Greatest Know-how
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Sandfall Interactive / Kepler Interactive)
- Loss of life Stranding 2: On the Seaside (Kojima Productions / Sony Interactive Leisure)
- Donkey Kong Bananza (Nintendo EPD / Nintendo)
- Ghost of Yōtei (Sucker Punch Productions / Sony Interactive Leisure)
- Break up Fiction (Hazelight Studios / Digital Arts)
Honorable Mentions:
ARC Raiders (Embark Studios), Battlefield 6 (Battlefield Studios / Digital Arts), Hole Knight: Silksong (Group Cherry), Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 (Warhorse Studios / Deep Silver), PEAK (Group PEAK / Aggro Crab, Landfall)
Greatest Visible Artwork
- Absolum (Guard Crush Video games, Dotemu, Supamonks / Dotemu)
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Sandfall Interactive / Kepler Interactive)
- Loss of life Stranding 2: On the Seaside (Kojima Productions / Sony Interactive Leisure)
- Ghost of Yōtei (Sucker Punch Productions / Sony Interactive Leisure)
- Hades II (Supergiant Video games)
- Keeper (Double Positive Productions / Xbox Game Studios)
Honorable Mentions:
Hole Knight: Silksong (Group Cherry), South of Midnight (Compulsion Video games / Xbox Game Studios), Sword of the Sea (Big Squid), The Midnight Stroll (MoonHood / Quick Journey Video games)
Social Affect
- And Roger (TearyHand Studio / Kodansha)
- Devour Me (Jenny Jiao Hsia)
- Despelote (Julián Cordero, Sebastián Valbuena / Panic)
- Dispatch (AdHoc Studio)
Honorable Mentions:
Herdling (Okomotive / Panic), Misplaced Information: Bloom & Rage (DON’T NOD Montréal, DON’T NOD ), PEAK (Group PEAK / Aggro Crab, Landfall), To a T (uvula LLC / Annapurna Interactive)
Game of the Yr
- Blue Prince (Dogubomb / Uncooked Fury)
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Sandfall Interactive / Kepler Interactive)
- Donkey Kong Bananza (Nintendo EPD / Nintendo)
- Ghost of Yōtei (Sucker Punch Productions / Sony Interactive Leisure)
- Hole Knight: Silksong (Group Cherry)
- Break up Fiction (Hazelight Studios / Digital Arts)
Honorable Mentions:
Absolum (Guard Crush Video games, Dotemu, Supamonks / Dotemu), BALL X PIT (Kenny Solar & Associates / Devolver Digital), Hades II (Supergiant Video games)
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