Elden Ring, God of War Ragnarok, Stray Lead Finalists for Game Developers Choice Awards

Elden Ring, God of War: Ragnarok, Stray, and Pentiment are leading the finalists for 2023's Game Developers Choice Awards, the video game awards voted for by developers.

All four of these games feature in the Game of the Year category, alongside Sam Barlow's Immortality and Tunic. Elden Ring and Stray have a total of six nominations each while God of War: Ragnarok has five.

The results of the awards will be announced at 2023's Game Developers Conference on March 22, held alongside the Independent Games Festival Awards - the nominations for which were announced yesterday.

The full list of nominees can be seen below:

Best Audio

• Elden Ring
• God of War Ragnarok
• Horizon Forbidden West
• Metal: Hellsinger
• Stray

Best Debut

• Neon White
• Norco
• Stray
• Tunic
• Vampire Survivors

Best Design

• Elden Ring
• Marvel Snap
• Neon White
• Stray
• Tunic

Innovation Award

• Elden Ring
• Immortality
• Neon White
• Pentiment
• Stray

Best Narrative

• God of War Ragnarok
• I Was a Teenage Exocolonist
• Immortality
• Pentiment
• Return to Monkey Island

Social Impact Award

• As Dusk Falls
• Citizen Sleeper
• Endling - Extinction Is Forever
• I Was A Teenage Exocolonist
• OlliOlli World
• We Are OFK

Best Technology

• A Plague Tale: Requiem
• Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II
• Elden Ring
• God of War: Ragnarok
• Horizon Forbidden West

Best Visual Art

• Elden Ring
• God of War: Ragnarok
• Horizon: Forbidden West
• Pentiment
• Stray

Game of the Year

• Elden Ring
• God of War: Ragnarok
• Immortality
• Pentiment
• Stray
• Tunic

Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelancer and acting UK news editor. He'll talk about The Witcher all day.