r/NintendoSwitch Game of the Year 2022 Voting Results!

GotY 2022

Hey there!

You nominated the games, and you voted for them, and now that the votes have been counted, it's time to see what you thought were the best games in 2022!

Section 1 - Gaming Together

Best Online Multiplayer Game

Rank	Name	Votes	Percent
1	Splatoon 3	1011	59.5%
2	It Takes Two	273	16.1%
3	TMNT: Shredder’s Revenge	184	10.8%
4	Nintendo Switch Sports	144	8.5%
5	Kirby’s Dream Buffet	86	5.1%
Total	-	1698	-

Best Local Multiplayer Game

Rank	Name	Votes	Percent
1	It Takes Two	699	43.0%
2	TMNT: Shredder’s Revenge	371	22.8%
3	Portal Companion Collection	337	20.8%
4	Kirby's Dream Buffet	217	13.4%
Total	-	1624	-

Best Family Game

Rank	Name	Votes	Percent
1	Kirby and the Forgotten Land	943	55.3%
2	Nintendo Switch Sports	458	26.9%
3	Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga	304	17.8%
Total	-	1705	-

Section 2 - Categories by Genre

Best Strategy Game

Rank	Name	Votes	Percent
1	Mario + Rabbids: Sparks of Hope	621	43.1%
2	Triangle Strategy	508	35.3%
3	Tactics Ogre Reborn	162	11.2%
4	Chained Echoes	112	7.8%
5	Floppy Knights	38	2.6%
Total	-	1441	-

Best Role Playing Game (RPG)

Rank	Name	Votes	Percent
1	Xenoblade Chronicles 3	572	33.3%
2	Persona 5 Royal	442	25.7%
3	Pokémon Legends: Arceus	351	20.4%
4	Pokémon Scarlet and Violet	187	10.9%
5	Live A Live	86	5.0%
6	Triangle Strategy	79	4.6%
Total	-	1717	-

Best Adventure Game

Rank	Name	Votes	Percent
1	Pokémon Legends: Arceus	972	59.3%
2	Tunic	424	25.9%
3	Return to Monkey Island	159	9.7%
4	Harvestella	83	5.1%
Total	-	1638	-

Best Action Game

Rank	Name	Votes	Percent
1	Splatoon 3	440	27.2%
2	Bayonetta 3	405	25.1%
3	Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes	242	15.0%
4	Neon White	215	13.3%
5	TMNT: Shredder's Revenge	199	12.3%
6	SIFU	115	7.1%
Total	-	1616	-

Best Fighting Game

Rank	Name	Votes	Percent
1	TMNT: Shredder's Revenge	713	55.6%
2	Capcom Fighting Collection	291	22.7%
3	River City Girls 2	204	15.9%
4	Them's Fightin' Herds	75	5.8%
Total	-	1283	-

Best Sports / Racing Game

Rank	Name	Votes	Percent
1	Nintendo Switch Sports	566	39.4%
2	Kirby’s Dream Buffet	270	18.8%
3	Mario Strikers: Battle League	242	16.8%
4	OlliOllie World	206	14.3%
5	Cursed to Golf	89	6.2%
6	MLB The Show 20	65	4.5%
Total	-	1438	-

Best Horror Game

Rank	Name	Votes	Percent
1	Inscryption	571	47.1%
2	Digimon Survive	309	25.5%
3	Signalis	243	20.0%
4	Saturnalia	89	7.3%
Total	-	1212	-

Best Platformer Game

Rank	Name	Votes	Percent
1	Kirby and the Forgotten Land	920	57.9%
2	Sonic Frontiers	206	13.0%
3	Neon White	180	11.3%
4	Rogue Legacy 2	128	8.1%
5	Shovel Knight Dig	119	7.5%
6	Tinykin	35	2.2%
Total	-	1588	-

Best Puzzle Game

Rank	Name	Votes	Percent
1	Portal Companion Collection	844	61.5%
2	Return to Monkey Island	269	19.6%
3	Dorf Romantik	123	9.0%
4	A Little to the Left	90	6.6%
5	ElecHead	47	3.4%
Total	-	1373	-

Best Music / Rhythm Game

Rank	Name	Votes	Percent
1	Taiko no Tatsujin: Rhythm Festival	562	51.4%
2	Melatonin	216	19.7%
3	Soundfall	174	15.9%
4	The Artful Escape	142	13.0%
Total	-	1094	-

Best Visual Novel

Rank	Name	Votes	Percent
1	13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim	434	37.7%
2	Digimon Survive	264	22.9%
3	AI: THE SOMNIUM FILES – nirvanA Initiative	239	20.8%
4	Aviary Attorney	116	10.1%
5	I was a Teenage Exocolonist	98	8.5%
Total	-	1151	-

Best Simulation Game

Rank	Name	Votes	Percent
1	No Man's Sky	633	47.3%
2	Factorio	431	32.2%
3	Harvestella	219	16.4%
4	Needy Streamer Overload	54	4.0%
Total	-	1337	-

Section 3 - Categories by Qualities

Best Soundtrack

Rank	Name	Votes	Percent
1	Xenoblade Chronicles 3	462	29.2%
2	Persona 5 Royal	443	28.0%
3	Kirby and the Forgotten Land	345	21.8%
4	Nier: Automata	243	15.4%
5	Triangle Strategy	44	2.8%
5	Live A Live	44	2.8%
Total	-	1581	-

