17th Game Developers Choice Awards

The 17th Game Developers Choice Awards was an award ceremony honoring outstanding achievements by game developers and video games released in 2016. The event took place on March 1, 2017, at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, California during the 2017 Game Developers Conference and was hosted by Tim Schafer. It was held alongside the Independent Games Festival awards.

Winners and nominees

Game of the Year

• Overwatch (Blizzard Entertainment)
• Dishonored 2 (Arkane Studios/Bethesda Softworks)
• Firewatch (Campo Santo/Panic)
• Inside (Playdead)
• ' (Naughty Dog/Sony Interactive Entertainment)

• Inside (Playdead)
• Battlefield 1 (EA DICE/Electronic Arts)
• Doom (id Software/Bethesda Softworks)
• Overwatch (Blizzard Entertainment)
• Thumper (Drool)

• Firewatch (Campo Santo/Panic)
• Hyper Light Drifter (Heart Machine)
• Oxenfree (Night School Studio)
• Stardew Valley (ConcernedApe)
• Thumper (Drool)

• Overwatch (Blizzard Entertainment)
• Dishonored 2 (Arkane Studios/Bethesda Softworks)
• Doom (id Software/Bethesda Softworks)
• Inside (Playdead)
• The Witness (Thekla)

• No Man's Sky (Hello Games)
• Firewatch (Campo Santo/Panic)
• Inside (Playdead)
• Pokémon Go (Niantic)
• The Witness (Thekla)

• Pokémon Go (Niantic)
• Clash Royale (Supercell)
• Pokémon Sun and Moon (Game Freak/The Pokémon Company)
• Reigns (Nerial/Devolver Digital)
• Super Mario Run (Nintendo EPD/Nintendo)

• Firewatch (Campo Santo/Panic)
• Inside (Playdead)
• The Last Guardian (Japan Studio/Sony Interactive Entertainment)
• Oxenfree (Night School Studio)
• ' (Naughty Dog/Sony Interactive Entertainment)

Best Technology

• ' (Naughty Dog/Sony Interactive Entertainment)
• Battlefield 1 (EA DICE/Electronic Arts)
• Doom (id Software/Bethesda Softworks)
• No Man's Sky (Hello Games)
• Overwatch (Blizzard Entertainment)

• Inside (Playdead)
• Firewatch (Campo Santo/Panic)
• The Last Guardian (Japan Studio/Sony Interactive Entertainment)
• Overwatch (Blizzard Entertainment)
• ' (Naughty Dog/Sony Interactive Entertainment)

Best VR/AR Game

• ' (Owlchemy Labs)
• Fantastic Contraption (Radial Games/Northway Games)
• Pokémon Go (Niantic)
• Rez Infinite (Monstars/Enhance Games)
• Superhot VR (Superhot Team)