2020 GOTY Scoreboard: Hades, The Last of Us Part II, and More

Nintendo made last year’s pandemic-related lockdowns more bearable with Animal Crossing: New Horizons. Naughty Dog ruled the Summer with The Last of Us Part II. CD Projekt finally showed us their vision of the future with Cyberpunk 2077. And Valve brought virtual reality to a new level with Half-Life: Alyx (the first expansion to the Half-Life franchise in over a decade).

Oh, and Sony and Microsoft each launched brand new consoles in November.

But it was Hades, developed by the small team at Supergiant Games, that walked out of Hell with the most “Game of the Year” accolades in 2020.

You can find the other four, as well as more of last year’s most-acclaimed titles, after the break in the 2020 GOTY Scoreboard.

Hades

The Last of Us Part II

Animal Crossing: New Horizons

Doom Eternal

Final Fantasy VII Remake

Ghost of Tsushima

Half-Life: Alyx

Immortals: Fenyx Rising

Kentucky Route Zero

Microsoft Flight Simulator

Ori and the Will of the Wisps

Persona 5 Royal

Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1 + 2

Unranked Lists

 
And there were a lot of other great games from 2020 that might not have earned “Game of the Year” honors, but did appear further down at least one list…

2020 GOTY Scoreboard (Expand)

Like Zagreus’s quest to escape the underworld, there will always be more “Game of the Year” lists from 2020 to uncover. But this collection of links appears to be a fairly representative sample of the critical reaction to last year’s releases.