There was a lot going on at The Game Awards 2025. With big names like Gemma Chan and Lenny Kravitz showing up, big games like Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic and Divinity arriving for the first time, and more, it was electric. There were plenty of awards to give out, many which went to a very special game in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. Check out all the winners below.
The Game Awards, the video game industry’s biggest year-end celebration, honored the most innovative games, studios and creatives of 2025 tonight, airing live in 4K UHD tonight across more than 30 different digital video platforms globally, including Prime Video for the first time ever. Sandfall Interactive and Kepler Interactive’s Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 received top honors as the 2025 Game of the Year award recipient, as well as Best Game Direction, Best Narrative, Best Art Direction, Best Score and Music, Best Performance, Best Independent Game, Best Debut Indie Game and Best RPG.
The top stars across entertainment and video games including, Dan Houser, David Harbour, Elijah Wright, Felicia Day, Gemma Chan, J.J. Abrams, Jeffrey Wright, Lenny Kravitz, Maggie Robertson, Megan Everett, Mike Booth, Milla Jovovich, Miss Piggy, Neil Newbon, Nicolas Doucet, Rahul Kohli, Rebecca Ford, Rowlf, Todd Howard and Tricia Helfer took to the stage to present awards at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles for The Game Awards 2025 live, in-person production.
The show included a special live musical performance by Grammy-Award winning American rock band Evanescence who performed “Afterlife” from the Netflix animated series Devil May Cry, based on Capcom's popular action-adventure video game franchise. Additionally, the cast of Paramount Pictures’ upcoming film Street Fighter including Andrew Koji, Andrew Schulz, Callina Liang, Cody Rhodes, David Dastmalchian, Jason Momoa, Mel Jarson, Noah Centineo, Olivier Richters , Orville Peck, Rayna Vallandingham, Roman Reigns and Vidyut Jammwal presented the award for Best Ongoing Game. The Game Awards Orchestra conducted by BAFTA and Emmy nominated composer Lorne Balfe, performed scores from the year’s Game of the Year nominees and more.
While honoring the games and creatives who propelled the industry forward in 2025, The Game Awards also revealed a first look at highly anticipated games and entertainment properties including, 007 First Light (IO Interactive), 4:LOOP (Bad Robot Games and Sony Interactive Entertainment), Invincible VS (Skybound Entertainment), Out of Words (Kong Orange, WiredFly and Morten Søndergaard in partnership with Epic Games Publishing), Resident Evil: Requiem (Capcom), Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic (Arcanaut Studios), The Super Mario Galaxy Movie (Universal Pictures), Tomb Raider: Catalyst (Amazon Games and Crystal Dynamics) and Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis (Amazon Games and Crystal Dynamics) and WARLOCK: DUNGEONS & DRAGONS (Invoke Studios and Wizards of the Coast).
For the fourth year, The Game Awards honored the most beloved new entertainment experiences inspired by video games, with The Last of Us: Season 2 (HBO/PlayStation Productions) taking home the “Best Adaptation” award this year.
The comprehensive list of winners can be found below:
GAME OF THE YEAR
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Sandfall Interactive/Kepler Interactive)
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 review — A monolithic achievement
Sandfall Interactive drops an award-worthy turn-based RPG on their first try
David Burdette
BEST GAME DIRECTION
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Sandfall Interactive/Kepler Interactive)
BEST NARRATIVE
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Sandfall Interactive/Kepler Interactive)
BEST ART DIRECTION
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Sandfall Interactive/Kepler Interactive)
BEST SCORE AND MUSIC, LEVELED UP BY SPOTIFY
Lorien Testard, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
BEST AUDIO DESIGN
Battlefield 6 (Battlefield Studios/EA)
Battlefield 6 review — The objective was clear, and well executed
Battlefield is back in a big way!
Cassie Peterson
BEST PERFORMANCE
Jennifer English, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
INNOVATION IN ACCESSIBILITY
Doom: The Dark Ages (id Software/Bethesda Softworks)
DOOM: The Dark Ages review — Excessive ordinance is now required
Even the stars will bleed
David Flynn
GAMES FOR IMPACT
South of Midnight (Compulsion Games/Xbox Game Studios)
South of Midnight review — Unraveling the mysteries behind Stigma
A perfect combination of music and interactive storytelling.
Cassie Peterson
BEST ONGOING
No Man’s Sky (Hello Games)
BEST COMMUNITY SUPPORT
Baldur’s Gate 3 (Larian Studios)
Baldur’s Gate 3 review — Natural 20 Critical Success
It’s impossible to overstate the importance of Dungeons & Dragons to the gaming world. It has served as inspiration for countless RPGs, movies, video games, and has seen a major resurgence as of late thanks to the likes of Stranger Things and, oddly enough, COVID. It’s been just over
Ron Burke
BEST INDEPENDENT GAME
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Sandfall Interactive)
BEST DEBUT INDIE GAME
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Sandfall Interactive)
BEST MOBILE GAME
Umamusume: Pretty Derby (Cygames Inc.)
BEST VR/AR
The Midnight Walk (MoonHood/Fast Travel Games)
The Midnight Walk review — This philosophical claymation game has a gun
A beautiful stroll hamstrung by baffling design
Joey Caplan
BEST ACTION
Hades II (Supergiant Games)
Hades 2 review — Stopping time
A sequel fit for the gods
David Flynn
BEST ACTION/ADVENTURE
Hollow Knight: Silksong (Team Cherry)
BEST RPG
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Sandfall Interactive/Kepler Interactive)
BEST FIGHTING
Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves (SNK Corporation)
FATAL FURY: City of the Wolves review – There are two wolves inside you
One of them keeps trying to explain how S.P.G. works
David Flynn
BEST FAMILY
Donkey Kong Bananza (Nintendo EPD/Nintendo)
Donkey Kong Bananza Review — One Big Leap for DK and friends!
He’s bigger, faster, and stronger too -- He’s the first member of the D.K. crew!
Adam Moreno
BEST SIM/STRATEGY
FINAL FANTASY TACTICS - The Ivalice Chronicles (Square Enix)
Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles review — “Blood is the price of progress! It is the ink in which history’s pages are writ!”
Final Fantasy Tactics has always been a deeply personal game for me. I’ve beaten it… well, when you read the rest of this review, it’ll become clearer how many times, and every time I find some nuance in the story that I hadn’t seen on the previous
Ron Burke
BEST SPORTS/RACING
Mario Kart World (Nintendo EPD/Nintendo)
Mario Kart World review — The ups and downs of a road trip
A bold leap forward, but doesn’t stick the landing
David Flynn
BEST MULTIPLAYER
Arc Raiders (Embark Studios)
ARC Raiders review — Razed on the Rust Belt
It’s better for newbies, but still very much an extraction shooter
David Burdette
BEST ADAPTATION
The Last of Us: Season 2 (HBO/PlayStation Productions)
MOST ANTICIPATED GAME
Grand Theft Auto VI (Rockstar Games)
CONTENT CREATOR OF THE YEAR
MoistCr1TiKaL
BEST ESPORTS GAME
Counter-Strike 2 (Valve)
BEST ESPORTS ATHLETE
Chovy - Jeong Ji-hoon (League of Legends)
BEST ESPORTS TEAM
Team Vitality - Counter-Strike 2
PLAYERS’ VOICE
Wuthering Waves (Kuro Games)
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