Game of the Year 2017: Xbox One 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 has been an odd year for the Xbox. Microsoft released the "most powerful console ever" with the Xbox One X, but struggled to produce any games for the console as first party exclusives. Despite that, there was a lot of great third party stuff released on the console, and so this year's awards went predominantly towards those games.

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