Additionally, MiHoYo’s RPG won Best Story and Best for Tablets.
The editorial staff of Google Play selected MiHoYo’s Honkai: Star Rail as the Best Game, and Google has unveiled its list of the best applications and games of the year.
In the meanwhile, Scopley’s Monopoly Go won the 2023 User’s Choice Award. In the independent games category, Poncle’s Vampire Survivors was also recognized with a Google Play Best of 2023 award.
Roto Force, Song of Bloom, Super Meat Boy Forever, and Underground Blossom received honorable honors.
Monopoly Go won Best Pick Up & Play, while Farlight Games’ Farlight 84 won Best Multiplayer.
Scopely’s Stumble Guys won Best Ongoing, while Asantee Games’ platformer Very Magic Rampage won Best on Play Pass.
This year saw the addition of new award categories, such the gaming area. Pokémon Sleep earned Best Game for Good on this list.
Away from gaming, ChapGPT took first place in the user-chosen category while Imprint: Learn Visually by Polywise won Best App according to the Google editorial team’s selection.
The complete list of winners for each game category is as follows:
- Top Game: Star Rail by Honkai
- The Best Strategy Game for Multiple Devices: Outerplane Anime Monolopy Go: A Users’ Choice Game
- 84 is the best multiplayer game
- Monopoly Go is the best pick-up game
- Top Independents: Vampire Overslayers
- Honkai: Star Rail has the best story. Best ongoing: The Best Games for Good by Stumble Guys: Sleeping Pokémon
- Magic Rampage is the best on Play Pass
- Tablet compatibility at its best: Honkai: Rail Star
- Ideal for Chromebooks: PC Google Play Games That Are Best for Minecraft: Arknights