Most Role-Playing Game of the Year awards won by a franchise at the D.I.C.E. Awards

At the 25th Annual D.I.C.E. Awards on 24 February 2022, Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker (Square Enix, 2021) – the fourth expansion pack to Final Fantasy XIV – won Role-Playing Game of the Year to give the franchise its fifth award in the category, from 11 nominations. Final Fantasy VII (1998), Final Fantasy VIII (2000), Final Fantasy IX (2001) and Final Fantasy VII Remake (2021) had previously picked up the accolade.

Final Fantasy’s six non-winning D.I.C.E. nominations were for Final Fantasy X (2003), Final Fantasy X-2 (2004), Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles (2005), Final Fantasy III (for the Nintendo DS, 2007), Final Fantasy XII (2007) and Final Fantasy XIV: Shadowbringers (2020). At the 2022 awards in Las Vegas, USA, Endwalker beat Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous (META Publishing), Shin Megami Tensei V (Atlus/Sega/Nintendo), Tales of Arise (Bandai Namco Entertainment) and Wildermyth (Worldwalker Games) to the prize. The Final Fantasy franchise is alone in producing back-to-back Role-Playing Game of the Year winners (2000–01 and 2021–22). The D.I.C.E. [Design, Innovate, Communicate, Entertain] Awards – the videogames industry’s equivalent of the Oscars – have been presented by the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences since 1998.