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Game of the Year 2017 country by country
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild won 2017 with 265 of 462 tracked Game of the Year awards — 57.4%, and the top spot in 35 of 47 countries. But a global majority is not a global consensus: 12 countries handed their most awards to something else, and 10 different games won at least one country outright. In New Zealand, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild did not receive a single award.
- 57%The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild worldwide
- 47Countries with data
- 12Backed someone else
- 10Games that won a country
Where the winner was strong, and where it was not
Grouped by region, sorted by how much of each region's vote The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild took. The spread is the story: the same game can be near-unanimous in one region and absent in another.
Awards for The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the WildAwards for everything else
| Region | Awards | Countries | Regional winner | The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild share | Different games |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Latin America | 35 | 7 | The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild | 77% | 7 |
| North America | 122 | 2 | The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild | 70% | 12 |
| Southern Europe | 66 | 5 | The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild | 67% | 6 |
| Africa | 7 | 1 | The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild | 57% | 3 |
| Western Europe | 109 | 7 | The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild | 56% | 11 |
| Asia | 15 | 7 | The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild | 53% | 8 |
| Northern Europe | 25 | 5 | The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild | 48% | 7 |
| Oceania | 15 | 2 | Horizon: Zero Dawn | 33% | 5 |
| Eastern Europe | 53 | 6 | The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild | 28% | 9 |
| Middle East | 15 | 5 | Horizon: Zero Dawn | 27% | 5 |
The countries that picked something else
12 of 47 countries gave their most awards to a game other than The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild: Russia, Iran, Hungary, Greece, Finland, New Zealand. Below, each of those with at least 3 tracked outlets gets its full breakdown — every game and every outlet that named it.
Russia: Divinity: Original Sin II
22 tracked outlets, 9 different games awarded. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild took 2 of them (9%).
- 5× Divinity: Original Sin II
Gametech.ru (timestamp: 1:33:50), Kanobu, PlayGround.ru Readers' Choice (readers), Riot Pixels (readers), Игромания - 3× Prey
3DNews, Age of Geeks, PlayGround.ru - 3× Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus
3DNews Readers' Choice (readers), StopGame, StopGame Readers' Choice (readers) - 3× Super Mario Odyssey
DGL.ru, GameData, GameMAG - 3× Horizon: Zero Dawn
Gmbox, GoHa.ru (readers), Игромания Readers' Choice (readers)
Iran: Horizon: Zero Dawn
8 tracked outlets, 3 different games awarded. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild took 2 of them (25%).
- 5× Horizon: Zero Dawn
BaziCenter, BaziMag, Gamefa, Gamefa (readers), Zoomg (readers) - 2× The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
Digiato, Zoomg - 1× Resident Evil 7: Biohazard
PardisGame (readers)
Hungary: Horizon: Zero Dawn
7 tracked outlets, 4 different games awarded. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild took 2 of them (29%).
- 3× Horizon: Zero Dawn
Gamekapocs Readers' Choice (readers), Gamer365 Readers' Choice (readers), HVG - 2× The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
IGN Hungary, Konnektor (readers) - 1× Assassin's Creed Origins
GameStar Hungary Readers' Choice (readers) - 1× PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds
PlayDome Readers' Choice (readers)
Greece: Horizon: Zero Dawn
7 tracked outlets, 3 different games awarded. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild took 2 of them (29%).
- 4× Horizon: Zero Dawn
GameOver.gr (readers), GameWorld, Unboxholics (readers), VideoGames24 Readers' Choice (readers) - 2× The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
Insomnia, Zougla - 1× PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds
GameWorld Readers' Choice (readers)
Finland: Horizon: Zero Dawn
5 tracked outlets, 4 different games awarded. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild took 1 of them (20%).
- 2× Horizon: Zero Dawn
Gamereactor Suomi, Pelaaja Magazine Readers' Choice (readers) - 1× Super Mario Odyssey
Muropaketti - 1× Prey
Pelit Magazine - 1× The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
Pelit Magazine Readers' Choice (readers)
New Zealand: Horizon: Zero Dawn
3 tracked outlets, 1 different games awarded. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild took 0 of them (0%).
- 3× Horizon: Zero Dawn
FutureFive NZ, Gameplanet Readers' Choice (readers), The New Zealand Herald
Every game that won at least one country
| Game | Countries won | Awards worldwide |
|---|---|---|
| The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild | 35 | 265 |
| Horizon: Zero Dawn | 10 | 69 |
| PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds | 4 | 12 |
| NieR: Automata | 3 | 17 |
| Persona 5 | 2 | 13 |
| Super Mario Odyssey | 2 | 37 |
| Divinity: Original Sin II | 1 | 10 |
| Uncharted: The Lost Legacy | 1 | 1 |
| Yakuza 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Romance of the Three Kingdoms XIII | 1 | 1 |
All 47 countries
Read the small countries carefully.
A country with two tracked outlets that split their vote shows a 50% "winner" that means nothing. The archive is also heavily weighted towards Western outlets — the United States alone accounts for a fifth of all 2017 awards — so a thin row is a gap in our coverage, not evidence about that country's taste. Entries the source recorded as a language or a multi-country region rather than a country (Arab, Benelux, CA/FR, EUS …) are counted in the worldwide total but left out of the country ranking.