The Game Awards announces nominees for 2025 ceremony

The Game Awards (TGA) announced nominees for the upcoming 2025 ceremony on November 17, 2025.

Game of the Year

• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (became the most nominated game in TGA history with 12 nominations)
• Death Stranding 2: On the Beach
• Donkey Kong Bananza
• Hades II
• Hollow Knight: Silksong
• Kingdom Come: Deliverance II

Best Independent Game

• Absolum
• Ball x Pit
• Blue Prince
• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
• Hades II
• Hollow Knight: Silksong

The annual awards ceremony honoring achievements in the video game industry was established in 2014 by game journalist Geoff Keighley, who has been producing and hosting it since then.

Best Narrative

• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
• Death Stranding 2: On The Beach
• Ghost of Yotei
• Kingdom Come: Deliverance II
• Silent Hill f

Best Community Support

• Baldur’s Gate 3
• Final Fantasy XIV
• Fortnite
• Helldivers 2
• No Man’s Sky

Best Multiplayer

• Arc Raiders
• Battlefield 6
• Elden Ring: Nightreign
• Peak
• Split Fiction

Best Ongoing Game

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

Best Mobile Game

• Destiny: Rising
• Persona 5: The Phantom X
• Sonic Rumble
• Umamusume: Pretty Derby
• Wuthering Waves

Best Score & Music Leveled Up

• Hollow Knight: Silksong
• Hades II
• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
• Ghost of Yotei
• Death Stranding 2: On the Beach

Best Art Direction

• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
• Death Stranding 2: On The Beach
• Ghost of Yotei
• Hades II
• Hollow Knight: Silksong

Best Audio Design

• Battlefield 6
• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
• Death Stranding 2: On the Beach
• Ghost of Yotei
• Silent Hill f

Best Performance

• Ben Starr
• Charlie Cox
• Erika Ishii
• Jennifer English
• Konatsu Kato
• Troy Baker

Best Adaptation

• A Minecraft Movie
• Devil May Cry
• The Last of Us: Season 2
• Splinter Cell: Deathwatch
• Until Dawn

Most Anticipated Game

• 007 First Light
• Grand Theft Auto VI
• Marvel’s Wolverine
• Resident Evil Requiem
• The Witcher IV

Content Creator of the Year

• Caedrel
• Kai Cenat
• MoistCr1TiKaL
• Sakura Miko
• The Burnt Peanut

Best Debut Indie Game

• Blue Prince
• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
• Despelote
• Dispatch
• Megabonk

Best Role Playing Game

• Avowed
• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
• Kingdom Come: Deliverance II
• The Outer Worlds 2
• Monster Hunter Wilds

Best Action/Adventure Game

• Death Stranding 2: On the Beach
• Ghost of Yotei
• Indiana Jones and the Great Circle
• Hollow Knight: Silksong
• Split Fiction

Best Action Game

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

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

Innovation in Accessibility

• Assassin’s Creed Shadows
• Atomfall
• Doom: The Dark Ages
• EA Sports FC 26
• South of Midnight

Best Family Game

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

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

Best Sports/Racing Game

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

Best Esports 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 Esports Athlete

• brawk
• Chovy
• f0rsakeN
• Kakeru
• MenaRD
• Zyw0o

Best Esports Game

• Counter-Strike 2
• Dota 2
• League of Legends
• Mobile Legends: Bang Bang
• Valorant

Best Game Direction

• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
• Death Stranding 2: On The Beach
• Ghost of Yotei
• Hades II
• Split Fiction

The Game Awards 2025 is scheduled for Thursday, December 11, 2025, and will be broadcast from the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles, US.

The news comes on the heels of the announcement dated November 11, 2025, that Prime Video will stream The Game Awards live globally in every country where the service is available.