It is, without exception, always difficult to pin down a Game of the Year. Each year there are so many quality titles released, and you could make a case for so many of them to be the “Best of the Best." How the heck do you settle on just one" Well, in the case of Genshin Impact, while I won’t say it was an easy choice to arrive at, I will say that it instantly felt right and deserving of being the Game of the Year for 2020. There is just nothing on mobile that even approaches what Genshin Impact has to offer.
Developer miHoYo’s Genshin Impact is an action adventure game that takes place in a huge open world, and the team behind it has stated that their main source of inspiration was The Legend of Zelda: The Breath of the Wild. Indeed, the games look extremely similar at a glance, and there are a number of systems in Genshin Impact that feel maybe a little TOO close to those in Nintendo’s masterpiece. But, the more you play, the more you realize just how different these two games are from each other, despite sharing a lot of similarities mechanically.
The huge fantasy world you get to explore is unrivaled for a mobile game. However, calling this a “mobile game" isn’t really accurate. Genshin Impact is simply a game that exists, and you can play it on mobile, or on PC, or on PlayStation 4/5 (and likely more platforms in the future) and have just about the exact same experience across all of them, with all your progr...