Polls Closed: PlayStation.Blog Game of the Year 2017

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Polls Closed: PlayStation.Blog Game of the Year 2017

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!

Best PS4 Game
Best PS VR Experience
Best Independent Game
Best PS Vita Game
Best Performance
Best Art Direction
Best Soundtrack
Best Multiplayer
Best Story
Best Sports Game
Best Post-Release Content
Best PlayStation Console Exclusive
Best PS4 Theme
Best Use of PS4 Pro
Most Anticipated PS4 Title

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.

Most Anticipated PS VR Title
Studio of the Year

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  • Uncharted Everything!

  • …… And CoD

  • Oh man, I really want Nier to win. I know that it’s far to niche of a game to get the recognition it deserves, but it should at least win best soundtrack.

  • best vita game : Salt and Sanctuary

  • glad to see the legacy theme on there for nomination as best ps4 theme

  • nice!

  • Game of the year: Horizon Zero Dawn
    Most anticipated: Detroit becoming human

  • I’ve been gaming since the late 70’s, and I can say with absolute certainty, that this was one of the best years in gaming.

  • I feel Mass Effect Andromeda should be on the list for best Multiplayer it was after all the only Multiplayer game that I played that was released this year

  • How is Assassin’s Creed Origins not on the soundtrack list? It’s absolutely incredible. Yet Horizon is, where half the soundtrack is just ominous tones. Or boring Uncharted LL where it 95% of the soundtrack is reused from U4???

    C’mon….

  • Cyberpunk 2077

  • God Of War for most anticipated game, just need an official release date, stop playing dumb Sony, and drop the date.

  • How come Suckerpunch wasn’t on the list!?

  • Yakuza 0, Horizon and Nier Automata the best games in the year

  • Cool I just Vote

  • 2017 was a ridiculous year for amazing games. Can’t wait to see what 2018 brings. Good luck to all the candidates.

  • Persona 5 !

    Atlus !

  • DESTINY 2 4LIFE

  • uncharted destiny horizon and battlefront

    hard to pick

  • The post-release Content of Final Fantasy XV was soo dope. Episode Ignis kicks ass and makes me cry at the same time. And all the updates they released for free make the game feel so much better now.

  • I dont understand why Life Is Strange Before The Storm isn’t a Nominee for Best Soundtrack or Best Game Or Best Story I mean The Soundtrack is Phenomenal i mean there are so many great songs on there and get you emotionally Invested Burn It Down By Daughter, The Storyline OMG Is amazing How Far will you go to uncover the truth Its ABSOLUTELY AMAZING It deserves to be on the best game aswell

  • Why is The Witcher 3 up for best use of PS Pro? I thought the games up for awards here were games that released in 2017?

  • Added in lance reddick for his work as Zavala in Destiny (1 & 2) and Sylens in Horizon Zero Dawn. His voice work is incredible and stands out from the cast on both games…. surprised that he wasn’t on the nominated list

  • Fortnite is my GOTY.

  • Final Fantasy XIV Stormblood definitely has my vote for best soundtrack and best multiplayer I have almost 2000 hours on it. Most anticipated game is Red Dead Redemption 2 it looks amazing.

  • Horizon: Zero Dawn deserves to win big! Destiny 2 and the people over at Bungie need to get ZERO awards for the CRAP, cut up, watered down version of Destiny 1 they gave to us. Stop feeding that crap machine before the gaming community is ruined forever… Big companies like EA AND ACTIVISION are SCREWING EVERY GAMER ON THE PLANET OVER, And you all like it? Psh, They aren’t getting ANY of my money anytime soon.

  • As a fan of the star wars games i have to say i am very disappointed in the new battlefront when the 2015 release Star Wars Battlefront came that game totally blew me away the graphics were amazing the absolute best you could find in video games and when i seen the first commercial for Battlefront 2 I could not wait another Star Wars battlefront but that game was horrible im telling people you want a good Star Wars then play the older ones because you’ll be mad if you play the new one

  • The best three games of 2017 are Resident Evil 7 , persona 5 and Tekken 7.

  • Totally backed Horizon Zero Dawn on nearly every list but really hope it wins. The acting in it was superb and loved the storyline. Don’t own a psvita so didn’t know what to put for that just said other. Do many people use psvita anyway???

