And to put it in perspective, Her Story won a couple of awards too for some reason and ushered in the age of movie and walker simulations. It's a solid thing (game, movie, whatever you want to call it) but not really goty award worthy.

Hell undertale won a goty against Witcher 3, Metal Gear V, Fallout 4, Bloodborne and Splatoon. Which brings us back to the circle jerk since Witcher 3 kept winning awards against those other three.

There's no real set process for goty expect that some rando likes it and has a mag or site.