gamescom Award Winners Announced, Little Nightmares 3 Takes Top Award

Every year at gamescom, awards are given out in a variety of categories including the award for best trailer and announcement, which this year belongs to Supermassive Games and Bandai Namco’s Little Nightmares 3.

The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom also took home a handful of awards, while Mortal Kombat 1, Sky: Children of the Light, and Black Myth: Wukong also performed.

If you want to know more about what was announced at gamescom so far or what was revealed at Opening Night Live, check out our roundups.

The full list of winners for the gamescom 2023 awards are as follows:

Best Trailer/Announcement

• Little Nightmares 3 – WINNER

Best Show Floor

• Bandai Namco Entertainment – WINNER

Best Microsoft Xbox Game

• Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon
• Enotria: The Last Song
• Mortal Kombat 1 – WINNER
• The Wandering Village
• Towerborne

Best Nintendo Switch Game

• Fall of Porcupine
• Figment 2: Creed Valley
• Paper Trail
• The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom – WINNER
• The Smurfs 2 – The Prisoner of the Green Stone

Best PC Game

• Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon
• Dwarf Fortress
• PAYDAY 3 – WINNER
• REKA
• Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew

Best Sony PlayStation Game

• Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon
• Enotria: The Last Song
• Mortal Kombat 1
• Sand Land
• Tekken 8 – WINNER

Best Mobile Game

• Genshin Impact
• Marvel Snap
• Monster Hunter Now
• Paper Trail
• Sky: Children of the Light – WINNER

Best Visuals

• Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon
• Black Myth: Wukong – WINNER
• REKA
• Sand Land
• The Many Pieces of Mr. Coo

Best Audio

• Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon
• Headbangers: Rhythm Royale
• REKA
• Savant – Ascent Remix
• The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom – WINNER

Best Gameplay

• Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon
• Paper Trail
• Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew
• The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom – WINNER
• The Wandering Village

Most Entertaining

• AK-xolotl – WINNER
• Core Keeper
• Headbangers: Rhythm Royale
• PAYDAY 3
• Pizza Possum

Most Epic

• Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon
• Black Myth: Wukong
• Dwarf Fortress
• Sand Land
• The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom – WINNER

Most Wholesome

• Pikmin 4 – WINNER
• Pioneers of Pagonia
• Smushi Come Home
• The Wandering Village
• Tiny Booskhop

Games for Impact

• A Space for the Unbound
• Belonging
• Dead Pets Unleashed
• Fall of Porcupine
• Sky: Children of the Light – WINNER

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