PS Blog Game of the Year 2021 polls are now live

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PS Blog Game of the Year 2021 polls are now live

Vote for your favourite games of the past 12 months across 16 categories.

The PS Blog Game of the Year 2021 Polls are now open! These awards are driven entirely by players’ choice, so cast your vote to nominate your favourite PlayStation games of the past year. All 16 categories recognise the best of PlayStation through 2021, across PS4, PS5 and PS VR to celebrate great games, captivating new characters, fantastic soundtracks, graphical showcases, and much more. 

As ever, there are a few rules for categories and their nominees. This year, some are new: 

  • Every category includes a write-in option in case there’s a title absent that you think should be considered. 
  • Due to the polls closure date, some titles aren’t eligible for inclusion. These will be eligible for next year’s nominee selection. 
  • As with the majority of the other categories, Best Multiplayer Experience focuses on titles released in 2021, but also recognises multiplayer-centric games that have seen significant new content or game-changing updates over this past year (such as Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker). 
  • There are a number of highly anticipated games on the horizon. Some have launch dates, while others have yet to even officially confirm the game’s name. As such, we’ve chosen to keep the selection for the Most Anticipated Game of 2022 and Beyond category to games that have official titles.  
  • Best Re-Release is a new category recognising remasters and remakes. Qualifying titles showcase enhancements like quality of life gameplay changes, graphical upgrades, and more. 
  • If a title won a Platinum in a category any previous year, it won’t be eligible for inclusion in the same category this year. 

Polls are live now and close on Monday, December 13 at 11.59pm Pacific Time, so scroll below and get clicking.  We’ll collect the results and announce the winners later this month. 

Good luck to all the nominees! 

Best New Character 

Best Story

Best Use of the DualSense Wireless Controller

Best Multiplayer Experience

Best Sports Game

Best Accessibility Features

Best Graphical Showcase

Best Art Direction

Best Soundtrack

Best Re-Release

Independent Game of the Year

PS VR Game of the Year

PS4 Game of the Year

PS5 Game of the Year

Most Anticipated Game of 2022 and Beyond

Studio of the Year

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212 Comments

  • Just placed in my vote for battlefield 2042 being the best ps4 game of the year ✅ feeling good hope it wins

  • Resident evil village is rhe best <3

  • Los mejores Battlefield 2042 y Ghost og tsumisha

  • Hello!
    What did you guys vote for?

  • It won’t let me vote

  • Vote hitman 3 it’s clearly cool

  • Returnal all the way for me. One of the best games I’ve ever played

    • You should check out Nex Machina by Housemarque, if you haven’t already. It’s like a isometric Returnal. It’s a little short, but fun none the less.

  • Hey how is everyone

  • thank you playstation Blog😘😘

  • Seriously tho, where is god of war in the upcoming games of 2022 and beyond?

  • Interested to see who wins out of all of these, list definitely could be tweaked, the “Best ps5 game” Just repeated the ps4 games instead of including the ps5 only games that released this year. Also suprised that Anton Castillo wasn’t on the best new character list. These polls are usually fine but this time seemed low effort, either way I’m interested to see the results.

  • Housemarque have been very underlooked this year in my opinion.

  • Cannot vote for PS5 because I don’t get to own one of my own.

    I’ll say, Genshin 2.0 has surprised me lots.

  • AMAZING 🤩 THANK YOU SONY

  • Well the problem of course is there’s nothing to click… but I’ll vote for Fortnite

  • Update, it only works on a mobile phone. No wonder your messenger doesn’t work on desktop anymore. Your web page guy.. fix this please

  • Voted. hope to see ratchet and clank rift apart winning at this time :D

  • Even though Horizon: FW is my most anticipated game of 2022 and beyond, I am curious why God of War: Ragnarok didn’t make that list. Spider-Man 2 is there and that’s going to be a 2023 game.

  • Honestly the biggest surprise this year was Guardians of The Galaxy, it did something incredible that I never saw coming so well done to Eidos Interactive for creating an incredibly memorable experience, I hope we get a sequel soon

  • voted for lost judement as much as i could :D

  • Naughty dog is best studio why they not listed. Please invest more into them everyone loves Uncharted!

    PS5 games have been bland hopefully EA releases a new Need for Speed PS5 that rivals Forza Horizon.

    Call of duty is brilliant game but ruined with cheaters it’s rating 4 out of 10 but without the majority of cheaters 8 out of 10.

