PC Gamer’s Game of the Year Awards 2022

Welcome to PC Gamer’s annual Game of the Year awards. Each day, for the rest of the month, we’ll be revealing another of 2022’s best PC games, culminating in our ultimate Game of the Year on December 30.

To create this list, each writer nominates up to six games released within the last 12 months. Those nominations become our shortlist (opens in new tab). We then gather together to talk through the list and—after much wailing and shouting—decide on both our overall Game of the Year and the 13 other games we feel deserving of an award. Once the games are chosen, we assign them categories that exemplify what they each did best. The award categories are designed to fit the games we’ve picked, which is why we run different ones each year.