The game was nominated for Best Gaming Performance ( Brian Bloom ) and Studio of the Year ( MachineGames ) at the 35th Annual Golden Joystick Awards , though it lost both of them to Ashly Burch in '' Horizon Zero Dawn '' ( Best Gaming Performance ) and Nintendo EPD ( Studio of the Year ) . At The Game Awards 2017 , '' Wolfenstein II : The New Colossus '' won the award for " Best Action Game " , whereas its other nominations were for " Best Game Direction " , " Best Narrative " , and " Best Performance " with Brian Bloom . At IGN 's Best of 2017 Awards , '' Wolfenstein II '' won " Best Shooter " and " Best Story " , whereas its other nominations were for " Game of the Year " , " Best PC Game " , " Best Xbox One Game " , " Best PlayStation 4 Game " , and " Best Graphics " . The game was also nominated at '' Destructoid '' s Game of the Year Awards 2017 for " Best Xbox One Game " . In Giant Bomb 's Game of the Year 2017 Awards , Hitler 's audition scene won the award for " Best '' Wolfenstein II '' Moment or Sequence " , while the scene of B.J. 's return home and confronting his father and the following scene of B.J. 's " execution " and return as a super-soldier became runners-up for the award . The website also classified the game as a runner-up each for the " Best Story " and " Game of the Year " awards . The game was also nominated for " Best Action Game " and " Best Story " at '' PC Gamer '' s Game of the Year 2017 Awards . It won the award for " Best Campaign " and " Best Character " for Gen. Irene Engel in '' Game Informer '' s 2017 Shooter of the Year Awards ; it also came in the lead for " Best Shooter " in their Reader 's Choice Best of 2017 Awards . It also won the Herman Melville Award for Best Writing at the New York Game Awards 2018 , whereas its other nominations were for the Big Apple Award for Best Game of the Year , the Tin Pan Alley Award for Best Music in a Game , and the Great White Way Award for Best Acting in a Game with both Brian Bloom and Nina Franoszek . The game was also nominated for " Best Narrative " at the 18th Annual Game Developers Choice Awards , for " Excellence in Gameplay " at the 2018 SXSW Gaming Awards , and for " Narrative " at the 14th British Academy Games Awards , and for " Action ( Games ) " at the 2018 Webby Awards ; in addition , it was nominated for " Outstanding Achievement in Original Music Composition " , " Outstanding Achievement in Story " , and " Action Game of the Year " at the 21st Annual D.I.C.E. Awards ; for " Best Dialogue " , " Best Original Instrumental " ( " Lontano " ) , and " Best Game Audio Article , Publication or Broadcast " with " Scoring Wolfenstein II with the Baschet sonic sculptures " at the 16th Annual Game Audio Network Guild Awards ; and for " Game of the Year " , " Best Narrative " , and " Best Character " for BJ Blaskowicz at the Italian Video Game Awards ; and won the award for " Game , Franchise Action " at the 17th Annual National Academy of Video Game Trade Reviewers Awards
The Game Awards 2017
The Game Awards 2017
Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus