The RPG Site selected their RPG of the Year 2020:
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And the readers' vote:RPG Site Best of 2020 Awards - our picks for the best of the year
2020 was a memorable year for several reasons, not all of them good. Despite the various hardships of the year, when we were lucky enough to have a chance to look back on 2020 as it pertains to RPG Site, we can see with a little more clarity now how this year still managed to be quite a remarkable one for RPGs. The previous console generation finally came to a close, some long-awaited games big and small finally released, and as always, several surprises came out of nowhere. It's time to discuss them all in our Best of 2020 awards.
We've been running this current iteration of our awards feature since 2018, and we've kept it largely the same this year. That means that in this article you'll find several Category Awards that highlight games for nailing specific aspects of their style or systems. Then you'll find ten games we whittled down from a much longer list as our best of 2020. The first five of these are runners-up, games that we recognize as some of the best of the year, but did not land into our Top Five. Then we list our non-winning Top Five, which ended up falling just short of our overall winner, but remain as RPG of the Year-caliber releases in their own right. Finally, at the very end, one of the Top Five is crowned our official RPG of the Year 2020. At each benchmark, we had to make some incredibly tough decisions and concessions to end up at our final rankings. A couple of final important notes to consider is that we include some RPG-adjacent titles in our deliberations, and only games released before December were considered for this list.
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Best Writing & Storytelling - 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim
Best Art - Star Renegades
Best Music - Final Fantasy VII Remake
Best Design & Immersion - Hades
Best Ongoing Support - Monster Hunter World Iceborne
Best Non-RPG - Ori and the Will of the Wisps
Best Re-release - Persona 5 Royal
Best of 2020: The Near Misses, aka the Runner-Up Five
Top Five RPGs of 2020
- Assassin's Creed Valhalla
- Moon
- Fae Tactics
- Wasteland 3
- Sakuna of Rice and Ruin
RPG of the Year
- Nioh 2
- Yakuza: Like a Dragon
- Hades
- 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim
- Final Fantasy VII Remake
Readers Choice:
- Final Fantasy VII Remake - 24.9% (Square Enix - PS4)
- Yakuza: Like a Dragon - 15.4% (Sega - PS4, Xbox, PC)
- Persona 5 Royal - 12.6% (Atlus - PS4)
- 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim - 7.5% (Atlus - PS4)
- Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition - 7.2% (Nintendo - Switch)
- Wasteland 3 - 6.5% (inXile - PS4, Xbox, PC)
- The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel IV - 6.3% (NIS America - PS4)
- Hades - 4.1% (Supergiant Games - Switch, PC)
- Nioh 2 - 2.1% (Sony Interactive Entertainment / Koei Tecmo - PS4)
- Genshin Impact - 1.5% (miHoYo - PS4, mobile, PC)
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