Resident Evil Requiem wins Ultimate Game of the Year at the 2026 Golden Joystick

Capcom's Resident Evil Requiem has been named Ultimate Game of the Year at the Golden Joystick Awards 2026, the top prize of the night.

The Golden Joystick Awards announced the win on X (formerly Twitter), calling Ultimate Game of the Year its "most-prestigious award of all" and congratulating Capcom Europe and the Resident Evil team. The organisers also joked that they hoped "the Umbrella Corporation doesn't try to take credit for this."

A big night for Capcom

Requiem's win capped a strong evening for the game and its publisher. Earlier in the show, it took Console Game of the Year, which the organisers noted was its third award of the night. It also won Best Game Trailer for 'Evil Has Always Had A Name', a live-action short film released in February.

Angela Sant'Albano was voted Best Lead Performer for her role as Grace in the game. Capcom itself was named Studio of the Year, with the organisers pointing out that its games were nominated in eight other categories. Grace Saif added another win for a Capcom title, taking Best Supporting Performer for her role as Diana in Pragmata.

Crimson Desert, The Witcher and other winners

Pearl Abyss' Crimson Desert won PC Game of the Year, a category the organisers described as "hotly-contested." The Korean studio's open-world action-adventure game recently received its first expansion, Charting the Unknown.

CD Projekt Red had two wins. Voters picked The Witcher IV as their Most Wanted Game, while The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Remastered took Best Remake/Remaster.

Meccha Chameleon won four awards, including Streamers' Choice and the Developers' Choice Award, a new category for 2026 in which game creators pick one title made by their peers. House House's Big Walk received the Critics' Choice Award, and Dispatch won Best Soundtrack as one of its two awards on the night.

Iron Lung, directed by Markiplier, was named Best Game Adaptation. Minecraft won the Still Playing Award for PC and console for the second year in a row, with Mojang thanking the voters in a statement shared by the organisers.

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