Year Walk: 1 Game of the Year award

No: Year Walk collected 1 Game of the Year award in 2013 and finished No. 27; the season went to The Last of Us with 257. Spike Video Game Awards named Grand Theft Auto V its Game of the Year.

Year Walk is a 2013 adventure game developed and published by Swedish mobile game developer Simogo for iOS devices. The game is loosely based on an ancient Swedish tradition called "Årsgång" (pronounced [ˈoːʂgɔŋ] or [ˈoːrsˌɡoŋ] depending on dielect; "Year Walk").

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Year Walk finished #27 in the 2013 race, with 1 GOTY award from media outlets and reader votes worldwide.

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

Also in the 2013 season: The Last of Us (257), Grand Theft Auto V (165), BioShock Infinite (47), The Swapper (1), Monster Hunter 4 (1) · full results

Quick answers

How many Game of the Year awards did Year Walk win?

Year Walk won 1 Game of the Year award in the 2013 season — 0.2% of every award tracked that season. 1 came from editorial picks and 0 from readers' polls, across 1 country.

Did Year Walk win Game of the Year?

No. It finished No. 27 in 2013, behind The Last of Us, which collected 257 Game of the Year awards.

Game facts

Single-playerYes
Co-opNo
Split screenNo
MultiplayerNo
Online multiplayerNo
Released21 February 2013
DeveloperSimogo
PublisherSimogo

adventure video game
IOS
Microsoft Windows
macOS

Where the awards came from

Country	Awards
United States	1

Every outlet that named it Game of the Year

Outlet	Country	Year
Culture Mass	United States	2013

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