Horizon Forbidden West Wins Best Game at Develop:Star Awards 2022

The Develop:Brighton conference announced the winners of the Develop:Star Awards 2022, which honors the best games released

over the past 12 months.

The nominees were chosen by gaming industry professionals, and the winners were chosen by the developers. Horizon Forbidden West received the most awards, namely two – Best Game and Best Visuals.

Best game

  • Horizon Forbidden West.
  • deathloop.
  • Forza Horizon 5.
  • Life is Strange: True Colors.
  • OlliOlli World.
  • Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart.
  • Sifu.
  • unpacking.

Best VR Game

  • Resident Evil 4 VR.
  • Fracked.
  • Hitman 3 VR.
  • I Expect You To Die 2.
  • Sniper Elite VR.

Best Mobile Game

  • LEGO Star Wars Battles.
  • Beatstar - Touch Your Music.
  • Love & Pies.
  • Overboard!
  • Please, Touch The Artwork.
  • Rocket League Sideswipe.

Best Sound

  • Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy.
  • deathloop.
  • Forza Horizon 5.
  • Horizon Forbidden West.
  • Tiny Tina's Wonderlands.
  • Total War: Warhammer III.

Best Game Design

  • unpacking.
  • deathloop.
  • Death's Door.
  • Fights in Tight Spaces.
  • OlliOlli World.
  • Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart.

Best Story

  • Life is Strange: True Colors.
  • Conway: Disappearance at Dahlia View.
  • deathloop.
  • Horizon Forbidden West.
  • The Dark Pictures Anthology: House of Ashes.
  • unpacking.

Best visual

  • Horizon Forbidden West.
  • Forza Horizon 5.
  • Lost Ark.
  • OlliOlli World.
  • Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart.
  • Sable.

Best Original IP

  • deathloop.
  • Death's Door.
  • Fights in Tight Spaces.
  • Hell let loose.
  • I Am Fish.
  • Sable.

Best Technical Innovation

  • Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart.
  • Anstream Arcade.
  • Forza Horizon 5.
  • Horizon Forbidden West.
  • Richcast by Panivox.
  • The Dark Pictures Anthology: House of Ashes.

Best Studio

  • Sumo Digital.
  • Arcane Studios.
  • Creative assembly.
  • Guerrilla games.
  • nDreams.
  • playground games.
  • Roll7.
  • supermassive games.

Best Micro Studio

  • acid nerve.
  • Animal Uprising.
  • Huey Games.
  • inkle.
  • shedworks.
  • Studio Waterzooi.

Best Publisher

  • Curve Games.
  • Amazon Games.
  • Kepler Interactive.
  • Kwalee.
  • Private division.
  • Team17.Wizards of the Coast.

The best supplier of creativity

  • d3t.
  • Atomhawk.
  • PitStop Productions Ltd.
  • Richard Jacques Studios Ltd.
  • SIDEUK.
  • Talenthouse Media Foundry.

Best Technology

  • unreal engine.
  • Anything World.
  • game maker studio 2.
  • Machinations.
  • PopcornFX.
  • unity.

The best organizer of quality control and localization

  • Keywords Studios.
  • d3t.
  • Player Research.
  • P.T.W.
  • Testronic.
  • Universally speaking.

Best Recruitment Company

  • Sumo Group.
  • Aardvark Swift.
  • Amiqus.
  • Datascope Recruitment.
  • Games Jobs Direct.
  • OPMjobs.

Diversity star

  • Charu Dezodt from Interior Night.
  • Brandon Cole of Into Games.
  • Debor Mensah-Bonsa from Games for Good.
  • Shaw's house from Ukie.
  • Jeris Diningana of Rocksteady Studios.
  • Carla Reyes from Code Coven.
  • Leon Killin of Sumo Group.
  • Marie-Claire Isaman of Women in Games.

marketing star

  • Live services team from Media Molecule.
  • Etch Play.
  • Lauren Moses from Code Coven.
  • Neonhive.
  • Sean Walsh of Wired Productions.
  • Solo Casali from Electronic Arts.

Star of Tomorrow

  • Charmy Kim from Space Ape Games.
  • Hannah Rose Burdett of PlayStation Studios.
  • Josh Hale from FuturLab.
  • Liam Van Basteler of nDreams.
  • Mileo Lofland Nicky Harper-Williams of Many Cats Studios CIC.
  • Paige Dolan from Secret Mode.
  • Sarah Dyer from Splash Damage.
  • Distinguished Service and Industry Contribution Award
  • Ding Bakaba from Arkane Lyon.