Resident Evil Requiem wins Ultimate Game of the Year at the 2026 Golden Joystick Awards
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Resident Evil Requiem took home the biggest prize of the night at the 2026 Golden Joystick Awards, taking home the ultimate game of the year title.
Competition was fierce for this year’s main prize, with Resident Evil Requiem topping the rankings for this year’s 12 greatest games. These included the massive launches of Crimson Desert and Phantom Blade Zero, the blockbuster 007: First Light, surprise hits like Control Resonant and Pragmata, and late additions in the form of Star Wars: Galactic Racer and The Blood of Dawnwalker. Big Walk, Dispatch, Forza Horizon 6 and Pokemon Pokopia were also nominated.
The win capped off a big night for Resident Evil Requiem, which took home four awards at this year’s ceremony; Best Game Trailer for “Evil Always Has a Name” Promo, Best Lead Performer for Grace Ashcroft’s Angela Sant’Albano and Console Game of the Year. That could have made him the overall winner, were it not for a stunning challenge from a very different game – two player-voted and two jury-voted prizes for Meccha Chameleon allowed the hide-and-seek sensation to match Resi’s four wins.
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But Resident Evil Requiem still took home the biggest prize, and depending on exactly how you count each prize, it may have pipped Meccha Chameleon to the title, thanks to the Studio of the Year award for Capcom – although with the one shared with fellow winners Pragmata and Onimusha: Way of the Sword, that may be a total of just 4.33 awards for Resi.
Requiem has long been a favorite in this year’s GOTY conversations. With the specter of GTA 6 on the horizon, it’ll likely struggle to win the Big 5 Awards, but it certainly ignores the recency bias that can always plague awards shows – when it launched in February, we described it as “an affectionate pastiche of the series’ greatest hits” and “a see-saw of terror and wonder.”
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