The Game Awards 2023: Predicting The Best Audio Design Winner

Audio design is an often overlooked aspect of the video game world, but it’s easily one of the most integral. While graphics are immediately noticeable, gameplay can be felt instantly, and music can be heard clearly, audio design tends to be a little more subtle. It’s the creaks in a floorboard as the player moves over it, the distant sound of a scream that indicates an enemy is lurking nearby, and the sound of a gunshot rebounding off echoey walls. Essentially, sound design is that final element that brings a game to life, and The Game Awards 2023‘s Best Audio Design category is home to some of the year’s very best at doing this.