It’s time to officially announce the winners of the Wccftech Awards’ 23! This includes the best games released last year and the most anticipated titles due this year, as voted by our staff and community through polls based on our respective category lists.
Among the best games of 2023 (a historic year with a record number of highly acclaimed releases), Larian’s Baldur’s Gate 3 triumphs with four prizes: best RPG (staff and community) and Game of the Year (again, staff and community). Then there’s CAPCOM’s Street Fighter 6, which not only grabs the fighting game awards but also snatches the multiplayer game award from our staff.
Other multi-winners of the Wccftech Awards ’23 where staff and community agreed include Sea of Stars (indie), Alan Wake 2 (horror), The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (action), Forza Motorsport (sports and racing), Super Mario Bros. Wonder (platform), RoboCop: Rogue City (shooter), and Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew (strategy and simulation).
- Street Fighter 6 (60% votes) – WINNER
- Mortal Kombat 1 (29% votes) – RUNNER UP
- Granblue Fantasy Versus: Rising (6% votes)
- Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl 2 (3% votes)
- Pocket Bravery (2% votes)
- Sea of Stars (5 votes) – WINNER
- Pizza Tower (2 votes) – RUNNER UP
- Jusant (0 votes)
- Cocoon (0 votes)
- Cassette Beasts (0 votes)
- Street Fighter 6 (4 votes) – WINNER
- Diablo IV (2 votes) – RUNNER UP
- Remnant II (1 vote)
- The Outlast Trials (0 votes)
- Lethal Company (0 votes)
- Diablo IV (41% votes) – WINNER
- Street Fighter 6 (25% votes) – RUNNER UP
- Remnant 2 (17% votes)
- Lethal Company (15% votes)
- The Outlast Trials (2% votes)
- Baldur’s Gate 3 (3 votes) – WINNER
- The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (2 votes) – RUNNER UP
- Alan Wake 2 (1 vote)
- Super Mario Bros. Wonder (1 vote)
- Starfield (0 votes)
- Final Fantasy XVI (0 votes)
- Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 (0 votes)
- Diablo IV (0 votes)
- Hi-Fi Rush (0 votes)
- Street Fighter 6 (0 votes)
- Baldur’s Gate 3 (54% votes) – WINNER
- Alan Wake 2 (14% votes) – RUNNER UP
- The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (10% votes)
- Starfield (7% votes)
- Diablo IV (5% votes)
- Final Fantasy XVI (3% votes)
- Hi-Fi Rush (3% votes)
- Super Mario Bros. Wonder (3% votes)
- Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 (2% votes)
- Street Fighter 6 (1% votes)
Moving on to the most anticipated games coming in 2024, the only title to get more than two prizes was GSC Game World’s STALKER 2: Heart of Chornobyl, which won in the shooter categories (with the only unanimous vote in all of the staff polls) and in the community’s most anticipated overall game poll.
The other multi-winners are Final Fantasy VII Rebirth (most anticipated RPG from the community and most anticipated overall game from the staff), Silent Hill 2 (horror), Hollow Knight: Silksong (platform), Tekken 8 (fighting), Hades 2 (indie), and Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree (expansion/DLC).
- STALKER 2: Heart of Chornobyl (7 votes) – WINNER
- Warhammer 40K Space Marine 2 (0 votes) – RUNNER UP
- Gray Zone Warfare (0 votes) – RUNNER UP
- Pioner (0 votes) – RUNNER UP
- Outpost: Infinity Siege (0 votes) – RUNNER UP
- Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater (3 votes) – WINNER
- Star Wars Outlaws (2 votes) – RUNNER UP
- Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II (1 vote)
- Rise of the Ronin (1 vote)
- Stellar Blade (0 votes)
- Star Wars Outlaws (42% votes) – WINNER
- Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater (20% votes) – RUNNER UP
- Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II (18% votes)
- Stellar Blade (11% votes)
- Rise of the Ronin (10% votes)
- Silent Hill 2 (63% votes) – WINNER
- Alone in the Dark (15% votes) – RUNNER UP
- The Last of Us Part II Remastered (11% votes)
- Still Wakes the Deep (5% votes)
- Little Nightmares III (5% votes)
- Pacific Drive (6 votes) – WINNER
- The Wolf Among Us 2 (1 vote) – RUNNER UP
- Open Roads (0 votes)
- Dustborn (0 votes)
- Towers of Aghasba (0 votes)
- Tekken 8 (4 votes) – WINNER
- Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero (1 vote) – RUNNER UP
- Die by the Blade (1 vote) – RUNNER UP
- Rivals 2 (1 vote) – RUNNER UP
- Varvarion (0 votes)
- Tekken 8 (57% votes) – WINNER
- Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero (29% votes) – RUNNER UP
- Die by the Blade (10% votes)
- Varvarion (3% votes)
- Rivals 2 (1% votes)
- Hades 2 (5 votes) – WINNER
- Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes (2 votes) – RUNNER UP
- Pacific Drive (0 votes)
- Earthblade (0 votes)
- Demonschool (0 votes)
- Hades 2 (61% votes) – WINNER
- Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes (19% votes) – RUNNER UP
- Pacific Drive (14% votes)
- Earthblade (3% votes)
- Demonschool (3% votes)
- Frostpunk 2 (4 votes) – WINNER
- Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 (2 votes) – RUNNER UP
- Homeworld 3 (1 vote)
- Life by You (0 votes)
- Manor Lords (0 votes)
- Test Drive Unlimited Solar Crown (3 votes) – WINNER
- Top Spin 2K25 (2 votes) – RUNNER UP
- Assetto Corsa 2 (1 vote)
- WWE 2K24 (1 vote)
- MLB The Show 24 (0 votes)
- Helldivers 2 (3 votes) – WINNER
- Dune Awakening (2 votes) – RUNNER UP
- ARK 2 (1 vote)
- Nightingale (1 vote)
- Once Human (0 votes)
- Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree (4 votes) – WINNER
- Diablo IV: Vessel of Hatred (2 votes) – RUNNER UP
- Destiny 2: The Final Shape (1 vote)
- Final Fantasy XIV: Dawntrail (0 votes)
- World of Warcraft: The War Within (0 votes)
- Final Fantasy VII Rebirth (4 votes) – WINNER
- Dragon’s Dogma 2 (1 vote) – RUNNER UP
- Star Wars Outlaws (1 vote) – RUNNER UP
- Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 (1 vote) – RUNNER UP
- STALKER 2 Heart of Chornobyl (0 votes)
- Metaphor: ReFantazio (0 votes)
- Avowed (0 votes)
- Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II (0 votes)
- Indiana Jones and the Great Circle (0 votes)
- Visions of Mana (0 votes)
- STALKER 2: Heart of Chornobyl (21% votes) – WINNER
- Star Wars Outlaws (21% votes) – RUNNER UP
- Final Fantasy VII Rebirth (13% votes)
- Indiana Jones and the Great Circle (13% votes)
- Dragon’s Dogma 2 (11% votes)
- Avowed (6% votes)
- Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II (6% votes)
- Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 (4% votes)
- Visions of Mana (3% votes)
- Metaphor: ReFantazio (2% votes)
Congratulations to all the winners and see you in a year or so for the next Wccftech Awards!
