Empire: 7 Game of the Year awards

Empire is a print magazine from United Kingdom, founded in 1989. It appears in this database with 7 Game of the Year picks across 7 award seasons (2010–2025); its most frequent pick was Astro Bot.

In the seasons tracked at full breadth, 5 of its 7 picks went to the game that won the season overall; the most recent was Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 in 2025.

Its pick furthest from the consensus was Deathloop in 2021, which finished No. 4 that season with 40 awards in total. Its earliest pick on record is Mass Effect 2, for 2010.

Empire publishes an annual countdown of the year's best games; the number one is its game of the year.

What "2010–2025" 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.