Best Art Direction

Rank	Name	Votes	Percent
1	Xenoblade Chronicles 3	571	36.3%
2	Kirby and the Forgotten Land	525	33.4%
3	Tunic	342	21.8%
4	Signalis	68	4.3%
5	Atelier Sophie 2: The Alchemist of the Mysterious Dream	65	4.1%
Total	-	1571	-

Best Narrative

Rank	Name	Votes	Percent
1	Xenoblade Chronicles 3	603	41.7%
2	The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe Edition	422	29.2%
3	13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim	200	13.8%
4	Triangle Strategy	153	10.6%
5	Chained Echoes	67	4.6%
Total	-	1445	-

Best Game Direction

Rank	Name	Votes	Percent
1	Xenoblade Chronicles 3	480	30.3%
2	Kirby and the Forgotten Land	451	28.5%
3	Pokémon Scarlet/Violet	249	15.7%
4	Inscryption	235	14.8%
5	Neon White	142	9.0%
6	Tinykin	26	1.6%
Total	-	1583	-

Best Technical Achievement

Rank	Name	Votes	Percent
1	Xenoblade Chronicles 3	620	41.2%
2	No Man’s Sky	396	26.3%
3	Nier: Automata	346	23.0%
4	Bayonetta 3	144	9.6%
Total	-	1506	-

Best Voice Acting

Rank	Name	Votes	Percent
1	Xenoblade Chronicles 3	595	40.2%
2	Portal 2	553	37.4%
3	Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes	186	12.6%
4	Triangle Strategy	101	6.8%
5	Neon White	45	3.0%
Total	-	1480	-

Section 4 - Release Categories

Best Re-Release / Re-master

Rank	Name	Votes	Percent
1	Persona 5 Royal	527	33.0%
2	Portal Companion Collection	376	23.6%
3	Nier: Automata	249	15.6%
4	Stanley Parable Ultra Deluxe	177	11.1%
5	Live A Live	171	10.7%
6	Tactics Ogre Reborn	96	6.0%
Total	-	1596	-

Nintendo Switch Exclusive Game

Rank	Name	Votes	Percent
1	Xenoblade Chronicles 3	491	28.3%
2	Pokémon Legends: Arceus	423	24.4%
3	Kirby and the Forgotten Land	403	23.2%
4	Splatoon 3	287	16.5%
5	Mario + Rabbids: Sparks of Hope	79	4.5%
6	Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes	54	3.1%
Total	-	1737	-

Best Non-Switch Game

Rank	Name	Votes	Percent
1	Elden Ring	867	56.3%
2	Stray	259	16.8%
3	God of War Ragnarok	258	16.8%
4	Horizon Forbidden West	123	8.0%
5	Pentiment	32	2.1%
Total	-	1539	-

Best DLC

Rank	Name	Votes	Percent
1	Mario Kart 8 Deluxe - Booster Course Pass	731	45.4%
2	Cuphead: The Delicious Last Course	369	22.9%
3	Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak	326	20.3%
4	Xenoblade Chronicles 3 Expansion Pass	183	11.4%
Total	-	1609	-

Best Ongoing Game

Rank	Name	Votes	Percent
1	Mario Kart 8 Deluxe	769	45.4%
2	Dead Cells	381	22.5%
3	Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak	259	15.3%
4	No Man's Sky	175	10.3%
5	Fortnite	92	5.4%
6	Snowrunner	16	0.9%
Total	-	1692	-

Best Indie Game

Rank	Name	Votes	Percent
1	Cult of the Lamb	425	29.2%
2	Tunic	350	24.0%
3	Inscryption	241	16.5%
4	Neon White	214	14.7%
5	Chained Echoes	167	11.5%
6	Lil Gator Game	60	4.1%
Total	-	1457	-

Best Free-to-Play Game

Rank	Name	Votes	Percent
1	Fall Guys	921	69.4%
2	Overwatch 2	285	21.5%
3	Guardian Tales	122	9.2%
Total	-	1328	-

Section 5 - Final Section

Developer of the Year

Rank	Name	Votes	Percent
1	Monolith Soft	711	54.4%
2	Platinum	308	23.6%
3	Ubisoft Milan	147	11.3%
4	Ben Esposito	83	6.4%
5	Matthias Linda	57	4.4%
Total	-	1306	-

3rd Party Publisher of the Year

Rank	Name	Votes	Percent
1	Square Enix	583	39.5%
2	Atlus	421	28.5%
3	Devolver Digital	316	21.4%
4	Annapurna Interactive	155	10.5%
Total	-	1475	-

Nintendo Switch Game of the Year

Rank	Name	Votes	Percent
1	Xenoblade Chronicles 3	532	31.5%
2	Kirby and the Forgotten Land	486	28.7%
3	Pokémon Legends: Arceus	444	26.3%
4	Triangle Strategy	91	5.4%
4	Neon White	91	5.4%
6	Chained Echoes	47	2.8%
Total	-	1691	-

That's it! You can also find this list on our wiki at https://www.reddit.com/r/NintendoSwitch/wiki/bestof/2022

Congratulations to all the winners, and we are open to feedback to make this run smoother in the future.

On a related note, one of the suggestions we have been pondering has been to run a series of posts for Best Games across all years - what categories would you like to see in such a series of posts, whether from the above categories or not?

Posted Mar 19, 2023, 4:35 PM UTC · edited

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