It’s been a great year for games, but there’s one game that seems to have risen above the rest. God of War: Ragnarok was great, and both Citizen Sleeper and Vampire Survivors proved that indie games can still hang with triple-A titles, but Elden Ring is the game that still comes first to mind when recapping the greatest games of 2022.
Elden Ring has already won the coveted Game of the Year Award from The Game Awards (albeit with a strange party crasher during its acceptance speech), Geoff Keighley isn’t the only arbiter of what games deserve a GOTY. There are hundreds of media outlets handing out GOTYs, including this one, and not all of them necessarily agree that Elden Ring is the best game of 2022.
But most of them do. According to a running tally being assembled by ResetEra user BrickArts295 in the spirit of the Game of the Year Award Tracker, Elden Ring has undoubtedly become 2022’s game of the year with 187 wins. God of War: Ragnarok comes in second, but it’s not even close with just 34 victories. Pentiment and Immortality are tied for third with four GOTY wins.
Here’s the full list as of the time of this writing:
- Elden Ring – 187
- God of War: Ragnarok – 34
- Immortality – 4
- Pentiment – 4
- Citizen Sleeper – 2 (including The Gamer’s GOTY)
- Vampire Survivors – 2
- A Plague Tale: Requiem – 1
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 – 1
- Cult of the Lamb – 1
- Horizon Forbidden West – 1
- Just Dance 2023 – 1
- The King of Fighters XV – 1
- The Last of Us Part 1 – 1
- Marvel's Midnight Suns – 1
- Neon White – 1
- Norco – 1
- PowerWash Simulator – 1
- Sniper Elite 5 – 1
- Tunic – 1
- Wordle – 1
Elden Ring might be the game of 2022, but that doesn't mean it'll go quietly into 2023. Director Hidetaka Miyazaki has confirmed there's more Elden Ring content on the way following the successful Colosseum update, with fans believing this means a full DLC expansion will drop sometime next year.
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