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Welcome to our 2020 Game of the Year Awards! Allan Muir<\/a>,  Josh Miller<\/a>, Graydon Webb<\/a> and I <\/a>have all spent the last 3 weeks arguing over these categories on the Player’s Club Podcast to the point where we’ve all come to a consensus on all of them finally. If you’ve been following along with those podcast episodes, or even have been keeping up with our Twitter<\/a>, many of these will be familiar to you. But for everyone else, here are the winners for each of our 15 categories, culminating with our Top 10 Games of 2020. We’ll be organizing the list into three parts, with each part corresponding to the episode of The Player’s Club Podcast where the categories are discussed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Part 1 (Listen to how we decided these categories here<\/a>)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Best Game of Yesteryear<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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1) What Remains of Edith Finch
2) The Outer Wilds
3) Control <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Best New Content To A Previous Release<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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3) Apex Legends (Season 4-7)
2<\/strong>) Gears 5 (Hivebuster DLC)
1) No Man’s Sky (Origins)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Best Repolished Oldie<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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1) Tony Hawk Pro Skater 1 & 2
2) Spongebob: Battle for Bikini Bottom Rehydrated
3) Mafia: Definitive Edition<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Best Role-Playing Game<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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1) Persona 5 Royal
2) Final Fantasy VII Remake
3) Paper Mario: The Origami King<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Best Action\/Adventure Game<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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1) Ghost of Tsushima
2) The Last of Us Part II
3) Ghostrunner<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Best Gun Game<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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1) Doom Eternal
2) Call of Duty Warzone
3) Gears 5: Hivebusters<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Part 2 (Listen to how we decided these categories here<\/a>)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Most Addictive Game<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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1) Animal Crossing: New Horizons
2) MLB 20 The Show
3) Risk of Rain 2<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Best Online Game<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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1) Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout
2) Deep Rock Galactic
3) Rogue Company<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Best On The Go Game<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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1) Among Us
2) Beyond Blue
3) Genshin Impact<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Best Narrative (Sponsored by The Last of Us Part II)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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1) Tell Me Why
2) Dreams
3) Final Fantasy VII Remake<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Best Non-Violent Game<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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1) Spiritfarer
2) Dreams
3) Astro\u2019s Playroom<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Games That Couldn\u2019t Quite Stick The Landing (Sponsored by Cyberpunk 2077)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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1) Super Mario 3D All-Stars
2) Marvel’s Avengers
3) Hyper Scape<\/p>\n\n\n\n

God Bless This Mess<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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1) WWE 2k Battlegrounds
2) Cyberpunk 2077
3) Deadly Premonition 2: A Blessing in Disguise<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Zeitgeist of the Year<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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1) Among Us
2) Animal Crossing: New Horizons
3) Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Game of the Year (Listen to how we decided these categories here<\/a>)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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1) Tell Me Why
2) Dreams
3) Final Fantasy VII Remake
4) The Last of Us: Part II
5) Spiritfarer
6) Animal Crossing: New Horizons
7) Astro\u2019s Playroom
8) Ghost of Tsushima
9) Doom Eternal
10) Persona 5 Royal<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thanks for supporting the site, and my sincerest apologies to Spider-Man: Miles Morales. \ud83d\ude2c<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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