20th Game Developers Choice Awards

The 20th Game Developers Choice Awards was an award ceremony by Game Developers Choice Awards for outstanding game developers and video games held on March 18, 2020, hosted by Kim Swift. Though normally held at the Game Developers Conference, due to the 2020 coronavirus outbreak, the conference was postponed to later in 2020, and the awards were presented via online streaming media, alongside the Independent Games Festival awards.
Kate Edwards, former head of the International [Game Developers Association] and current head of the Global Game Jam, will receive the Ambassador Award for her past and current work in the industry.
Following from a similar event with The Game Awards 2019, Geoff Keighley worked with several of the games featured in the Awards as well as other indie developers to present forty game demos to be available from March 18 to March 23 through Steam as part of the Steam Game Festival - Spring Edition. Keighley planned to offer further events throughout the year to tie to other award shows and game conferences. In addition to games that were featured as part of the GDC and IGF, the Steam Game Festival also featured demos from other GDC-sponsored events that had been affected by the pandemic such as the Indie Megabooth and the Day of the Devs.

Winners and nominees

Nominees were announced on January 8, 2020, and winners named on March 18, 2020.

Untitled Goose Game

Control

ZA/UM

Baba Is You

What the Golf?

Baba Is You

Disco Elysium

Control

Control

Vader Immortal

The ceremony honored the following individuals that died over the prior year: