Game of the Year 2017: Nintendo Switch game of the year

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.

It's so easy to forget that the Nintendo Switch is less than a year old. It's sold over 10 million units in that time (yes, less than a year!) and it's become a daily part of our gaming lives. Already it's difficult to imagine being into games without one, and a big part of that has been the fact that there has been an unending supply of really great games, from the day of launch. So much so that this has easily been one of the hardest categories to judge.

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