Total Annihilation: 1 Game of the Year award

No count exists for 1997: Total Annihilation holds 1 of the 3 Game of the Year awards on record for a season from before the census, so no winner is named. D.I.C.E. Awards named GoldenEye 007 its Game of the Year.

Total Annihilation is a science fiction real-time strategy video game released in September 1997 for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS by Cavedog Entertainment and distributed internationally by GT Interactive. Two expansion packs were released in 1998, The Core Contingency on April 29 and Battle Tactics on July 20, while a medieval-themed spin-off called Total Annihilation: Kingdoms was released on June 25, 1999.

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Total Annihilation collected Game of the Year awards in 1997, a season with no full count, with 1 award from media outlets and reader votes worldwide.

1Total awards
1Media outlets
0Readers' choice
1Countries

Quick answers

How many Game of the Year awards did Total Annihilation win?

Total Annihilation won 1 Game of the Year award in the 1997 season. 1 came from editorial picks and 0 from readers' polls, across 1 country.

Did Total Annihilation win Game of the Year?

There is no full count for 1997, so this site names no winner. Total Annihilation holds 1 of the 3 Game of the Year awards on record for that season.

Game facts

Single-playerYes
Co-opNo
Split screenNo
MultiplayerYes
Online multiplayerNo
Released30 September 1997
DeveloperCavedog Entertainment
PublisherAtari, Inc.

real-time strategy
science fiction video game
Microsoft Windows
Mac operating system
Classic Mac OS

Where the awards came from

Country	Awards
United States	1

Every outlet that named it Game of the Year

Outlet	Country	Year	Source
GameSpot	United States	1997	gamespot.com

← Full 1997 results

Updated 13 October 2026 · Source: the Meta Awards database, where every award row cites where it was published.