Famitsu: 25 Game of the Year awards

Famitsu is a print magazine from Japan, founded in 1986. It appears in this database with 25 Game of the Year picks across 22 award seasons (1990–2025); its most frequent pick was Animal Crossing: New Leaf.

In the seasons tracked at full breadth, 5 of its 23 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 Yo-kai Watch 2 in 2014, which finished No. 27 that season with 1 award in total. Its earliest pick on record is Dragon Quest IV, for 1990. 16 of its 25 picks were readers' votes rather than the editors' choice.

The first Famitsu Awards covered 2005; the awards were based substantially on game-fan voting, and 2005 and 2006 each produced joint Grand Prize/Game of the Year winners.

What "1990–2025" 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.