All The Game Awards 2025 Winners List – Who Won GOTY

The year 2025 will be remembered as a remarkable one for players. From Clair Obscur Expedition 33 to Donkey Kong Bananza, nearly every genre received a title that stood out from the rest. With a lineup this strong, the race for The Game Awards felt razor sharp (and overcrowded by great games). So, did your favorite game get the GOTY at The Game Awards 2025? Here is the full list of The Game Awards 2025 winners to see whether your pick earned the Game of the Year.

Full The Game Awards 2025 Winners List

• Game of the Year – Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
• Best Game Direction – Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
• Best Multiplayer – Arc Raiders
• Best Narrative – Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
• Player’s Voice – Wuthering Waves
• Best RPG – Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
• Best VR/AR Game – The Midnight Walk
• Best Community Support – Baldur’s Gate 3
• Best Sports/Racing Game – Mario Kart World
• Best Score and Music – Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Lorien Testard)
• Best Debut Indie Game – Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
• Best Sim/Strategy Game – FINAL FANTASY TACTICS – The Ivalice Chronicles
• Best Art Direction – Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
• Best Action Adventure Game – Hollow Knight: Silksong
• Game Changer – Girls Make Games
• Most Anticipated Game – Grand Theft Auto VI
• Best Fighting Game – Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves
• Content Creator of the Year – MoistCr1TiKaL
• Best Audio Design – Battlefield 6
• Best Ongoing Game – No Man’s Sky
• Games for Impact – South of Midnight
• Best Peformance – Jennifer English (Expedition 33)
• Best Action Game – Hades II
• Best Adaptation – The Last of Us: Season 2
• Best Independent Game – Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
• Best Mobile Game – Umamusume: Pretty Derby
• Best Esports Team – Team Vitality – Counter-Strike 2
• Best Esports Athlete – Chovy
• Best Esports Game – Counter-Strike 2
• Innovation In Accessibility – Doom: The Dark Ages
• Best Family Game – Donkey Kong Bananza

Game of the Year

Winner: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

Clair Obscur Expedition 33 has now broken two major records at The Game Awards, earning the most nominations ever and then sweeping nine wins, including Game of the Year. It passes the old mark set by The Last of Us Part II, which claimed seven wins in 2020, while other giants like Ragnarok, Baldur’s Gate 3, Overwatch, and Astro Bot follow behind with smaller but still impressive totals.

• Death Stranding 2: On the Beach
• Donkey Kong Bananza
• Hades II
• Hollow Knight: Silksong
• Kingdom Come: Deliverance II

Winner: Wuthering Waves

• Clair Obsur: Expedition 33
• Dispatch
• Genshin Impact
• Hollow Knight: Silksong

Best Game Direction

Winner: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

• Death Stranding 2: On The Beach
• Ghost of Yotei
• Hades II
• Split Fiction

Best Adaptation

Winner: The Last of Us

• A Minecraft Movie
• Devil May Cry
• Splinter Cell Deathwatch
• Until Dawn

Best Narrative

Winner: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

• Death Stranding 2: On the Beach
• Ghost of Yotei
• Kingdom Come Deliverance II
• Silent Hill f

Best Art Direction

Winner: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

• Death Stranding 2
• Ghost of Yotei
• Hades II
• Hollow Knight Silksong

Best Score and Music

Winner: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 — Lorein Testard

• Hollow Knight Silksong — Christopher Larkin
• Hades II — Darren Korb
• Ghost of Yotei — Toma Otowa
• Death Stranding 2: On the Beach — Woodkid and Ludvig Forssell

Best Audio Design

Winner: Battlefield 6

• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
• Death Stranding 2: On the Beach
• Ghost of Yōtei
• Silent Hill f

Best Performance

Winner: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 — Jennifer English

• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 — Ben Starr
• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 — Charlie Cox
• Silent Hill f — Konatsu Kato
• Indiana Jones and the Great Circle — Troy Baker
• Ghost of Yōtei — Erika Ishii

Innovation in Accessibility

Winner: Doom: The Dark Ages

• Assassin’s Creed Shadows
• Atomfall
• EA Sports FC 26
• South of Midnight

Games for Impact

Winner: South of Midnight

• Consume Me
• Despelote
• Lost Records Bloom And Rage
• Wanderstop

Best Ongoing Game

Winner: No Man’s Sky

• Final Fantasy XIV
• Fortnite
• Helldivers II
• Marvel Rivals

Best Community Support

Winner: Baldur’s Gate 3

• Final Fantasy XIV
• Fortnite
• Helldivers 2
• No Man’s Sky

Best Independent Game

Winner: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

• Absolum
• Ball x Pit
• Blue Prince
• Hades II
• Hollow Knight: Silksong

Best Debut Indie Game

Winner: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

• Blue Prince
• Despelote
• Dispatch
• Megabonk

Best Mobile Game

Winner: Umamusume Pretty Derby

• Destiny Rising
• Persona 5 The Phantom X
• Sonic Rumble
• Wuthering Waves

Best VR/AR Game

Winner: The Midnight Walk

• Alien Rogue Incursion
• Arken Age
• Ghost Town
• Marvel’s Deadpool VR

Best Action Game

Winner: Hades II

• Battlefield 6
• Doom: The Dark Ages
• Ninja Gaiden 4
• Shinobi: Art of Vengeance

Best Action/Adventure Game

Winner: Hollow Knight: Silksong

• Death Stranding 2: On the Beach
• Ghost of Yōtei
• Indiana Jones and the Great Circle
• Split Fiction

Best RPG

Winner: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

• Avowed
• Kingdom Come: Deliverance II
• The Outer Worlds 2
• Monster Hunter Wilds

Best Fighting Game

Winner: Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves

• 2XKO
• Capcom Fighting Collection 2
• Mortal Kombat: Legacy Kollection
• Virtua Fighter 5 R.E.V.O. World Stage

Best Family Game

Winner: Donkey Kong Bananza

• LEGO Party!
• LEGO Voyagers
• Mario Kart World
• Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds
• Split Fiction

Best Sim/Strategy Game

Winner: Final Fantasy Tactics — The Ivalice Chronicles

• The Alters
• Jurassic World Evolution 3
• Sid Meier’s Civilization VII
• Tempest Rising
• Two Point Museum

Best Sports/Racing

Winner: Mario Kart World

• EA Sports FC 26
• F1 25
• Rematch
• Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds

Best Multiplayer Game

Winner: Arc Raiders

• Battlefield 6
• Elden Ring Nightreign
• Peak
• Split Fiction

Most Anticipated Game

Winner: Grand Theft Auto VI

• 007 First Light
• Marvel’s Wolverine
• Resident Evil Requiem
• The Witcher IV

Content Creator of the Year

Winner: MoistCr1TiKal

• Caedrel
• Kai Cenat
• Sakura Miko
• The Burnt Peanut

Best Esports Game

Winner: Counter-Strike 2

• DOTA 2
• League of Legends
• Mobile Legends: Bang Bang
• Valorant

Best Esports Athlete

Winner: Chovy

• brawk
• f0rsakeN
• Kakeru
• MenaRD
• Zyw0o

Best Esports Team

Winner: Team Vitality – Counter-Strike 2

• Gen.G – League of Legends
• NRG – Valorant
• Team Falcons – DOTA 2
• Team Liquid PH – Mobile Legends: Bang Bang

So, that’s it, folks. These are the winners for the Game Awards 2025. Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 conquered this year’s GOTY. Did your favorite games win the Game of the Year award in 2025? Let us know in the comments.