The Golden Joystick Awards 2026 Winners List

The 44th annual Golden Joystick Awards took place today, November 11, in London, handing out trophies across 25 categories. The show is also known as the People’s Gaming Awards because 22 of its winners are chosen by popular vote, and voting opened back in September before the 12 Ultimate Game of the Year nominees were revealed on October 26.

Resident Evil Requiem took home four trophies, winning Ultimate Game of the Year, Console Game of the Year, Best Game Trailer, and Best Lead Performer for Angela Sant’Albano’s portrayal of Grace Ashcroft. Capcom was also named Studio of the Year, while Onimusha: Way of the Sword won Best Audio Design and Grace Saif won Best Supporting Performer for her role as Diana in Pragmata.

MECCHA CHAMELEON matched that total with four awards of its own, winning Best Multiplayer Game and Best Indie Game – Self-Published, along with the Streamer’s Choice Award and Developers’ Choice. Dispatch was the only other game with multiple wins, taking Best Storytelling and Best Soundtrack, while Big Walk won the Critics’ Choice Award and The Witcher 4 was voted Most Wanted Game.

The Golden Joystick Awards 2026 Winners and Nominees

Best Storytelling

• Winner: Dispatch
• 007 First Light
• Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave
• SILENT HILL: Townfall
• The Blood of Dawnwalker
• ZERO PARADES: For Dead Spies

Best Multiplayer Game

• Winner: MECCHA CHAMELEON
• ARC Raiders
• Big Walk
• Marathon
• MARVEL Tōkon: Fighting Souls
• Valheim

Best Visual Design

• Winner: CONTROL Resonant
• Forza Horizon 6
• Orbitals
• Phonopolis
• Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy
• SAROS

Best Indie Game

• Winner: Valheim
• Big Walk
• Denshattack!
• Esoteric Ebb
• Mixtape
• Mouse: P.I. for Hire
• Order of the Sinking Star
• REANIMAL
• Sovereign Tower
• Titanium Court

Best Indie Game – Self-Published

• Winner: MECCHA CHAMELEON
• Cairn
• Fields of Mistria
• Mewgenics
• Mina the Hollower
• Perfect Tides: Station to Station
• Phonopolis
• Rhythm Doctor
• The Incident at Galley House
• Vampire Crawlers: The Turbo Wildcard from Vampire Survivors

Still Playing Award – PC & Console

• Winner: Minecraft
• Apex Legends
• Fortnite
• GTA Online
• HELLDIVERS 2
• HITMAN World of Assassination
• No Man’s Sky
• Palworld
• The Elder Scrolls Online
• Warframe
• World of Warcraft
• Call of Duty: Warzone

Still Playing Award – Mobile

• Winner: Balatro
• Genshin Impact
• Honkai: Star Rail
• MARVEL SNAP
• MONOPOLY GO!
• NTE: Neverness to Everness
• Old School RuneScape
• Pokémon GO
• Roblox
• Sky: Children of the Light
• Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Mobile
• Wuthering Waves

Best Remake / Remaster

• Winner: The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Remastered
• Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced
• Gothic 1 Remake
• METAL GEAR SOLID: MASTER COLLECTION Vol.2
• Star Fox
• Trails in the Sky 2nd Chapter

Studio of the Year

• Winner: CAPCOM
• Frogwares
• House House
• IO Interactive
• Nintendo EPD
• SQUARE ENIX

Best Game Expansion

• Winner: DOOM: The Dark Ages | Revelations
• Cult of the Lamb: Woolhaven
• DAVE THE DIVER – In the Jungle Content Pack
• Quake: Dawn of the Machine
• The Alters: Last Variable
• World of Warcraft: Midnight

Best Audio Design

• Winner: Onimusha: Way of the Sword
• Big Walk
• Marathon
• Rhythm Heaven Groove
• SAROS
• STAR WARS: Galactic Racer

Best Soundtrack

• Winner: Dispatch
• 007 First Light
• Crimson Desert
• Lumines Arise
• Mewgenics
• Mixtape

Best Lead Performer

• Winner: Angela Sant’Albano – Grace Ashcroft in Resident Evil Requiem
• Aaron Paul – Robert Robertson III in Dispatch
• Anna Demetriou – Sophia in Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy
• Liam McIntyre – Wolverine in Marvel’s Wolverine
• Patrick Gibson – James Bond in 007 First Light
• Will de Renzy-Martin – Coen in The Blood of Dawnwalker

Best Supporting Performer

• Winner: Grace Saif – Diana in PRAGMATA
• Frankie Kevich – Zoe de Vera in CONTROL Resonant
• Lennie James – John Greenway in 007 First Light
• Terry O’Quinn – Richard in SILENT HILL: Townfall
• Troy Baker – Nathaniel Essex in Marvel’s Wolverine
• Vic Michaelis – Runa Blask in STAR WARS Zero Company

PC Game of the Year

• Winner: Crimson Desert
• Big Walk
• Escape from Tarkov
• Esoteric Ebb
• MECCHA CHAMELEON
• Mewgenics
• Order of the Sinking Star
• STAR WARS Zero Company
• The Blood of Dawnwalker
• Valheim

Console Game of the Year

• Winner: Resident Evil Requiem
• 007 First Light
• Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave
• Forza Horizon 6
• LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight
• Nioh 3
• Onimusha: Way of the Sword
• Pokémon Pokopia
• PRAGMATA
• SAROS

Best Early Access Game

• Winner: Subnautica 2
• Dead as Disco
• MENACE
• skate.
• Slay the Spire 2
• WARDOGS

Best Gaming Hardware

• Winner: Steam Controller
• Logitech G PRO X2 SUPERSTRIKE
• Razer Viper V4 Pro
• Secretlab ATLAS
• Sony INZONE M10S II
• Turtle Beach Stealth Pro II

Best Game Adaptation

• Winner: Iron Lung
• Devil May Cry (Season 2)
• Exit 8
• Fallout (Season 2)
• Mortal Kombat II
• Resident Evil

Best Game Trailer

• Winner: Resident Evil Requiem – Evil Has Always Had A Name
• Battlefield 6 x Top Gun: Carrier Strike Cinematic Trailer
• Big Walk – Release Date Announcement
• Cairn – Launch Trailer
• MOUSE: P.I. For Hire | Official Launch Trailer
• Prove You’re Human – Announcement Trailer

Most Wanted Game

• Winner: The Witcher 4
• Alien: Isolation 2
• ANANTA
• Black Myth: Zhong Kui
• EXODUS
• Fable
• FINAL FANTASY VII REVELATION
• God of War Laufey
• Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet
• KINGDOM HEARTS IV
• METRO 2039
• NO LAW
• Persona 6
• Resident Evil Veronica
• STRANGER THAN HEAVEN
• Stuntman: Hollywood
• The Expanse: Osiris Reborn
• Tides of Annihilation
• Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis
• Total War: WARHAMMER 40,000

Streamer’s Choice Award

• Winner: MECCHA CHAMELEON

Developers’ Choice

• Winner: MECCHA CHAMELEON

Critics’ Choice Award

• Winner: Big Walk

Ultimate Game of the Year

• Winner: Resident Evil Requiem
• 007 First Light
• Big Walk
• Control Resonant
• Crimson Desert
• Dispatch
• Forza Horizon 6
• Phantom Blade Zero
• Pokémon Pokopia
• Pragmata
• Star Wars: Galactic Racer
• The Blood of Dawnwalker