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Starfield snubbed for The Game of the Year award

Semir Omerovic

Published: 18:22, 13 November 2023

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Starfield snubbed for The Game of the Year award

Starfield didn't get a nomination for the Ultimate Game of The Year award

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Starfield failed to get nominated for Ultimate Game of the Year at The Game Awards 2023
The nominees for Game of the Year were Baldur's Gate 3, Alan Wake 2, Marvel's Spider-Man, The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, Resident Evil 4 and Super Mario Bros. Wonder
Starfield only got one nomination, for RPG of the year
Game journalists, who vote on nominations, gave Starfield lower review scores compared to other nominated games
Starfield's player count has remained high over two months since launch, which is a great achievement for the game

Starfield didn't get a nomination for the Ultimate Game of The Year award

Bethesda's sci-fi RPG gets only one nomination across over 20 categories, which will certainly come as a disappointment to Starfield fans and developers.

Starfield has failed to get a nomination for the Ultimate Game of the Year award at Geoff Keighley's The Game Awards 2023 show. Bethesda's RPG was one of the candidates for the nomination for this top category but sadly for Starfield fans and developers, those nominations went to other excellent games that were released throughout 2023.

The nominees for the Game of the Year are Baldur's Gate 3, Alan Wake 2, Marvel's Spider-Man 2, The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, Resident Evil 4 and Super Mario Bros. Wonder. Starfield got one nomination and that's for the RPG of the year, which will probably go to Larian Studios's Baldur's Gate 3.

So, why didn't Starfield get more nominations? We'll, game journalists across the world are the ones voting for the best games of the year and as you can remember, Starfield didn't get universal praise from the media, scoring in the low 80s on Metacritic and OpenCritic.

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Games that are nominated for the Game of the Year got overwhelming praise from the media and have very high meta scores in the 90s or very high 80s so that's why these five got on the list. Of course, all the games on the list absolutely deserve the nominations they got.

For Starfield and Bethesda developers, it is quite the disappointment obviously, as their sci-fi epic RPG was one of the most anticipated and hyped games of the last decade. Bethesda probably expected higher meta score and more nominations and rewards but it is what it is.

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Sadly, Starfield will not be The Game of The Year

We'd argue that the most important award is the player count which is quite high for Starfield. The game is still among the most-played Xbox games, over two months since its launch, which is certainly a great achievement.

Starfield is available now on PC and Xbox Series X|S via Game Pass.