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Golden Joystick Awards: 39 Game of the Year awards

Golden Joystick Awards is a awards body from United Kingdom, founded in 1983. It appears in this database with 39 Game of the Year picks across 27 award seasons (1991–2025); its most frequent pick was Baldur's Gate 3.

In the seasons tracked at full breadth, 11 of its 35 picks went to the game that won the season overall; the most recent was Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 in 2025.

Public-voted Ultimate Game of the Year winners were verified for 2004-2006.

What "1991–2025" means.

It is the first and last year this outlet appears in our award data — not necessarily its founding or closing date. An outlet may have existed longer, or simply skipped a year's award.

Every Game of the Year it picked

References

Primary sources cited while researching this outlet's award history.

  1. 1.https://www.gamesradar.com/12-hot-facts-about-the-golden-joystick-awards/
  2. 2.https://www.gamesradar.com/golden-joysticks-ultimate-list-ultimate-games-1983-2014/2/

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