With all the reveals, leaks and drama that surround The Game Awards, it’s easy to forget about the actual winners themselves. Luckily for you, as well as tracking every big game reveal, announcement and trailer from the show, we’ll updating this page in real time as the winners of The Game Awards 2025 are announced.
Can anything beat Grand Theft Auto 6 for the Most Anticipated Game trophy? Will Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 take home Game of the Year? Will muppets somehow be involved in the show again this year? Does the appearance of Evanescence as the live musical act mean Geoff Keighley was a teen goth? Expect answers to some of those questions right here, as they happen.
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The Nominees
Game of the Year
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33Death Stranding 2: On the BeachDonkey Kong BananzaHades IIHollow Knight: SilksongKingdom Come: Deliverance II
Best Game Direction
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33Death Stranding 2: On The BeachGhost of YōteiHades IISplit Fiction
Best Adaptation
A Minecraft MovieDevil May CryThe Last of Us: Season 2Splinter Cell: DeathwatchUntil Dawn
Best Narrative
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33Death Stranding 2: On The BeachGhost of YōteiKingdom Come: Deliverance IISilent Hill f
Best Art Direction
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33Death Stranding 2: On The BeachGhost of YōteiHades IIHollow Knight: Silksong
Best Score And Music
Hollow Knight: SilksongHades IIClair Obscur: Expedition 33Ghost of YōteiDeath Stranding 2: On the Beach
Best Audio Design
Battlefield 6Clair Obscur: Expedition 33Death Stranding 2: On the BeachGhost of YōteiSilent Hill f
Best Performance
Ben Starr (Expedition 33)Charlie Cox (Expedition 33)Erika Ishii (Ghost of Yotei)Jennifer English (Expedition 33)Konatsu Kato (Silent Hill f)Troy Baker (Indiana Jones and the Great Circle)
Innovation In Accessibility
Assassin’s Creed ShadowsAtomfallDoom: The Dark AgesEA Sports FC 26South of Midnight
Games for Impact
Consume MeDespeloteLost Records: Bloom & RageSouth of MidnightWanderstop
Best Ongoing Game
Final Fantasy XIVFortniteHelldivers 2Marvel RivalsNo Man’s Sky
Best Community Support
Baldur’s Gate 3Final Fantasy XIVFortniteHelldivers 2No Man’s Sky
Best Independent Game
AbsolumBall x PitBlue PrinceClair Obscur: Expedition 33Hades IIHollow Knight: Silksong
Best Debut Indie Game
Blue PrinceClair Obscur: Expedition 33DespeloteDispatch
Best Mobile Game
Destiny: RisingPersona 5: The Phantom XSonic RumbleUmamusume: Pretty DerbyWuthering Waves
Best VR/AR Game
Alien: Rogue IncursionArken AgeGhost TownMarvel’s Deadpool VRThe Midnight Walk
Best Action Game
Battlefield 6Doom: The Dark AgesHades IINinja Gaiden 4Shinobi: Art of Vengeance
Best Action Adventure Game
Death Stranding 2: On the BeachGhost of YōteiIndiana Jones and the Great CircleHollow Knight: SilksongSplit Fiction
Best RPG
AvowedClair Obscur: Expedition 33Kingdom Come: Deliverance IIThe Outer Worlds 2Monster Hunter Wilds
Best Fighting Game
2XKOCapcom Fighting Collection 2Fatal Fury: City of the WolvesMortal Kombat: Legacy KollectionVirtua Fighter 5 R.E.V.O. World Stage
Best Family Game
Donkey Kong BananzaLEGO Party!LEGO VoyagersMario Kart WorldSonic Racing: CrossWorldsSplit Fiction
Best Sim/Strategy Game
The AltersFINAL FANTASY TACTICS – The Ivalice ChroniclesJurassic World Evolution 3Sid Meier’s Civilization VIITempest RisingTwo Point Museum
Best Sports/Racing
EA Sports FC 26F1 25Mario Kart WorldRematchSonic Racing: CrossWorlds
Best Multiplayer
Arc RaidersBattlefield 6Elden Ring NightreignPeakSplit Fiction
Most Anticipated Game
007 First LightGrand Theft Auto VIMarvel’s WolverineResident Evil RequiemThe Witcher IV
Content Creator of the Year
CaedrelKai CenatMoistCr1TiKaLSakura MikoThe Burnt Peanut
Best Esports Game
Counter-Strike 2Dota 2League of LegendsMobile Legends: Bang BangValorant
Best Esports Athlete
brawkChovyf0rsakeNKakeruMenaRDZyw0o
Best Esports Team
Gen.G – League of LegendsNRG – ValorantTeam Falcons – DOTA 2Team Liquid PH – Mobile Legends: Bang BangTeam Vitality – Counter-Strike 2
Players’ Voice
Expedition 33DispatchGenshin ImpactHollow Knight: SilksongWuthering WavesDeath Stranding 2: On The BeachGhost of YōteiKingdom Come: Deliverance IISilent Hill f
Rachel Weber is the Senior Editorial Director of Games at IGN and an elder millennial. She’s been a professional nerd since 2006 when she got her start on Official PlayStation Magazine in the UK, and has since worked for GamesIndustry.Biz, Rolling Stone and GamesRadar. She loves horror, horror movies, horror games, and French Bulldogs. Those extra wrinkles on her face are thanks to going time blind and staying up too late finishing every sidequest in RPGs like Fallout and Witcher 3.
