Full List: Every Nominee for The Game Awards 2025

The Game Awards is set to return this December, celebrating the year’s top games and biggest moments in the industry.

This year’s nominations feature a wide range of contenders, from major sequels and standout indie titles to long-running live service games, making for a highly competitive lineup.

The full list of nominees was announced on November 17 at Noon ET, 9 a.m. PT, and 5 p.m. GMT. Fans can watch the awards live on December 11, 2025, and follow the announcement on The Game Awards’ official YouTube channel.

Game of the Year

1. Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
2. Death Stranding 2: On the Beach
3. Donkey Kong Bananza
4. Hades II
5. Hollow Knight: Silksong
6. Kingdom Come: Deliverance II

Best Game Direction

1. Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
2. Death Stranding 2: On The Beach
3. Ghost of Yōtei
4. Hades II
5. Split Fiction

Best Narrative

1. Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
2. Death Stranding 2: On The Beach 
3. Ghost of Yōtei
4. Kingdom Come: Deliverance II
5. Silent Hill f

Best Art Direction

1. Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
2. Death Stranding 2
3. Ghost of Yotei
4. Hades II
5. Hollow Knight Silksong

Best Score and Music

1. Christopher Larkin – Hollow Knight Silksong
2. Darren Korb – Hades II
3. Lorien Testard – Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
4. Toma Otowa – Ghost of Yotei
5. Woodkid & Ludvig Forssell – Death Stranding 2

Best Audio Design

1. Battlefield 6
2. Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
3. Death Stranding 2
4. Ghost of Yotei
5. Silent Hill F

Best Performance (voice-over acting, motion capture, or performance capture)

1. Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 — Ben Starr
2. Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 — Charlie Cox
3. Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 — Jennifer English
4. Silent Hill f — Konatsu Kato
5. Indiana Jones and the Great Circle — Troy Baker

Games for Impact

1. Consume Me
2. Despelote
3. Lost Records Bloom & Rage
4. South of Midnight
5. Wanderstop

Best Ongoing Game

1. Final Fantasy XIV
2. Fortnite
3. Helldivers II
4. Marvel Rivals
5. No Man’s Sky

Best Community Support

1. Baldur’s Gate 3
2. Final Fantasy XIV
3. Fortnite
4. Helldivers 2
5. No Man’s Sky

Best Independent Game

1. Absolum
2. Ball x Pit
3. Blue Prince
4. Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
5. Hades II
6. Hollow Knight: Silksong

Best Debut Indie Game

1. Blue Prince
2. Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
3. Despelote
4. Dispatch
5. Megabonk

Best Mobile Game

1. Destiny Rising
2. Persona 5 The Phantom X
3. Sonic Rumble
4. Umamusume Pretty Derby
5. Wuthering Waves

Best VR/AR Game

1. Alien Rogue Incursion
2. Arken Age
3. Ghost Town
4. Deadpool VR
5. The Midnight Walk

Best Action Game

1. Battlefield 6
2. Doom: The Dark Ages
3. Hades II
4. Ninja Gaiden 4
5. Shinobi: Art of Vengeance

Best Action/Adventure Game

1. Death Stranding 2: On the Beach
2. Ghost of Yōtei
3. Indiana Jones and the Great Circle
4. Hollow Knight: Silksong
5. Split Fiction

Best Role-Playing Game

1. Avowed
2. Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
3. Kingdom Come: Deliverance II
4. The Outer Worlds 2
5. Monster Hunter Wilds

Best Fighting Game

1. 2XKO
2. Capcom Fighting Collection 2
3. Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves
4. Mortal Kombat: Legacy Kollection
5. Virtua Fighter 5 R.E.V.O. World Stage

Best Family Game

1. Donkey Kong Bananza
2. LEGO Party!
3. LEGO Voyagers
4. Mario Kart World
5. Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds
6. Split Fiction

Best Sim/Strategy Game

1. The Alters
2. FINAL FANTASY TACTICS – The Ivalice Chronicles
3. Jurassic World Evolution 3
4. Sid Meier’s Civilization VII
5. Tempest Rising
6. Two Point Museum

Best Sports/Racing Game

1. EA Sports FC 26
2. F1 25
3. Mario Kart World
4. Rematch
5. Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds

Best Multiplayer Game

1. Arc Raiders
2. Battlefield 6
3. Elden Ring Nightreign
4. Peak
5. Split Fiction

Best Adaptation

1. A Minecraft Movie
2. Devil May Cry
3. The Last of Us: Season 2
4. Splinter Cell: Deathwatch
5. Until Dawn

Most Anticipated Game

1. 007 First Light
2. Grand Theft Auto VI
3. Marvel’s Wolverine
4. Resident Evil Requiem
5. The Witcher IV

Content Creator of the Year

1. Caedrel
2. Kai Cenat
3. MoistCr1TiKal
4. Sakura Miko
5. The Burnt Peanut

Innovation in Accessibility

1. Assassin’s Creed Shadows
2. Atomfall
3. Doom: The Dark Ages
4. EA Sports FC 26
5. South of Midnight

Best Esports Game

1. Counter-Strike 2
2. DOTA 2
3. League of Legends
4. Mobile Legends: Bang Bang
5. Valorant

Best Esports Team

1. Gen.G – League of Legends
2. NRG – Valorant
3. Team Falcons – DOTA 2
4. Team Liquid PH – Mobile Legends: Bang Bang
5. Team Vitality – Counter-Strike 2

Best Esports Athlete

1. brawk
2. Chovy
3. f0rsakeN
4. Kakeru
5. MenaRD
6. Zyw0o

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