The 2022 Game Awards nominees have been announced and while fantasy beat sci-fi, it's only by a cat's whisker.
With play-as-a-cat robot assisted futuristic find-your-way-home adventure game Stray impressively netting 6 nominations including Game of the Year, Best Independent Game and Best Debut Indie Game.
Alongside Stray, PlayStation exclusive Horizon: Forbidden West and Nintendo Switch exclusive Xenoblade Chronicles 3 are sci-fi's main contenders with 7 and 3 nominations respectively.
A new category has been added for film and television adaptations of games.
We've included a few of the major categories below with sci-fi nominees in bold.
Game of the Year
Best Independent Game
Best Action Game
Best Action / Adventure Game
Best Roleplaying Game
Cult of the Lamb isn't a sci-fi game but we know the developers are Ozzie and have read many great things about it, so congratulations and also best of luck to them.
The public can vote at www.thegameawards.com.
This year's awards ceremony will be held live on December 8 and also streamed online (free) on various platforms.
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