Giant Bomb Game of the Year 2016

Game of the Year

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1. Hitman
2. Doom
3. Overwatch
4. The Witness
5. Titanfall 2
6. Superhot
7. Inside
8. Hyper Light Drifter
9. Thumper
10. Stardew Valley

Worst Game

• Soviet Monsters Ekranoplans
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Runners-Up

• Mighty No. 9
• Lost Reavers

Best Story

• Uncharted 4: A Thief's End
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Runners-Up

• Doom
• Firewatch

Overwatch Character of the Year

• Reinhardt
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Runners-Up

• Lucio
• Pharah

Best Moment or Sequence

• Finding Your First Environmental Puzzle (The Witness)
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Runners-Up

• The First Five Minutes (Doom)
• That Part (Inside)

Xbox One Backwards Compatible Game of the Year

• Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved
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Runners-Up

• Red Dead Redemption
• Burnout Paradise

Best Multiplayer

• Overwatch
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Runners-Up

• Titanfall 2
• Overcooked

Best Music

• Furi
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Runners-Up

• Doom
• Firewatch

Best Surprise

• Doom
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Runners-Up

• Stardew Valley
• Hitman

Please Stop

• Shipping Unfinished Games on Disc
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Runners-Up

• The Return of Bad PC Ports
• Not Providing Early Review Copies

Best Fake Computer

• hackmud
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Runners-Up

• Event[0]
• Quadrilateral Cowboy

Best Remaster

• Day of the Tentacle Remastered
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Runners-Up

• Odin Sphere Leifthrasir
• The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess HD

Best-Looking Game

• Inside
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Runners-Up

• Uncharted 4: A Thief's End
• Doom

Most Disappointing Game

• No Man's Sky
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Runners-Up

• ReCore
• Street Fighter V

Best VR Experience

• Google Earth VR
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Runners-Up

• Rec Room
• Rez Infinite

Best New Character

• Helmut Kruger (Hitman)
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Runners-Up

• Trico (The Last Guardian)
• Samuel Hayden (Doom)

Rez Infinite Presents Best Styyyyyyle

• Superhot
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Runners-Up

• Darkest Dungeon
• Doom

Hottest Mess

• The Unmaking of Palmer Luckey
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Runners-Up

• No Man's Sky
• Street Fighter V

Best Debut

• Overwatch
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Runners-Up

• Superhot
• The Witness

2016's Old Game of the Year

• The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
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Runners-Up

• Super Mario Maker
• Quake Live

Jeff Gerstmann

1. Titanfall 2
2. Superhot
3. Hitman
4. Doom
5. The Witness
6. Rez Infinite
7. Picross 3D: Round 2
8. Let It Die
9. Rhythm Heaven Megamix
10. Forza Horizon 3

Vinny Caravella

1. Doom
2. Hitman
3. Superhot
4. Overwatch
5. Inside
6. The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
7. Event[0]
8. Uncharted 4: A Thief's End
9. Firewatch
10. Virginia

Brad Shoemaker

1. Doom
2. The Witness
3. Inside
4. Hitman
5. Rez Infinite
6. Devil Daggers
7. Dragon Quest Builders
8. Uncharted 4: A Thief's End
9. Obduction
10. Abzû

Drew Scanlon

1. Doom
2. Overcooked!
3. Picross 3D: Round 2
4. Hitman
5. The Witness
6. Overwatch
7. Inside
8. Titanfall 2
9. Abzû
10. Event[0]

Alex Navarro

1. Overwatch
2. Thumper
3. Hitman
4. Darkest Dungeon
5. Doom
6. Superhot
7. Firewatch
8. Inside
9. Hyper Light Drifter
10. The Last Guardian

Dan Ryckert

1. Stardew Valley
2. Overwatch
3. Hitman
4. Picross 3D: Round 2
5. Doom
6. Titanfall 2
7. Gears of War 4
8. Overcooked!
9. AM2R
10. The Witness

Jason Oestreicher

1. Overwatch
2. Salt and Sanctuary
3. Hyper Light Drifter
4. Oxenfree
5. God Eater 2: Rage Burst
6. Street Fighter V
7. Odin Sphere Leifthrasir
8. Darkest Dungeon
9. Doom
10. Dishonored 2

Matt Rorie

• World of Warcraft: Legion
• Titanfall 2
• Doom
• The Witness
• Uncharted 4: A Thief's End
• Hitman
• Dishonored 2
• Watch Dogs 2
• Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen
• Starbound

(in no particular order)

1. Doom
2. Overwatch
3. Hitman
4. Titanfall 2
5. Uncharted 4: A Thief's End
6. Stardew Valley
7. The Witness
8. Dark Souls III
9. Firewatch
10. Inside