At Siliconera, we’ve named our platform-specific awards, but this one is the most important: our overall Game of the Year 2021! Read on to see which game won the team’s highest honor.

These awards represent the consensus of Siliconera staff. For more award selections of the year, check out our Game of the Year 2021 archive.

Winner: Shin Megami Tensei V

It was a long time coming. Fans had to wait a while for Shin Megami Tensei V, so expectations were high. So meet them as well as he did? It is a huge accomplishment. it’s a signature CMS game, with its punitive difficulty and its wealth of demons to fight and merge. It could be a defining moment for the franchise, earning it the attention it has long deserved. Congratulations, CMS V: you are Siliconera’s 2021 game of the year.

Tales of the Ascension

It’s a new start for the Tales franchise! Arise looks as good as the series always played, and clever efforts to modernize systems allow you to immerse yourself more in the story without so many obstacles. It is the best that Tales has been in for a long, long time, and it more than deserves to be a game of the year finalist.

Monster hunter rise

To augment is a return to classic Monster hunter formula. In doing so, he’s able to build on all the work of the game’s previous decades, delivering iterative improvements that longtime fans really appreciate.

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