Direttamente dalla Game Developers Conference 2016 di San Francisco, ecco la lista completa dei vincitori dei Game Developers Choice Awards e degli Independent Game Festival Awards.
Game Developers Choice Awards
- Game of the Year: The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
- Audience Award: Life is Strange
- Innovation Award: Her Story
- Best Debut: Moon Studios (Ori and the Blind Forest)
- Best Design: Rocket League
- Best Handheld/Mobile Game: Her Story
- Best Visual Art: Ori and the Blind Forest
- Best Narrative: Her Story
- Best Audio: Crypt of the Necrodancer
- Best Technology: The Witcher 3 Wild Hunt
- Ambassador Award: Tracy Fullerton
- Lifetime Achievement Award: Todd Howard
- Pioneer of the Year: Marcus Persson
Independent Game Festival Awards
- Seumas McNally Gand Prize: Her Story
- Excellence in Narrative: Her Story
- Excellence in Audio: Mini Metro
- Excellence in Design: Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes
- Excellence in Visual Art: Oxenfree
- ID@Xbox Rising Star Award: Girls Make Games
- Nuovo Award: Cibele
- Best Student Game: Beglitched
- Audience Award: Undertale