The PlayStation Blog, an official news site for the gaming side of Sony, has revealed its winners of its Game of the Year 2021 and everyone’s favourite vampire mom Lady Dimitrescu has won her category.

Before we get into the winners, the PlayStation Blog has done something different here after tallying all the votes from the public polls. Instead of simply giving us a winner and maybe some runner-ups, it has instead showed first place all the way down to fourth.

This is to coincide with the different kind of PlayStation trophies: Platinum (first), Gold (second), Silver (third) and Bronze (fourth).

In our list below we’ll just be using numbers.

It’s a long list of winners so, before we get to that, we have to make mention of Hades. The roguelike from Supergiant Games recently made history as the first videogame to win a Hugo Award for its story. Here in the PlayStation Blog Game of the Year, however, it didn’t even manage to make it into the top four in the Best Story category.

Hades appears twice here in the Best Art Direction (four place) and Independent Game of the Year (second place). A real slap in the face for one of the absolute best games from recent years.

Best New Character

1. Lady Dimitrescu | Resident Evil Village
2. Rivet | Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart
3. Tenzo | Ghost of Tsushima Director’s Cut
4. Alex Chen | Life is Strange: True Colors

Best Story

1. Resident Evil Village
2. Life is Strange: True Colors
3. Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy
4. Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart

Best Art Direction

1. Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart
2. Little Nightmares II
3. It Takes Two
4. Hades

Best Soundtrack

1. Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy
2. Ghost of Tsushima: Iki Island expansion
3. Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade
4. Nier Replicant ver. 1.22474487139

Best Multiplayer Experience

1. It Takes Two
2. Call of Duty: Vanguard
3. Battlefield 2042
4. Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker

Best Sports Game

1. FIFA 22
2. Hot Wheels Unleashed
3. Riders Republic
4. NBA 2K22

Best Accessibility Features

1. Ghost of Tsushima Director’s Cut
2. Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart
3. Far Cry 6
4. Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy

Best Use of DualSense

1. Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart
2. Ghost of Tsushima Directors Cut
3. Returnal
4. Resident Evil Village

Best Graphical Showcase

1. Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart
2. Resident Evil Village
3. Far Cry 6
4. Kena: Bridge of Spirits

Best Re-Release

1. Ghost of Tsushima Director’s Cut
2. Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade
3. Mass Effect Legendary Edition
4. Nier Replicant ver. 1.22474487139

Independent Game of the Year

1. Kena: Bridge of Spirits
2. Hades
3. Doki Doki Literature Club Plus!
4. Disco Elysium – The Final Cut

PS VR Game of the Year

1. Hitman 3
2. Doom 3 VR Edition
3. Sniper Elite VR
4. I Expect You To Die 2

PS4 Game of the Year

1. Resident Evil Village
2. It Takes Two
3. Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy
4. Far Cry 6

PS5 Game of the Year

1. Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart
2. Resident Evil Village
3. Returnal
4. Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy

Most Anticipated Game of 2022 and Beyond

1. Marvel’s Spider-Man 2
2. Elden Ring
3. Horizon Forbidden West
4. Hogwart’s Legacy

Studio of the Year

1. Insomniac Games
2. Square Enix
3. Capcom
4. Bandai Namco