This is a list of winners at the Nickelodeon Kids' Choice for Favorite Video Game, given at the Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards.
Winners and nominees Since the 2020s, The Kids' Choice Award has been won eight times by games in the Just Dance series, and four times by Minecraft.
Winners are listed first, highlighted in and boldface, and indicated with a double dagger ().
1990s Year Video Game 1995 Donkey Kong Country Aladdin NBA Jam 1996 Donkey Kong Country Ms. Pac-Man Tiny Toon Adventures: Buster Busts Loose! X-Men 1997 NBA Jam T.E. Diddy's Kong-Quest Super Mario 64 Toy Story 1998 Super Mario 64 Diddy's Kong-Quest Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island Star Fox 64 1999 Super Mario 64 Crash Bandicoot The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Yoshi's Story
2000s Year Video Game 2000 Pokémon Donkey Kong 64 Mario Party Toy Story 2: Buzz Lightyear to the Rescue 2001 Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 Crash Bash Frogger 2: Swampy's Revenge Pokémon Gold and Silver 2002 Mario Kart: Super Circuit Backyard Basketball Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 2003 SpongeBob SquarePants: Revenge of the Flying Dutchman Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets Mario Party 4 Spider-Man 2004 SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom Finding Nemo Harry Potter: Quidditch World Cup Super Mario Advance 4 2005 Shrek 2 Scooby Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed Shark Tale Spider-Man 2 2006 Madagascar: Operation Penguin The Incredibles: Rise of the Underminer Madden NFL 06 Mario Superstar Baseball 2007 SpongeBob SquarePants: Creature from the Krusty Krab Madden NFL 07 Mario Kart DS New Super Mario Bros. 2008 Madden NFL 08 Dance Dance Revolution: Hottest Party Guitar Hero III High School Musical: Sing It! 2009 Guitar Hero World Tour Mario Kart Wii Mario Super Sluggers Rock Band 2
2010s Year Video Game 2010 Mario Kart Wii The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks Wii Fit Wii Sports Resort 2011 Just Dance 2 Mario vs. Donkey Kong: Mini-Land Mayhem! Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit Super Mario Galaxy 2 2012 Just Dance 3 Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga Mario Kart 7 Super Mario Galaxy 2013 Just Dance 4 Mario Kart 7 Skylanders Giants Wii Sports 2014 Just Dance 2014 Angry Birds Star Wars Disney Infinity Minecraft 2015 Minecraft Angry Birds TransformersCandy Crush SagaDisney Infinity 2.0Mario Kart 8Skylanders: Trap Team 2016 Just Dance 2016 Disney Infinity 3.0Minecraft: Story ModeSkylanders: SuperChargersSpongeBob HeroPantsSuper Mario Maker 2017 Just Dance 2017 Lego Marvel's AvengersLego Star Wars: The Force AwakensMinecraft: Story ModePaper Mario: Color SplashPokémon Sun and Moon 2018 Just Dance 2018 Lego Marvel Super Heroes 2Mario Kart 8 DeluxeMinecraft: Java EditionStar Wars Battlefront IISuper Mario Odyssey 2019 Just Dance 2019 Lego The IncrediblesMarvel's Spider-ManSuper Smash Bros. UltimateSuper Mario Party
2020s Year Video Game 2020 Minecraft FortniteMario Kart TourSuper Smash Bros. Ultimate 2021 Among Us Animal Crossing: New HorizonsFortniteMinecraftPokémon GoRoblox 2022 Minecraft BrookhavenJust Dance 2022Mario Party Superstars 2023 Minecraft Adopt Me!BrookhavenJust Dance 2023Mario + Rabbids Sparks of HopePokémon Scarlet and Violet 2024 Roblox Just Dance 2024Madden NFL 24MinecraftSuper Mario Bros. WonderThe Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom 2025 Roblox Fortnite Just Dance 2025 Edition Madden NFL 25 Minecraft Super Mario Party Jamboree
Favorite App "Favorite App" was a category for popular mobile games. It existed in 2013 and 2014 before it was merged into "Favorite Video Game" (renamed Most Addicting Game for one year) in 2015. Year App 2013 Temple Run Angry BirdsFruit NinjaMinecraft 2014 Despicable Me: Minion Rush Angry Birds Star Wars IICandy Crush SagaTemple Run
Multiple nominations and awards During the early years of the category, nominated games did not have to be from the year before the ceremony to be nominated, and often games that had already been nominated or won the award in years past could be re-nominated. Super Mario 64, for example, was nominated in the category three years in a row (1997, 1998 and 1999), winning in the latter two years. From 2000 onwards, games had to be released the year before the ceremony to be eligible for nomination, but this has been loosened in recent years for Minecraft and Roblox.
As of the 2024 ceremony, Minecraft holds the record for most wins in the category for a single game, at 4. The game's wins occurred in 2015 (when the category was known as "Most Addicting Game"), 2020, 2022 and 2023. Minecraft, Donkey Kong Country (in the award's first two years) and Super Mario 64 are the only games to have won the award in consecutive years. Minecraft has also been nominated for Favorite Video Game in 2014, 2015 and every year since 2020; the main game was also nominated for Favorite Mobile Game in 2013. Minecraft: Story Mode was nominated in place of the main game in 2016 and 2017, while the Java version of the game was nominated separately in 2018.
The Just Dance series of games has won the category a record total of 8 times from 2011 to 2014 and 2016 to 2019, winning every edition in which a Just Dance game was nominated during that span. The series was also nominated from 2022 to 2025, for a total of 11 nominations.
Roblox, as a game development platform, has had its games nominated separately in lieu of the platform as a whole. Brookhaven RP was nominated in 2022 and 2023, with Adopt Me! also nominated in the latter year, marking the only time that two games from the same platform were nominated for Favorite Video Game.
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