Big Apple Award for Best Game of the Year:

• Alan Wake II
• Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon
• Baldur’s Gate 3
• Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty
• Hi-Fi Rush
• The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
• Marvel’s Spider-Man 2
• Starfield

Off Broadway Award for Best Indie Game:

• A Space for the Unbound
• Chants of Sennaar
• El Paso Elsewhere
• Jusant
• Pizza Tower
• Sea of Stars
• The Talos Principle II
• Viewfinder

Herman Melville Award for Best Writing in a Game:

• Alan Wake II
• Baldur’s Gate 3
• Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty
• Starfield
• Tchia
• Thirsty Suitors

Statue of Liberty Award for Best World:

• Alan Wake II
• Baldur’s Gate 3
• Chants of Sennaar
• Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty
• Final Fantasy XVI
• Marvel’s Spider-Man 2
• Starfield

Tin Pan Alley Award for Best Music in a Game:

• Alan Wake II
• Baldur’s Gate 3
• Final Fantasy XVI
• Hi-Fi Rush
• Tchia
• The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom

Great White Way Award for Best Acting in a Game:

• Amelia Tyler as The Narrator in Baldur’s Gate 3
• Ben Starr as Clive Rosfield in Final Fantasy XVI
• Elizabeth Saydah as Riley in Oxenfree II: Lost Signals
• Idris Elba as Solomon Reed in Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty
• Melanie Liburd as Saga Anderson in Alan Wake II
• Neil Newbon as Astarion in Baldur’s Gate 3

Coney Island Dreamland Award for Best AR/VR Game:

• Asgard’s Wrath 2
• Assassin’s Creed Nexus VR
• Body of Mine
• Horizon Call of the Mountain
• Humanity
• We Are One

Central Park Children’s Zoo Award for Best Kids Game:

• Disney Illusion Island
• Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl 2
• Pikmin 4
• Super Mario Bro. Wonders
• Tchia
• The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom

A-Train Award for Best Mobile Game:

• Hello Kitty Island Adventure
• Honkai: Star Rail
• Kimono Cats
• Laya’s Horizon
• Monster Hunter Now
• Terra Nil

Freedom Tower Award for Best Remake:

• Dead Space
• Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective
• Metroid Prime Remastered
• Resident Evil 4
• Star Ocean: The Second Story
• Super Mario RPG

Joltin’ Joe Award for Best Esports Player of the Year:

• Alexis “Zen” Bernier (Team Vitality) – Rocket League
• Arslan “Arslan Ash” Siddique (Twisted Minds/Red Bull eSports) – Tekken 7
• Choi “Zeus” Woo-je (T1) – League of Legends
• Lee “Faker” Sang-Hyeok (T1) – League of Legends
• Mathieu “ZywOo” Herbaut (Team Vitality) – Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
• Paco “HyDra” Rusiewiez (New York Subliners) – Call of Duty

Chumley’s Speakeasy Award for Best Hidden Gem:

• 9 Years of Shadow
• American Arcadia
• Conrad Stevenson’s Paranormal P.I.
• Outer Terror
• Slay the Princess
• Videoverse

NYC GWB Award for Best DLC:

• Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty
• Dead Cells: Return to Castlevania
• God of War Ragnarök: Valhalla
• Horizon Forbidden West: Burning Shores
• Resident Evil 4: Separate Ways
• Vampire Survivors: Coop Mode

Knickerbocker Award for Best Games Journalism:

• Andrea Long Chu, Vulture
• Blessing Adeoya Jr., Kinda Funny Games
• Brendan Sinclair, GamesIndustry.biz
• Ed Smith, PCGamesN/Bullet Points Monthly
• Hanif Abdurraqib, The Paris Review
• Nicole Carpenter, Polygon
• Reid McCarter, Bullet Points Monthly