Larian Studios cleans up at the Golden Joystick awards winning 7 awards for Baldur’s Gate 3 including the Ultimate Game of the Year.
Baldur’s Gate 3 Wins 7 Golden Joystick Awards Including Ultimate GOTY
It’s no secret Baldur’s Gate 3 kicked up a storm this year with its full launch of the game. The CRPG has not only won the hearts of those who are fans of Astarion but also the judges of the Golden Joystick Awards. Held over the weekend, the Golden Joystick 2023 awards celebrated all the major releases of the year including Starfield, Final Fantasy 16, Cyberpunk 2077’s expansion Phantom Liberty, Alan Wake 2, Zelda: Tears fo the Kingdom and much more.
Ultimate Game of the Year goes to…. @baldursgate3! Congratulations!! #GoldenJoystickAwards pic.twitter.com/jKu0zwhuX4
— Golden Joysticks (@GoldenJoysticks) November 10, 2023
BG3 Suffers Inventory Management Issues with 7 Awards to Take Home
Baldur’s Gate 3 cleaned up at this year’s awards not only with Larian Studios gaining the Studio of the Year award but also Best Storytelling, Best Visual Design, Best Game Community, Best Lead Performer with the character Astarion played by Neil Newborn, PC Game of the Year and the Ultimate Game of the Year.
Sven Vincke the head of Larian Studios was seen grappling with several of the awards within his grasp, experiencing some real-life inventory management issues. Hopefully, his award stash has plenty of space as this might not be the only ones he’ll be accepting this year. The Game Awards will be taking place this December, and Geoff Keighley will be revealing the nominees this week. We’ll also be readying our list of Fexy awards, so if you have some recommendations let us know in our discord.
That was surreal. Thank you all! https://t.co/HeKjpXF2RE
— Swen Vincke @where? (@LarAtLarian) November 10, 2023
Best of the Best – Winners
Other notable mentions are the Playstation Game of the Year which went to the Resident Evil 4 Remake. This title went through not only some graphics changes but got some great gameplay changes and was a pretty fun ride. For Xbox Game of the Year, that went unsurprisingly to Starfield, which was Bethesda’s foray into space. Spaceship building, shooter combat and more were all part of the Starfield experience. The best Nintendo game was of course the returning legend, Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom which gave a part two to the franchise, but also mixed things up with new mechanics such as reversing time and travelling through ceilings.
The find the full list of winners below:
- Best Storytelling – Baldur’s Gate 3
- Still Playing Award – No Man’s Sky
- Best Visual Design – Baldur’s Gate 3 – Check out our Builds
- Studio of the Year – Larian Studios
- Best Game Expansion – Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty – Check out our Builds
- Best Indie Game – Sea of Stars
- Best VR Game – Horizon Call of the Mountain
- Best Multiplayer Game – Mortal Kombat 1
- Best Audio – Final Fantasy XVI
- Best Game Trailer – Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty
- Best Streaming Game – Valorant
- Best Game Community – Baldur’s Gate 3
- Best Gaming Hardware – PSVR 2
- Breakthrough Award – Cocoon / Geometric Interactive
- Critics’ Choice Award – Alan Wake II
- Best Lead Performer – Ben Starr, Final Fantasy XVI
- Best Supporting Performer – Neil Newborn, Astarion, Baldur’s Gate 3
- Nintendo Game of the Year – The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
- PC Game of the Year – Baldur’s Gate 3
- Xbox Game of the Year – Starfield
- PlayStation Game of the Year – Resident Evil 4
- Most Wanted Game – Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth
- Ultimate Game of the Year – Baldur’s Gate 3
Do you agree with the list of winners? What’s your Game of the Year 2023? Let us know in the comments below. Want more BG3? The CRPG is heading to Xbox this year and there’s a possible new Game Mode according to a recent achievement list.
For more news find it here in Robots at Midnight an Intense Action-RPG Coming to Xbox Series and PC. For a rundown of recent RPGs find it here in This Week in RPGs – November 12th, 2023.
