The Game Awards 2025 Every Winner This Year

The Game Awards 2025 celebrated the best in gaming with a night full of surprises, emotional acceptance speeches, and world premieres. Below is a comprehensive recap of every winner, nominee, in order, from the event.

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The Game Awards

• Date: December 11, 2025 / 7:30 PM EST
• Location: Peacock Theater, Los Angeles
• Hosted by: Geoff Keighley

The Game Awards 2025 Winners and Nominees

Best Family Game

• Split Fiction – Hazelight Studios
• Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds – Sega
• Mario Kart World – Nintendo
• LEGO Voyagers – Light Brick Studio
• LEGO Party! – SMG Studio
• Donkey Kong Bananza – Nintendo (Winner)

Innovation In Accessibility

• South of Midnight – Compulsion Games
• EA Sports FC 26 – EA Sports
• Doom: The Dark Ages – id Software (Winner)
• Atomfall – Rebellion Developments
• Assassin’s Creed Shadows – Ubisoft

Best Esports Game

• Valorant – Riot Games
• Mobile Legends: Bang Bang – Moonton
• League of Legends – Riot Games
• Dota 2 – Valve
• Counter-Strike 2 – Valve (Winner)

Best Esports Athlete

• Zyw0o
• MenaRD
• Kakeru
• f0rsakeN
• Chovy (Winner)
• brawk

Best Esports Team

• Team Vitality - Counter-Strike 2 (Winner)
• Team Liquid PH - Mobile Legends: Bang Bang
• Team Falcons - DOTA 2
• NRG - Valorant – Riot Games
• Gen.G - League of Legends – Riot Games

Best Mobile Game

• Wuthering Waves – Kuro Games
• Umamusume: Pretty Derby – Cygames (Winner)
• Sonic Rumble – Sega
• Persona 5: The Phantom X – SEGA/ATLUS
• Destiny: Rising – NetEase

Best Independent Game

• Hollow Knight: Silksong – Team Cherry
• Hades II – Supergiant Games
• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 – Sandfall Interactive (Winner)
• Blue Prince – Dogubomb
• Ball x Pit – Kenny Sun
• Absolum – DotEmu, Guard Crush, Supamonks

Best Adaptation

• Until Dawn – Supermassive Games/Sony Pictures
• Splinter Cell: Deathwatch – Ubisoft Film & Television
• The Last of Us: Season 2 – Naughty Dog/HBO (Winner)
• Devil May Cry – Capcom/Netflix
• A Minecraft Movie – Warner Bros/Mojang

Best Action Game

• Shinobi: Art of Vengeance – SEGA
• Ninja Gaiden 4 – Team Ninja
• Hades II – Supergiant Games (Winner)
• Doom: The Dark Ages – id Software
• Battlefield 6 – EA

Best Performance

• Troy Baker – Indiana Jones and the Great Circle
• Konatsu Kato – Silent Hill f
• Jennifer English – Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Winner)
• Erika Ishii – Ghost of Yōtei
• Charlie Cox – Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
• Ben Starr – Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

Games for Impact

• Wanderstop – Ivy Road
• South of Midnight – Compulsion Games (Winner)
• Lost Records: Bloom & Rage – Don't Nod
• Despelote – Julián Cordero, Sebastian Valbuena
• Consume Me – Jenny Jiao Hsia

Best Ongoing Game

• No Man's Sky – Hello Games (Winner)
• Marvel Rivals – NetEase Games
• Helldivers 2 – Arrowhead Game Studios
• Fortnite – Epic Games
• Final Fantasy XIV – Square Enix

Best Audio Design

• Silent Hill f – Kojima Productions
• Ghost of Yōtei – FromSoftware
• Death Stranding 2: On the Beach – Kojima Productions
• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 – Sandfall Interactive
• Battlefield 6 – EA (Winner)

Best Fighting Game

• Virtua Fighter 5 R.E.V.O. World Stage – Sega
• Mortal Kombat: Legacy Kollection – NetherRealm Studios
• Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves – SNK (Winner)
• Capcom Fighting Collection 2 – Capcom
• 2XKO – Riot Games

