2020 DICE Awards See Untitled Goose Game Win Game of the Year Award; Control is Big Winner in 2019 Gaming Landscape

[Raevenlord]

The 2020 DICE (Design, Innovate, Communicate, Entertain) Awards offered their Game of the Year title to "Untitled Goose Game", developed by Indie Studio House House. That game also took home the "Outstanding Achievement for an independent Game" award, as well as Outstanding Achievement in Audio Design.

The awards were also good for Control, the paranormal-esque game developed by renowned Remedy Entertainment. The game was victor in four different categories: Action Game of the Year, Outstanding Achievement in Game Direction, Outstanding Achievement in Art Direction, and Outstanding Achievement in Original Music Composition. Disco Elysium, the quasi-combatless story-based RPG from ZA/UM Studios that was 2019's biggest achievement (for this writer at least) won the Outstanding Achievement in Story award. Look after the break for the full list of categories, nominees, and winners.






Game of the Year

• Control
• Death Stranding
• Disco Elysium
• Outer Wilds
• Untitled Goose Game (Winner)

Action Game of the Year

• Call of Duty: Modern Warfare
• Control (Winner)
• Devil May Cry 5
• Gears 5
• Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice

Adventure Game of the Year

• Death Stranding
• Luigi's Mansion 3
• Resident Evil 2
• Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order (Winner)
• The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening

Family Game of the Year

• A Short Hike
• Dragon Quest Builders 2
• Ring Fit Adventure
• Super Mario Maker 2 (Winner)
• Yoshi's Crafted World

Fighting Game of the Year

• Dead or Alive 6
• Jump Force
• Mortal Kombat 11 (Winner)
• Samurai Shodown

Racing Game of the Year

• Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled
• DiRT Rally 2.0
• F1 2019
• Mario Kart Tour (Winner)
• Trials Rising

Role-Playing Game of the Year

• Disco Elysium
• Final Fantasy XIV: Shadowbringers
• Kingdom Hearts III
• Pokémon Sword and Pokémon Shield
• The Outer Worlds (Winner)

Sports Game of the Year

• FIFA 20 (Winner)
• Madden NFL 20
• MLB the Show 19
• NBA 2k20
• NHL 20

Strategy/Simulation Game of the Year

• Anno 1800
• Fire Emblem: Three Houses (Winner)
• Oxygen Not Included
• Slay the Spire
• Total War: Three Kingdoms

Immersive Reality Technical Achievement

• Asgard's Wrath
• Blood & Truth (Winner)
• Pistol Whip
• Stormland
• Westworld Awakening

Immersive Reality Game of the Year

• Asgard's Wrath
• Blood & Truth
• Pistol Whip (Winner)
• The Curious Tale of the Stolen Pets
• Trover Saves the Universe

Outstanding Achievement for an Independent Game

• A Short Hike
• Disco Elysium
• Sayonara Wild Hearts
• Untitled Goose Game (Winner)
• What the Golf?

Portable Game of the Year

• Call of Duty: Mobile
• Grindstone
• Sayonara Wild Hearts (Winner)
• Sky: Children of the Light
• What the Golf?

Online Game of the Year

• Apex Legends (Winner)
• Call of Duty: Modern Warfare
• Destiny 2: Shadowkeep
• Tetris 99
• Wargroove

Outstanding Achievement in Game Design

• Baba Is You (Winner)
• Disco Elysium
• Outer Wilds
• Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice
• Slay the Spire

Outstanding Achievement in Game Direction

• A Short Hike
• Control (Winner)
• Disco Elysium
• Outer Wilds
• Untitled Goose Game

Outstanding Achievement in Animation

• Call of Duty: Modern Warfare
• Days Gone
• Death Stranding
• Devil May Cry 5
• Luigi's Mansion 3 (Winner)

Outstanding Achievement in Art Direction

• Call of Duty: Modern Warfare
• Concrete Genie
• Control (Winner)
• Death Stranding
• Resident Evil 2

Outstanding Achievement in Character

• Control (Jesse Faden)
• Death Stranding (Cliff Unger)
• Death Stranding (Sam Porter Bridges)
• Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order (Greez)
• Untitled Goose Game (The Goose) (Winner)

Outstanding Achievement in Original Music Composition

• Arise: A Simple Story
• Control (Winner)
• Erica
• Golem
• Mortal Kombat 11

Outstanding Achievement in Audio Design

• Call of Duty: Modern Warfare
• Death Stranding (Winner)
• Mortal Kombat 11
• Resident Evil 2
• Sayonara Wild Hearts

Outstanding Achievement in Story

• Control
• Disco Elysium (Winner)
• Outer Wilds
• Telling Lies
• The Outer Worlds

Outstanding Technical Achievement

• Call of Duty: Modern Warfare
• Concrete Genie
• Control
• Death Stranding (Winner)
• Metro Exodus

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[btarunr]

Agree with all the awards except Control's Jesse Fayden probably was better as playable character (Remedy always fleshes out its PCs a lot) than the goose.

 

[rtwjunkie]

I see a glaring nominee absence from several categories: A Plague Tale: Innocence. Must be they didn’t pay enough to the committee....

I mean, just on the story category alone it should have been nominated in place of The Outer Worlds.

 

[Chomiq]

Glad to see that Disco won the story award. Only very few games made me tear up in the last decade and Disco was one of them.

 

[TheoneandonlyMrK]

FIFA 20 , the best sports Game?? I love Fifa and play a lot But but I have never in my life seen a game with so little new in it, its a good job teams swap players and the year changed or I wouldnt know its new,and they could bring one out monthly, total S~~# this year IMHO.

 

[ShurikN]

The fact that Mario Kart Tour won best racing game ahead of CTR and Dirt Rally 2.0 tells me more than enough. Stopped reading after that.

 

[dozenfury]

Untitled Goose Game, game of the year? Maybe in a smaller budget indie category, not for GOTY.

 

[rtwjunkie]

Untitled Goose Game, game of the year? Maybe in a smaller budget indie category, not for GOTY.

I have no problem with an Indie getting GOTY, in general. Some of them really are that good. A huge development budget doesn’t automatically make a game better.

 

[Vayra86]

I see a glaring nominee absence from several categories: A Plague Tale: Innocence. Must be they didn’t pay enough to the committee....

I mean, just on the story category alone it should have been nominated in place of The Outer Worlds.

Yeah I don't get the Outer Worlds winning RPG... it just oozed average to me. I can't even bring myself to finish it... Im about halfway through. Kinda like Pillars of Eternity. So much promise. Such shaky execution.

Also, Apex for online goty. Heh. I do have to admit its good fun still.

Kinda surprised Metro made it to just Technical achievement and nothing concerning its gameplay.

 

[Regeneration]

FIFA 20 , the best sports Game?? I love Fifa and play a lot But but I have never in my life seen a game with so little new in it, its a good job teams swap players and the year changed or I wouldnt know its new,and they could bring one out monthly, total S~~# this year IMHO.

There are plenty of new things in FIFA 20: lag cheaters, legacy defending cheaters, and 99 rated squads cheaters.

 

[Calmmo]

memes are now award winning digital "art", what a time to be alive.

 

[Prima.Vera]

This Top must be the joke of the millenium...lol Mario Kart, lol )))))))))))

 

[DeathtoGnomes]

It appears this years awards are very off. I disagree with all choices of nominees and winners, but thats me.

With all space RPGs becoming a thing in the last few years, they need to separate RPG into sci-fi and high fantasy. Also, where is the zombie category?