Game Awards 2021: Nominations for GAs declared, ‘Deathloop’ and ‘Ratchet & Clank’ tops the list

The 2021 Game Awards nominees have been uncovered, and most would agree there are a few clear leaders close by the usual eclectic mix. Arkane’s time-warping Deathloop and Sony’s multi-dimensional Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart were two of the most often nominated titles, getting five nods every that included Game of the Year, art, sound, and acting categories.

Geoff Keighley has announced the nominees for The Game Awards 2021, with Deathloop standing out with a total of nine nominations. The nominees for The Game Awards 2021 have been uncovered, with Deathloop leading the top nominees, nine, including Game of the Year, Best Performance, and Best Action categories.

Following, Racthet & Clank: Rift Apart and It Takes Two with six and five nominations each, respectively.

The actual show will be live-streamed on December 9, hosted by Geoff Keighley, who will make that big appearance at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles to introduce The Game Awards 2021, back to being face to face.

What are the Game Awards?

The Game Awards is an annual awards ceremony honoring accomplishments in the video game industry. Set up in 2014, the Game Awards additionally feature first-look world premieres and new game declarations.

Deathloop featured in different categories this year, including Best Game Direction, Best Narrative, Best Art Direction, Best Score/Music, Best Audio Design, Best Action Game, and Game of the Year. Deathloop likewise got two nominations in the Best Performance category, with Jason E. Kelley and Ozioama Akagha both being perceived.

Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart and It Takes Two likewise scored enormous this year, having gotten six and five nominations each across a few different categories, including the highly esteemed Game of the Year category, where they showed up as competitors close by Deathloop, Metroid Dread, Psychonauts 2, and Resident Evil Village.

Other multi-nominated titles incorporated the co-op action platformer It Makes Two, the long-expected Psychonauts 2, and the just-released Forza Horizon 5. Metroid Dread and Resident Evil Village likewise arrived at the GOTY and action shortlists.

This was likewise a decent year for games with accessibility and, sometimes, a significant message. The empathy-driven Life is Strange: True Colors made both the “Games for Impact” and “Innovation in Accessibility” nominees, while blockbusters like Forza, Ratchet & Clank, and Far Cry 6 are additionally in the running for the availability award. Creative games like the blink-based Before Your Eyes and the contemplative No Longer Home are candidates for the Games for Impact award. Just talking, you don’t have to look extremely far to track down innovative titles in 2021.

The awards ceremony happens on December 9th. There will undoubtedly be a few upsets and “really?” picks (even the buggy Cyberpunk 2077 is up for certain awards), yet the picks so far seem to reflect the gaming zeitgeist in a year where originals and sequels competed for your focus.

The full list of categories and nominations for The Games Awards 2021 follows:

Game of the Year

Perceiving a game that delivers the best experience across all inventive and technical fields.

• Deathloop
• It Takes Two
• Metroid Dread
• Psychonauts 2
• Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart
• Resident Evil Village

Best Game Direction

Awarded for extraordinary inventive vision and innovation in game direction and design.

• Deathloop
• It Takes Two
• Returnal
• Psychonauts 2
• Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart

Best Narrative

For extraordinary narrating and story improvement in a game.

• Deathloop
• It Takes Two
• Life is Strange: True Colors
• Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy
• Psychonauts 2

Best Art Direction

For extraordinary innovative and additionally technical achievement in artistic design and animation.

• Deathloop
• Kena: Bridge of Spirits
• Psychonauts 2
• Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart
• The Artful Escape

Best Score/Music

For exceptional music, inclusive of a score, original song, or potentially licensed soundtrack.

• Cyberpunk 2077
• Deathloop
• Nier Replicant ver.1.22474487139
• Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy
• The Artful Escape ​

Best Audio Design

Perceiving the best in-game studio and sound design

• Deathloop
• Forza Horizon 5
• Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart
• Resident Evil Village
• Returnal

Best Performance

Awarded to a person for voice-over acting, motion, and additionally performance capture.

• Erika Mori, Life is Strange
• Giancarlo Esposito, Far Cry 6
• Jason E. Kelley, Deathloop
• Maggie Robertson, Resident Evil Village
• Ozioama Akagha, Deathloop

Games for Impact

For a provocative game with a pro-social significance or message.

• Before Your Eyes
• Boyfriend Dungeon
• Chicory: A Colorful Tale
• Life is Strange: True Colors
• No Longer Home

Best Ongoing Game

Awarded to a game for extraordinary improvement of ongoing content that advances the player experience over time.

• Apex Legends
• Call of Duty: War Zone
• Final Fantasy XIV Online
• Fortnite
• Genshin Impact

Best Indie Game

For remarkable innovative and technical accomplishment in a game made external the traditional publisher system.

• 12 Minutes
• Death’s Door
• Kena: Bridge of Spirits
• Inscryption
• Loop Hero

Best Debut Indie Game

For the best debut game made by a new independent studio.

• Kena: Bridge of Spirits
• Sable
• The Artful Escape
• The Forgotten City
• Valheim

Best Mobile Game

For the best game playable on a mobile device.

• Fantasian
• Genshin Impact
• League of Legends
• MARVEL Future Revolution
• Pokemon Unite

Best Community Support

Perceiving a game for outstanding community support, transparency, and responsiveness, inclusive of social media activity and game updates/patches.

