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21st Game Developers Choice Awards
21st Game Developers Choice Awards
Date	July 21, 2021
Venue	Online
Highlights
Most awards	Hades (3)
Most nominations	Ghost of Tsushima, Hades, The Last of Us Part II (6)
Lifetime Achievement Award	Laralyn McWilliams
Pioneer Award	Tom Fulp
Game of the Year	Hades

The 21st Game Developers Choice Awards was an annual awards ceremony by Game Developers Choice Awards for outstanding game developers and video games held on July 21, 2021. The awards ceremony was held alongside the Independent Games Festival awards, with both events presented through virtual streaming video due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Hades was named as Game of the Year.

Winners and nominees edit

Nominees were announced on April 20, 2021^[1] Winners (noted in bold below) were named on July 21, 2021.^[2]

Phasmophobia (Kinetic Games)
- Carrion (Phobia Game Studio/Devolver Digital)
- Mortal Shell (Cold Symmetry / Playstack)
- Raji: An Ancient Epic (Nodding Heads Games / Super!Com)
- Umurangi Generation (Origame Digital / Playism, Origame Digital)

^ Rousseau, Jeffrey (April 20, 2021). "Hades, Ghost of Tsushima, and Last of Us Part 2 lead GDC Award nominees". GamesIndustry.biz. Retrieved April 20, 2021.
^ Beresford, Trilby (July 21, 2021). "2021 Game Developers Choice Award Winners". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved July 21, 2021.
^ ^a ^b Koch, Cameron (July 1, 2021). "GDC To Honor Newgrounds Founder Tom Fulp And Industry Veteran Laralyn McWilliams At 21st Annual Awards". GameSpot. Retrieved July 1, 2021.