The Game Awards has concluded, and Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is the big winner, taking home Game of the Year and nine awards in total.
The last big Game Awards sweep was Baldur’s Gate 3 in 2023, but it only managed to take home six awards that year. Although BG3 did win the Best Community Support award in 2024, and then again this year, so the two RPGs are almost even. (Larian’s next game, Divinity, was also revealed at this year’s show.)
Below are all the nominees and winners from the 2025 Game Awards.
Game of the Year
Death Stranding 2: On the Beach Donkey Kong Bananza Hades 2 Hollow Knight: Silksong Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 [winner]
Best Game Direction
Death Stranding 2: On the BeachGhost of Yōtei Hades 2Split FictionClair Obscur: Expedition 33 [winner]
Best Narrative
Death Stranding 2: On the Beach Ghost of Yōtei Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2Silent Hill f Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 [winner]
Best Art Direction
Death Stranding 2: On the BeachGhost of Yōtei Hades IIHollow Knight: SilksongClair Obscur: Expedition 33 [winner]
Best Score and Music
Death Stranding 2: On the Beach (Woodkid and Ludvig Forssell)Ghost of Yōtei (Toma Otowa)Hades 2 (Darren Korb)Hollow Knight: Silksong (Christopher Larkin)Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Lorien Testard and Alice Duport-Percier) [winner]
Best Audio Design
Death Stranding 2: On the Beach Ghost of Yōtei Silent Hill f Clair Obscur: Expedition 33Battlefield 6 [winner]
Best Performance
Troy Baker as Indiana Jones – Indiana Jones and the Great CircleCharlie Cox as Gustave – Clair Obscur: Expedition 33Erika Ishii as Atsu – Ghost of YōteiKonatsu Kato as Hinako Shimizu – Silent Hill fBen Starr as Verso – Clair Obscur: Expedition 33Jennifer English as Maelle – Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 [winner]
Games for Impact
Consume Me Despelote Lost Records: Bloom & RageWanderstop South of Midnight [winner]
Best Independent Game
Absolum Ball x Pit Blue Prince Hades 2Hollow Knight: Silksong Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 [winner] [yep, another one]
Best Debut Indie Game
Blue PrinceDespelote Dispatch Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 [winner] [this one too]
Best Ongoing Game
Final Fantasy 14 FortniteHelldivers 2Marvel RivalsNo Man’s Sky [winner]
Best Community Support
Final Fantasy 14: Dawntrail Fortnite Helldivers 2 No Man’s Sky Baldur’s Gate 3 [winner]
Best Mobile Game
Destiny: RisingPersona 5: The Phantom X Sonic Rumble Wuthering Waves Umamusume: Pretty Derby [winner]
Best VR/AR
Alien: Rogue Incursion Arken Age Ghost TownMarvel’s Deadpool VRThe Midnight Walk [winner]
Best Action Game
Battlefield 6 Doom: The Dark Ages Ninja Gaiden 4Shinobi: Art of VengeanceHades 2 [winner]
Best Action/Adventure
Death Stranding 2: On the BeachGhost of YōteiIndiana Jones and the Great CircleSplit Fiction Hollow Knight: Silksong [winner]
Best Fighting Game
2XKOCapcom Fighting Collection 2 Mortal Kombat: Legacy KollectionVirtua Fighter 5 R.E.V.O. World Stage Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves [winner]
Best Roleplaying Game
Avowed Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 Monster Hunter Wilds The Outer Worlds 2 Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 [winner] [surely it couldn’t have won another one, you thought, but it did!]
Best Family Game
Lego PartyLego Voyagers Mario Kart WorldSonic Racing: CrossWorlds Split Fiction Donkey Kong Bananza [winner]
Best Sim/Strategy
The Alters Civilization 7Jurassic World Evolution 3 Tempest Rising Two Point Museum Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles [winner]
Best Sports/Racing
EA Sports FC 26F1 25 RematchSonic Racing: CrossWorlds Mario Kart World [winner]
Best Multiplayer Game
Battlefield 6Elden Ring Nightreign PeakSplit Fiction Arc Raiders [winner]
Innovation in Accessibility
Assassin’s Creed Shadows Atomfall EA Sports FC 26South of MidnightDoom: The Dark Ages [winner]
Best Adaptation
A Minecraft Movie Devil May Cry Splinter Cell: Deathwatch Until Dawn The Last of Us season 2 [winner]
Most Anticipated Game
007 First Light Marvel’s Wolverine Resident Evil Requiem The Witcher 4Grand Theft Auto 6 [winner]
Best Esports Game
Dota 2 League of Legends Mobile Legends: Bang Bang Valorant Counter-Strike 2 [winner]
Best Esports Athlete
Brock “brawk” SomerhalderJason “f0rsakeN” SusantoKakeru “Kakeru” WatanabeSaul “MenaRD” LeonardoMathieu “ZywOo” Herbaut Jung “Chovy” Ji-hoon [winner]
Best Esports Team
Gen.G (League of Legends)NRG (Valorant)Team Liquid PH (Mobile Legends: Bang Bang)Team Falcons (Dota 2)Team Vitality (Counter-Strike 2) [winner]
Content Creator of the Year
CaedrelKai CenatSakura MikoThe Burnt PeanutMoistCr1TiKaL [winner]
Players’ Voice
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Dispatch Genshin ImpactHollow Knight: Silksong Wuthering Waves [winner]
