2025 has been a big year for video games, and the Game Awards aims to concentrate all the successes and enthusiasm into one night of celebration. With musical performances, celebrity guests (Geoff Keighley booked two Muppets this year), and dozens of new game trailers and reveals, it's undeniably one of the biggest industry events of the year.
Whether you tuned in late, missed one of the winners, or chose not to watch at all, this round-up will recap every award. The coveted game of the year trophy will be doled out at the end of the night, but until then, you can continue to check this article, which will be updated live, to see each winner as it's announced.
Here is the full list of nominees (with announced winners in bold):
Game of the Year Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Death Stranding 2: On the Beach Donkey Kong Bananza Hades II Hollow Knight: Silksong Kingdom Come: Deliverance II
Best Game Direction Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Death Stranding 2: On the Beach Ghost of Yōtei Hades II Split Fiction
Best Narrative Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Death Stranding 2: On the Beach Ghost of Yōtei Kingdom Come: Deliverance II Silent Hill f
Best Art Direction Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Death Stranding 2: On the Beach Ghost of Yōtei Hades II Hollow Knight: Silksong
Best Score & Music Christopher Larkin - Hollow Knight: Silksong Darren Korb - Hades II Lorien Testard - Clair Obscur: Expédition 33 Toma Otowa - Ghost of Yōtei Woodkid & Ludvig Forssell - Death Stranding 2: On the Beach
Best Audio Design Battlefield 6 Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Death Stranding 2: On the Beach Ghost of Yōtei Silent Hill f
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 Konatsu Kato as Shimizu Hinako - Silent Hill f Troy Baker as Indiana Jones - Indiana Jones and the Great Circle
Best Independent Game Absolum Ball x Pit Blue Prince Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 – WINNER Hades II Hollow Knight: Silksong
Best Debut Indie Game Blue Prince Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Despelote Dispatch
Games For Impact Consume Me Despelote Lost Records: Blooom & Rage South of Midnight Wanderstop
Best Action Game Battlefield 6 Doom: The Dark Ages Hades II Ninja Gaiden 4 Shinobi: Art of Vengeance
Best Action/Adventure Game Death Stranding 2: On the Beach Ghost of Yōtei Hollow Knight: Silksong Indiana Jones and the Great Circle Split Fiction
Best Role-Playing Game Avowed Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Kingdom Come: Deliverance II Monster Hunter Wilds The Outer Worlds 2
Best Sim/Strategy Game The Alters Final Fantasy Tactics – The Ivalice Chronicles Jurassic World Evolution 3 Sid Meier’s Civilization VII Tempest Rising Two Point Museum
Best Fighting Game 2XKO Capcom Fighting Collection 2 Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves Mortal Kombat Legacy Kollection Virtua Fighter 5 R.E.V.O. World Stage
Best Family Game Donkey Kong Bananza – WINNER Lego Party! Lego Voyagers Mario Kart World Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds Split Fiction
Best Sports/Racing Game EA Sports FC 26 F1 25 Mario Kart World Rematch Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds
Best Multiplayer ARC Raiders Battlefield 6 Elden Ring Nightreign Peak Split Fiction
Best Ongoing Game Final Fantasy XIV Fortnite Helldivers 2 Marvel Rivals No Man’s Sky
Best Community Support Baldur’s Gate 3 Final Fantasy XIV Fortnite Helldivers 2 No Man’s Sky
Best VR/AR Game Alien: Rogue Incursion Arken Age Ghost Town Marvel’s Deadpool VR The Midnight Walk
Best Mobile Game Destiny Rising Persona 5: The Phantom X Sonic Rumble Umamusume Pretty Derby – WINNER Wuthering Waves
Innovation in Accessibility Assassin’s Creed Shadows Atomfall Doom: The Dark Ages – WINNER EA Sports FC 25 South of Midnight
Best Adaptation A Minecraft Movie Devil May Cry Splinter Cell: Deathwatch The Last of Us Season 2 – WINNER Until Dawn
Best Esports Game Counter-Strike 2 – WINNER Dota 2 League of Legends Mobile Legends: Bang Bang Valorant
Best Esports Team Gen.G (League of Legends) NRG (Valorant) Team Falcons (Dota 2) Team Liquid PH (Mobile Legends: Bang Bang) Team Vitality (Counter-Strike 2) – WINNER
Content Creator of the Year Caedrel Kai Cenat MoistCr1TiKaL Sakura Miko The Burnt Peanut
Most Anticipated Game 007 First Light Grand Theft Auto VI Marvel’s Wolverine Resident Evil Requiem The Witcher IV
2025 has been a big year for video games, and the Game Awards aims to concentrate all the successes and enthusiasm into one night of celebration. With musical performances, celebrity guests (Geoff Keighley booked two Muppets this year), and dozens of new game trailers and reveals, it's undeniably one of the biggest industry events of the year.