    Playstation you guys should add rating feature and comments for all games on PS store.

    Metal Gear Solid Phantom Pain, RDR2, Warzone, Need for Speed PS5 Upgrade would be cool

    You really need to invest in a high end car game that rivals Forza

    • I liked TLOU 1 and 2, but I certainly wish Naughty Dog was prioritizing a new Uncharted game or new IP over TLOU Factions multiplayer game.

  • Grand Turismo 7 looks awesome but track racing is boring we need a open world multi-player more customization, body kits, engine swaps, rims, headlights the full deal like Need for Speed. Bad mods we need more freedom to expression.

    GTA 6 thats more what we want.

    Previous hitman games were better character feels so stiff like playing with an android.

  • Horizon Zero Dawn, looks cool played it but I don’t like the mix between old and new like seriously you want me to fight a metal machine monster with a bow and arrow and a stick? Should have just had assault rifles or something other than a bow its silly.

    Please allow us to hav

  • We need functionality to run certain games in performance mode like Call of Duty Vanguard and Death Stranding in resolution mode its annoying switching constantly

    Oh yes and functionality to have voice chat come out of the TV speakers instead of the controller speaker for PS5 its so annoying.

    A feature to show current frames per second and current resolution you playing a game at.

    A feature to turn on your PS5 from off state to rest mode if there are updates available for your games this feature only enables while you sleep or you can set schedules

  • It’s been more than about time for at least a teaser of the next part of Final Fantasy VII Remake.

  • I’m just excited for god of war ragnarok

  • My men where GOW RAGNARÖK !!??

  • It’s a shame that after more than a year, the PS5 stock problem is still existing!!!

  • There is no Fortnite in best story poll?! They must be kidding.

  • My Top 5 of 2021 on PS4-PS5 “covering of both console games”
    No#1 Resident Evil Village^^
    No#2 Diablo II Resurrected
    No#3 FAR CRY 6
    No#4 Hitman III
    And on No#5 3 Remasterd games Mass Effect Legendary Edition/Crysis Trilogy Remasterd/Alan Wake Remasterd:)

    and

    My Top 5 of the most anticipated games of 2022
    No#1 Final Fantasy XVI
    No#2 Dying Light 2
    No3# Marvel’s Wolverine^^
    No4# Horizon 2 Forbidden West
    and on No#5 Elden Ring

    MerryXmas everyone and Happy New Year!:)

  • My Top 5 of 2021 on PS4-PS5 “covering of both console games”
    No#1 Resident Evil Village^^
    No#2 Diablo II Resurrected
    No#3 FAR CRY 6
    No#4 Hitman III
    And on No#5 3 Remasterd games Mass Effect Legendary Edition/Crysis Trilogy Remasterd/Alan Wake Remasterd:)
    and
    My Top 5 of the most anticipated games of 2022
    No#1 Final Fantasy XVI
    No#2 Dying Light 2
    No3# Marvel’s Wolverine^^
    No4# Horizon 2 Forbidden West
    and on No#5 Elden Ring
    MerryXmas everyone and Happy New Year!:)

  • l performed the following steps to earn money

  • It takes two was really fun i enjoyed every hour that i played through it i even platinumed the game and i think the best game that i played this year was rdr2 but there is not that big of difference between ps4/ps5

  • Resident Evil Village Goty!!

  • How the hell is Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy not in the best art direction poll???

  • Most Anticipated Game: Elden Ring

  • Hopefully this is the chance psychonauts gets an award especially in the art direction

  • 2021!!! A year which gamers spend 500$ just
    to play Remakes -Directors cut -Enhanced ps4 games, on α hard to find, next gen console …
    That was the game of the year …

    P.S. We need a new Prince of Persia, we have had enough assassins greed games!

  • Hats off to Housemarque. Fantastic Job with Returnal and I can’t wait to see your next project.

    If Ember Labs hasn’t proven themselves already, hopefully their next project convinces Sony to bring them onto the team, if that’s what Ember Labs wants.

    I hope the report of Sony teaming up with From Software on a PS5 exclusive is true and that we get to play it around 2024. Also, a bloodborne remastered would be fantastic, or just a 60fps patch.

  • Ghost of Tsushima for the win ;)

  • elden ring

  • No “God of War: Ragnarök” between the Most Antecipated For 2022 poll candidates?

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