It Takes Two, a co-operative adventure from Josef Fares’ Hazelight, has been named the big winner of The Game Awards 2021.

Josef Fares and Hazelight Studios made it. It Takes Two has been named Best Video Game of the Year at The Game Awards 2021, beating the likes of Deathloop, Metroid Dread, Psychonauts 2, Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart and Resident Evil 8: Village.

Neil Druckman, director of The Last of Us: Part II, presented the statuette to Josef Fares after winning GOTY at the 2020 TGA. Hazelight Studios also won the Best Multiplayer and Best Family Game categories, bringing their total to three awards in Stockholm.

Also doing well during the evening was Forza Horizon, with a total of three awards (Best Audio Design, Best Racing/Sports Game and Innovation in Accessibility); Deathloop, with two awards (Best Game Management and Best Art Direction); Final Fantasy XIV: Online, with two more (Best Game in Continuous Development and Best Community Support); and Kena: Bridge of Spirits, which won in two categories dedicated to indie publishing.

Below is the complete list of winners.

Winners of The Game Awards 2021:

Best Game of the Year [GOTY]

It Takes Two

Best Game Design

Deathloop (Arkane Studios/Bethesda)

Best Developing Game

Final Fantasy XIV Online (SQUARE ENIX)

Best indie

Kena: Bridge of Spirits (Ember Lab)

Best indie debut

Kena: Bridge of Spirits (Ember Lab)

Best Narrative Game

Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy (Eidos Montreal/SQUARE ENIX)

Best Art Direction

Deathloop (Arkane Studios/Bethesda)

Best soundtrack / music

NieR Replicant ver.1.22474484487139 (Keiichi Okabe)

Best Audio Design

Forza Horizon 5 (Playground Games/Xbox Game Studios)

Best Actor

Maggie Robertson as Lady Dimitrescu, Resident Evil Village

Games for Impact award

Life is Strange: True Colors (Deck Nine/SQUARE ENIX)

Best Community Support

Final Fantasy XIV Online (SQUARE ENIX)

Best Mobile Game

League of Legends: Wild Rift (Riot Games)

Best virtual reality game

Resident Evil 4 (Armature Studio/Capcom/Oculus Studios)

Best action game

Returnal (Housemarque/SIE)

Best action-adventure game

Metroid Dread (Mercury Steam/Nintendo)

Best RPG

Tales of Arise (Bandai Namco)

Best Fighting Game

Guilty Gear -Strive- (Arc System Works)

Best Family Game

It Takes Two (Hazelight Studios/EA)

Best racing/sports game

Forza Horizon 5 (Playground Games/Xbox Game Studios)

Best simulator/strategy game

Age of Empires IV (Relic Entertainment/Xbox Game Studios)

Best Multiplayer Game

It Takes Two (Hazelight Studios/EA)

Most anticipated game award

Elden Ring (FromSoftware/Bandai Namco)

Accessibility Innovation Award

Forza Horizon 5 (Playground Games/Xbox Game Studios)

Content Creator of the Year

Dream

Best eSports game

League of Legends (Riot Games)

Best eSports Player

Oleksandr “s1mple” Kostyliev

Best eSports Team

Natus Vincere (CS:GO)

Best eSports coach

Kim “kkOma” Jeong-gyun

Best eSports event

2021 League of Legends World Championship

Source: 3DJuegos

The moment you’ve all been waiting for, Game of The Year! A massive congratulations to It Takes Two @hazelightgames + @ea + ​​@josef_fares for your big win! #TheGameAwards pic.twitter.com/3o2kGm8qHm

— The Game Awards (@thegameawards) December 10, 2021