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title: "Metroid Dread – 2021 Golden Joystick Nintendo Game Of The Year"
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description: "The 39th Golden Joystick Awards presentation was held on Youtube and Twitch, doubling up as a celebration of 50 years of gaming."
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Metroid Dread - 2021 Golden Joystick Nintendo Game Of The Year | Nintendo Switch News | NintendoReporters

 [![Metroid Dread – 2021 Golden Joystick Nintendo Game Of The Year](https://www.nintendoreporters.com/storage/files/metroid-dread-2021-golden-joystick-nintendo-game-of-the-year.jpeg "Metroid Dread – 2021 Golden Joystick Nintendo Game Of The Year")](https://www.nintendoreporters.com/storage/files/metroid-dread-2021-golden-joystick-nintendo-game-of-the-year.jpeg)The 39th Golden Joystick Awards presentation was held on Youtube and Twitch, doubling up as a celebration of 50 years of gaming. The show featured 20 categories of awards voted for by the public, as well as 2 categories handled by critics.

Among these awards, Metroid Dread took home the title of Nintendo Game of the Year, while Dark Souls was crowned the Ultimate Game Of All Time.

## [](#golden-joystick-2021-winners)Golden Joystick 2021 Winners

The full list of awards and winners can be found below:

- Best Storytelling: Life is Strange: True Colors
- Best Multiplayer Game: It Takes Two
- Best Audio: Resident Evil: Village
- Best Visual Design: Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart
- Best Game Expansion: Ghost of Tsushima: Iki Island
- Mobile Game of the Year: League of Legends: Wild Rift
- Best Gaming Hardware: PlayStation 5
- Best Indie Game: Death’s Door
- Studio of the Year: Capcom
- Best Performer: Maggie Robertson (Lady Dimitrescu in Resident Evil: Village)
- Breakthrough Award: Housemarque (critically chosen)
- Best Game Community: Final Fantasy XIV
- Still Playing Award: Final Fantasy XIV
- PC Game of the Year: Hitman 3
- Nintendo Game of the Year: Metroid Dread
- Xbox Game of the Year: Psychonauts 2
- PlayStation Game of the Year: Resident Evil: Village
- Most Wanted Game: Elden Ring
- Critics’ Choice Award: Deathloop (critically chosen)
- Ultimate Game of the Year: Resident Evil: Village
- Best Gaming Hardware of All Time: Personal Computer (PC)
- Ultimate Game of All Time: Dark Souls

Although first party Nintendo games did not win any other awards this year, Metroid Dread being chosen as Nintendo Game of the Year is quite the achievement for a franchise that has been struggling to get back on its feet in recent years.

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