Japan Game Awards: 5 Game of the Year awards

Japan Game Awards is a awards body from Japan. It appears in this database with 5 Game of the Year picks across 4 award seasons (1996–2023); its most frequent pick was Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak.

In the seasons tracked at full breadth, 1 of its 3 picks went to the game that won the season overall; the most recent was Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak in 2023.

Its pick furthest from the consensus was Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak in 2023, which finished No. 16 that season with 1 award in total. Its earliest pick on record is Sakura Wars, for 1996.

Recent-season picks added from the outlet's own year-end article.

What "1996–2023" 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.