Sleeping Dogs: 2 Game of the Year awards

No: Sleeping Dogs collected 2 Game of the Year awards in 2012 and finished No. 15; 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.

Sleeping Dogs is a 2012 action-adventure game developed by United Front Games and published by Square Enix. The game was released for PlayStation 3, Windows, and Xbox 360 in August 2012.

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Sleeping Dogs finished #15 in the 2012 race, with 2 GOTY awards from media outlets and reader votes worldwide.

2Total awards
2Media outlets
0Readers' choice
2Countries

Also in the 2012 season: The Walking Dead: The Game (75), Journey (58), Far Cry 3 (53), Call of Duty: Black Ops II (4), The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (3), The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings (3), Xenoblade Chronicles (2), Blade & Soul (1) · full results

Quick answers

How many Game of the Year awards did Sleeping Dogs win?

Sleeping Dogs won 2 Game of the Year awards in the 2012 season — 0.5% of every award tracked that season. 2 came from editorial picks and 0 from readers' polls, across 2 countries.

Did Sleeping Dogs win Game of the Year?

No. It finished No. 15 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
Released14 August 2012
DeveloperUnited Front Games
PublisherSquare Enix

third-person shooter
X-BOX 360
PlayStation 3
Microsoft Windows
Xbox One
PlayStation 4
macOS

Where the awards came from

Country	Awards
Greece	1
United Kingdom	1

Every outlet that named it Game of the Year

Outlet	Country	Year
Game 2.0	Greece	2012
The Sun	United Kingdom	2012

← Full 2012 results

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