NEO: The World Ends with You: 1 Game of the Year award

No: NEO: The World Ends with You collected 1 Game of the Year award in 2021 and finished No. 36; the season went to It Takes Two with 89. The Game Awards named It Takes Two its Game of the Year.

Neo: The World Ends with You (stylized as NEO: The World Ends with You) is a 2021 action role-playing game co-developed by Square Enix and h.a.n.d. and published by Square Enix.

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NEO: The World Ends with You finished #36 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), Jurassic World Evolution 2 (1), Life Is Strange: True Colors (1), Loop Hero (1), Old World (1), Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous (1) · full results

Quick answers

How many Game of the Year awards did NEO: The World Ends with You win?

NEO: The World Ends with You 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 NEO: The World Ends with You win Game of the Year?

No. It finished No. 36 in 2021, behind It Takes Two, which collected 89 Game of the Year awards.

Game facts

Released27 July 2021
Developerh.a.n.d.
PublisherSquare Enix

action role-playing game
Nintendo Switch
PlayStation 4
Microsoft Windows

Wikidata lists no play modes for this title, so co-op and multiplayer are left out rather than assumed absent.

Where the awards came from

Country	Awards
United States	1

Every outlet that named it Game of the Year

Outlet	Country	Year
Noisy Pixel	United States	2021

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