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The nominees for The Game Awards 2015 were announced on November 13, 2015. Candidate games must have a commercial release date on or before November 24, 2015, in order to be eligible.

The winners were announced during the awards ceremony on December 3, 2015. Winners are shown first in bold, and indicated with a double-dagger (‡).

Jury-voted awards

Game of the Year	Developer of the Year
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – CD Projekt Red‡ Bloodborne – FromSoftware Fallout 4 – Bethesda Game Studios Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain – Kojima Productions Super Mario Maker – Nintendo	CD Projekt Red‡ Bethesda Game Studios FromSoftware Kojima Productions Nintendo
Best Independent Game	Best Mobile/Handheld Game
Rocket League – Psyonix‡ Axiom Verge – Tom Happ Her Story – Sam Barlow Ori and the Blind Forest – Moon Studios Undertale – Toby Fox	Lara Croft Go – Square Enix Montréal‡ Downwell – Moppin Fallout Shelter – Bethesda Game Studios and Behaviour Interactive Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate – Capcom Pac-Man 256 – Hipster Whale
Best Narrative	Best Art Direction
Her Story – Sam Barlow‡ Life Is Strange – Dontnod Entertainment Tales from the Borderlands – Telltale Games The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – CD Projekt Red Until Dawn – Supermassive Games	Ori and the Blind Forest – Moon Studios‡ Batman: Arkham Knight – Rocksteady Studios Bloodborne – FromSoftware Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain – Kojima Productions The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – CD Projekt Red
Best Score/Soundtrack	Best Performance
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain – Kojima Productions‡ Fallout 4 – Bethesda Game Studios Halo 5: Guardians – 343 Industries Ori and the Blind Forest – Moon Studios The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – CD Projekt Red	Viva Seifert as Hannah Smith – Her Story‡ Ashly Burch as Chloe Price – Life Is Strange Camilla Luddington as Lara Croft – Rise of the Tomb Raider Doug Cockle as Geralt of Rivia – The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Mark Hamill as the Joker – Batman: Arkham Knight
Games for Impact	Best Shooter
Life Is Strange – Dontnod Entertainment‡ Cibele – Star Maid Games Her Story – Sam Barlow Sunset – Tale of Tales Undertale – by Toby Fox	Splatoon – Nintendo‡ Call of Duty: Black Ops III – Treyarch Destiny: The Taken King – Bungie Halo 5: Guardians – 343 Industries Star Wars Battlefront – EA Digital Illusions CE
Best Action/Adventure	Best Role Playing Game
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain – Kojima Productions‡ Assassin's Creed Syndicate – Ubisoft Quebec Batman: Arkham Knight – Rocksteady Studios Ori and the Blind Forest – Moon Studios Rise of the Tomb Raider – Crystal Dynamics	The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – CD Projekt Red‡ Bloodborne – FromSoftware Fallout 4 – Bethesda Game Studios Pillars of Eternity – Obsidian Entertainment Undertale – Toby Fox
Best Fighting Game	Best Family Game
Mortal Kombat X – NetherRealm Studios‡ Guilty Gear Xrd –SIGN– – Arc System Works Team Red Rise of Incarnates – Bandai Namco Entertainment Rising Thunder – Radiant Entertainment	Super Mario Maker – Nintendo‡ Disney Infinity 3.0 – Avalanche Software with additional work by Ninja Theory, Studio Gobo, Sumo Digital and United Front Games Lego Dimensions – Traveller's Tales Skylanders: SuperChargers – Vicarious Visions and Beenox Splatoon – Nintendo
Best Sports/Racing Game	Best Multiplayer
Rocket League – Psyonix‡ FIFA 16 – EA Canada Forza Motorsport 6 – Turn 10 Studios NBA 2K16 – Visual Concepts Pro Evolution Soccer 2016 – PES Productions	Splatoon – Nintendo‡ Call of Duty: Black Ops III – Treyarch Destiny: The Taken King – Bungie Halo 5: Guardians – 343 Industries Rocket League – Psyonix

Fan's choice awards

Most Anticipated Game	Esports Player of the Year
No Man's Sky – Hello Games Horizon Zero Dawn – Guerrilla Games Quantum Break – Remedy Entertainment The Last Guardian – genDESIGN and Japan Studio Uncharted 4: A Thief's End – Naughty Dog	*Kenny "KennyS" Schrub (Team EnVyUs – Counter-Strike: Global Offensive)* Lee "Faker" Sang-hyeok (SK Telecom T1 – League of Legends) Olof "olofmeister" Kajbjer (Fnatic – Counter-Strike: Global Offensive) Peter "ppd" Dager (Evil Geniuses – Dota 2) Syed Sumail "Suma1L" Hassan (Evil Geniuses – Dota 2)
Esports Team of the Year	Esports Game of the Year
OpTic Gaming Evil Geniuses Fnatic SK Telecom T1 Team SoloMid	Counter-Strike: Global Offensive – developed by Valve Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare – developed by Sledgehammer Games Dota 2 – developed by Valve Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft – developed by Blizzard Entertainment League of Legends – developed by Riot Games
Trending Gamer	Best Fan Creation
Greg Miller TotalBiscuit Christopher "MonteCristo" Mykles Markiplier PewDiePie	Portal Stories: Mel – by Prism Studios GTA V – Targets – by Hoodoo Operator Real GTA – by Corridor Digital Twitch Plays Dark Souls – by Twitch

Honorary awards

Industry Icon Award
Brett Sperry and Louis Castle (Westwood Studios)

Games with multiple nominations and awards

Games that received multiple nominations
Nominations	Game
6	The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
4	Her Story
	Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain
	Ori and the Blind Forest
3	Batman: Arkham Knight
	Bloodborne
	Fallout 4
	Halo 5: Guardians
	Life Is Strange
	Rocket League
	Splatoon
	Undertale
2	Call of Duty: Black Ops III
	Destiny: The Taken King
	Rise of the Tomb Raider
	Super Mario Maker

Games that received multiple awards
Awards	Game
2	Her Story
	Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain
	Rocket League
	Splatoon
	The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

References

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Sarkar, Samit (December 3, 2015). "Here are the winners of The Game Awards 2015". Polygon. Archived from the original on December 4, 2015. Retrieved December 3, 2015.

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Game of the Year	Dragon Age: Inquisition (2014) The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (2015) Overwatch (2016) The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (2017) God of War (2018) Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice (2019) The Last of Us Part II (2020) It Takes Two (2021) Elden Ring (2022) Baldur's Gate 3 (2023) Astro Bot (2024)
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