Eleven years after its initial release, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt has won another Golden Joystick Award with this year's remastered version, taking home the 2026 Best Remake award and further extending its lead in Golden Joystick honors.
Other nominees in the same category include Trails in the Sky the 2nd, Star Fox, Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection Vol. 2, Gothic 1: Remake, and Assassin's Creed IV Black Flag: Memory Reset
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The connection between The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt and the Golden Joystick Awards began before its release. The game won Most Wanted Game in both 2013 and 2014, and after its official launch in 2015, it secured awards for Best Narrative, Best Visual Design, Best Gaming Moment, and Ultimate Game of the Year, with the Best Gaming Moment award going to the "Bloody Baron" quest.
The following year, the expansion The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Blood and Wine won Best Narrative and Best Visual Design, while Doug Cockle, the voice actor for Geralt, received Best Game Performance. According to the article's statistics, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt has now directly won 10 Golden Joystick Awards; if using the methodology adopted by Guinness World Records, which includes CD Projekt Red's Studio of the Year awards from 2015 and 2016, the total rises to 12.
This achievement keeps it ahead of Baldur's Gate 3 and Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, both of which previously won seven related awards in a single ceremony.