The DICE 2021 Winners Revealed: It Takes Two Wins Game Of The Year

The 25th Annual DICE Awards have officially come to an end, and after months of thinking about which games will come out on top, we now have a list of winners.

The coveted Game of the Year award presented at the ceremony went to none other than Hazelight Studio’s It Takes Two, a quirky co-op adventure game about a divorce that went horribly wrong. It Takes Two also won Game of the Year at the Game Awards 2021, which is quite an impressive feat for a small studio.

Other big winners include Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart, which won the awards for Outstanding Animation Achievement, Outstanding Art Direction, Outstanding Technical Achievement and Family Game of the Year, Marvel’s Guardian of the Galaxy (Adventure Game of the Year and Outstanding Achievement in history”) and “Return” (“Outstanding Achievement in Audio Design” and “Outstanding Achievement in Music Composition”).

In addition to announcing various honorees, the show also honored several industry leaders. Recognized include Ed Boon of NetherRealm Studios, a 2022 Hall of Famer, and Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer, who received the Lifetime Achievement Award.

You can see all the categories and their nominees below. The winners are in bold.

DICE Awards 2021 Nominees

Winners are in bold

Game of the Year

  • She takes two
  • Noose of death
  • Return
  • Recording
  • Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart

Outstanding Achievement in Game Directing

  • Noose of death
  • She takes two
  • Recording
  • Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart
  • Artful Escape

Outstanding Achievement in Game Design

  • She takes two
  • Noose of death
  • Loop hero
  • Recording
  • Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart

Outstanding Achievement in Animation

  • Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart
  • Call of Duty: Vanguard
  • Noose of death
  • Kena: Spirit Bridge
  • Resident Evil Village

Outstanding Achievement in Art Direction

  • Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart
  • Call of Duty: Vanguard
  • Noose of death
  • Kena: Spirit Bridge
  • Resident Evil Village

Outstanding Achievement in Character

  • Resident Evil Village – Lady Dumitrescu
  • Death Loop – Colt Van
  • Kena: Spirit Bridge – Kena
  • Life is Strange: True Colors – Alex Chen
  • Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart – The Rivet

Outstanding Achievement in Original Music Composition

  • Return
  • Noose of death
  • She takes two
  • Kena: Spirit Bridge
  • Psychonauts 2

Outstanding Achievement in Audio Design

  • Return
  • Forza Horizon 5
  • Halo Infinite
  • She takes two
  • Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart

Outstanding Achievement in History

  • Guardians of the Marvel Galaxy
  • Before your eyes
  • Recording
  • Psychonauts 2
  • Forgotten city

Outstanding Technical Achievement

  • Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart
  • Battlefield 2042
  • Forza Horizon 5
  • montage
  • Return

Action Game of the Year

  • Halo Infinite
  • Noose of death
  • Metroid Horror
  • Return
  • ascent

Adventure Game of the Year

  • Guardians of the Marvel Galaxy
  • door of death
  • She takes two
  • Psychonauts 2
  • Resident Evil Village

Family Game of the Year

  • Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart
  • Animal Crossing: New Horizons – Happy Home Paradise
  • cozy grove
  • Mario party superstars
  • WarioWare: all together

Fighting Game of the Year

  • Guilty Gear: Aspiration
  • Melty Blood: Type Lumina
  • Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl

Racing Game of the Year

  • Forza Horizon 5
  • F1 2021
  • Hot wheels on the loose

RPG of the Year

  • Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker
  • Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous
  • Shin Megami Tensei V
  • Tales of rebellion
  • Wildermuth

Sports Game of the Year

  • Mario Golf: Super Rush
  • FIFA 22
  • NBA 2K22
  • Republic of the Riders
  • Climb 2

Strategy/Simulation of the Year

  • Age of Empires IV
  • Gloomy Harbor
  • Griftlands
  • Recording
  • Loop hero

Online Game of the Year

  • Halo Infinite
  • Back 4 Blood
  • Call of Duty: Vanguard
  • Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker
  • Knockout City

The technical achievement of immersive reality

  • lonely echo 2
  • Mysterious places
  • Resident Evil 4 VR
  • Song in the smoke
  • Yuki

Immersive Reality Game of the Year

  • lonely echo 2
  • Demeo
  • I Expect You to Die 2: The Spy and the Liar
  • Resident Evil 4 VR
  • Song in the smoke

Outstanding Achievement for an Independent Game

  • Unboxing
  • door of death
  • Recording
  • Loop hero
  • Sable

Mobile Game of the Year

  • pokemon unite
  • Behind the scenes
  • dreamer
  • League of Legends: Wild Rift
  • montage

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