The Game Awards 2025 finished a fantastic night where we celebrated the best games of the year, as winners were announced for different game categories. The show put a bright focus on good ideas, new technology, and great work done everywhere in gaming. The show honored the hard-working developers who spent years building game worlds that we enjoyed throughout 2025. This included everything from important new steps in making games easier for everyone to play to the most fun games for families.
They also recognized the exciting competition in esports and the excellent skill shown in writing stories and designing games. Every person, company, and game that truly made a difference in the gaming world this year was given an award. Below is the complete list of all the games, development teams, and individuals who won awards and were celebrated on stage.
- Best Family Game: Donkey Kong Bonanza
- Innovation in Accessibility: Doom: The Dark Ages
- Best Esports Game: Counter-Strike: 2
- Best Esports Athlete: Chovy
- Best Esports Team: Team Vitality
- Best Mobile Game: Umamusume Pretty Derby
- Best Independent Game: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
- Best Adaptation: The Last of Us Season Two
- Games for Impact: South of Midnight
- Best Action Game: Hades II
- Best Performance: Jennifer English for Clair Obscure
- Best Ongoing Game: No Man’s Sky
- Best Audio Design: Battlefield 6
- Content Creator of The Year: MOISTCR1TIKAL
- Best Fighting Game: Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves
- Most Anticipated Game: GTA VI
- Game Changer Award: Girls Make Games
- Best Action/Adventure Game: Hollow Knight: Silksong
- Best Art Direction: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
- Best SIM/ Strategy Game: Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles
- Best Debut Indie Game: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
- Best Score and Music: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
- Best Sports/Racing Games: Mario Kart World
- Best Community Support: Baldur’s Gate 3
- Best VR/AR Game: The Midnight Walk
- Best RPG: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
- Player’s Voice: Wuthering Waves
- Best Narrative: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
- Best Multiplayer game: ARC Raiders
- Best Game Direction: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
- Game of the Year: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
If you want to see all trailers, reveals, and announcements made during The Game Awards 2025, we have a dedicated article for them as well.
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