Expedition 33 dominates the night with five victories
Dark Glade: Expedition 33 has dominated a new awards ceremony. At Thursday’s Game Developers Choice Awards, held during the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, Sandfall Interactive’s role-playing game won five awards, including Game of the Year.
The other awards light dark The awards were Best Debut, Best Visual Art, Best Narrative and Best Audio.
prince charmingThe indie puzzle adventure about exploring the ever-changing rooms of a sprawling mansion, won two awards: Best Design and Innovation Award.
light dark It has now sealed four of the top five gaming awards, with Game of the Year awards at the Golden Joystick Awards, The Game Awards, DICE Awards, and GDC Awards. That already puts it in the rarefied company of games like god of war, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wildand Elden Ring.
If Sandfall can complete its run with a win at the BAFTA Games Awards in April, it will be only the second game to achieve this feat, after Baldur’s Gate 3. BAFTA has been known for being rogue in its Best Game category more often than not, but light dark He also leads the pack in nominations there.
The GDC Awards are voted on by a panel of industry professionals and Game Developer editors. Here is the complete list of winners.
- Game of the year: Dark Glade: Expedition 33
- Best Debut: Dark Glade: Expedition 33
- Best design: prince charming
- Best technology: Death Stranding 2: On the beach
- Best Visual Art: Dark Glade: Expedition 33
- Innovation Award: prince charming
- Best Narrative: Dark Glade: Expedition 33
- Audience Award: and roger
- Best audio: Dark Glade: Expedition 33
- Social Impact: consume me
- Lifetime Achievement Award: Don Daglow (veteran designer of never winter nightsactive since the early 1970s)
- Ambassador Award: Rebecca Ann Heineman (pioneer designer and coder, co-founder of Interplay, died 2025)
Soruce: polygon.com