The Best Downloadable Game Award recognizes the overall best game released on console or PC platforms specifically and solely for digital download - with an emphasis on smaller, more 'casual'-friendly titles.

9th annual Game Developers Choice Awards (2008)

Recipient

• World Of Goo (2D Boy)

Nominees

• Castle Crashers (The Behemoth)
• Braid (Number None)
• N+ (Metanet/Slick Entertainment)
• PixelJunk Eden (Q-Games)

8th annual Game Developers Choice Awards (2008)

Recipient

• Flow (thatgamecompany / Sony Computer Entertainment)
  - Kellee Santiago, Jenova Chen, Martin Middleton, Hao Cui, John Edwards, Nick Clark

Nominees

• Pac-Man Championship Edition (Namco-Bandai Games)
  - Nobutaka Nakajima
• Everyday Shooter (Queasy Games / Sony Computer Entertainment)
  - Jonathan Mak
• Peggle (PopCap Games)
  - Sukhbir Sidhu, Brian Rothstein, Eric Tams, Walter Wilson
• Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords (Infinite Interactive / D3 Publisher)
  - Steve Fawkner, Janeen Fawkner