On December 11, 2025, Geoff Keighley’s The Game Awards showed the best of video games for 2025. Here are all of the winners and announcements from that night.
The Game Awards 2025 – Winners
- Best Family Game — Donkey Kong Bananza
- Innovation in Accessibility — Doom: The Dark Ages
- Best Esports Game — Counter-Strike 2
- Best Esports Athlete — Chovy
- Best Esports Team — Team Vitality (Counter-Strike 2)
- Best Mobile Game — Umamusume: Pretty Derby
- Best Independent Game — Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
- Best Adaptation — The Last of Us: Season 2
- Best Action Game — Hades II
- Best Performance — Jennifer English (Expedition 33)
- Games for Impact — South of Midnight
- 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 — Grand Theft Auto VI
- Game Changer — 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 (Lorien Testard)
- Best Sports/Racing Game — 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 — ARC Raiders
- Best Game Direction — Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
- Game of the Year — Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
The Game Awards 2025 – Announcements & Trailers
- 007: First Light — New trailer
- Ace Combat 8: Wings of Theve — Reveal trailer
- Audio Mech — Gameplay trailer and demo announcement
- Bradley the Badger — Announcement trailer
- Control: Resonant — Reveal trailer
- Coven of the Chicken Foot — Announcement trailer
- Decrepit — Gameplay trailer
- Diablo IV: Lord of Hatred — Expansion reveal trailer
- Divinity — Cinematic announcement trailer
- Exodus — New trailer and release window
- Forest 3 — Reveal trailer
- Gang of Dragon — World premiere trailer
- Guild Wars 2: Visions of Eternity — Expansion trailer
- Highguard — Reveal trailer
- Hitman: World of Assassination — Patient Zero elusive target trailer
- Invincible VS — New trailer and character reveal
- John Carpenter’s Toxic Commando — Trailer and release date
- LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight — Trailer and release date
- Lords of the Fallen II — Gameplay trailer
- Marvel Rivals — Deadpool character reveal trailer
- Mega Man: Dual Override — Reveal trailer
- No Law — Announcement trailer
- Ontos — Reveal trailer
- Orbitals — Reveal trailer
- Order of the Sinking Star — Announcement trailer
- Out of Words — Reveal trailer
- Phantom Blade Zero — Release date trailer
- Pragmata — Release date trailer and demo announcement
- Resident Evil Requiem — New trailer featuring Leon S. Kennedy
- Saros — New trailer and release date
- Solasta 2 — Early Access release date trailer
- Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic — Announcement trailer
- Star Wars: Galactic Racer — Reveal trailer
- Street Fighter (2026 Movie) — Teaser trailer
- Stupid Never Dies — Announcement trailer
- The Free Shepherd — Announcement trailer
- The Super Mario Galaxy Movie (2026 Movie) — Teaser trailer
- Tomb Raider: Catalyst — Reveal trailer
- Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis — Announcement trailer
- Total War: Warhammer 40,000 — Reveal trailer
- Warframe — Promotional trailer
- Warlock: Dungeons & Dragons — Announcement trailer
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