• Apex Legends: Escape
• Destiny 2: Beyond Light
• Final Fantasy XIV Online
• Fortnite
• No Man’s Sky

Best VR/AR Game

For the best game experience playable in virtual or augmented reality, irrespective of platform.

• Hitman III
• I Expect You to Die 2
• Lone Echo II
• Resident Evil 4
• Sniper Elite VR

Innovation in Accessibility

Perceiving software or potentially hardware that is moving the medium forward by adding features, technology, and content to assist games with being played and appreciated by a considerably more extensive audience.

• Far Cry 6
• Forza Horizon 5
• Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy
• Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart
• The Vale: Shadow of the Crown

Best Action Game

For the best game in the action genre-focused primarily on combat.

• Back 4 Blood
• Chivalry II
• Deathloop
• Far Cry 6
• Returnal

Best Action/Adventure Game

For the best action/adventure game, join battle with traversal and puzzle-solving.

• Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy
• Metroid Dread
• Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart
• Resident Evil Village
• Psychonauts 2

Best RPG

For the best game planned with rich player character customization and movement, including enormously multiplayer experiences.

• Cyberpunk 2077
• Monster Hunter Rise
• Scarlet Nexus
• Shin Megami Tensei V
• Tales of Arise

Best Fighting Game

For the best game planned basically around head-to-head combat.

• Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Hinokami Chronicles
• Guilty Gear -Strive-
• Melty Blood: Type Lumina
• Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl
• Virtua Fighter 5: Ultimate Showdown

Best Family Game

For the best game suitable for family play, regardless of genre or platform.

• It Takes Two
• Mario Party Superstars
• New Pokémon Snap
• Super Mario 3D World + Bowser’s Fury
• WarioWare: Get It Together!

Best Sports/Racing Game

For the best traditional and non-traditional sports and racing game.

• F1 2021
• Fifa 22
• Hot Wheels Unleashed
• Forza Horizon 5
• Riders Republic

Best SIM/Strategy Game

The best game focused on real-time or turn-based simulation or technique gameplay, irrespective of platform.

• Age of Empires IV
• Evil Genius 2: World Domination
• Humankind
• Inscryption
• Microsoft Flight Simulator

Best Multiplayer Game

For remarkable online multiplayer gameplay and design, including co-op and greatly multiplayer experiences, irrespective of game genre or platform.

• Back 4 Blood
• It Takes Two
• Knockout City
• Monster Hunter Rise
• New World
• Valheim

Content Creator of the Year

For a streamer or content maker who emphatically affects the community in 2021.

• Dream
• Fuslie
• Gaules
• Ibai
• TheGrefg

Best Esports Athlete

The esports competitor decided to be the most exceptional for performance and direct in 2021, irrespective of game.

• Chris “Simp” Lehr
• Heo “ShowMaker” Su
• Magomed “Collapse” Khalilov
• Oleksandr “s1mple” Kostyliev
• Tyson “TenZ” Ngo

Best Esports Coach

The esports coach decided to be the most remarkable for performance and conduct in 2021.

• Airat “Silent” Gaziev
• Andrey “ENGH” Sholokhov
• Andrii “B1ad3” Horodenskyi
• James “Crowder” Crowder
• Kim “kkOma” Jeong-gyun

Best Esports Event

Perceiving an event (across single or multiple days) that delivered a best-of-class experience for participants and the broadcast audience.

• The International 2021
• 2021 League of Legends World Championship
• Valorant Champions Tour: Stage 2 Masters
• PGL Major Stockholm 2021
• PUBG Mobile Global Championship 2020

Best Esports Game

For the game that has delivered the best overall esports experience to players (comprehensive of competitions, community support, and content updates), irrespective of genre or platform.

• Call of Duty
• CS:GO
• DOTA2
• League of Legends
• Valorant

Best Esports Team

Perceiving a particular esports team (not the full association) was judged the most remarkable for performance and direct in 2021.

• Atlanta FaZe, Call of Duty
• DWG KIA, League of Legends
• NAVI, CS:GO
• Team Spirit, DOTA2
• Sentinels, Valorant

Most Anticipated Game

Perceiving a declared game that has verifiably shown potential to push the gaming medium forward.

• Elden Ring
• God of War: Ragnarok
• Horizon Forbidden West
• The Sequel to The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
• Starfield

The Best Games of 2021

The nominees in each category are currently accessible for public voting, and the winners will be awarded as part of The Game Awards 2021, which is getting back to the stage with a live, in-person event at the Microsoft Theater on December 9, 2021, following last year’s completely virtual presentation where The Last of Us Part II got the most successes in the show’s history.

The awards ceremony will be packaged along with a lot of game-related declarations and premieres, with Keighley already expecting that 40 to 50 games will feature in the show this year, “some way or another,” including games that are relied upon to release in 2022 and 2023, as well as trailers for forthcoming films and TV shows inspired by games.

The Game Awards 2021 will air on December 9, 2021, and will be a live in-person event this year. As well as the awards, there will likewise be 40~50 game declarations, including a “double digits” number of games we haven’t seen at this point, all with release dates somewhere in the range of 2022 and 2023. The live orchestra will likewise show up.