Game of the Year 2017: Best game from Australia/ New Zealand

Welcome to the DDNet Awards of 2017! We have 16 categories this year, representing the full gamut of creativity and artistry that games represent. 2017 has been an incredible year for videogames, and is without a doubt one of the best years for games ever, and that has made this year's award particularly difficult to decide on.

As always, our voting period for the "year" runs from late November the year before through to late November this year. So if you see a game released in December last year in the awards winners, that's why.

We like supporting the Australian and New Zealand games industries at DDNet. It's where DDNet itself is from, of course, and on top of that it's an industry filled with really good people doing their best in difficult commercial and economic conditions. Australia, especially, gets no government support as the larger games industries in places like Canada tend to, and yet despite that - and the fact we have no large studios left to train up our next generation of developers - we produce amazing games year in, year out. Indeed, 2017 was one of the best years ever for the industry in terms of sheer creativity.

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