Cast Your Vote in the First Ever Horror Game Awards

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Voting is now open for the first ever Horror Game Awards. Fans can vote now in more than a dozen categories including Best Horror Trailer, Best Indie Performance, Best Character of the Year, and Horror Game of the Year. Part of Feardemic’s Fear Fest, the show will stream exclusively on on IGN’s YouTube and Twitch channels September 7. Winners will take home a coveted Golden Bat trophy.

Nominees for the inaugural edition include Amnesia: The Bunker, Bramble: The Mountain King, Dead Space Remake, Dredge, IMMORTALITY, FAITH: The Unholy Trinity, Resident Evil 4 Remake, SIGNALIS, System Shock, The Callisto Protocol, and more. Voting runs now through August 3.

The Horror Game Awards mark the culmination of a two-day event that kicks off with Black Summer 2023, a “three-hour showcase of 2023 and 2024’s most anticipated horror games with world premiere trailers, developer interviews, special guest appearances, and content creator reactions.”

Full nominees include:

Horror Game of The Year – Amnesia: The Bunker, Bramble: The Mountain King, Dead Space Remake, Dredge, IMMORTALITY, FAITH: The Unholy Trinity, Resident Evil 4 Remake, SIGNALIS, System Shock, The Callisto Protocol

Best Character of the Year – Elster (SIGNALIS), Olle (Bramble: The Mountain King), Leon Kennedy (Resident Evil 4 Remake), Jacob Lee (The Callisto Protocol), Isaac Clarke (Dead Space Remake)

Best Narrative of the Year – Burnhouse Lane, Decarnation, IMMORTALITY, SCP: Secret Files, SIGNALIS

Best Game Design – Amnesia: The Bunker, DREDGE, FAITH:The Unholy Trinity, Resident Evil 4 Remake, SIGNALIS

Best Art Direction – Bramble: The Mountain King, DREDGE, Layers of Fear, Saturnalia, Scorn

Best Score/Soundtrack – Amnesia: The Bunker, Bramble: The Mountain King, Resident Evil 4 Remake, SIGNALIS, The Callisto Protocol

Best Audio Design – Amnesia: The Bunker, Dead Space Remake, Scorn, System Shock, The Callisto Protocol

Best Performance – Nick Apostolides (Resident Evil 4 Remake), Manon Gage (IMMORTALITY), Charlotta Mohlin (IMMORTALITY) , Nola Klop (Bramble: The Mountain King), Gunner Wright (Dead Space Remake)

Best Indie Horror – Decarnation, DREDGE, FAITH: The Unholy Trinity, SCP: Secret Files, SIGNALIS

Best VR/AR Horror – Afterlife VR, Propagation: Paradise Hotel, Resident Evil Village VR, The Dark Pictures: Switchback VR, The Walking Dead Saints and Sinners (Chapter 2)

Best Horror Multiplayer – Evil Dead: The Game, Dead Island 2, Demonologist, Sons Of The Forest, The Outlast Trials

Best Horror Content Creator of the Year – Pastra, RagnarRox, Sagan Hawkes, Gab Smolders, The Sphere Hunter

Best Horror Trailer – SCP: Secret Files, Silent Hill 2, The Callisto Protocol, Silent Hill F, Scorn

Catch Fear Fest September 6 and 7, with The Horror Game Awards streaming exclusively on IGN September 7 at 11 am Pacific / 2 pm Eastern / 7 pm UK time on September 7.