  • Persona 5 for everything, perfect game and that soundtrack is just too damn good,no other game deserves any of the awards that persona are in just give them already

  • Persona 5 everything

  • HZD all the way! Go Guerilla and thank you for such an amazing game!

  • I chose Warframe as game of the year. The way that Digital Extremes have continually built the game and evolved is quite remarkable. I’m a very seasoned gamer (code for 40 yrs old) and nothing has held me to a game quite like this.
    Anyways if you haven’t seen it check it out, it’s free to play, it’s huge and yeah once you get your head around it it’s awesome!!

    Psn me if you have any questions etc.

  • Most all my votes went to Persona 5, Undertale, and Hellblade. 2017 has just been such a good year for games.

    As for my most anticipated? My avatar should give it away :D

  • Doesn’t work on mobile.

  • This page just doesn’t work….

  • Starhawk remastered is totally gonna win game of the year

  • Sonic Mania must win the soundtrack topic, sonic has some of the best musics in games. I think sonic Mania has the best level design of entire series

  • Cyberpunk 2077 will always be my most anticipated game until it’s released. In 2077, likely. However, of the games listed, I am forced to choose between some big releases. Most of which are highly anticipated by me. I said, if I could only get one, it would have to be Red Dead Redemption 2. In reality I’m going to get them all!

  • Don’t understand why shadow of war was not listed , best story line and graphics I have seen in a game

  • I am sad that Neko Atsume VR isn’t on the most anticipated PSVR list.

  • Hellblade for everything. It is amazing and Melina did fantastic work!

  • Nice that you put theme’s to compete! I did not see any Senran no Kagura theme’s but alas…Joking! To be honest loved Legacy yet the Big Bang from FFXV Still remains my theme for today! And on Most anticipates PS4 Game you caught me there was about to put God of War which I AM DYING TO GET! but Kingdom Hearts 3…..Let’s be honest is like FFXV we waited long enough!

  • Add Yakuza 0 to “Best story” pole? Damn it’s really underrated. It’s by far the best story I played in a video game. I asked Cory Barlog, the God of War dev on Twitter and he agreed that what he played of it so far is amazing. I’m not surprised it’s not listed since on “Best story” since a lot of people missed out on it and don’t know about how good the story is. Also Uncharted isn’t the only one that got a 10th Anniversary theme this year, BioShock did too. The BioShock 10th Anniversary theme is really good and I think people should check it out!

  • Horizon zero dawn and is just the best game a gaming history could give.people say it is a copy of many game into one but nobody can understand the beautiful uniqueness & beautiful logical story of the apocalypse world & also the machine which have their each unique strength , weakness & combat style , . & who else could make a tremendous open world of forest & hi tech machines so well….the open world hase many to explore & I still can’t do it after playing 100+ hours.coz the beauty & the hi tech graphics just blends me to fight machines without getting bored. Well done Guerrilla Games,u guys have use your 6 years for something which is literally useful

  • Horizon zero dawn and is just the best game a gaming history could give.people say it is a copy of many game into one but nobody can understand the beautiful uniqueness & beautiful logical story of the apocalypse world & also the machine which have their each unique strength , weakness & combat style , . & who else could make a tremendous open world of forest & hi tech machines so well….the open world hase many to explore & I still can’t do it after playing 100+ hours.coz the beauty & the hi tech graphics just blends me to fight machines without getting bored. Well done Guerrilla Games,u guys have use your 6 years for something which is literally useful . Well done

  • Street Fighter V, Warframe, or better get best post-release content or I rage.

  • Disappointed I had to write-in Resident Evil 7 for “Best Art Direction.” Never before have I thought of a video game as art before anything else. That game is just enjoyable to look at, let alone play.

  • Best ps4 game in my opinion is HZD

  • honestly, if “My name is Mayo”, wich game could have this award?
    The ost was so good and so emotional about the life of that mayo, the gameplay is perfect and the art of the game was full wonderful, the graphics are way better than anything that exist in the world and the past few years
    Everything was fantastic, even the vr experience !
    So please, let this masterpiece get his award

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