23rd Game Developers Choice Awards
The 23rd Game Developers Choice Awards was an award ceremony by Game Developers Choice Awards for outstanding game developers and video games which was held on March 22, 2023. The ceremony was held alongside the Independent Games Festival awards.
Winners and nominees
Nominees were announced on January 26, 2023. Winners were named on March 22, 2023, in a ceremony hosted by Leslee Sullivant at the Moscone Center.Game of the Year">Game Developers Choice Award for Game of the Year">Game of the Year
- Elden Ring
- * God of War Ragnarök
- * Immortality
- * Pentiment
- * Stray
- * ''Tunic''
Best Audio
- God of War Ragnarök
- * Elden Ring
- * Horizon Forbidden West
- * Metal: Hellsinger
- * Stray''
Best Debut
- Stray
- * NORCO
- * Neon White
- * Tunic
- * ''Vampire Survivors''
Best Design
- Elden Ring )
- * Marvel Snap
- * Neon White
- * Stray
- * ''Tunic''
Innovation Award
- Immortality
- * Elden Ring )
- * Neon White
- * Pentiment
- * ''Stray''
Best Narrative
- Pentiment
- * I Was a Teenage Exocolonist
- * Immortality
- * God of War Ragnarök
- * Return to [Monkey Island]''
Best Technology
- God of War Ragnarök
- * Call of Duty: [Modern Warfare II (2022 video game)|Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II]
- * Elden Ring
- * A Plague Tale: Requiem
- * ''Horizon Forbidden West''
Best Visual Art
- Elden Ring
- * God of War Ragnarök
- * Horizon Forbidden West
- * Pentiment
- * ''Stray''
Social Impact Award
- Citizen Sleeper
- * As Dusk Falls
- * Endling – Extinction Is Forever
- * I Was A Teenage Exocolonist
- * OlliOlli World
- * ''We Are OFK''
Audience Award
- 'God of War Ragnarök'''''
Lifetime Achievement Award
- John Romero, co-founder of id Software and Ion Storm, and co-creator of the Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, and Quake series
The Pioneer Award
- Mabel Addis