Content Creator of the Year

• The Burnt Peanut
• Sakura Miko
• MoistCr1TiKaL (Winner)
• Kai Cenat
• Caedrel

Most Anticipated Game

• The Witcher IV – CD Projekt Red
• Resident Evil Requiem – Capcom
• Marvel's Wolverine – Insomniac Games
• Grand Theft Auto VI – Rockstar Games (Winner)
• 007 First Light – IO Interactive

TGA Game Changer Award

• Presented to Girls Make Games

Best Action Adventure Game

• Split Fiction – Hazelight Studios
• Hollow Knight: Silksong – Team Cherry (Winner)
• Indiana Jones and the Great Circle – MachineGames
• Ghost of Yōtei – Sucker Punch Productions
• Death Stranding 2: On the Beach – Kojima Productions

Best Art Direction

• Hollow Knight: Silksong – Team Cherry
• Hades II – Supergiant Games
• Ghost of Yōtei – FromSoftware
• Death Stranding 2: On The Beach – Kojima Productions
• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 – Sandfall Interactive (Winner)

Best Sim/Strategy Game

• Two Point Museum – Two Point Studios
• Tempest Rising – Slipgate Ironworks
• Sid Meier's Civilization VII – Firaxis Games
• Jurassic World Evolution 3 – Frontier Developments
• FINAL FANTASY TACTICS - The Ivalice Chronicles – Square Enix (Winner)
• The Alters – 11 Bit Studios

Best Debut Indie Game

• Megabonk – vedinad
• Dispatch – Ad Hoc Studios
• Despelote – Julián Cordero, Sebastian Valbuena
• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 – Sandfall Interactive (Winner)
• Blue Prince – Dogubomb

Best Score And Music

• Death Stranding 2: On the Beach – Kojima Productions
• Ghost of Yōtei – FromSoftware
• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 – Sandfall Interactive (Winner)
• Hades II – Supergiant Games
• Hollow Knight: Silksong – Team Cherry

Best Sports/Racing

• Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds – Sega
• Rematch – Sloclap
• Mario Kart World – Nintendo (Winner)
• F1 25 – EA Sports
• EA Sports FC 26 – EA Sports

Best Community Support

• No Man's Sky – Hello Games
• Helldivers 2 – Arrowhead Game Studios
• Fortnite – Epic Games
• Final Fantasy XIV – Square Enix
• Baldur's Gate 3 – Larian Studios (Winner)

Best VR/AR Game

• The Midnight Walk – MoonHood (Winner)
• Marvel’s Deadpool VR – Twisted Pixel Games
• Ghost Town – Fireproof Games
• Arken Age – VitruviusVR
• Alien: Rogue Incursion – Survios

Best RPG

• Monster Hunter Wilds – Capcom
• The Outer Worlds 2 – Obsidian Entertainment
• Kingdom Come: Deliverance II – Warhorse Studios
• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 – Sandfall Interactive (Winner)
• Avowed – Obsidian Entertainment

Player's Voice

• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 – Sandfall Interactive
• Dispatch – Ad Hoc
• Genshin Impact – miHoYo
• Hollow Knight: Silksong – Team Cherry
• Wuthering Waves – Kuro Games (Winner)

Best Narrative

• Silent Hill f – Kojima Productions
• Kingdom Come: Deliverance II – Warhorse Studios
• Ghost of Yōtei – FromSoftware
• Death Stranding 2: On The Beach – Kojima Productions
• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 – Sandfall Interactive (Winner)

Best Multiplayer

• Split Fiction – Hazelight Studios
• Peak – Landfall Games, Aggro Crab, Team PEAK
• Elden Ring Nightreign – FromSoftware
• Battlefield 6 – EA
• Arc Raiders – Embark Studios (Winner)

Best Game Direction

• Split Fiction – Hazelight Studios
• Hades II – Supergiant Games
• Ghost of Yōtei – FromSoftware
• Death Stranding 2: On The Beach – Kojima Productions
• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 – Sandfall Interactive (Winner)

Game of the Year

• Kingdom Come: Deliverance II – Warhorse Studios
• Hollow Knight: Silksong – Team Cherry
• Hades II – Supergiant Games
• Donkey Kong Bananza – Nintendo
• Death Stranding 2: On the Beach – Kojima Productions
• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 – Sandfall Interactive (Winner)