Game Developers Choice Awards 2021

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The 21st annual Game Developers Choice Awards celebrate the best games of 2020.

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The twenty-first annual Choice Awards were broadcast on July 21, 2021. Due to the COVID-19 virus, the ceremony was a recorded presentation during a virtual Game Developers Conference (Concept).

Personal Awards

Pioneer Award

• Tom Fulp (Person)

Lifetime Achievement Award

• Laralyn McWilliams (Person)

Game of the Year

===Hades=== Developer: Supergiant Games (Company) Publisher: Supergiant Games (Company) Runners-up Animal Crossing: New Horizons (Nintendo EPD (Company) / Nintendo (Company)) Half-Life: Alyx (Valve Corporation (Company)) Ghost of Tsushima (Game) (Sucker Punch (Company) / SIEA) The Last of Us Part II (Game) (Naughty Dog / SIEA) Honorable Mentions Spelunky 2 (Game) (Blitworks / Mossmouth) Doom Eternal (Game) (id Software (Company) / Bethesda Softworks (Company)) Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales (Insomniac Games (Company) / SIEA) Microsoft Flight Simulator (Asobo Studio (Company) / Xbox Game Studios (Company)) Final Fantasy VII: Remake (Square Enix (Company)) Genshin Impact (Game) (miHoYo (Company))||

Best Audio

===Hades=== Developer: Supergiant Games (Company) Publisher: Supergiant Games (Company) Runners-up Doom Eternal (Game) (id Software (Company) / Bethesda Softworks (Company)) Final Fantasy VII Remake (Game) (Square Enix (Company)) Ghost of Tsushima (Game) (Sucker Punch (Company) / SIEA) The Last of Us Part II (Game) (Naughty Dog / SIEA) Honorable Mentions Half-Life: Alyx (Valve Corporation (Company)) Animal Crossing: New Horizons (Nintendo EPD (Company) / Nintendo (Company)) Ori and the Will of the Wisps (Game) (Moon Studios (Company) / Xbox Game Studios (Company) / iam8bit (Company)) Fuser (Game) (Harmonix Music Systems (Company) / NCsoft)||

Best Debut Developer

===Phasmophobia (Game)=== Developer: Kinetic Games (Company) Publisher: Kinetic Games (Company) Runners-up Carrion (Game) (Phobia Game Studio (Company) / Devolver Digital (Company)) Mortal Shell (Game) (Cold Symmetry (Company) / PlayStack (Company)) Raji: An Ancient Epic (Nodding Heads Games (Company) / SUPER.COM) Umurangi Generation (Game) (Origame Digital / AGM Playism (Company)) Honorable Mentions Call of the Sea (Game) (Out of the Blue / Raw Fury (Company)) Röki (Polygon Treehouse (Company) / CI Games (Company)) If Found... (Dreamfeel (Company) / Annapurna Interactive (Company))||

Best Design

===Hades=== Developer: Supergiant Games (Company) Publisher: Supergiant Games (Company) Runners-up Animal Crossing: New Horizons (Nintendo EPD (Company) / Nintendo (Company)) Half-Life: Alyx (Valve Corporation (Company)) Ghost of Tsushima (Game) (Sucker Punch (Company) / SIEA) The Last of Us Part II (Game) (Naughty Dog / SIEA) Honorable Mentions Final Fantasy VII Remake (Game) (Square Enix (Company)) Crusader Kings III (Game) (Paradox Development Studio (Company) / Paradox Interactive) Spelunky 2 (Game) (Blitworks / Mossmouth) Dreams (Game) (Media Molecule (Company) / SIEA)||

Best Mobile Game

===Genshin Impact (Game)=== Developer: miHoYo (Company) Publisher: miHoYo (Company) Runners-up Alba: a Wildlife Adventure (USTWO / PID Publishing) If Found... (Dreamfeel (Company) / Annapurna Interactive (Company)) Legends of Runeterra (Game) (Riot Games (Company)) The Pathless (Game) (Giant Squid (Company) / Annapurna Interactive) Honorable Mentions Pokémon Café Mix (Genius Sonority / Nintendo (Company) / The Pokémon Company) Reigns: Beyond (Nerial (Company) / Devolver Digital (Company))||

