These Are The Games Nominated For The 24th DICE Awards, Including This SEA Title

The DICE Awards games celebration show for 2021 is going to be a thing this 9th April (GMT+8), and with it are the nominees for this year.

First, let’s celebrate the fact that a Southeast Asian-made title made its way into the DICE Awards this year. Coffee Talk, a visual novel we recently elected as one of our best games of 2020, is nominated for Outstanding Achievement for an Independent Game alongside the following:

Hades
If Found…
Kentucky Route Zero: TV Edition
Noita

This is very stiff competition, if we’re being frank. But the fact that Toge Productions is nominated is a great cause for celebration, especially for a prestigious game awards show like this that isn’t reliant on shoving our faces with Mountain Dew and Doritos-type ads. Other highlights include:

13 Sentinels nominated for the Outstanding Achievement in Story category.
Ori and the Will of the Wisps showing up in a few more categories, though not to the extent of The Last of Us Part 2 and Hades.
The Last of Us Part 2 took two slots in the Outstanding Achievement in Character category.

Nobody’s perfect. The rest of the nominees in their respective categories are below and here.

Game of the Year

Animal Crossing; New Horizons
Final Fantasy VII Remake
Ghost of Tsushima
Hades
The Last of Us Part 2

Outstanding Achievement in Game Direction

Ghost of Tsushima
Hades
Half-Life Alyx
Kentucky Route Zero
The Last of Us Part 2

Outstanding Achievement in Game Design

Ghost of Tsushima
Hades
Half-Life Alyx
TLOU 2
Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales

Action Game of the Year

Doom Eternal
Hades
Half-Life Alyx
Spider-Man Miles Morales
Nioh 2

Adventure Game of the Year

AC Valhalla
Ghost of Tsushima
Kentucky Route Zero
The Last of Us Part 2
Ori and the Will of the Wisps

Family Game of the Year

Animal Crossing: New Horizons
Astro’s Playroom
Dreams
Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout
Sackboy: A Big Adventure

Fighting Game of the Year

EA Sports UFC 4
Granblue Fantasy Versus
Mortal Kombat 11 Ultimate
Them’s Fightin Herds

Racing Game of the Year

DIRT 5
F1 2020
Mario Kart Live

Project CARS 3 isn’t even nominated here. Ouch.

RPG of the Year

Cyberpunk 2077
FFVII Remake
Persona 5 Royal
Wasteland 3
Yakuza: Like A Dragon

Sports Game of the Year

FIFA 21
MLB The Show 20
NBA 2K21
PGA Tour 2K21
Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1+2

Strategy/Simulation Game of the Year

Crusader Kings 3
Desperados 3
Microsoft Flight Simulator
Monster Train
Per Aspera

Where the f*** is Gears Tactics?

Mobile Game of the Year

HoloVista
Legends of Runeterra
Little Orpheus
Song of Bloom
South of the Circle

Online Game of the Year

Animal Crossing: New Horizons
Call of Duty: Black Ops – Cold War
Fall Guys
Ghost of Tsushima
Tetris Effect: Connected

Outstanding Achievement in Animation

Final Fantasy VII Remake
The Last of Us Part 2
Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales
Ori and the Will of the Wisps
Spiritfarer

Outstanding Achievement In Art Direction

Ghost of Tsushima
Hades
The Last of Us Part 2
Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales
Ori and the Will of the Wisps

Outstanding Achievement in Character

Eivor Varinsdottir in AC Valhalla
Zagreus in Hades
Abby in TLOU 2
Ellie in TLOU 2
Miles Morales in Spider-Man: Miles Morales

Outstanding Achievement in Original Music Composition

Carrion
Ghost of Tsushima
Little Orpheus
Ori and the Will of the Wisps
The Pathless

Outstanding Achievement in Audio Design

Dreams
Ghost of Tsushima
The Last of Us Part 2
Ori and the Will of the Wisps
Sackboy: A Big Adventure

Outstanding Achievement In Story

13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim
Ghost of Tsushima
Hades
Kentucky Route Zero
TLOU 2

Outstanding Technical Achievement

Dreams
Ghost of Tsushima
TLOU 2
Mario Kart Live
Microsoft Flight Simulator

Immersive Reality Tech Achievement

Half-Life Alyx
Mario Kart Live
Museum of Other Realities
Paper Beast
Tempest

Immersive Reality Game of the Year

Down the Rabbit Hole
Half-Life Alyx
Paper Beast
The Room VR: A Dark Matter
The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners