CarChris: Best Raunchy Game 2022:
Doki Doki Literature Club (freeware, and not on GOG, but nevertheless a game that everyone should play)

pippin15: Where's the raunchy on DDLC, though? I think they meant games like Huniepop or Rance with that.

Ancient-Red-Dragon: I would like to vote for None as the answer for GOG GOTY 2022. I mean that sincerely; if None is not a category, then I think it deserves to be made into one.

Shadow of War could have been GOG GOTY 2022, but it's GOG release was botched due to missing Achievements.

Skyrim also could have been GOG GOTY 2022, but it's release was also botched by the way of how the GOG version uses a different version number to the Steam version, thus ensuring that many or most mods will forever be incompatible with the GOG version.

Furthermore, I feel the descriptions as given in the OP are overly-broad and do not take into account problematic nuances such as the ones I've just described.

For example, the OP says "the community's favorite games based solely on their release date on GOG" but that kind of statement makes no accommodation as to the question of whether or not those games were botched releases.

Just because a game has been released on GOG in 2022, that doesn't necessarily mean the release has been a non-botched one. Thus, the conclusion does not necessarily follow that a good game released on GOG is still good after it's gone through the botchings it's received on GOG.

As an illustration of that: say my favorite game is Skyrim with the most popular & most downloaded collection of mods available on the NexusMods website installed with it.

But I cannot translate that into "Skyrim is my favorite release on GOG in 2022," since that massively popular mod collection that I just mentioned does not work with the GOG version, and probably never will.

So, for the reasons I've described in this post, I propose that this poll should be modified to accommodate "None" votes, or "protest votes," or something along those lines.

With how the poll is currently worded, IMO the questions are loaded questions, because they are implicitly assuming (quite incorrectly so IMO) that all games released on GOG are problem-free good versions of those games that all GOG customers are happy with solely because GOG released some form of those games, and that the GOG release version is equivalent to the same game's release on other platforms even though often it is not.

Note: I mean no disrespect at all to Alexim with the criticisms of the poll structure that I've given in this post. I know he means well and in fact he has often advocated in favor of resolving many of the issues I've brought up in this post.

teshra: One explanation maybe is a lot of us who look at the forums don't play brand new games?

teshra: Just my 2c and regardless of the number of votes, thanks for the thread!