Innovation Award

===Dreams (Game)=== Developer: Media Molecule (Company) Publisher: SIEA Runners-up Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout (Mediatonic (Company) / Devolver Digital (Company)) Hades (Supergiant Games (Company)) Half-Life: Alyx (Valve Corporation (Company)) Microsoft Flight Simulator (Asobo Studio (Company) / Xbox Game Studios (Company)) Honorable Mentions Astro's Playroom (Sony Japan / Team Asobi (Company) / SIEA) Ghost of Tsushima (Game) (Sucker Punch (Company) / SIEA) The Last of Us Part II (Game) (Naughty Dog / SIEA) Watch Dogs: Legion (Ubisoft Toronto / Ubisoft)||

Best Narrative

===The Last of Us Part II (Game)=== Developer: Naughty Dog Publisher: SIEA Runners-up Final Fantasy VII Remake (Game) (Square Enix (Company)) Ghost of Tsushima (Game) (Sucker Punch (Company) / SIEA) Hades (Supergiant Games (Company)) Kentucky Route Zero: TV Edition (Cardboard Computer (Company) / Annapurna Interactive (Company)) Honorable Mentions Spiritfarer (Game) (Thunder Lotus Games (Company)) Half-Life: Alyx (Valve Corporation (Company)) Cyberpunk 2077 (Game) (CD Projekt RED / CD Projekt) If Found... (Dreamfeel (Company) / Annapurna Interactive) Marvel's Spirder-Man: Miles Morales (Insomniac Games (Company) / SIEA) 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim (Vanillaware / Atlus (Company))||

Best Technolgy

===Microsoft Flight Simulator=== Developer: Asobo Studio (Company) Publisher: Xbox Game Studios (Company) Runners-up Dreams (Game) (Media Molecule (Company) / SIEA) Ghost of Tsushima (Game) (Sucker Punch (Company) / SIEA) Half-Life: Alyx (Valve Corporation (Company)) The Last of Us Part II (Game) (Naughty Dog / SIEA) Honorable Mentions Final Fantasy VII: Remake (Square Enix (Company)) Astro's Playroom (Sony Japan / Team Asobi (Company) / SIEA) Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales (Insomniac Games (Company) / SIEA)||

Best Visual Art

===Ghost of Tsushima (Game)=== Developer: Sucker Punch (Company) Publisher: SIEA Runners-up Cyberpunk 2077 (Game) (CD Projekt Red (Company) / CD Projekt SA (Company)) Hades (Supergiant Games (Company)) The Last of Us Part II (Game) (Naughty Dog / SIEA) Ori and the Will of the Wisps (Game) (Moon Studios (Company) / Xbox Game Studios (Company)) Honorable Mentions Final Fantasy VII: Remake (Square Enix (Company)) Spiritfarer (Game) (Thunder Lotus Games (Company)) Umurangi Generation (Game) (Origame Digital (Company) / AGM Playism (Company)) Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales (Insomniac Games (Company) / SIEA)||

Best VR/AR Game

===Half-Life: Alyx=== Developer: Valve Corporation (Company) Publisher: Valve Corporation (Company) Runners-up Dreams (Game) (Media Molecule (Company) / SIEA) Paper Beast (Game) (Pixel Reef (Company)) Star Wars: Squadrons (Motive Studios (Company) / Electronic Arts (Company)) The Walking Dead: Saints andamp;amp;amp;amp; Sinners (Skydance Interactive (Company)) Honorable Mentions Phasmophobia (Game) (Kinetic Games (Company)) The Room VR: A Dark Matter (Fireproof Games (Company)) Marvel's Iron Man VR (Camouflaj (Company) / SIEA) Microsoft Flight Simulator (Asobo Studio (Company) / Xbox Game Studios (Company)) Until You Fall (Game) (Schell Games (Company))||

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• Dreams (Game)
• Genshin Impact (Game)
• Ghost of Tsushima (Game)
• Hades (Game)
• Half-Life: Alyx (Game)
• Microsoft Flight Simulator (Game)
• Phasmophobia (Game)
• The Last of Us Part II (Game)

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Game Developers Choice Awards 2021

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GDC Awards 2021

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• Dreams (Game)
• Genshin Impact (Game)
• Ghost of Tsushima (Game)
• Hades (Game)
• Half-Life: Alyx (Game)
• Microsoft Flight Simulator (Game)
• Phasmophobia (Game)
• The Last of Us Part II (Game)
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