Top 10 Best Games:
- HITMAN --- Game of the Year
- DOOM
- Overwatch
- The Witness
- Titanfall 2
- SUPERHOT
- INSIDE
- Hyper Light Drifter
- Thumper
- Stardew Valley
Old Game of the Year: The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
Runners-Up: Super Mario Maker, Quake Live
Best Debut: Overwatch
Runners-Up: SUPERHOT, The Witness
Hottest Mess: The Unmaking of Palmer Luckey
Runners-Up: No Man's Sky, Street Fighter V
Best Style: SUPERHOT
Runners-Up: Darkest Dungeon, DOOM
Best New Character: Helmut Kruger(HITMAN)
Runners-Up: Trico(The Last Guardian), Samuel Hayden(DOOM)
Best VR Experience: Google Earth VR
Runners-Up: Rec Room, Rez Infinite
Most Disappointing Game: No Man's Sky
Runners-Up: ReCore, Street Fighter V
Best-Looking Game: INSIDE
Runners-Up: Uncharted 4: A Thief's End, DOOM
Best Remaster: Day of the Tentacle Remastered
Runners-Up: Odin Sphere Leifthrasir, The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess HD
Best Fake Computer: hackmud
Runners-Up: Event[0], Quadrilateral Cowboy
PLEASE STOP: Shipping Unfinished Games on Disc
Runners-Up: The Return of Bad PC Ports, Not Providing Early Review Copies
Best Surprise: DOOM
Runners-Up: Stardew Valley, HITMAN
Best Music: Furi
Runners-Up: DOOM, Firewatch
Best Multiplayer: Overwatch
Runners-Up: Titanfall 2, Overcooked
Xbox One Backwards Compatible Game of the Year: Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved
Runners-Up: Red Dead Redemption, Burnout Paradise
Best Moment or Sequence: Finding Your First Environmental Puzzle in The Witness
Runners-Up: The first five minutes of DOOM, INSIDE(That Part)
Overwatch Character of the Year: Reinhardt
Runners-Up: Lucio, Pharah
Best Story: Uncharted 4: A Thief's End
Runners-Up: DOOM, Firewatch
Worst Game: Soviet Monsters: Ekranoplans
Runners-Up: Mighty No. 9, Lost Reavers
Source: http://www.giantbomb.com/articles/giant-bombs-2016-game-of-the-year-awards-day-five/1100-5525/
Date Published: December 30, 2016