The Foundation for Digital Games Culture will once again host the gamescom award, an awards ceremony honoring outstanding games, booths, exhibitors and trailers that being presented at gamescom 2026. Winners will be determined by a jury of gaming professionals as well as community votes, with voting now open on the gamescom website.
Winners will be announced during the official awards ceremony, broadcast live on the 28th of August from 1PM to 3PM CET.
Best Visuals
- Alien: Isolation 2 – Creative Assembly / SEGA
- DEPERSON – Error Thing / Parco Games
- Forza Horizon 6 – Playground Games / Xbox Game Studios
- Inkblood – HeyBird! / Critical Reflex
- METRO 2039 – 4A Games / Deep Silver
Best Audio
- Alien: Isolation 2 – Creative Assembly / SEGA
- Cairn – The Game Bakers
- Denshattack! – Undercoders / Fireshine Games
- Forza Horizon 6 – Playground Games / Xbox Game Studios
- There are No Ghosts at the Grand – Friday Sundae
Best Gameplay
- Alien: Isolation 2 – Creative Assembly / SEGA
- Cairn – The Game Bakers
- Denshattack! – Undercoders / Fireshine Games
- Onimusha: Way of the Sword – Capcom
- The Blood of Dawnwalker – Rebel Wolves / Bandai Namco Entertainment
Most Entertaining
- Bad Magpie – Milktooth
- Denshattack! – Undercoders / Fireshine Games
- Escape From Duckov – Team Soda / bilibili
- There are No Ghosts at the Grand – Friday Sundae
- Wanderburg – Randwerk / Sidekick Publishing
Most Epic
- Crimson Desert – Pearl Abyss
- METRO 2039 – 4A Games / Deep Silver
- STRANGER THAN HEAVEN – RGG Studio / SEGA
- Tides of Annihilation – Eclipse Glow Games
- Total War: WARHAMMER 40,000 – Creative Assembly / SEGA
Most Wholesome
- Age Twisters – Piccolo Studio / KRAFTON
- Book Nook – Malapata Studios / Wings
- Finding Polka – lidlocks / Parco Games
- Garden Ink – Kranich Games
- OPUS: Prism Peak – Sigono / Shueisha Games
Games for Impact
- Fishbowl — imissmyfriends.studio / Wholesome Games Presents
- Media Circus – Papercoda Games
- OPUS: Prism Peak – Sigono / Shueisha Games
- SOKO 1977: Anti-Terror Task Force – Paintbucket Games / bpb
- The Regreening – Positive Impact Games / ByteRockers’ Games
Best Microsoft Xbox Game
- Forza Horizon 6 – Playground Games / Xbox Game Studios
- Gears of War: E-Day – The Coalition / Xbox Game Studios
- Halo: Campaign Evolved – Halo Studios / Xbox Game Studios
- METRO 2039 – 4A Games / Deep Silver
- STRANGER THAN HEAVEN – RGG Studio / SEGA
Best PC Game
- Alien: Isolation 2 – Creative Assembly / SEGA
- Crimson Desert – Pearl Abyss
- Guns of Eschaton – Eschatology Entertainment / 4Divinity
- METRO 2039 – 4A Games / Deep Silver
- Total War: WARHAMMER 40,000 – Creative Assembly / SEGA
Best Sony PlayStation Game
- Dragon’s Dogma 2 Dark Arisen – Capcom
- METRO 2039 – 4A Games / Deep Silver
- Onimusha: Way of the Sword – Capcom
- The Blood of Dawnwalker – Rebel Wolves / Bandai Namco Entertainment
- Tides of Annihilation – Eclipse Glow Games
Best Nintendo Switch 2 Game
- Denshattack! – Undercoders / Fireshine Games
- Mega Man: Dual Override – Capcom
- Nintendo Switch Sport Resort – Nintendo of Europe
- OPUS: Prism Peak – Sigono / Shueisha Games
- Rayman Legends Retold – Ubisoft
Best Mobile Game
- Arknights: Endfield – Hypergryph
- Genshin Impact – HoYoverse
- Silver Palace – Elementa
- Where Winds Meet – Everstone Studio / NetEase Games
- Zenless Zone Zero – HoYoverse
