IGN – Game of the Year 2021 nominees

IGN – Game of the Year 2021 nominees

IGN announced the games they believe deserve the accolade of Game of the Year 2021. Among the games announced are Metroid Dread. Along the latest Metroid game are Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart and Resident Evil Village. Check out the full list of nominees below.

IGN – Game of the Year 2021

  • Deathloop
  • Forza Horizon 5
  • Halo Infinite
  • Hitman 3
  • Inscryption
  • It Takes Two
  • Metroid Dread
  • Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart
  • Resident Evil Village
  • Returnal

IGN notes

Every year we look back and pick our favorite games of the year. In 2021, we got the highly-anticipated sequels to beloved, as well as bold, imaginative new games that make us fall in love with games all over again. These are our picks for IGN’s best games of 2021, featuring a smattering of the biggest games of 2021 from Nintendo, Microsoft, and PlayStation, to third-party AAA hits and independent games we can’t stop thinking about, 2021’s best games offered a host of unforgettable adventures that we’ve been raving about ever since playing.