Every Winner At The Game Awards 2025

The Game Awards are an annual event honouring the best games of the year, and 2025's line-up was dominated by one title: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. With a whopping 13 nominations and 9 wins, it was the most lauded game in the history of the event, and the only one to win more than one award on the night.

The full list of categories, nominees and winners are below, along with the full video of the night's event.

Game of the Year

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 – Winner

Death Stranding 2: On the Beach

Donkey Kong Bananza

Hades II

Hollow Knight: Silksong

Kingdom Come: Deliverance II

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Best Game Direction

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 – Winner

Death Stranding 2: On the Beach

Ghost of Yōtei

Hades II

Split Fiction

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Best Narrative

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 – Winner

Death Stranding 2: On the Beach

Ghost of Yōtei

Kingdom Come: Deliverance II

Silent Hill f

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Best Art Direction

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 – Winner

Death Stranding 2: On the Beach

Ghost of Yōtei

Hades II

Hollow Knight: Silksong

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Best Score and Music

Christopher Larkin, Hollow Knight: Silksong

Darren Korb, Hades II

Lorien Testard, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 – Winner

Toma Otowa, Ghost of Yōtei

Woodkid and Ludvig Forssell, Death Stranding 2: On the Beach

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Best Audio Design

Battlefield 6 – Winner

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

Death Stranding 2: On the Beach

Ghost of Yōtei

Silent Hill f

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Best Performance

Ben Starr as Verso, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

Charlie Cox as Gustave, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

Erika Ishii as Atsu, Ghost of Yōtei

Jennifer English as Maelle, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 – Winner

Konatsu Kato as Hinako Shimizu, Silent Hill f

Troy Baker as Indiana Jones, Indiana Jones and the Great Circle

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Innovation in Accessibility

Assassin’s Creed Shadows

Atomfall

Doom: The Dark Ages – Winner

EA Sports FC 26

South of Midnight

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Games for Impact

Consume Me

Despelote

Lost Records: Bloom & Rage

South of Midnight – Winner

Wanderstop

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Best Ongoing Game

Final Fantasy XIV

Fortnite

Helldivers 2

Marvel Rivals

No Man’s Sky – Winner

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Best Community Support

Baldur’s Gate 3 – Winner

Final Fantasy XIV

Fortnite

Helldivers 2

No Man’s Sky

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Best Independent Game

Absolum

Ball x Pit

Blue Prince

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 – Winner

Hades II

Hollow Knight: Silksong

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Best Debut Indie Game

Blue Prince

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 – Winner

Despelote

Dispatch

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Best Mobile Game

Destiny: Rising

Persona 5: The Phantom X

Sonic Rumble

Umamusume: Pretty Derby – Winner

Wuthering Waves

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Best VR/AR

Alien: Rogue Incursion

Arken Age

Ghost Town

Marvel’s Deadpool VR

The Midnight Walk – Winner

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Best Action Game

Battlefield 6

Doom: The Dark Ages

Hades II – Winner

Ninja Gaiden 4

Shinobi: Art of Vengeance

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Best Action/Adventure

Death Stranding 2: On the Beach

Ghost of Yōtei

Hollow Knight: Silksong – Winner

Indiana Jones and the Great Circle

Split Fiction

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Best Role Playing Game

Avowed

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 – Winner

Kingdom Come: Deliverance II

Monster Hunter Wilds

The Outer Worlds 2

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Best Fighting Game

2XKO

Capcom Fighting Collection 2

Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves - Winner

Mortal Kombat: Legacy Kollection

Virtua Fighter 5 REVO World Stage

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Best Family Game

Donkey Kong Bananza – Winner

Lego Party!

Lego Voyagers

Mario Kart World

Sonic Racing: Crossworlds

Split Fiction

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Best Sim/Strategy Game

Final Fantasy Tactics – The Ivalice Chronicles – Winner

Jurassic World Evolution 3

Sid Meier’s Civilization VII

Tempest Rising

The Alters

Two Point Museum

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Best Sports/Racing Game

EA Sports FC 26

F1 25

Mario Kart World – Winner

Rematch

Sonic Racing: Crossworlds

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Best Multiplayer Game

Arc Raiders – Winner

Battlefield 6

Elden Ring Nightreign

Peak

Split Fiction

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Best Adaptation

A Minecraft Movie

Devil May Cry

Splinter Cell: Deathwatch

The Last of Us: Season 2 – Winner

Until Dawn

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Most Anticipated Game

007 First Light

Grand Theft Auto VI – Winner

Marvel’s Wolverine

Resident Evil Requiem

The Witcher IV

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Content Creator of the Year

Caedrel

Kai Cenat

MoistCr1TiKaL – Winner

Sakura Miko

The Burnt Peanut

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Best Esports Game

Counter-Strike 2 – Winner

Dota 2

League of Legends

Mobile Legends: Bang Bang

Valorant

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Best Esports Athlete

Brock "brawk" Somerhalder (Valorant)

Jung "Chovy" Ji-hoon (League of Legends) - Winner

Jason "f0rsakeN" Susanto (Valorant)

Kakeru "Kakeru" Watanabe (Street Fighter)

Mathieu "ZywOo" Herbaut (Counter-Strike 2)

Saul "MenaRD" Leonardo (Street Fighter)

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Best Esports Team

Gen.G

NRG

Team Falcons

Team Liquid PH

Team Vitality – Winner

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Players’ Voice

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

Dispatch

Genshin Impact

Hollow Knight: Silksong

Wuthering Waves – Winner

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The Game Changer Award

Girls Make Games - Winner