Nintendo Game of the Year - Animal Crossing: New Horizons wins the Golden Joystick
Golden Joystick Awards have, year-in, year-out, grown to be one of the most prestigious video game awards at large, simply owing to the fact that it's fans themselves who decide who gets them. Naturally, this means that any game that wins a Golden Joystick is recognized as the very pinnacle of its niche. It just so happens that Animal Crossing: New Horizons has been announced as the Nintendo Game of the Year as part of these festivities!
Animal Crossing: New Horizons as Nintendo Game of the Year
It goes without saying that the title of Nintendo Game of the Year is practically as prestigious as it gets. But do you know what the competition was? Check it:
- Animal Crossing: New Horizons
- Pokémon Sword & Shield
- Dr. Kawashima's Brain Training
- Super Mario 3D All-Stars
- Paper Mario: The Origami King
- Super Mario Bros 35
- Ninjala
- Clubhouse Games: 51 Worldwide Classics
The victory is all the more impressive now, isn't it? It does make perfect sense in the given context, however. We're talking about a game that offers players the opportunity to live out a simpler, happier, and more immediately rewarding life in a downright perfect environment. Pokémon is great and all, but right now it just doesn't get any better than Animal Crossing!
Even this very website hosts one of the greatest collections of Animal Crossing fashion items for you to peruse. That alone is more than enough to make fashion-minded players happy. Some games are just made to make people forget about whatever problems they might have, even if only for a little while, and we believe New Horizons is indispensable in this regard.
Are you interested in other winners of the Golden Joystick? Find them below!
- Best Storytelling: The Last of Us Part II
- Best Multiplayer Game: Fall Guys
- Best Visual Design: The Last of Us Part II
- Best Game Expansion: No Man’s Sky: Origins
- Mobile Game of the Year: Lego Builder’s Journey
- Best Audio: The Last of Us Part II
- Best Indie Game: Hades
- Still Playing: Minecraft
- Studio of the Year: Naughty Dog
- Esports Game of the Year: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare
- Best New Streamer / Broadcaster: iamBrandon
- Best Family Game: Fall Guys
- Best Gaming Community: Minecraft
- Best Performer: Sandra Saad (Critics Choice)
- Breakthrough Award: Among Us (Critics Choice)
- Hall of Fame: Team17 / Worms (Critics Choice)
- PC Game of the Year: Death Stranding
- Best Gaming Hardware: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080
- PlayStation Game of the Year: The Last of Us Part II
- Xbox Game of the Year: Ori and the Will of the Wisps
- Nintendo Game of the Year: Animal Crossing: New Horizons
- Most Wanted Game: The next God of War game
- Critics Choice Award: Hades (Critics Choice)
- Ultimate Game of the Year: The Last of Us Part II
All in all, this year's Golden Joystick awards have been a real hoot, and we hope you, too, have thrown a vote in where it counted the most.
In other news, are you up-to-date with the latest content in New Horizons? It was just yesterday that we finally got to meet Franklin the Turkey via Turkey Day festivities. It was a grand old time, and we hope you got your recipes in to earn all the snazzy new furniture, cooking items, and more. Otherwise, we invite you to give the all-new Island Transfer Tool a fair shake.
Not only do you now have the capacity to back everything up at long last, but you can also freely transfer stuff from one Switch to another at your own behest. You can even move specific characters over to start a new adventure all of their own! Have fun, and stay tuned for more New Horizons awesomeness in the coming days and weeks.