Dead Rising: 1 Game of the Year award

No: Dead Rising collected 1 Game of the Year award in 2006 and finished No. 11; the season went to The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion with 42. Spike Video Game Awards named The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion its Game of the Year.

Dead Rising is a 2006 action-adventure game developed and published by Capcom originally for the Xbox 360. The game's story follows wartime photojournalist Frank West, who becomes trapped inside a shopping mall in the town of Willamette, Colorado, during a deadly zombie plague.

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Dead Rising finished #11 in the 2006 race, with 1 GOTY award from media outlets and reader votes worldwide.

1Total awards
1Media outlets
0Readers' choice
1Countries

Also in the 2006 season: The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (42), Gears of War (34), The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (28), Shadow of the Colossus (2), Guitar Hero (2) · full results

Quick answers

How many Game of the Year awards did Dead Rising win?

Dead Rising won 1 Game of the Year award in the 2006 season — 0.8% of every award tracked that season. 1 came from editorial picks and 0 from readers' polls, across 1 country.

Did Dead Rising win Game of the Year?

No. It finished No. 11 in 2006, behind The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, which collected 42 Game of the Year awards.

Game facts

Single-playerYes
Co-opNo
Split screenNo
MultiplayerNo
Online multiplayerNo
Released8 August 2006
DeveloperCapcom
PublisherCapcom

survival horror
zombie video game
X-BOX 360
PlayStation 4
Xbox One
Microsoft Windows
Wii
IOS
personal computer

Where the awards came from

Country	Awards
United States	1

Every outlet that named it Game of the Year

Outlet	Country	Year
JuicyCerebellum	United States	2006

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Updated 2 October 2026 · Source: the Meta Awards database, where every award row cites where it was published.