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The most important night for the gaming industry has begun. The Game Awards 2025 is ready to award the best of the industry this year and even reveal some worldwide premieres. So, if you want to know what’s happening at The Game Awards 2025, especially in terms of who the winners are, here’s our live coverage of the event.
Donkey Kong Bonanza Wins Best Family Game
Donkey Kong Bonanza is the first winner of The Game Awards 2025. Here were all the nominees of the category:
- Donkey Kong Bananza
- LEGO Party!
- LEGO Voyagers
- Mario Kart World
- Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds
- Split Fiction
DOOM: The Dark Ages Wins the Innovation in Accessibility Award
These were all the other nominees in the Innovation in Accessibility category:
- Assassin’s Creed Shadows
- Atomfall
- Doom: The Dark Ages
- EA Sports FC 26
- South of Midnight
Counter-Strike 2 Wins Best Esports Game
Counter-Strike 2 is the winner of the Best Esports Game category at The Game Awards 2025. Here are the other nominees:
- Counter-Strike 2
- Dota 2
- League of Legends
- Mobile Legends: Bang Bang
- Valorant
Chovy Wins Esports Athlete
Despite the competition, Chovy is the one who takes the Best Esports Athlete award. Here is the full list of nominees:
- brawk
- Chovy
- f0rsakeN
- Kakeru
- MenaRD
- Zyw0o
Team Vitality Wins Best Esports Team
It was Team Vitality from Counter-Strike 2 that took the best esports team award and won against these other teams:
- Gen.G – League of Legends
- NRG – Valorant
- Team Falcons – DOTA 2
- Team Liquid PH – Mobile Legends: Bang Bang
- Team Vitality – Counter-Strike 2
Umamusume: Pretty Derby Takes the Best Mobile Game Award
Umamusuma: Pretty Derby is the next winner at The Game Awards 2025, winning against fierce competition.
- Destiny: Rising
- Persona 5: The Phantom X
- Sonic Rumble
- Umamusume: Pretty Derby
- Wuthering Waves
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Gets Its First Award for Best Independent Game
As expected, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 won best independent game.
- Absolum
- Ball x Pit
- Blue Prince
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
- Hades II
- Hollow Knight: Silksong
The Last of Us: Season 2 Wins Best Adaptation
The best adaptation award goes to The Last of Us: Season 2.
- A Minecraft Movie
- Devil May Cry
- The Last of Us: Season 2
- Splinter Cell: Deathwatch
- Until Dawn
The Best Action Game Award Goes to Hades II
Despite the competition, Hades II took the crown as the best action game of 2025.
- Battlefield 6
- Doom: The Dark Ages
- Hades II
- Ninja Gaiden 4
- Shinobi: Art of Vengeance
Jennifer English Wins the Best Performance Award for Her Work in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
- Ben Starr
- Charlie Cox
- Erika Ishii
- Jennifer English
- Konatsu Kato
- Troy Baker
South of Midnight Wins the Games for Impact Award
South of Midnight takes the much-deserved Games for Impact award.
- Consume Me
- Despelote
- Lost Records: Bloom & Rage
- South of Midnight
- Wanderstop
The Beloved No Man’s Sky Wins Best Ongoing Game
No Man’s Sky is the winner of Best Ongoing Game at The Game Awards 2025.
- Final Fantasy XIV
- Fortnite
- Helldivers 2
- Marvel Rivals
- No Man’s Sky
Battlefield 6 Takes the Best Audio Design Award
- Battlefield 6
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
- Death Stranding 2: On the Beach
- Ghost of Yōtei
- Silent Hill f
MoistCr1TiKaL Wins Best Content Creator of the Year
- Caedrel
- Kai Cenat
- MoistCr1TiKaL
- Sakura Miko
- The Burnt Peanut
The Best Fighting Game Award Goes to Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves
Despite the fierce competition, Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves gets the coveted Best Fighting Game award.
- 2XKO
- Capcom Fighting Collection 2
- Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves
- Mortal Kombat: Legacy Kollection
- Virtua Fighter 5 R.E.V.O. World Stage
To No One’s Surprise, GTA 6 Wins Most Anticipated Game
One of the most obvious winners of The Game Awards 2025 is GTA 6, which took the Most Anticipated Game award.
Hollow Knight: Silksong Gets the Award for Best Action/Adventure
We all know that Hollow Knight: Silksong would take home a few awards, and one of them is for best action/adventure game.
- Death Stranding 2: On the Beach
- Ghost of Yōtei
- Indiana Jones and the Great Circle
- Hollow Knight: Silksong
- Split Fiction
Best Art Direction Goes to Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
- Death Stranding 2: On The Beach
- Ghost of Yōtei
- Hades II
- Hollow Knight: Silksong
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Takes Home Another Award: Best Debut Indie
- Blue Prince
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
- Despelote
- Dispatch
Final Fantasy Tactics – The Ivalice Chronicles Becomes the 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
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Takes Home Another Award for Best Score & Music
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 keeps winning most awards, with the next one being Best Score & Music.
- Hollow Knight: Silksong
- Hades II
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
- Ghost of Yōtei
- Death Stranding 2: On the Beach
Mario Kart World Takes Its First Award for Best Sports/Racing Game
- EA Sports FC 26
- F1 25
- Mario Kart World
- Rematch
- Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds
Baldur’s Gate 3 Wins Best Community Support Again
- Baldur’s Gate 3
- Final Fantasy XIV
- Fortnite
- Helldivers 2
- No Man’s Sky
The Midnight Walk Takes the Best VR/AR Gam Award Home
- Alien: Rogue Incursion
- Arken Age
- Ghost Town
- Marvel’s Deadpool VR
- The Midnight Walk
The Best RPG Award Goes to Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
- Avowed
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance II
- The Outer Worlds 2
- Monster Hunter Wilds
Wuthering Waves Crushes the Competition for Player’s Voice
And the Best Narrative Award Goes to Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
- Death Stranding 2: On The Beach
- Ghost of Yōtei
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance II
- Silent Hill f
The Best Game Direction Award Goes to, You Guessed It, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
- Death Stranding 2: On The Beach
- Ghost of Yōtei
- Hades II
- Hollow Knight: Silksong
And The Game of the Year Award Goes to Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
- Death Stranding 2: On the Beach
- Donkey Kong Bananza
- Hades II
- Hollow Knight: Silksong
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance II
