Fez: 1 Game of the Year award

No: Fez collected 1 Game of the Year award in 2012 and finished No. 19; the season went to The Walking Dead: The Game with 75. Spike Video Game Awards named The Walking Dead: The Game its Game of the Year.

Fez is a 2012 indie puzzle-platform game developed by Polytron Corporation and published by Trapdoor. The player-character Gomez receives a fez that reveals his two-dimensional (2D) world to be one of four sides of a three-dimensional (3D) world.

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Fez finished #19 in the 2012 race, with 1 GOTY award from media outlets and reader votes worldwide.

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

Also in the 2012 season: The Walking Dead: The Game (75), Journey (58), Far Cry 3 (53), Xenoblade Chronicles (2), Blade & Soul (1), Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition (1), Hitman: Absolution (1) · full results

Quick answers

How many Game of the Year awards did Fez win?

Fez won 1 Game of the Year award in the 2012 season — 0.2% of every award tracked that season. 1 came from editorial picks and 0 from readers' polls, across 1 country.

Did Fez win Game of the Year?

No. It finished No. 19 in 2012, behind The Walking Dead: The Game, which collected 75 Game of the Year awards.

Game facts

Single-playerYes
Co-opNo
Split screenNo
MultiplayerNo
Online multiplayerNo
Released13 April 2012
DeveloperPolytron Corporation
PublisherTrapdoor, Xbox Game Studios

puzzle-platformer
adventure video game
puzzle video game
platformer
X-BOX 360
Microsoft Windows
Linux
macOS
PlayStation 4
PlayStation Vita
PlayStation 3
Nintendo Switch
IOS

Where the awards came from

Country	Awards
United Kingdom	1

Every outlet that named it Game of the Year

Outlet	Country	Year
Eurogamer	United Kingdom	2012

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