At the 25th DICE Awards 2022, Hazelight Studios’ It Takes Two wins Game Of The Year, but it’s actually PS5 exclusive Insomniac Games’ Ratchet & Clank Rift Apart that was the biggest winner of the show.

Besides Game Of The Year, It Takes Two also won the Outstanding Achievement in Game Design award. Meanwhile, Ratchet & Clank Rift Apart won Outstanding Achievement in Animation, Outstanding Achievement in Art Direction, Outstanding Technical Achievement, and Family Game of the Year.

There were 23 categories in total, and several games, including Halo Infinite, Lone Echo II, Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy, and Returnal, all won multiple awards. The show also gave awards to NetherRealm Studios’ Ed Boon, who won the 2022 AIAS Hall of Fame inductee, and Microsoft’s Phil Spencer, who received the Lifetime Achievement Award.

The 2022 DICE Awards took place live at the Mandalay Bay Resort in Las Vegas and it was co-hosted for the sixth year by Jessica Chobot and Greg Miller.

You can check out my 4000-word spoiler-free review of Ratchet & Clank Rift Apart here.

Check out all the winners below:

Game of the Year

• Deathloop
• Inscryption
• It Takes Two – WINNER
• Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart
• Returnal

Outstanding Achievement in Animation

• Call of Duty: Vanguard
• Deathloop
• Kena: Bridge of Spirits
• Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart – WINNER
• Resident Evil Village

Outstanding Achievement in Art Direction

• Call of Duty: Vanguard
• Deathloop
• Kena: Bridge of Spirits
• Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart – WINNER
• Resident Evil Village

Outstanding Achievement in Character

• Deathloop – Colt Vahn
• Kena: Bridge of Spirits – Kena
• Life is Strange: True Colors – Alex Chen
• Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart – Rivet
• Resident Evil Village – Lady Dimitrescu – WINNER

Outstanding Achievement in Original Music Composition

• Deathloop
• It Takes Two
• Kena: Bridge of Spirits
• Psychonauts 2
• Returnal – WINNER

Outstanding Achievement in Audio Design

• Forza Horizon 5
• Halo Infinite
• It Takes Two
• Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart
• Returnal – WINNER

Outstanding Achievement in Story

• Before Your Eyes
• Inscryption
• Guardians of the Galaxy – WINNER
• Psychonauts 2
• The Forgotten City

Outstanding Technical Achievement

• Battlefield 2042
• Forza Horizon 5
• Moncage
• Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart – WINNER
• Returnal

Action Game of the Year

• Deathloop
• Halo Infinite – WINNER
• Metroid Dread
• Returnal
• The Ascent

Adventure Game of the Year

• Death’s Door
• It Takes Two
• Guardians of the Galaxy – WINNER
• Psychonauts 2
• Resident Evil Village

Family Game of the Year

• Animal Crossing: New Horizons – Happy Home Paradise
• Cozy Grove
• Mario Party Superstars
• Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart – WINNER
• Warioware: Get it Together

Fighting Game of the Year

• Guilty Gear Strive – WINNER
• Melty Blood: Type Lumina
• Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl

Racing Game of the Year

• F1 2021
• Forza Horizon 5 – WINNER
• Hot Wheels Unleashed

Role-Playing Game of the Year

• Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker – WINNER
• Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous
• Shin Megami Tensei V
• Tales of Arise
• Wildermyth

Sports Game of the Year

• FIFA 22
• Mario Golf: Super Rush – WINNER
• NBA 2k22
• Riders Republic
• The Climb 2

Strategy/Simulation Game of the Year

• Age of Empires IV – WINNER
• Gloomhaven
• Griftlands
• Inscryption
• Loop Hero

Immersive Reality Technical Achievement

• Lone Echo II – WINNER
• Puzzling Places
• Resident Evil 4 VR
• Song in the Smoke
• Yuki

Immersive Reality Game of the Year

• Demeo
• I Expect You To Die 2
• Lone Echo II – WINNER
• Resident Evil 4 VR
• Song in the Smoke

Outstanding Achievement for an Independent Game

• Death’s Door
• Inscryption
• Loop Hero
• Sable
• Unpacking – WINNER

Mobile Game of the Year

• Behind the Frame
• Fantasian
• League of Legends: Wild Rift
• Moncage
• Pokémon Unite – WINNER

Online Game of the Year

• Back 4 Blood
• Call of Duty: Vanguard
• Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker
• Halo Infinite – WINNER
• Knockout City

Outstanding Achievement in Game Design

• Deathloop
• Inscryption
• It Takes Two – WINNER
• Loop Hero
• Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart

Outstanding Achievement in Game Direction

• Deathloop – WINNER
• Inscryption
• It Takes Two
• Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart
• The Artful Escape