Horrible Night: 12 Game of the Year awards

Horrible Night is a website from United States that is no longer regularly publishing. It appears in this database with 12 Game of the Year picks across 12 award seasons (2010–2021); its most frequent pick was DOOM.

In the seasons tracked at full breadth, 5 of its 12 picks went to the game that won the season overall; the most recent was Unpacking in 2021.

Its pick furthest from the consensus was Wolfenstein: The New Order in 2014, which finished No. 15 that season with 4 awards in total. Its earliest pick on record is Mass Effect 2, for 2010.

The site remains online but has not shown regular recent publishing activity.

Horrible Night's Grimmys GOTY series is documented through 2021; its archive contains material dating back to 2009, but a precise founding year could not be verified.

What "2010–2021" 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.

Every Game of the Year it picked

Year	Game of the Year	Vote type	Source
2021	Unpacking	Editorial	horriblenight.com
2020	The Last of Us Part II	Editorial	Internet Archive
2019	Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order	Editorial	Internet Archive
2018	God of War	Editorial	Internet Archive
2017	NieR: Automata	Editorial	Internet Archive
2016	DOOM	Editorial	Internet Archive
2015	The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	Editorial	Internet Archive
2014	Wolfenstein: The New Order	Editorial	Internet Archive
2013	The Last of Us	Editorial	Internet Archive
2012	Mass Effect 3	Editorial	Internet Archive
2011	The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim	Editorial	Internet Archive
2010	Mass Effect 2	Editorial	Internet Archive

References

Primary sources cited while researching this outlet's award history.

1.https://horriblenight.com/2022/02/07/the-2021-grimmys-game-of-the-year/

Updated 13 October 2026 · Source: the Meta Awards database, where every award row cites where it was published.