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The 16th Unity Awards
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Games winners

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Best Desktop/Console Game

Winner: Super Mario RPG by Nintendo

Runners Up:

  • El Paso, Elsewhere | Strange Scaffold
  • Lorelei and the Laser Eyes | Simogo, Annapurna Interactive
  • Crow Country | SFB Games
  • Chants of Sennaar | Rundisc, Focus Entertainment
  • Super Monkey Ball Banana Rumble | SEGA
  • Uncover the Smoking Gun | ReLu Games
  • SANABI | WONDER POTION, NEOWIZ
Hello Kitty Island Adventure
Best Mobile Game

Winner: Hello Kitty Island Adventure by Sunblink

Runners Up:

  • Ridiculous Fishing: EX | KO_OP, Vlambeer
  • THE IDOLM@STER Gakuen | Bandai Namco Entertainment
  • Jujutsu Kaisen Phantom Parade | Sumzap, Inc., TOHO CO., LTD.
  • FINAL FANTASY VII EVER CRISIS | Square Enix
  • CookieRun: Tower of Adventures | OvenGames
  • Dungeon & Fighter Mobile | NEOPLE Inc.
  • Ares: Rise of Guardians | Second Dive
Assassin's Creed Nexus VR
Best AR/VR Game

Winner: Assassin's Creed Nexus VR by Red Storm Entertainment | Ubisoft

Runners Up:

  • Demeo Battle | Resolution Games
  • Arizona Sunshine® 2 | Vertigo Games
  • I Expect You To Die 3: Cog in the Machine | Schell Games
  • Samba de Amigo: Virtual Party | SEGA
  • Spectral Scream | STOIC Ent.
  • All-In-One Summer Sports VR | Appnori Inc.
Party Animals
Best Multiplayer Game

Winner: Party Animals by Recreate Games

Runners Up:

  • V Rising | Stunlock Studios
  • Content Warning | Skog, Zorro, Wilnyl, Philip, thePetHen
  • Wizard With a Gun | Galvanic Games, Devolver Digital
  • Sonic Superstars | SEGA
  • Momotaro Dentetsu World | Konami Digital Entertainment Co., Ltd.
  • Lord Nine | NX3GAMES
  • Eternal Return | Nimble Neuron
Cat Garden
Best 2D Visuals

Winner: Cat Garden by msgsquare | DAERI SOFT

Runners Up:

  • Ultros | Hadoque, Kepler Interactive
  • Paper Trail | Newfangled Games
  • Hauntii | Moonloop Games LLC, Firestoke
  • Sea of Stars | Sabotage Studio
  • Ninja or Die: Shadow of the Sun | Nao Games
  • Momotaro Dentetsu World | Konami Digital Entertainment Co., Ltd.
  • Lucky Defense! | 111%
Prince of Persia
Best 3D Visuals

Winner: Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown by Ubisoft Montpellier

Runners Up:

  • No Rest for the Wicked | Moon Studios GmbH, Private Division
  • 1000xRESIST | sunset visitor 斜陽過客, Fellow Traveller
  • Harold Halibut | Slow Bros.
  • THE IDOLM@STER Gakuen | Bandai Namco Entertainment
  • TENSEI | NEURON・AGE/ ProjectPegasus
  • Solo Leveling:ARISE | Netmarble (Netmarble Neo)
  • Ares : Rise of Guardians | Second Dive
Hollow Knight
Most Anticipated Game

Winner: Hollow Knight: Silksong by Team Cherry

Runners Up:

  • Jump Ship | Keepsake Games
  • Projekt Z: Beyond Order | 314 Arts, Maximum Entertainment
  • Morbid Metal | SCREEN JUICE
  • Fight Crab 2 | Calappa Games
  • Brazen Blaze | MyDearest Inc.
  • Goodbye Seoul | JINO Games, NEOWIZ
  • Demis Re:Born | Netmarble (Netmarble F&C)
COCOON
The Golden Cube

Winner: COCOON by Geometric Interactive | Annapurna Interactive

Runners Up:

  • Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown | Ubisoft Montpellier
  • V Rising | Stunlock Studios
  • Sons of the Forest | Endnight
  • THE IDOLM@STER Gakuen | Bandai Namco Entertainment
  • Pokémon Sleep | The Pokémon Company
  • Lord Nine | NX3GAMES
  • Solo Leveling:ARISE | Netmarble (Netmarble Neo)

Asset Store winners

NatureManufacture
Asset Store Publisher of the Year

Winner: NatureManufacture

Runners Up:

  • Gabriel Aguiar Prod
  • Kay Lousbergg
  • KINEMATION
  • Magica Soft
  • Enox Software
  • polyperfect
  • OccaSoftware
Gaia Pro
Best Development Tool

Winner: Gaia Pro 2023 - Terrain & Scene Generator by Procedural Worlds

Runners Up:

  • Agents Navigation - Crowds | Lukas Chodosevicius
  • Legs Animator | Impossible Creations
  • Behavior 2 | Game Creator 2 | Catsoft Works
  • Utage 4 for Unity Text Adventure Game Engine Version4 | MadnessLabo
  • Logic Toolkit | cait sith ware
  • Asset Inventory 2 | Impossible Robert
COZY
Best Artistic Tool

