4Players: 15 Game of the Year awards

4Players is a website from Germany, founded in 2000. It appears in this database with 15 Game of the Year picks across 14 award seasons (2008–2024); its most frequent pick was The Last of Us Part II.

In the seasons tracked at full breadth, 7 of its 15 picks went to the game that won the season overall; the most recent was Helldivers 2 in 2024.

Its pick furthest from the consensus was This War of Mine in 2014, which finished No. 15 that season with 4 awards in total. Its earliest pick on record is Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, for 2008. 1 of its 15 picks were readers' votes rather than the editors' choice.

The original editorial operation ended in autumn 2021 and 4Players.de was relaunched under a new team in 2022.

4Players published annual 'Spiele des Jahres' packages from at least 2003; qualifying overall winners were verified for 2008 and 2010 among the requested early years, while no 2021 overall award was verified during the editorial transition.

What "2008–2024" means.

It is the first and last year this outlet appears in our award data — not necessarily its founding or closing date. An outlet may have existed longer, or simply skipped a year's award.