About the data

gameawards.net tracked Game of the Year awards from around the world from 2003 until it went offline. This site reconstructs that archive: 8,974 individual awards, 601 games, 3,358 media outlets, 100 countries.

The rules behind every number are in the methodology; the results are on every Game of the Year winner and the all-time records.

How it was rebuilt

Every surviving capture of each year page was pulled from the Wayback Machine, and the latest complete capture of each was parsed back into structured records.

How accurate is it?

Each parsed year is checked against the tallies the original site published. 421 of 462 entries (91.1%) reconcile exactly. The rest differ by one or two awards, generally where the original site's own tally and its outlet list disagreed.

Game facts

Release dates, developers, genres, platforms and play modes come from Wikidata (CC0); descriptions from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Campaign length is not available from either and is not shown until a licensed source is added.

What is missing

The source stopped updating during the 2022 season. The 2022–2025 seasons were rebuilt to census breadth from a curated tracker that cites a primary source per award, plus awards we cite individually; every row says which. 1990–2002 and 2026 are marked as partial wherever they appear.