Winner: COZY: Stylized Weather 3 by Distant Lands

Runners Up:

  • Retarget Pro | KINEMATION
  • Foliage Renderer | Jason Booth
  • Crest Water 5 (Oceans, Rivers, Lakes) | Wave Harmonic
  • Weatherade: Snow and Rain System | NOT_Lonely
  • Easy Custom VFX | Yu-Rin-Chi GameStudio
  • UModeler X | UModeler, Inc.
  • Umbra Soft Shadows - Better Directional & Contact Shadows for URP | Kronnect
StylizedNature
Best Artistic Content

Winner: Stylized Nature (Nature, Forest, Stylized Forest, Forest Pack, Nature Pack) by Hivemind

Runners Up:

  • 2D Mega Game Assets All-In-One | ElvGames
  • Grasslands - Stylized Nature | Raygeas
  • Monster Collection #2 - 20 Fantasy / RPG / FPS Customizable
  • Monsters | Infinity PBR / Magic Pig Games
  • Fantasy Backgrounds Mega Pack | Moon Tribe
  • KAWAII ANIMATIONS 100 | FUDASTORE
  • Modular Castle & Dungeon | Hivemind
  • Epic RPG World Collection | RafaelMatos

Community winners

Samyam
Best Devlog Series

Winner: Samyam

Runners Up:

  • AIA
  • Sasquatch B Studio
  • Luke Muscat
  • Kan Kikuchi
  • FrameSynthesis
  • NK Studio's UNity Special Techniques
Code Monkey
Best Tutorial Series

Winner: Code Monkey

Runners Up:

  • Coco Code
  • Dilmer Valecillos
  • Git-Amend
  • STYLY Learning Material
  • Goldmetal
Game Dev Show
Best Livestreamer

Winner: The Game Dev Show

Feat. Jason Weimann, Jason Storey, David Green, Pawel Homenko, and Greg Bradburn

Runners Up:

  • AIA
  • Lana Lux
  • Turbo Makes Games
  • Ko-ji
  • Doctor Go's Unity Note

Industry winners

MassVirtual
Best Training Application

Winner: Virtual Hangar by Mass Virtual

Runners Up:

  • Harwich Haven Authority port simulator | HR Wallingford
  • Osso Enterprise | Osso VR
  • Crane Simulator | Liebherr
  • Robot System Digital Twin | DENSO WAVE
  • Virtual Welding Training | ImaCreate Co., Ltd., / KOBELCO E&M Co., Ltd.
  • VR Nuclear Facility Security Inspection | Gleam systems
Mercedes
Best Embedded System Project

Winner: MB.OS by Mercedes

Runners Up:

  • Lanebreak | Peloton
  • TomTom Premium Map Display | TomTom
  • XR DRONE PROJECT/空撮映像への3Dモデル重畳技術の開発 | HoloLab Inc.
  • OPERA | Public Works Research Institution
  • Self-Service Photo Booth | Seobuk
Kohler
Most Innovative Customer Experience

Winner: AR Tryout by Kohler

Runners Up:

  • Tequila Don Julio | Trigger XR
  • Virtual showroom | Bosch
  • Remote Inspections of Under-Construction Buildings in the Metaverse | SHIMIZU CORPORATION
  • METAPA | TOPPAN
  • FEX(Factory Emulator for XMS) | DAIM Research
H-Meta
Innovation Award

Winner: H-Meta: Automation of VWMS 3D Logistics Operation/Measurement Technologics based on Meta Factory Environment by Hyundai Motor Company

Runners Up:

  • Harwich Haven Authority port simulator | HR Wallingford
  • AR Tryout | Kohler
  • 3D Digital Venue | Mobile Media Content
  • CONNECTIA | Obayashi Corporation
  • ROBOCROSS | Kawasaki Heavy Industry
  • Autonomous simulator | MORAI

Social Impact winners

Werecleaner
Best Student Project

Winner: The WereCleaner by University of Southern California

Runners Up:

  • Project: Haste | Vancouver Film School / São Paolo Studio
  • Basil and the Isles of Spice | Digipen Institute of Technology
  • Good Luck Valley | Rochester Institute of Technology
  • MR. Dog : Mixed Reality Haptic Interaction with Virtual Dog | MR. Dog
  • Transcale | Embodied Media
  • Kona & Snowrabbit | Team Snowrabbit
  • Rauol | GameHighHouse
OriPal
Youth Creators Award

Winner: OriPal by Spes😊Dojo

Runners Up:

  • Just a Mind | Urban Arts
  • The Vanishing Enigma | Urban Arts
  • Cyber Puzzle | West Park High
  • Toads Task | West Park High
  • Plan Diway | JCJS games
CrabGod
Best Social Impact Project

Winner: Crab God by Chaos Theory Games

Runners Up:

  • METASSEM | Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education
  • Sohee | Team Anemone
  • The VR Amblyopia Digital therapeutic for Children | ImaCreate Co., Ltd.
  • The Job Training in prison | ImaCreate Co., Ltd.
  • Amaru: The Self-Care Virtual Pet | Six Wing Studios
  • ARWel | Augment Therapy
  • Headlines and High Water, Field Day | University of Wisconsin-Madison