Loop Hero: 1 Game of the Year award

No: Loop Hero collected 1 Game of the Year award in 2021 and finished No. 35; the season went to It Takes Two with 89. The Game Awards named It Takes Two its Game of the Year.

Loop Hero is a roguelike video game developed by Russian studio Four Quarters and published by Devolver Digital in 2021. The game takes place in a randomly generated world where the player changes the world by placing cards instead of directly controlling a character.

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Loop Hero finished #35 in the 2021 race, with 1 GOTY award from media outlets and reader votes worldwide.

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

Also in the 2021 season: It Takes Two (89), Resident Evil Village (62), Forza Horizon 5 (54), Hitman 3 (1), Jurassic World Evolution 2 (1), Life Is Strange: True Colors (1), NEO: The World Ends with You (1), Old World (1) · full results

Quick answers

How many Game of the Year awards did Loop Hero win?

Loop Hero won 1 Game of the Year award in the 2021 season — 0.2% of every award tracked that season. 1 came from editorial picks and 0 from readers' polls, across 1 country.

Did Loop Hero win Game of the Year?

No. It finished No. 35 in 2021, behind It Takes Two, which collected 89 Game of the Year awards.

Game facts

Single-playerYes
Co-opNo
Split screenNo
MultiplayerNo
Online multiplayerNo
Released4 March 2021
DeveloperFour Quarters
PublisherDevolver Digital

roguelike
post-apocalyptic video game
fantasy video game
existentialist video game
Microsoft Windows
macOS
Linux
Nintendo Switch
Xbox One
Xbox Series X and Series S

Where the awards came from

Country	Awards
United Kingdom	1

Every outlet that named it Game of the Year

Outlet	Country	Year
GameGrin	United Kingdom	2021

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