This is a list of winners at the Nickelodeon Kids' Choice for Favorite Video Game, given at the

Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards The Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards, also known as the KCAs or Kids' Choice, is an American annual awards ceremony show produced by Nickelodeon. Usually held on a Saturday night in March or early April, the show honors the year's biggest in tel ...

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 ''Minecraft'' is a 2011 sandbox game developed and published by the Swedish video game developer Mojang Studios. Originally created by Markus Persson, Markus "Notch" Persson using the Java (programming language), Java programming language, the ...

''. Winners are listed first, highlighted in and boldface, and indicated with a double dagger ().

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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.

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 ''Super Mario 64'' is a platform game developed and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo 64. It was released in Japan and North America in 1996 and PAL regions in 1997. It is the first ''Super Mario'' game to feature 3D gameplay, combini ...

'', 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 ''

'' and ''

Roblox Roblox (, ) is an online game platform and game creation system developed by Roblox Corporation that allows users to program and play games created by themselves or other users. It was created by David Baszucki and Erik Cassel in 200 ...

''. 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 ''Donkey Kong Country'', known in Japan as is a 1994 platform game developed by Rare (company), Rare and published by Nintendo for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES). It is a Reboot (fiction), reboot of Nintendo's ''Donkey Kong'' ...

'' (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 Java is one of the Greater Sunda Islands in Indonesia. It is bordered by the Indian Ocean to the south and the Java Sea (a part of Pacific Ocean) to the north. With a population of 156.9 million people (including Madura) in mid 2024, proje ...

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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