VGChartz Official Game of the Year 2023 – Final Voting Now Open! - Article
by Craig S , posted on 20 December 2023 / 6,263 Views
Hello and welcome to VGChartz’s 17th annual Game of the Year Awards!
This is it, the Final Voting stage. The lists of Nominees have been substantially trimmed down thanks to the community’s Preliminary Voting, now it’s your chance to help determine both the final Shortlist of games to be featured in each award article and the Winners themselves.
Here’s the link to our Final Voting Form. Again, all you need to take part is a Google account:
>>VOTE HERE<<
Frequently Asked Questions
Q - When does voting close?
A – Final Voting closes on 31st December, 2023.
Q - Can I change my vote/edit my voting form after submitting it?
A - Yes, you can edit your voting form up until we close voting.
Q - Do I have to select a game for every award?
A - Nope. Select your favourite for as many or as few categories as you wish.
Q - Why can’t I vote for game XXXXXXX?
A – Unfortunately it didn’t make the cut during Preliminary Voting!
Q – I’d like to see an award for Best XXXXXX, it’s a shame you don’t do one.
A – Let us know in the comments; we’re always open to suggestions, especially for new or replacement categories.
Q – How is the winner in each category determined?
A – By a mixture of community and staff voting, weighted 50/50. On the community side we use the Google Form that’s linked above, while on the staff side we vote individually on the staff forums. The staff’s results are converted into percentages for each game in each category. These percentages are combined with the percentages from the community’s results, with the total then being divided by two to get an average. This average determines both the final Shortlist of games to be featured in each award article and the Winners themselves.
Q - When and how will the Winners be announced?
A – Winners will be announced in a series of articles (as well as a thread I'll post) that we'll start publishing in early January.
Q - What's with the Elden Ring banner? That was a 2022 game.
A - Elden Ring was last year's Overall Game of the Year winner. We're giving it one last moment to shine in the spotlight before we reveal 2023's best games.
Here are all of our past Overall Game of the Year winners:
Elden Ring
Metroid Dread
The Last of Us Part II
Resident Evil 2
God of War
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
Uncharted 4: A Thief's End
Rocket League
Super Smash Bros. for Wii U
Super Mario 3D World
Journey
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
Mass Effect 2
Uncharted 2: Among Thieves
LittleBigPlanet
BioShock
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Would highly encourage anyone who has the opportunity to play some of the nominees that they maybe haven't gotten around to yet to do so before voting. You'll often find a lot of hidden gems (especially on the indie side) that you didn't even know about that might be a serious contender in a category or two.
Persona 3 Reload didn't even get 5 % of the most anticipated vote? You disappoint me VgChartz...
Wait, Rocket league won in 2015 against TW3 and Bloodborne? That's surprising
Chants of Sennaar not reaching final voting for Best Puzzle Game makes me sad. :'(
Well, I don't blame the editors anyways. Remember: reaching Final Voting only requires 5%+ of the user vote tally in Prelim. You're not wrong about it being an exceptional year for puzzle games too. It's just a shame to see Puzzle Bobble Everybubble! surmounting it. Not that Puzzle Bobble can't be a great title as well (I don't know), but it kinda sucks when the uniqueness of a linguistic puzzler misses its due credit.
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Wow. Metroid Prime Remastered not making any shortlist is a big surprise. It was my game of the year.
