Today, organizers of the 18th Annual Game Developers Choice Awards released their full list of nominees for this year’s show.
The awards ceremony will take place on March 21, 2018 at 6:30 PM in San Francisco at this year’s Game Developers Conference. it will be held in conjunction with the Independent Games Festival who announced their nominees earlier this week.
The list shows off what a great and varied year 2017 was for gaming, for AAA studios and independent developers. Horizon Zero Dawn and The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild lead with six nominations each, with PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds and Nier: Automata making several appearances as well. In fact, many of the titles nominated made our own best of 2017 list.
Here are the nominees:
Best Audio:
Cuphead
Nier: Automata
Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
Horizon Zero Dawn
Best Debut:
Team Cherry (Hollow Knight)
Sidebar Games (Golf Story)
StudioMDHR (Cuphead)
Infinite Fall (Night in the Woods)
Jason Roberts/Buried Signal (Gorogoa)
Best Design:
Super Mario Odyssey
Horizon Zero Dawn
PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
Nier: Automata
Best Mobile Game:
Reigns: Her Majesty
Hidden Folks
Monument Valley 2
Gorogoa
Bury Me, My Love
Innovation Award:
Gorogoa
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
What Remains of Edith Finch
Everything
PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds
Best Narrative:
Night in the Woods
Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice
What Remains of Edith Finch
Horizon Zero Dawn
Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus
Best Technology:
Destiny 2
Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice
Assassin’s Creed: Origins
Horizon Zero Dawn
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
Best Visual Art:
Persona 5
Cuphead
Horizon Zero Dawn
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
Night in the Woods
Best VR/AR Game:
Superhot VR
Star Trek: Bridge Crew
Lone Echo
Resident Evil 7: Biohazard
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim VR
Game Of The Year:
PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds
Nier: Automata
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
Horizon Zero Dawn
Super Mario Odyssey
There will also be three individual awards given for Pioneer, Ambassador, and Lifetime Achievement. Those nominations will be announced soon. And finally, The Audience Award, which is open to any nominated title, opens for online voting in late January.
You can read the full announcement with honorable mentions and more details on the Game Developers Conference website.