I personally chose Test of time myself , since I ' ve had it since around 2014 and racked up well over 2 , 000 hours in it so far . There ' s plenty of other categories that it might fit into as well , like Just 5 More Minutes which describes me at 5 am or I Thought This Game Was Cool Before It Won An Award for you Early Access and HL 2 Mod players . I think it definitely deserves one but sadly it has some big budget competition to go up against . But on the otherhand . we are one of the more devoted and involved fanbases out there , so those AAA titles might not win if their players just don ' t care enough to vote . I guess we ' ll see what happens ! EDIT I changed my vote for Insurgency from Test of Time to Just 5 More Minutes because I expect CSGO to easily take the first award . I think it has a better chance of winning Just 5 More Minutes . EDIT x 2 Lots of people have faith in I Thought This Game Was Cool Before It Won An Award . Makes sense too since it started as a mod . So I changed mine to this . # Everybody nominate it for I Thought This Game Was Cool Before It Won An Award for best chance of success .