🎮 The Game Awards 2025
The Game Awards 2025 is an upcoming award show to honor the best video games of 2025. It is set to be the twelfth show hosted by Geoff Keighley, creator and producer of the Game Awards, to be with a live audience at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles on December 11, 2025, and live streamed across online platforms globally. Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 leads the ceremony with twelve nominations, the most in the show's history.
Items in this hypelist
🏆 Game of the Year
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
Sandfall Interactive & Kepler Interactive
Lead the members of Expedition 33 on their quest to destroy the Paintress so that she can never paint death again. Explore a world of wonders inspired by Belle Époque France and battle unique enemies in this turn-based RPG with real-time mechanics.
🏆 Player's Voice
Wuthering Waves
Kuro Games
Wuthering Waves is a story-rich open-world action RPG. You wake from your slumber as Rover, joined by a vibrant cast of Resonators on a journey to reclaim your lost memories and surmount the Lament. The game features fast-paced combat with a variety of mechanics such as Extreme Evasion and Dodge Counter. You can also absorb the remaining of the monsters you've defeated and use their power in battles.
🏆 Best Adaptation
The Last Of Us Season 2
HBO, Playstation
🏆 Best Mobile Game
Umamusume: Pretty Derby - Party Dash
Cygames
Give heed! Our academy's time-honored Spring Fan Fest will play to a very special event! Behold, the Slapdash Grand Prix! Teams will compete in four exhilarating events! Aim for ultimate glory in Hurtling Hurdles, Blazing Baskets, Dodgeball Demolitions, and Gourmet Gauntlet!
🏆 Independent Game
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
Sandfall Interactive & Kepler Interactive
Lead the members of Expedition 33 on their quest to destroy the Paintress so that she can never paint death again. Explore a world of wonders inspired by Belle Époque France and battle unique enemies in this turn-based RPG with real-time mechanics.
🏆 Most Anticipated Game
Grand Theft Auto VI
Rockstar Games
Grand Theft Auto VI heads to the state of Leonida, home to the neon-soaked streets of Vice City and beyond in the biggest, most immersive evolution of the Grand Theft Auto series yet.
🏆 Content Creator of the Year
Cr1TiKaL
Content Creator
🏆 Best Action Game
Hades II
Supergiant Games
Battle beyond the Underworld using dark sorcery to take on the Titan of Time in this bewitching sequel to the award-winning rogue-like dungeon crawler.
🏆 Best Game Direction
Sandfall Interactive
Clair Obscure: Expedition 33
Kepler Interactive
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
🏆 Best Narrative
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
Sandfall Interactive & Kepler Interactive
Lead the members of Expedition 33 on their quest to destroy the Paintress so that she can never paint death again. Explore a world of wonders inspired by Belle Époque France and battle unique enemies in this turn-based RPG with real-time mechanics.
🏆 Best Esports Game
Counter-Strike 2
Valve Corporation
For over two decades, Counter-Strike has offered an elite competitive experience, one shaped by millions of players from across the globe. And now the next chapter in the CS story is about to begin. This is Counter-Strike 2. A free upgrade to CS:GO, Counter-Strike 2 marks the largest technical leap in Counter-Strike’s history. Built on the Source 2 engine, Counter-Strike 2 is modernized with realistic physically-based rendering, state of the art networking, and upgraded Community Workshop tools.
🏆 Best Multiplayer
ARC Raiders
Embark Studios
ARC Raiders is an upcoming multiplayer, extraction adventure, set in a lethal future earth, ravaged by a mysterious mechanized threat known as ARC.
🏆 Best Ongoing Game
No Man's Sky
Hello Games
Inspired by the adventure and imagination that we love from classic science-fiction, No Man's Sky presents you with a galaxy to explore, filled with unique planets and lifeforms, and constant danger and action. In No Man's Sky, every star is the light of a distant sun, each orbited by planets filled with life, and you can go to any of them you choose. Fly smoothly from deep space to planetary surfaces, with no loading screens, and no limits. In this infinite procedurally generated universe, you'll discover places and creatures that no other players have seen before - and perhaps never will again.
🏆 Best Debut Indie Game
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
Sandfall Interactive & Kepler Interactive
Lead the members of Expedition 33 on their quest to destroy the Paintress so that she can never paint death again. Explore a world of wonders inspired by Belle Époque France and battle unique enemies in this turn-based RPG with real-time mechanics.
