2017 was an incredible year for all kinds of games, but it's time to decide which one was the best.
Update: The polls have closed! We’ll publish the list of winners soon… stand by!
Holy moly, what a year!
It’s hard to argue against 2017 being one of the best years for gaming since… well, one of the best of all time, really. Its first few months alone saw the likes of Resident Evil 7, Nioh, Horizon Zero Dawn, Nier Automata, and Persona 5. Come on!
We’ve got a lot of the same categories below that we’ve featured in previous years — plus a few new ones. You may notice a slight change to this year’s “Most Anticipated” category: since The Last of Us Part II won the Platinum Trophy in that same category following its announcement last year, it’s no longer eligible for a nomination in that category this year. Games that previously won Gold, Silver and Bronze Trophies get another shot at the Plat.
All the polls you see below are open now, and will remain so until we close out 2017 at 11:59pm Pacific on December 31. Get those votes in, and remind your friends to do the same!
Finally, from the entire PlayStation.Blog team, thank you for an incredible year. We’re privileged to have the best fans in the biz, and it’s thanks to you that we get to keep doing what we do. Cheers!
Editor’s note: Since The Last of Us Part II won the Platinum award in this category last year, it is no longer eligible for nomination here.
I know it’s not going to win anything but Gravity Rush 2 deserves far more praise than what it gets and I most definitely think it should have been nominated as a goy contener. I played most of the nominees and GR2 was just as good, if not better than them, but it wasn’t as popular. It’s really a shame that a great game went unloved. It definitely deserved better.
I play almost every game out there. And let’s be honest horizon zero dawn knocked it out of the park this year. And there is only two kind of gamers that don’t agree. 1 you haven’t played it or 2 your a xbox fan. And in the words of forest Gump.. THATS ALL I GOT TO SAY ABOUT THAT
Horizon definitely deserves the “post-release content” award.
$15 for a good 15+ hours of gameplay is more than fair.
They also didn’t go crazy with DLC, and didn’t make the face paintings a small DLC or micro-transaction thing.
Mad respect to Guerrilla for keeping their integrity, it can be quickly forgotten in this era of maximizing profit on everything.
I hope to play HZD 2 someday.
Well said, agreed on all points. HZD was the game that finally brought me into this console generation, and I look forward to further exploring that world in a sequel.