Horrible Night: 12 Game of the Year awards

Horrible Night is a website from United States that is no longer regularly publishing. It appears in this database with 12 Game of the Year picks across 12 award seasons (2010–2021); its most frequent pick was DOOM.

In the seasons tracked at full breadth, 5 of its 12 picks went to the game that won the season overall; the most recent was Unpacking in 2021.

The site remains online but has not shown regular recent publishing activity.

Horrible Night's Grimmys GOTY series is documented through 2021; its archive contains material dating back to 2009, but a precise founding year could not be verified.

What "2010–2021" 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

Year	Game of the Year	Vote type
2021	Unpacking	Editorial
2020	The Last of Us Part II	Editorial
2019	Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order	Editorial
2018	God of War	Editorial
2017	NieR: Automata	Editorial
2016	DOOM	Editorial
2015	The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	Editorial
2014	Wolfenstein: The New Order	Editorial
2013	The Last of Us	Editorial
2012	Mass Effect 3	Editorial
2011	The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim	Editorial
2010	Mass Effect 2	Editorial

References

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

1.https://horriblenight.com/2022/02/07/the-2021-grimmys-game-of-the-year/

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