Game of the Year 2022 country by country

Elden Ring won 2022 with 438 of 606 tracked Game of the Year awards — 72.3%, and the top spot in 54 of 58 countries. But a global majority is not a global consensus: 4 countries handed their most awards to something else, and 2 different games won at least one country outright.

• 72%Elden Ring worldwide
• 58Countries with data
• 4Backed someone else
• 2Games 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 Elden Ring took. The spread is the story: the same game can be near-unanimous in one region and absent in another.

The countries that picked something else

4 of 58 countries gave their most awards to a game other than Elden Ring: Hungary, Greece. Below, each of those with at least 3 tracked outlets gets its full breakdown — every game and every outlet that named it.

Hungary: God of War Ragnarök

14 tracked outlets, 3 different games awarded. Elden Ring took 4 of them (29%).

1. 9× God of War Ragnarök
   Game Channel, Gamekapocs (readers), GameKapocs, GameStar Hungary, GameStar Hungary (readers), IGN Hungary, Konnektor (readers), Leet, PC Guru (readers)
2. 4× Elden Ring
   GameKapocs, Gamer365 (readers), GeekVilág, Konnektor
3. 1× The Last of Us Part 1
   Game Channel

Greece: God of War Ragnarök

8 tracked outlets, 2 different games awarded. Elden Ring took 3 of them (38%).

1. 5× God of War Ragnarök
   GameOver.gr (readers), GameWorld, Save the Game, Save the Game (readers), Unboxholics (readers)
2. 3× Elden Ring
   GameWorld, Unboxholics, VG24

Every game that won at least one country

All 58 countries