The Game Awards, a ceremony equivalent to the Oscars for video games, returns on December 11, 2025, in Los Angeles. Who is the GOTY (Game of the Year)? Which games are rewarded? Discover this year’s nominees.
This is the meeting of the year most awaited by video game fans: the Game Awardsthe awards ceremony which rewards the best games of the year 2025, following around thirty categories. For this new edition, Canadian journalist and host Geoff Keighley is once again in charge of the ceremony. He arranges to meet us on the night of December 11 to 12, 2025live streaming. The event is broadcast live on Twitch et YouTube.
In 2024, it’s game Astro Bot who won the title of Game of the Year (game of the year). Several other games, like Ballast et Metaphor: Reimagining also stood out in several categories. Discover the nominees for this 2025 edition, and make your predictions before the ceremony.
THE Game Awardsit is also an opportunity for video game studios to unveil their next titles, new trailers or release dates, sometimes creating nice surprises! But what we are all looking forward to is of course discovering the results of the votes, and knowing the winners, the best games of the year that we can add to our list at Santa Claus. In its sights, the GOTY (Game of the Year), of course, which will undoubtedly see its sales explode before the holidays.
It’s also an opportunity for gamers to get an idea of the best games of the moment to get for Christmas or to put under the tree. All you have to do is make your choice… Take control!
The nominees for this 2025 edition of the Game Awards:
Game of the Year (GOTY)
Best achievement:
Best narration:
- Chiaroscuro: Expedition 33
- Death Stranding 2: On The Beach
- Ghost of Yōtei
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance II
- Silent Hill f
Best Art Direction:
- Chiaroscuro: Expedition 33
- Death Stranding 2: On The Beach
- Ghost of Yōtei
- Hades II
- Hollow Knight: Silksong
Best soundtrack:
- Hollow Knight: Silksong
- Hades II
- Chiaroscuro: Expedition 33
- Ghost of Yōtei
- Death Stranding 2: On the Beach
Best audio design:
- Battlefield 6
- Chiaroscuro: Expedition 33
- Death Stranding 2: On the Beach
- Ghost of Yōtei
- Silent Hill f
Best performance:
- Ben Starr (Clair Obscur Expedition 33)
- Charlie Cox (Clair Obscur Expedition 33)
- Erika Ishii (Ghost of Yotei)
- Jennifer English (Clair Obscur Expedition 33)
- Konatsu Kato (Silent Hill f)
Most impactful game:
Best Ever-Evolving Game:
Best Indie Game:
- Absolute
- Ball x Pit
- Blue Prince
- Chiaroscuro: Expedition 33
- Hades II
- Hollow Knight: Silksong
Best mobile game:
- Destiny: Rising
- Persona 5: The Phantom X
- Sonic Rumble
- Umamusume: Pretty Derby
- Wuthering Waves
Best Community Support:
Innovation in accessibility:
Best VR/AR game:
Best action game:
Best action adventure game:
Best RPG:
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:
Best simulation/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 sports/racing game:
- EA Sports FC 26
- F1 25
- Mario Kart World
- Rematch
- Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds
Best multiplayer game:
Content Creator of the Year:
- Caedrel
- Kai Cenat
- MoistCr1TiKaL
- Sakura Miko
- The Burnt Peanut
Best first independent game:
- Blue Prince
- Chiaroscuro: Expedition 33
- Despelote
- Dispatch
Best adaptation:
Most anticipated game:
Best esports game:
- Counter-Strike 2
- DOTA 2
- League of Legends
- Mobile Legends: Bang Bang
- Valuing
Best professional esports player:
- brawk
- Breeding
- causeN
- Kakeru
- MenaRD
- Zyw0o
Best e-sports team:
- Gen.G – League of Legends
- NRG – Valorant
- Team Falcons – DOTA 2
- Team Liquid PH – Mobile Legends: Bang Bang
- Team Vitality – Counter-Strike 2
Best game voted by players (Player’s Voice)
To be discovered during the ceremony.
Do you like these results? Have they made you want to try some of these games? During this ceremony, many games were also announced, discover them here !
