Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair: 1 Game of the Year award

No: Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair collected 1 Game of the Year award in 2019 and finished No. 35; the season went to Death Stranding with 118. The Game Awards named Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice its Game of the Year.

Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair is a platform game developed by Playtonic Games and published by Team17 in 2019. A spin-off to Yooka-Laylee (2017), the game was released digitally for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Windows, and Xbox One on October 8, 2019, followed by a version for Amazon Luna on October 20, 2020.

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Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair finished #35 in the 2019 race, with 1 GOTY award from media outlets and reader votes worldwide.

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

Also in the 2019 season: Death Stranding (118), Resident Evil 2 (95), Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice (85), Sky: Children of the Light (1), 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim (1) · full results

Quick answers

How many Game of the Year awards did Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair win?

Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair won 1 Game of the Year award in the 2019 season — 0.2% of every award tracked that season. 1 came from editorial picks and 0 from readers' polls, across 1 country.

Did Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair win Game of the Year?

No. It finished No. 35 in 2019, behind Death Stranding, which collected 118 Game of the Year awards.

Game facts

Single-playerYes
Co-opNo
Split screenNo
MultiplayerNo
Online multiplayerNo
Released8 October 2019
DeveloperPlaytonic Games
PublisherTeam17

action-adventure game
Microsoft Windows
PlayStation 4
Xbox One
Nintendo Switch

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	2019

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