Subnautica: 1 Game of the Year award

No: Subnautica collected 1 Game of the Year award in 2018 and finished No. 20; the season went to God of War with 264. The Game Awards named God of War its Game of the Year.

Subnautica is a 2018 action-adventure survival game developed and published by Unknown Worlds Entertainment. The player controls Ryley Robinson, a survivor of a spaceship crash on an alien oceanic planet, which they are free to explore.

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Subnautica finished #20 in the 2018 race, with 1 GOTY award from media outlets and reader votes worldwide.

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

Also in the 2018 season: God of War (264), Red Dead Redemption 2 (179), Marvel's Spider-Man (24), Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice (1), Into the Breach (1), Yakuza 6: The Song of Life (1) · full results

Quick answers

How many Game of the Year awards did Subnautica win?

Subnautica won 1 Game of the Year award in the 2018 season — 0.2% of every award tracked that season. 1 came from editorial picks and 0 from readers' polls, across 1 country.

Did Subnautica win Game of the Year?

No. It finished No. 20 in 2018, behind God of War, which collected 264 Game of the Year awards.

Game facts

Single-playerYes
Co-opNo
Split screenNo
MultiplayerNo
Online multiplayerNo
Released16 December 2014
DeveloperUnknown Worlds Entertainment
PublisherUnknown Worlds Entertainment

action-adventure game
survival game
adventure video game
Microsoft Windows
macOS
PlayStation 4
Xbox One
Nintendo Switch
PlayStation 5
Android (operating system)
IOS
Xbox Series X and Series S

Where the awards came from

Country	Awards
Greece	1

Every outlet that named it Game of the Year

Outlet	Country	Year
Athens Voice	Greece	2018

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