Welcome to the Offshore Gamescast’s official 2023 winners for Game of the Year! Here you will find our picks for Most Surprising, Most Disappointing, Best Narrative, Best Visuals, Best Console Exclusive, Best Indie, Best Game Mechanic, and our Top 10 Games of the Year. Want to find out how we made these picks? Listen to the podcast episode here to hear us debate and make our picks!
Most Surprising: Hi-Fi Rush
2. Roboquest
3. En Garde!
Most Disappointing: All Elite Wrestling: Fight Forever
2. Atomic Heart
3. Starfield
Best Narrative: The Wreck
2. Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name
3. Thirsty Suitors
Best Visuals: Hi-Fi Rush
2. Alan Wake II
3. Thirsty Suitors
Best Console Exclusive: The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (Nintendo Switch)
2. Super Mario Bros. Wonder
3. Marvel’s Spider-Man 2
Best Indie: Cocoon
2. The Wreck
3. The Pale Beyond
Best Game Mechanic: The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom - Ultrahand
2. Cocoon – World hopping
3. American Arcadia – Switching perspectives
Game of the Year: Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name