Whether you tuned in late, missed one of the winners, or chose not to watch at all, this round-up will recap every award. The coveted game of the year trophy will be doled out at the end of the night, but until then, you can continue to check this article, which will be updated live, to see each winner as it's announced.
Here is the full list of nominees (with announced winners in bold):
Game of the Year
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
Death Stranding 2: On the Beach
Donkey Kong Bananza
Hades II
Hollow Knight: Silksong
Kingdom Come: Deliverance II
Best Game Direction
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
Death Stranding 2: On the Beach
Ghost of Yōtei
Hades II
Split Fiction
Best Narrative
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
Death Stranding 2: On the Beach
Ghost of Yōtei
Kingdom Come: Deliverance II
Silent Hill f
Best Art Direction
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
Death Stranding 2: On the Beach
Ghost of Yōtei
Hades II
Hollow Knight: Silksong
Best Score & Music
Christopher Larkin - Hollow Knight: Silksong
Darren Korb - Hades II
Lorien Testard - Clair Obscur: Expédition 33
Toma Otowa - Ghost of Yōtei
Woodkid & Ludvig Forssell - Death Stranding 2: On the Beach
Best Audio Design
Battlefield 6
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
Death Stranding 2: On the Beach
Ghost of Yōtei
Silent Hill f
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
Konatsu Kato as Shimizu Hinako - Silent Hill f
Troy Baker as Indiana Jones - Indiana Jones and the Great Circle
Best Independent Game
Absolum
Ball x Pit
Blue Prince
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 – WINNER
Hades II
Hollow Knight: Silksong
Best Debut Indie Game
Blue Prince
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
Despelote
Dispatch
Games For Impact
Consume Me
Despelote
Lost Records: Blooom & Rage
South of Midnight
Wanderstop
Best Action Game
Battlefield 6
Doom: The Dark Ages
Hades II
Ninja Gaiden 4
Shinobi: Art of Vengeance
Best Action/Adventure Game
Death Stranding 2: On the Beach
Ghost of Yōtei
Hollow Knight: Silksong
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle
Split Fiction
Best Role-Playing Game
Avowed
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
Kingdom Come: Deliverance II
Monster Hunter Wilds
The Outer Worlds 2
Best Sim/Strategy Game
The Alters
Final Fantasy Tactics – The Ivalice Chronicles
Jurassic World Evolution 3
Sid Meier’s Civilization VII
Tempest Rising
Two Point Museum
Best Fighting Game
2XKO
Capcom Fighting Collection 2
Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves
Mortal Kombat Legacy Kollection
Virtua Fighter 5 R.E.V.O. World Stage
Best Family Game
Donkey Kong Bananza – WINNER
Lego Party!
Lego Voyagers
Mario Kart World
Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds
Split Fiction
Best Sports/Racing Game
EA Sports FC 26
F1 25
Mario Kart World
Rematch
Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds
Best Multiplayer
ARC Raiders
Battlefield 6
Elden Ring Nightreign
Peak
Split Fiction
Best Ongoing Game
Final Fantasy XIV
Fortnite
Helldivers 2
Marvel Rivals
No Man’s Sky
Best Community Support
Baldur’s Gate 3
Final Fantasy XIV
Fortnite
Helldivers 2
No Man’s Sky
Best VR/AR Game
Alien: Rogue Incursion
Arken Age
Ghost Town
Marvel’s Deadpool VR
The Midnight Walk
Best Mobile Game
Destiny Rising
Persona 5: The Phantom X
Sonic Rumble
Umamusume Pretty Derby – WINNER
Wuthering Waves
Innovation in Accessibility
Assassin’s Creed Shadows
Atomfall
Doom: The Dark Ages – WINNER
EA Sports FC 25
South of Midnight
Best Adaptation
A Minecraft Movie
Devil May Cry
Splinter Cell: Deathwatch
The Last of Us Season 2 – WINNER
Until Dawn
Best Esports Game
Counter-Strike 2 – WINNER
Dota 2
League of Legends
Mobile Legends: Bang Bang
Valorant
Best Esports Athlete
Brawk
Chovy – WINNER
Forsaken
Kakeru
Menard
Zywoo
Best Esports Team
Gen.G (League of Legends)
NRG (Valorant)
Team Falcons (Dota 2)
Team Liquid PH (Mobile Legends: Bang Bang)
Team Vitality (Counter-Strike 2) – WINNER
Content Creator of the Year
Caedrel
Kai Cenat
MoistCr1TiKaL
Sakura Miko
The Burnt Peanut
Most Anticipated Game
007 First Light
Grand Theft Auto VI
Marvel’s Wolverine
Resident Evil Requiem
The Witcher IV
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