The most important event of the year is coming. It seems like yesterday that Astro Bot won GOTY 2024, and very soon the time will come to find out which is the best game of the year 2025.
will be next December 11thwhen The Game Awards 2025 starts in the early hours of Thursday to Friday (in Spain), revealing the winners of the GOTY and in each of the categories of these awards.
The Game Awards 2025 can be followed live on thegameawards’ official channels at YouTube and Muscle contractionand for the first time in the history of Amazon’s Prime Video platform.
They are 6 games that will compete for the GOTY awardstarting with acclaimed titles such as Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, Hollow Knight: Silksong or Death Stranding 2: On the Beach.
If you’re curious, you can take a look at our favorites from GOTY 2025, although this list doesn’t match 100% with the official nominees for the award ceremony organized by Geoff Keighley.
Below we will review all the games nominated for GOTY and in each of the game categories. The Game Awards 2025:
Game of the Year
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
- Death Stranding 2: On the Beach
- Donkey Kong Banananza
- Hades II
- Hollow Knight: Silksong
- Kingdom Come: Liberation II
Best address
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
- Death Stranding 2: On the beach
- Yotei’s Ghost
- Hades 2
- Divided fiction
Best Narrative
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
- Death Stranding 2: On the beach
- Yotei’s Ghost
- Kingdom Come: Liberation II
- Silent Hill f
Best Art Direction
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
- Death Stranding 2: On the beach
- Yotei’s Ghost
- Hades II
- Hollow Knight: Silksong
Best Soundtrack and Music
- Hollow Knight: Silksong
- Hades II
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
- Yotei’s Ghost
- Death Stranding 2: On the Beach
Best Sound Design
- Battlefield 6
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
- Death Stranding 2: On the Beach
- Yotei’s Ghost
- Silent Hill f
Better performance
- Ben Starr – Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
- Charlie Cox – Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
- Erika Ishii – Yotei’s Ghost
- Jennifer English – Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
- Konatsu Kato – Silent Hill f
- Troy Baker – Indiana Jones and the Great Circle
Games for Impact
- Consume me
- Disturbance
- Lost Records: Bloom & Rage
- Midnight South
- Stop for a walk
Best Innovation in Accessibility
- Shadows of Assassin’s Creed
- Atom fall
- DOOM: The Dark Ages
- EA Sports FC 26
- Midnight South
Best Continuous Game
- Final Fantasy XIV
- Fortnite
- hell divers 2
- Marvel Rivals
- No Man’s Sky
Better community support
- Baldur’s Gate 3
- Final Fantasy XIV
- Fortnite
- hell divers 2
- No man’s sky
Best Independent Game
- Absolute
- Ball x Well
- Blue Prince
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
- Hades II
- Hollow Knight: Silksong
Best indie debut
- Blue Prince
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
- collapse
- Expedition
- Megabonk
Best mobile game
- Destiny: Ascendant
- Persona 5: The Phantom
- Sonic Boom
- Umamusume: Beautiful Derby
- Howling Waves
Best VR/AR game
- Alien: Rogue Incursion
- Arken Era
- Ghost town
- Marvel Deadpool VR
- The Midnight Walk
Best action game
- Battlefield 6
- Perdition: The Dark Ages
- Hades II
- Ninja Gaiden 4
- Shinobi: Art of Vengeance
Best action and adventure game
- Death Stranding 2: On the Beach
- Yotei’s Ghost
- Indiana Jones and the Great Circle
- Hollow Knight: Silksong
- Divided fiction
Best RPG
- Declared
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
- Kingdom Come: Liberation II
- The Outer Worlds 2
- Wild Monster Hunter
Best fighting game
- 2XKO
- Capcom Fighting Collection 2
- Fatal Fury: City of Wolves
- Mortal Kombat: Legacy Kollection
- Virtua Fighter 5 REVO World Stage
Best Family Game
- Donkey Kong Banananza
- LEGO Party!
- LEGO Travelers
- Mario Kart World
- Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds
- Divided fiction
Best Simulation/Strategy Game
- The changes
- Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles
- Jurassic World Evolution 3
- Civilization VII by Sid Meier
- Rising Storm
- Two Points Museum
Best sports/racing game
- EA Sports FC 26
- EA Sports F1 25
- Mario Kart World
- Rematch
- Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds
Best eSports game
- Counterattack 2
- Dota 2
- League of Legends
- Mobile Legends: Bang Bang
- Valorant
Best eSports athlete
- argument
- Chovy
- Abandoned
- Kakeru
- Menardo
- Zywoo
Best eSports team
- Generation G – League of Legends
- NRG-Valorant
- Falcons Team – Dota 2
- Team Liquid – Mobile Legends: Bang Bang
- Team Vitality – Counter-Strike 2
Best content creator
- Caedrel
- Kai Cenat
- HumidCr1TiKaL
- Sakura Miko
- The burnt peanut
Best multiplayer game
- Arc Invaders
- Battlefield 6
- Elden Ring Night Kingdom
- Peak
- Divided fiction
Best Adaptation
- A Minecraft movie
- Devil can 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
If you miss an upcoming release, we remind you that all titles that hit stores from tomorrow, November 18, 2025, will not be eligible for this year’s edition.
In the same way, titles released since November 18, 2024like Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, made it to this year’s finalists, having failed to make it last year.
Clair Obscur Expedition 33 leaves as favorite, with 12 nominationsbut we will have to wait until December 11th at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles to find out the winners.
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