25 Years of Game of the Year Winners Ranked (2026)

Seventy percent of every Game of the Year award in 2025 went to a single AA indie project. In 2001, GTA 3 won with just six. What happened to video game awards over twenty-five years, and which winners were actually broken games hiding behind hype? Here is the full autopsy of every major Game of the Year consensus winner from 2001 to 2026. #gaming #goty #gameoftheyear #gaminganalysis #tryhardx #gta #eldenring #skyrim #baldursgate3 Expedition 33 took 515 awards, but the publisher that trained its developers got zero.