18th Game Developers Choice Awards

The 18th Game Developers Choice Awards was an award ceremony honoring outstanding achievements by game developers and video games released in 2017. The event took place on March 21, 2018, at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, California and was hosted by Robin Hunicke. It was held alongside the Independent Games Festival awards.

Winners and nominees

Game of the Year

• ' (Nintendo EPD/Nintendo)
• Horizon Zero Dawn (Guerrilla Games/Sony Interactive Entertainment)
• ' (PlatinumGames/Square Enix)
• PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds (PUBG Studios)
• Super Mario Odyssey (Nintendo EPD/Nintendo)

Best Audio

• ' (Nintendo EPD/Nintendo)
• Cuphead (StudioMDHR)
• ' (Ninja Theory)
• Horizon Zero Dawn (Guerrilla Games/Sony Interactive Entertainment)
• ' (PlatinumGames/Square Enix)

• Cuphead (StudioMDHR)
• Golf Story (Sidebar Games)
• Gorogoa (Jason Roberts/Annapurna Interactive)
• Hollow Knight (Team Cherry)
• Night in the Woods (Infinite Fall/Finji)

• ' (Nintendo EPD/Nintendo)
• Horizon Zero Dawn (Guerrilla Games/Sony Interactive Entertainment)
• ' (PlatinumGames/Square Enix)
• PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds (PUBG Studios)
• Super Mario Odyssey (Nintendo EPD/Nintendo)

• Gorogoa (Jason Roberts/Annapurna Interactive)
• Everything (David OReilly/Double Fine Productions)
• ' (Nintendo EPD/Nintendo)
• PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds (PUBG Studios)
• What Remains of Edith Finch (Giant Sparrow/Annapurna Interactive)

Best Mobile

• Gorogoa (Jason Roberts/Annapurna Interactive)
• Bury Me, My Love (The Pixel Hunt/Arte France/Playdius)
• Hidden Folks (Adriaan de Jongh and Sylvain Tegroeg)
• Monument Valley 2 (Ustwo Games)
• ' (Nerial/Devolver Digital)

• What Remains of Edith Finch (Giant Sparrow/Annapurna Interactive)
• ' (Ninja Theory)
• Horizon Zero Dawn (Guerrilla Games/Sony Interactive Entertainment)
• Night in the Woods (Infinite Fall/Finji)
• ' (MachineGames/Bethesda Softworks)

• Horizon Zero Dawn (Guerrilla Games/Sony Interactive Entertainment)
• ' (Ubisoft Montréal/Ubisoft)
• Destiny 2 (Bungie/Activision)
• ' (Ninja Theory)
• ' (Nintendo EPD/Nintendo)

Best Visual Art

• Cuphead (StudioMDHR)
• Horizon Zero Dawn (Guerrilla Games/Sony Interactive Entertainment)
• ' (Nintendo EPD/Nintendo)
• Night in the Woods (Infinite Fall/Finji)
• Persona 5 (P-Studio/Atlus)

• Superhot VR (Superhot Team)
• ' (Bethesda Game Studios/Bethesda Softworks)
• Lone Echo (Ready at Dawn/Oculus Studios)
• ' (Capcom)
• ' (Red Storm Entertainment/Ubisoft)

Audience Award

• ' (PlatinumGames/Square Enix)