The Game Awards 2025 winners, announcements & trailers

All winners from The Game Awards 2025 and every trailer, announcement, world premiere, and more.

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The Game Awards 2025 is underway (or already finished, depending on when you read this) and there are a lot of winners to be announced. Beyond recognizing video game developers for their achievements, The Game Awards is also an opportunity to learn about upcoming games. The following article will be updated in real-time with all the trailers, announcements, and winners from The Game Awards 2025. Please take a look.

The Game Awards 2025 nominees & winners

The Game Awards 2025 took place on December 11, 2025. This show is about recognizing the achievements of video game developers and industry professionals across an array of categories. Below are all of the categories, the nominees for them, and the winners. Take a look at the winners and announcements from The Game Awards 2024.

Game of the Year winner: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

Source: Sandfall Interactive

Nominees:

  • Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
  • Death Stranding 2: On the Beach
  • Donkey Kong Bananza
  • Hades 2
  • Hollow Knight: Silksong
  • Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2

Best Action Game winner: Hades 2

Source: Supergiant Games

Nominees:

  • Battlefield 6
  • Doom: The Dark Ages
  • Hades 2
  • Ninja Gaiden 4
  • Shinobi: Art of Vengeance

Best Action/Adventure Game winner: Hollow Knight: Silksong

Source: Team Cherry

Nominees:

  • Death Stranding 2: On the Beach
  • Ghost of Yotei
  • Hollow Knight: Silksong
  • Indiana Jones and the Great Circle
  • Split Fiction

Most Anticipated Game winner: Grand Theft Auto VI

Source: Rockstar Games

Nominees:

  • 007 First Light
  • Grand Theft Auto 6
  • Marvel's Wolverine
  • Resident Evil Requiem
  • The Witcher 4

Best Adaptation winner: The Last of Us: Season 2

Source: Naughty Dog / HBO

Nominees:

  • A Minecraft Movie
  • Devil May Cry
  • Splinter Cell: Deathwatch
  • The Last of Us Season 2
  • Until Dawn

Best Art Direction winner: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

Source: Sandfall Interactive

Nominees:

  • Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
  • Death Stranding 2: On the Beach
  • Ghost of Yotei
  • Hades 2
  • Hollow Knight: Silksong

Best Audio Design winner: Battlefield 6

Source: EA

Nominees:

  • Battlefield 6
  • Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
  • Death Stranding 2: On the Beach
  • Ghost of Yotei
  • Silent Hill f

Best Community Support winner: Baldur's Gate 3

Source: Larian Studios

Nominees:

  • Baldur's Gate 3
  • Final Fantasy 14
  • Fortnite
  • Helldivers 2
  • No Man's Sky

Content Creator of the Year winner: Moistcr1tikal

Source: MoistCr1tikal

Nominees:

  • Caedrel
  • Kai Cenat
  • MoistCr1tikal
  • Sakura Miko
  • The Burnt Peanut

Best Debut Indie Game winner: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

Source: Sandfall Interactive

Nominees:

  • Blue Prince
  • Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
  • Despelote
  • Dispatch
  • Megabonk

Best Esports Game winner: Counter-Strike 2

Source: Valve

Nominees:

  • Counter-Strike 2
  • DOTA 2
  • League of Legends
  • Mobile Legends Bang Bang
  • Valorant

Best Esports Athlete winner: Chovy

Source: EPSN

Nominees:

  • Brock "brawk" Somerhalder (NRG)
  • Jeong "Chovy" Ji-hoon (Gen.G)
  • Jason "f0rsakeN" Susanto (Paper Rex)
  • Kakeru Watanabe (Zeta Division)
  • Saul Leonardo "MenaRD" Mena II (Red Bull Esports)
  • Mathieu "ZywOo" Herbaut (Team Vitality)

Best Esports Team winner: Team Vitality

Source: Team Vitality

Nominees:

  • G (League of Legends)
  • NRG (Valorant)
  • Team Falcons (DOTA 2)
  • Team Liquid PH (Mobile Legends Bang Bang)
  • Team Vitality (Counter-Strike 2)

Best Family Game winner: Donkey Kong Bananza

Source: Nintendo

Nominees:

  • Donkey Kong Bananza
  • LEGO Party
  • LEGO Voyagers
  • Mario Kart World
  • Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds
  • Split Fiction

Best Fighting Game winner: Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves

Source: SNK

Nominees:

  • 2XKO
  • Capcom Fighting Collection 2
  • Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves
  • Mortal Kombat Legacy Kollection
  • Virtua Fighter 5 REVO World Stage

Best Game Direction winner: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

Source: Sandfall Interactive

Nominees:

  • Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
  • Death Stranding 2: On the Beach
  • Ghost of Yotei
  • Hades 2
  • Split Fiction

Games for Impact winner: South of Midnight

Source: Compulsion Games

Nominees:

  • Consume Me
  • Despelote
  • Lost Records: Bloom & Rage
  • South of Midnight
  • Wanderstop

Best Indie Game winner: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

Nominees:

  • Absolum
  • Ball x Pit
  • Blue Prince
  • Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
  • Hades 2
  • Hollow Knight: Silksong

Innovation in Accessibility winner: Doom: The Dark Ages

Source: id Software

Nominees:

  • Assassin's Creed Shadows
  • Atomfall
  • Doom: The Dark Ages
  • EA Sports FC26
  • South of Midnight

Best Mobile Game winner: Umamusume: Pretty Derby

Source: Cygames, Inc.

