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Best New IP Games By year ↓

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Games recognized as outstanding new worlds, characters, franchises, or original properties.

Ceremony names grouped here include New Intellectual Property, Best New IP, Original Property.

2025 1 4 6 South of Midnight
2025 1 3 6 ARC Raiders
2025 1 14 1 16 15 Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
2025 1 2 11 Dispatch
2025 1 2 13 Split Fiction
2025 1 4 The Alters
2024 1 1 6 Still Wakes the Deep
2024 1 1 13 Animal Well
2024 1 3 2 9 5 Balatro
2024 1 1 2 2 13 Black Myth: Wukong
2024 1 2 2 5 7 Metaphor: ReFantazio
2024 1 1 1 6 Thank Goodness You're Here!
2023 1 2 6 Viewfinder
2023 1 1 5 Chants of Sennaar
2023 1 2 1 7 Dave the Diver
2023 1 1 9 Dredge
2023 1 1 4 13 Hi-Fi Rush
2023 1 2 Jusant
2022 1 17 1 10 15 Elden Ring
2022 1 1 5 Citizen Sleeper
2022 1 1 3 Cult of the Lamb
2022 1 4 Sifu
2022 1 1 3 14 Stray
2022 1 1 1 3 9 Vampire Survivors
2021 1 2 1 7 13 It Takes Two
2021 1 6 Death’s Door
2021 1 4 2 3 19 Deathloop
2021 1 2 1 8 Inscryption
2021 1 2 4 10 Returnal
2021 1 1 4 3 Unpacking
2020 1 1 1 Kentucky Route Zero: TV Edition
2020 1 1 5 Carrion
2020 1 1 9 Fall Guys
2020 1 1 1 7 21 Ghost of Tsushima
2020 1 11 1 13 19 Hades
2020 1 7 Spiritfarer
2019 1 5 2 3 13 Outer Wilds
2019 1 3 3 Baba Is You
2019 1 5 1 8 17 Control
2019 1 2 6 24 Death Stranding
2019 1 1 11 10 Disco Elysium
2019 1 2 3 9 Untitled Goose Game
2018 1 2 5 Into the Breach
2018 1 1 3 Dead Cells
2018 1 6 13 Florence
2018 1 11 Moss
2018 1 1 4 11 Return of the Obra Dinn
2018 1 2 Subnautica
2017 1 2 4 22 Horizon Zero Dawn
2017 1 10 8 Cuphead
2017 1 3 9 Gorogoa
2017 1 1 12 Night in the Woods
2017 1 1 2 2 7 PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds
2017 1 1 1 2 14 What Remains of Edith Finch
2016 1 1 2 12 13 Inside
2016 1 1 4 15 Firewatch
2016 1 10 1 8 11 Overwatch
2016 1 2 1 2 13 The Last Guardian
2016 1 1 8 The Witness
2016 1 2 Unravel
2015 1 1 1 5 Until Dawn
2015 1 2 8 Everybody's Gone to the Rapture
2015 1 3 4 Her
2015 1 1 2 10 Life is Strange
2015 1 7 10 Ori and the Blind Forest
2015 1 1 10 Splatoon
2014 1 1 1 Valiant Hearts
2014 1 1 Kalimba
2014 1 6 8 Monument Valley
2014 1 5 Sunset Overdrive
2014 1 1 10 The Vanishing of Ethan Carter
2014 1 7 Titanfall