Game of the Year 2023

One game stood above all the others this year. Tears of the Kingdom is the Shacknews GOTY 2023.

Which games made the cut for the Shacknews Top 23 Games of the year 2023 list? Please take a look.

Find out how Stephen Kick, Larry Kuperman, and the rest of the Nightdive Studios team did it for Shacknews in 2023.

No other developer this year came close to delivering such a large quantity of high quality titles across a broad range of genres.

Larian Studio's work self-publishing Baldur's Gate 3 is one of this year's greatest achievements.

In the end of a jam-packed year of fabulous indie games, there could only be one Indie Game of the Year, and for us that was Humanity.

Much like the mainline Games of the Year, 2023's indie games couldn't be confined to a simple Top 10. So here are the best 23 Indies of 2023.

In a historic year for fighting games, Mortal Kombat 1's layered gameplay and reimagined mythology stole our hearts (straight out of our chests).

Alan Wake 2's dark and gloomy world is a technical and graphical achievement, marking it the best looking game of the year.

Out of all the narratives told in video games this year, the best stories are the ones found in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom.