2023 EDGE awards, top 10 games of the year
Just as we’ve seen in the past, EDGE published its final issue of the year by outlining its top ten games of the year. On top of that, a number of awards were handed out.
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom took home the top prize as EDGE’s best game of the year. Additionally, it was selected as the publication’s Nintendo game of the year.
First up, here’s the results list for the awards:
Main Awards
- Nintendo Game of the Year: The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
- PlayStation Game of the Year: Humanity
- Xbox Game of the Year: Planet of Lana
- PC Game of the Year: Baldur’s Gate 3
- Mobile Game of the Year: Finity
- Best VR Game of the Year: Humanity
- Best Visual Design: Alan Wake 2
- Best Audio Design: Alan Wake 2
- Best Performance: Neil Newbon (Baldur’s Gate 3)
- Best Hardware: Quest 3
- Publisher of the Year: Nintendo
- Studio of the Year: Larian Studios
You can find the list of EDGE’s top ten games of the year below. Super Mario Bros. Wonder cracked the top five, and we see a few other Switch games with Cocoon, Chants of Sennaar, and A Highland Song.
Top 10 Games
- The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
- Baldur’s Gate 3
- Super Mario Bros. Wonder
- Humanity
- Cocoon
- Alan Wake 2
- Chants of Sennaar
- Street Fighter 6
- A Highland Song
- Counter-Strike 2
For those that are curious about past years, you can see how the awards panned out in 2022 here, 2021 here, 2020 here, 2019 here, 2018 here, and 2017 here.
