Gamescom 2022 Award Winners Have Been Announced

Gamescom is one of the premier gaming events of the gaming industry that takes place, alongside such events as The Game Awards, E3, Tokyo Games Show, PAX and others of the like. Every year, many games are revealed through trailers, announcements, gameplay reveals or other confirmations of the sort related to games, and this year was no exception.

Notable is the fact that this was the first time the event took place in person ever since the COVID pandemic rocked the world, so excitement levels were quite high as fans from all around filled the halls. The event ended with an awards ceremony, as it does every year, that spanned many categories and rewards several games for their achievements. 

This time, Gamescom announced nominees ahead of time, and now the winners too have been announced. Below is a list of all the categories, with the winning games in bold:

Best Action Adventure Game

• Lies of P, Neowiz
• Outcast 2 – A New Beginning, THQ Nordic
• The Last Case of Benedict Fox, Rogue Games

Best Action Game

• Metal: Hellsinger, Funcom
• System Shock, Plaion
• Warhammer 40.000: Darktide, Fatshark

Best Family Game

• Fling to the Finish, Daedalic Entertainment
• Ikonei Island: An Earthlock Adventure, Snowcastle Games
• Paper Trail, Newfangled Games

Best Indie Game

• Inkulinati, Daedalic Entertainment
• Paper Trail, Newfangled Games
• Sunday Gold, Team17 Digital

Best Multiplayer Game

• Goat Simulator 3, Plaion
• The Dark Pictures: The Devil in Me, Bandai Namco Entertainment
• Warhammer 40.000: Darktide, Fatshark

Best Ongoing Game

• Age of Empires IV, Microsoft
• Microsoft Flight Simulator, Microsoft
• Sea of Thieves, Microsoft

Best Role Playing Game

• Dredge,  Black Salt Games
• Lies of P, Neowiz
• Sunday Gold, Team17 Digital

Best Sports/Racing Game

• AEW: Fight Forever, THQ Nordic
• GOAL! The Club Manager, Toplitz Productions
• Ultimechs, Resolution Games

Best Strategy/Simulation Game

• Age Of Darkness, Team17 Digital
• Autopsy Simulator, Team17 Digital
• IXION, Kalypso Media

Most Original Game

• Inkulinati, Daedalic Entertainment
• Metal: Hellsinger, Funcom
• Pentiment, Microsoft

Most Wanted Microsoft Xbox Game

• The Dark Pictures: The Devil in Me, Bandai Namco Entertainment
• The Last Case of Benedict Fox, Rogue Games
• Metal: Hellsinger, Funcom

Most Wanted Nintendo Switch Game

• Airhead, HandyGames
• Edge of Sanity, Vixa Games
• Tin Hearts, Wired Productions

Most Wanted PC Game

• Metal: Hellsinger, Funcom
• System Shock, Plaion
• Warhammer 40.000: Darktide, Fatshark

Most Wanted Sony PlayStation Game

• Lies of P, Neowiz
• One Piece Odyssey, Bandai Namco Entertainment
• The Dark Pictures: The Devil in Me, Bandai Namco Entertainment

Best Trailer/Announcement
All games that had a trailer/announcement showing are liable

• Hogwarts Legacy, Avalanche Software

Best Booth
Visitors vote for their favourite booth in the entertainment area of the convention

• Bandai Namco Entertainment

Best Lineup
In the Best Lineup category, the jury will pick a winner out of ALL gamescom exhibitors

• Plaion

HEART OF GAMING Award
Each gamescom highlight is eligible for this extraordinary award: not only games, add-ons, and technologies, but also people, institutions, companies, concepts, or terms

• Game Industry’s Solidarity Campaigns for Ukraine

gamescom goes green award

• Indie Arena Booth
• Microsoft / Xbox
• Ukie

As can be seen, Lies of P took home the most awards, winning Best Role Playing Game, Most Wanted Sony PlayStation, and Best Action Adventure Game. The game is slated to release in 2023 with an as of yet undecided exact release date. The game is a souls-like that offers a new and darker take on the Pinocchio fable.

The other game to win big was Metal: Hellsinger, taking home the awards for Best Action Game, and Most Wanted PC Game. The game is a rhythm FPS which will judge “your ability to shoot on the beat [to] enhance your gameplay experience. The more in sync you are with the rhythm, the more intense the music will become and the more destruction you will cause.” The fact that the game has a soundtrack that includes contributions from such names in the industry as Serj Tankian of System of a Down and Alissa White-Glüz of Arch Enemy, will surely delight fans of music as well as games.

The game also had a live concert at the venue, which was supposedly the largest live concert in the history of the event. The game is set to release next month on September 15th on PS5, Xbox Series S|X and PC.

With this announcement of the winners of Gamescom’s awards, the event has finally ended and gamers can now look forward to the upcoming games in the future.

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