🏆 Best Art Direction
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
Sandfall Interactive & Kepler Interactive
Lead the members of Expedition 33 on their quest to destroy the Paintress so that she can never paint death again. Explore a world of wonders inspired by Belle Époque France and battle unique enemies in this turn-based RPG with real-time mechanics.
🏆 Best Role Playing Game
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
Sandfall Interactive & Kepler Interactive
Lead the members of Expedition 33 on their quest to destroy the Paintress so that she can never paint death again. Explore a world of wonders inspired by Belle Époque France and battle unique enemies in this turn-based RPG with real-time mechanics.
🏆 Best Audio Design
Battlefield 6
Battlefield Studios, Electronic Arts
The ultimate all-out warfare experience. In a war of tanks, fighter jets, and massive combat arsenals, your squad is the deadliest weapon.
🏆 Best Family Game
Donkey Kong Bananza
Nintendo
Donkey Kong Bananza is coming exclusively to Nintendo Switch 2! Explore a vast underground world—by smashing your way through it! Bash, throw, and climb through just about anything in DK’s brand-new 3D platforming action-adventure game!
🏆 Games For Impact Award
South of Midnight
Compulsion Games, Xbox Game Studios
South of Midnight is a new action-adventure from Compulsion Games. Explore the mythos and confront mysterious creatures of the Deep South in this modern folktale while learning to weave an ancient power to surmount obstacles and face the pain haunting your hometown.
🏆 Best Esports Athlete
Chovy
Esports Athlete
🏆 Best Fighting Game
Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves
SNK
26 years on, a brand-new entry in the Fatal Fury series is set to arrive on the scene! FATAL FURY: City of the Wolves features a unique art style that stimulates the senses and an innovative REV System that supercharges the excitement. Here, at long last, a new legend is about to unfold…
🏆 Best Action/Adventure Game
Hollow Knight: Silksong
Team Cherry
Hollow Knight: Silksong is the epic sequel to Hollow Knight, the epic action-adventure of bugs and heroes. As the lethal hunter Hornet, journey to all-new lands, discover new powers, battle vast hordes of bugs and beasts and uncover ancient secrets tied to your nature and your past.
🏆 Best Community Support
Baldur's Gate III
Larian Studios
An ancient evil has returned to Baldur's Gate, intent on devouring it from the inside out. The fate of Faerun lies in your hands. Alone, you may resist. But together, you can overcome.
🏆 Best Performance
Jennifer English
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
🏆 Best Score & Music
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
Lorien Testard
Lead the members of Expedition 33 on their quest to destroy the Paintress so that she can never paint death again. Explore a world of wonders inspired by Belle Époque France and battle unique enemies in this turn-based RPG with real-time mechanics.
🏆 Best VR/AR Game
The Midnight Walk
MoonHood, Fast Travel Games
Embark upon The Midnight Walk in this reverent dark fantasy adventure built in clay, from the minds behind Lost in Random and Fe. Become The Burnt One, befriend a lost lantern creature named Potboy, and use his flame to light your way through a conflicting world of wonder and horror. Survive and outsmart the many monsters eager to devour your little friend’s flame as you experience five tales of fire and darkness, featuring an incredible cast of odd characters. Marvel at every disturbing detail in a landscape painstakingly handcrafted with real life clay and animated in a stop motion style. Fully playable in both flatscreen and with a VR headset.
🏆 Best Sports/Racing Game
Mario Kart World
Nintendo
Put the pedal to the metal in a vast interconnected environment. Race seamlessly across connected courses like never before. Participate in the new knockout tour elimination mode, where you’ll barrel through back-to-back courses and checkpoints. And in free roam, it’s possible to go off the racetrack and drive in any direction you wish, explore areas that pique your interest and take some photos at scenic spots with a group of friends.
🏆 Best Esports Team
Team Vitality
Esports Team
🏆 Innovation in Accessibility Award

Doom: The Dark Ages
Bethesda Softworks
DOOM: The Dark Ages is the prequel to the critically acclaimed DOOM (2016) and DOOM Eternal that tells the epic cinematic origin story of the DOOM Slayer’s rage. Players will step into the blood-stained boots of the DOOM Slayer, in this never-before-seen dark and sinister medieval war against Hell.