Nominees:

  • Destiny Rising
  • Persona 5: The Phantom X
  • Sonic Rumble
  • Umamusume: Pretty Derby
  • Wuthering Waves

Best Multiplayer Game winner: ARC Raiders

Source: Embark Studios

Nominees:

  • ARC Raiders
  • Battlefield 6
  • Elden Ring Nightreign
  • Peak
  • Split Fiction

Best Narrative winner: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

Source: Sandfall Interactive

Nominees:

  • Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
  • Death Stranding 2: On the Beach
  • Ghost of Yotei
  • Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2
  • Silent Hill f

Best Ongoing Game winner: No Man's Sky

Source: Hello Games

Nominees:

  • Final Fantasy 14
  • Fortnite
  • Helldivers 2
  • Marvel Rivals
  • No Man's Sky

Best Performance winner: Jennifer English as Maelle

Source: Sandfall Interactive

Nominees:

  • Ben Starr as Verso (Clair Obscur: Expedition 33)
  • Charlie Cox as Gustave (Clair Obscur: Expedition 33)
  • Erika Ishii as Atsu (Ghost of Yotei)
  • Jennifer English as Maelle (Clair Obscur: Expedition 33)
  • Konatsu Kato as Shimizu Hinako (Silent Hill f)
  • Troy Baker as Indiana Jones (Indiana Jones and the Great Circle)

Best Role-Playing Game winner: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

Source: Sandfall Interactive

Nominees:

  • Avowed
  • Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
  • Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2
  • Monster Hunter Wilds
  • The Outer Worlds 2

Best Score and Music winner: Lorien Testard (Clair Obscur: Expedition 33)

Source: Sandfall Interactive

Nominees:

  • Christopher Larkin (Hollow Knight: Silksong)
  • Darren Korb (Hades 2)
  • Lorien Testard (Clair Obscur: Expedition 33)
  • Toma Otowa (Ghost of Yotei)
  • Woodkid & Ludvig Forssell (Death Stranding 2: On the Beach)

Best Sports/Racing Game winner: Mario Kart World

Source: Nintendo

Nominees:

  • EA Sports FC26
  • EA Sports F1 25
  • Mario Kart World
  • Rematch
  • Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds

Best Strategy/Sim Game winner: Final Fantasy Tactics - The Ivalice Chronicles

Source: Square Enxi

Nominees:

  • The Alters
  • Final Fantasy Tactics - The Ivalice Chronicles
  • Jurassic World Evolution 3
  • Sid Meier's Civilization 7
  • Tempest Rising
  • Two Point Museum

Best VR/AR Game winner: The Midnight Walk

Source: MoonHood

Nominees:

  • Alien: Rogue Incursion
  • Arken Age
  • Ghost Town
  • Marvel's Deadpool VR
  • The Midnight Walk

Players' Voice winner: Wuthering Waves

Source: Kuro Games

Nominees:

  • Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
  • Dispatch
  • Genshin Impact
  • Hollow Knight: Silksong
  • Wuthering Waves

The Game Awards 2025 announcements

The Game Awards 2025 has a lot of awards to hand out, but it’s also bursting with video game news. Check out some of the highlights from the show, including important information about the games that got revealed.

The Game Awards 2025 trailers

You’ve seen the awards and the news, now get ready for a wave of trailers for all the video games revealed at The Game Awards 2025.

The Free Shephard

Decrepit

Audio Mech

Pragmata

Solasta 2

TankRat

Bradley the Badger

Stupid Never Dies

Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic

Soulframe

John Carpenter's Toxic Commando

Divinity

4:Loop

Coven of the Chicken Foot

Ontos

Angels of Delusion update for ZZZ

Resident Evil Requiem

Order of the Sinking Star

Exodus

Warlock: Dungeons & Dragons

Xbox Game Pass: The Caretaker

Screamer

Control Resonant

Gang of Dragon

Street Fighter movie

LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight

Rust Mobile

Tomb Raider: Catalyst

Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis

Forest 3

Invincible VS

Orbitals

Wuthering Waves 3.0

Diablo 4: Lord of Hatred

Marvel Rivals

007: First Light

Lords of the Fallen 2

Warframe: Wake Up, Tenno

The Seven Deadly Sins: Origin

Saros

No Law

Where Winds Meet: The Imperial Palace

Phasmophobia

Hitman World of Assassination

Total War: Warhammer 40,000

Ace Combat 8: Wings of Theve

Star Wars: Galactic Racer

Out of Words

Duet Night Abyss: The Wind Awakening

Phantom Blade Zero

Mega Man Dual Override

The Super Mario Galaxy Movie

Nioh 3

Solo Leveling: Arise Override

Highguard

That is everything revealed at The Game Awards 2025, from nominees and winners of categories to world premiere game announcements and trailers. The awards season isn’t over, so stay tuned to for the upcoming Shacknews Awards 2025.