Bleeding Cool Game Awards Archives

Every year, there's one game that manages to surpass all the rest in terms of quality of its narrative, gameplay, innovation, and design.

When you sit down and look at what every game had achieved over 2018, it's hard to compare what Dungeons & Dragons did for their own brand this past year.

While we've already crowned our Best Tabletop Miniature Game, most of the entries on that list were on the older side, so now its time to focus on the new.

When sizing up all the board games that came across our kitchen tables this year, the one that stood out to us the most was Betrayal Legacy.

Not all tabletop games come with miniature models, but every gamer knows that the best ones come with several unique minis for you to assemble and paint.

It's weird how trading card games rise and fall in popularity over the years. A name we were surprised to see make a resurgence this year was Magic: The Gathering.

Tabletop wargames are a microcosm of war itself, combining strategy, combat, and ruthless negotiation into a heady mix of entertainment.

This year didn't see too many puzzle games make their way into the top spots of gaming, but the few that did stuck with us, with Tetris Effect coming out on top.

A tabletop skirmisher wargame is like a large scale wargame; but instead of controlling legions of battle units, instead you control only a handful.

While we had a lot of good tabletop RPGs come out with content this year, it was kind of hard to deny Dungeons & Dragons the top spot in 2018.

Sports games call to the armchair athletes and the superfans alike, which makes them fertile ground for a set of gaming awards.

We kinda had a hunch clear back in April when we saw previews of Two Point Hospital, that we were probably looking at one of the best games of 2018.

Massively Multiplayer Online games come in many forms, but this year we stuck mostly to MMORPGs. Because there are just too many.

It came in near the end of the year and didn't look like it stood a chance, but Super Smash Bros. Ultimate won out in our vote for Best Fighting Game.

While games rely on their characters to drive interest, they can also snag our attention with a thrilling story, and that's the part that sticks with s.

It takes a hell of a soundtrack to transport you from the real world into another, but Marvel's Spider-Man did the trick in more ways than one.

Games are only as good as their cast, and often times the protagonists and supporting characters are what make or break a game outside of pure gameplay.

No matter where you go, there you are. Words to live by as thousands of gamers found joy and meaning behind the story told in this year's Best Indie Game, Celeste.

Mobile games are absolutely the most popular games, despite not being traditional games. However, we've all spent too much time poking at our phones.

In most VR games, it's almost a foregone conclusion that you're getting a workout. But Beat Saber lets you pretend to do it as a Jedi.

Action Adventure games cover a lot of ground in the gaming space, but the genre also includes some of the top games of the year.

If there was ever a strategy game that made you feel like you were doing something productive, Surviving Mars would be it, which is why it's one of our top winners.

With 2018 officially over, we've finally crowned our Best RPG of the year. Nominees included Assassin's Creed Odyssey, Vampyr, Pokemon Let's Go, and more!

2018 had a number of contenders for Best Shooter, but at the end of the day, the best of the best in our eyes was Call of Duty: Black Ops 4.

  In case you missed them, we ran our own Game of the Year awards during the final hours of 2017, and to save you all the clicking, we've dropped the

And now, the moment you've all been relentlessly checking your feeds for: it is time to announce Bleeding Cool's Game of the Year 2017.

For Bleeding Cool's Best Video Game Soundtrack award, our esteemed judges were tasked with ranking the top soundtracks designed for a video game in the entirety of 2017.

For Bleeding Cool's Best Character in a Video Game award, our esteemed judges were tasked with ranking the top characters features in a video game in the entirety of 2017.

For Bleeding Cool's Best Story in a Video Game award, our esteemed judges were tasked with ranking the top stories delivered by a video game in the entirety of 2017.

For Bleeding Cool's Best Indie Game of 2017, our three esteemed games judges were asked to weigh in on the year's top Indie game titles to determine which was the absolute best indie game of the year.