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title: "Gamescom Awards – Nintendo received some!"
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description: "During Gamescom, awards for best games have been awarded. Nintendo managed to win a number of them in the category 'Best Nintendo Switch game' and 'Best Family Game'"
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Gamescom Awards - Nintendo received some! | General News | NintendoReporters

 [![Gamescom Awards – Nintendo received some!](https://www.nintendoreporters.com/storage/files/gamescom-awards-nintendo-valt-in-de-prijzen.jpg "Gamescom Awards – Nintendo received some!")](https://www.nintendoreporters.com/storage/files/gamescom-awards-nintendo-valt-in-de-prijzen.jpg)During Gamescom, awards for best games have been awarded. Nintendo managed to win a number of them in the category ‘Best Nintendo Switch game’ and ‘Best Family Game’. Respectively for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate and Super Mario Party as the winners.

## [](#gamescom-awards-winners)Gamescom Awards winners

View below each category and its participants and final winners of the Gamescom Awards 2018.

**Best Action Game**

– Marvel’s Spider-Man (Sony Interactive Entertainment)
– Metro Exodus (Deep Silver)
– Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice (Activision Blizzard)

**Best Add-on/DLC**
– Destiny 2: Forsaken (Activision Blizzard)
– State of Decay 2 Daybreak (Microsoft)

**Best Casual Game**
– Life is Strange 2 (Square Enix)
– Persona 5: Dancing in Starlight (Koch Media)
– Team Sonic Racing (Koch Media)

**Best Family Game**
– LEGO DC Super-Villains (Warner Bros. Entertainment)
– Life is Strange 2 (Square Enix)
– Super Mario Party (Nintendo)

**Best Puzzle/Skill Game**
– Astro Bot Rescue Mission (Sony Interactive Entertainment)
– Ori and the Will of the Wisps (Microsoft)
– Persona 5: Dancing in Starlight (Koch Media)

**Best Racing Game**
– F1 2018 (Koch Media/Codemasters)
– Forza Horizon 4 (Microsoft)
– Team Sonic Racing (Koch Media)

**Best Role Playing Game**
– Assassin’s Creed Odyssey (Ubisoft)
– Divinity: Original Sin 2 – Definitive Edition (Bandai Namco Entertainment)
– Kingdom Hearts III (Square Enix)
 **Best Simulation Game**
– Anno 1800 (Ubisoft)
– F1 2018 (Koch Media/Codemasters)
– Farming Simulator 19 (astragon Entertainment)

**Best Social/Online Game**
– Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 (Activision Blizzard)
– Dying Light Bad Blood (Techland)
– Rend (Frostkeep Studios)
 **Best Sports Game**
– F1 2018 (Koch Media/Codemasters)
– FIFA 19 (Electronic Arts)
– PES 2019 (Konami)
 **Best Strategy Game**
– Anno 1800 (Ubisoft)
– Divinity: Original Sin 2 – Definitive Edition (Bandai Namco Entertainment)
– Total War: Three Kingdoms (Koch Media)

**Best Console Game Sony PlayStation 4**
– Marvel’s Spider-Man (Sony Interactive Entertainment)
– Assassin’s Creed Odyssey (Ubisoft)
– Project Mephisto (working title)

**Best Console Game Microsoft Xbox One**
– Ori and the Will of the Wisps (Microsoft)
– Shadow of the Tomb Raider (Square Enix)
– Forza Horizon 4 (Microsoft)

**Best Console Game Nintendo Switch**
– LEGO DC Super-Villains (Warner Bros. Entertainment)
– Starlink – Battle for Atlas (Ubisoft)
– Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (Nintendo)

**Best PC Game**
– Anno 1800 (Ubisoft)
– Life is Strange 2 (Square Enix)
– Shadow of the Tomb Raider (Square Enix)

**Best Mobile Game**
– Hyperdrome (Travian Games)
– Shadowgun War Games (MADFINGER Games)

It should be noted that not all games are already available, but does it really matter?

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