2022 SXSW Gaming Awards Winners Announced

Asserting the winners for the eighth annual SXSW Gaming Awards, recognizing probably the most inventive and influential titles, groups, and people within the business.

The winners had been revealed throughout the digital SXSW Gaming Awards present on Saturday, March 12 at 7:00pm CT.

This 12 months’s SXSW Gaming Awards included 40 nominees throughout 12 totally different classes, with winners decided by a weighted complete between SXSW employees and advisory board enter in addition to public voting.

2022 SXSW Gaming Awards Nominees

Video Sport of the Yr

Awarded to the sport that exemplifies total excellence and creates a definite gaming expertise throughout all platforms and genres.

Closing Fantasy XIV: Endwalker — SQUARE ENIX

Nominated:
It Takes Two — Hazelight / Digital Arts
Psychonauts 2 — Double High quality Productions / Xbox Sport Studios
Ratchet & Clank: Rift Aside — Insomniac Video games / Sony Interactive Leisure
Resident Evil Village — Capcom

Indie Sport of the Yr

Awarded to the independently-developed recreation that exemplifies total excellence and creates a definite gaming expertise throughout all platforms and genres.

Kena: Bridge of Spirits — Ember Lab

Nominated:
Chicory: A Colourful Story — Greg Lobanov / Finji
Demise’s Door — Acid Nerve / Devolver Digital
Inscryption — Daniel Mullins Video games / Devolver Digital
Loop Hero — 4 Quarters / Devolver Digital
Misplaced Phrases: Past the Web page — Sketchbook Video games / Modus Video games
The Medium — Bloober Group
Unpacking — Witch Beam / Humble Video games
Valheim — Iron Gate Studio / Espresso Stain Publishing
The Wild At Coronary heart — Moonlight Children / Humble Video games

Tabletop Sport of the Yr

Awarded to the sport that exemplifies total excellence and ingenuity of any tabletop recreation in any style.

Dune: Imperium — Dire Wolf Digital / Dire Wolf Digital

Nominated:
Cascadia — Randy Flynn, Beth Sobel, Dylan Mangini, Molly Johnson, Robert Melvin, Kevin Russ, Shawn Stankewich, David Lezzi / Flatout Video games
Oath: Chronicles of Empire & Exile — Cole Wehrle / Leder Video games
Roll Digicam! The Filmmaking Board Sport — Malachi Ray Rempen / Eager Bean Studio
That Time You Killed Me — Peter C. Hayward, Jeff Fraser, Alex Cutler / Pandasaurus Video games

VR Sport of the Yr

Awarded to the VR recreation that exemplifies total excellence in gameplay and design throughout any VR platform.

Resident Evil 4 VR — Armature Studio / Oculus Studios

Nominated:
After The Fall — Vertigo Video games
Demeo — Decision Video games
Lone Echo II — Prepared at Daybreak / Oculus Studios
Tune within the Smoke — 17-BIT

Matthew Crump Cultural Innovation Award

Awarded to the sport that greatest challenges the “norm” of on a regular basis gaming and gives a culturally modern view of a recreation world, character, or gameplay.

Unpacking — Witch Beam / Humble Video games

Nominated:
Chicory: A Colourful Story — Greg Lobanov / Finji
Earlier than Your Eyes — GoodbyeWorld Video games / Skybound Video games
Life is Unusual: True Colours — Deck 9 Video games / Sq. Enix
Misplaced Phrases: Past the Web page — Sketchbook Video games / Modus Video games

Excellence in Animation, Artwork, & Visible Achievement

Awarded to the sport with probably the most well-designed and beautiful visuals, together with animation results and graphics.

Forza Horizon 5 — Playground Video games / Xbox Sport Studios

Nominated:
Deathloop — Arkane Lyon / Bethesda Softworks
Exo One — Exbleative / Future Mates Video games
Kena: Bridge of Spirits — Ember Lab
The Wild At Coronary heart — Moonlight Children / Humble Video games

Excellence in Sport Design

Awarded to the sport with the very best total design idea, gameplay mechanics, and greatest execution.

Inscryption — Daniel Mullins Video games / Devolver Digital

Nominated:
Deathloop — Arkane Lyon / Bethesda Softworks
Loop Hero — 4 Quarters / Devolver Digital
Ratchet & Clank: Rift Aside — Insomniac Video games / Sony Interactive Leisure
Returnal — Housemarque / Sony Interactive Leisure

Excellence in Unique Rating

Awarded to the sport that greatest exemplifies inventive excellence in its authentic musical rating and the way it progresses the narrative of the sport.

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Nominated:
The Suave Escape — Beethoven & Dinosaur / Annapurna Interactive
Kena: Bridge of Spirits — Ember Lab
The Medium — Bloober Group
Wytchwood — Alientrap Video games / Whitethorn Video games

Excellence in Multiplayer

Awarded to the sport with the very best player-to-player interplay expertise.

It Takes Two — Hazelight / Digital Arts

Nominated:
Again 4 Blood — Turtle Rock Studios / Warner Bros. Video games
Halo Infinite — 343 Industries / Xbox Sport Studios
Riders Republic — Ubisoft Annecy / Ubisoft
Valheim — Iron Gate Studio / Espresso Stain Publishing

Excellence in Narrative

Awarded to the sport with the very best storyline and dialogue.

Closing Fantasy XIV: Endwalker — SQUARE ENIX

Nominated:
Deathloop — Arkane Lyon / Bethesda Softworks
Kena: Bridge of Spirits — Ember Lab
Misplaced in Random — Zoink Video games / Digital Arts
Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy — Eidos-Montréal / Sq. Enix

Excellence in Audio Design

Awarded to the sport with probably the most excellent and impactful sound results.

Resident Evil Village — Capcom

Nominated:
Forza Horizon 5 — Playground Video games / Xbox Sport Studios
Hell Let Unfastened — Black Matter / Team17
Inscryption — 4 Quarters / Devolver Digital
Twelve Minutes — Luis Antonio / Annapurna Interactive

Excellence in Technical Achievement

Awarded to the sport that pushed the capabilities of know-how and programming furthest or most successfully.

Ratchet & Clank: Rift Aside — Insomniac Video games / Sony Interactive Leisure

Nominated:
Earlier than Your Eyes — GoodbyeWorld Video games / Skybound Video games
Forza Horizon 5 — Playground Video games / Xbox Sport Studios
Hell Let Unfastened — Black Matter / Team17
Returnal — Housemarque / Sony Interactive Leisure

Congrats to all 2022 SXSW Gaming Awards recipients!

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