GameSpot: 26 Game of the Year awards

GameSpot is a website from United States. It appears in this database with 26 Game of the Year picks across 26 award seasons (1996–2025); its most frequent pick was Baldur's Gate 3.

In the seasons tracked at full breadth, 8 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 Half Life: Alyx in 2020, which finished No. 7 that season with 14 awards in total. Its earliest pick on record is Diablo, for 1996.

Recent-season picks added from the outlet's own year-end article.

What "1996–2025" 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.