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NEWS
ABOUT
Meet the team who help The Horror Game Awards celebrate the best horror games and the developers that make them.
WHO’S INVOLVED?
Check out the group of fantastic horror content creators and fans who make up our jury and presenters.
HOW IT WORKS
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The Horror Game Awards 2026 airs LIVE at 11am PT/2pm ET/7pm GMT on Friday 20th November
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The show will be broadcast live from 26 Leake Street, Waterloo, London and streamed across all of our platforms.
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We have convened a jury of content creators for the majority of categories, a specialist jury for our accessibility category, a jury of developers for our Technical Achievement and Lifetime Achievement categories, and a critics jury for our Critics Choice category.
For the majority of categories, each member of the relevant jury will make a nomination for that category. Those nominations then go out to a public vote in at the start of November, with the top three comprising the finalists for that category. The jury then picks a winner from the finalists through a preference vote.
The Horror Game Awards hosts and presenters are not on the jury and do not get a vote in the process.
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The Players’ Choice and Content Creator of the Year are awards nominated voted for entirely by the public. The process, which, sees 30 nominees whittled down to 5 finalists, began with open nominations in October.
The final round of voting for these two awards will take place alongside the public vote for all of the other awards categories.
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Each year, we review our jury to see if we need to fill any additional roles, so there may be opportunities to join. However, there is no formal application process and it is subject to the needs of the show.
If you are interested in being involved, feel free to reach out so that we can keep you under consideration. However, this does not come with guarantees as the role is one that attracts an extremely high amount of interest.
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Games (and other media) nominated for a 2026 Horror Game Award must:
Release between 27 November 2025 and 26 October 2026, OR
Have a major port/re-release between those dates that makes it more widely accessible.
The only exceptions to this are the Most Anticipated Horror Game and Best Ongoing Horror Game
Developers nominated for a 2026 Horror Game Award must:
Have released a game between 27 November 2025 and 26 October 2026, OR
Have a major port/re-release between those dates that makes it more widely accessible.
The only exception to this is the Lifetime Achievement Award
Nominated games must, to the best of the jury and production team’s knowledge, not have been made using generative AI.
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Members of our jury will consider games that they are aware of and have played.
Developers or publishers may opt to send jurors copies of their game in order to encourage them to consider it, and we make the jury public for this very reason – allowing especially smaller developers to ensure their game is seen.
However, there is no formal submission process for the awards and it remains a decision for the individual juror to take on which games they nominate based upon their own opinions and preferences.
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The jury must make all their nominations by Wednesday 28 October ready for the official nomination announcement on Friday 31 October.
Games released too late for consideration by the jury can be considered for The Horror Game Awards 2027.
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Yes you can! Apply to be an Official Co-Streamer and:
Receive an OFFICIAL Horror Game Awards brand pack of assets for your stream and social media.
Receive the FULL LIST of featured trailers with links straight after the show of the showcase to share with your community.
Apply by filling in this form.
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No! The Horror Game Awards does not use generative AI in anything we create. We create for ourselves or hire people to do it, on a good faith basis that no generative AI will be used.
We don't want to see generative AI in the games industry as a way to replace jobs the same way we don't want layoffs. Games are art, art is made by people, and we want the people to continue making the art we enjoy and being able to feed and house themselves in the process.