Golden Joystick Awards: 39 Game of the Year awards

Golden Joystick Awards is a awards body from United Kingdom, founded in 1983. It appears in this database with 39 Game of the Year picks across 27 award seasons (1991–2025); its most frequent pick was Baldur's Gate 3.

In the seasons tracked at full breadth, 11 of its 35 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 The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim in 2012, which finished No. 13 that season with 3 awards in total. Its earliest pick on record is Sonic the Hedgehog, for 1991. 9 of its 39 picks were readers' votes rather than the editors' choice.

Public-voted Ultimate Game of the Year winners were verified for 2004-2006.

What "1991–2025" 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.