Xbox does it's best to honor the many great games that graces the platform. This year, there are 55 games coming from 46 developers in the running for awards, just a stellar number. Check it all out below, including the full award delivery on Xbox Wire.
Celebrating the 2025 Xbox Excellence Awards - Xbox Wire
Join us in celebrating the year’s most outstanding games and the teams behind them with the 2025 Xbox Excellence Awards. Check out the full list and winners here: #url#
Mike Nelson, Xbox Wire Editor
Today, we’re celebrating the 2025 Xbox Excellence Awards, recognizing the games and the teams behind them that Xbox players embraced across console, PC, handheld, and cloud over the past year.
Introduced last year, the Xbox Excellence Awards celebrate games – and the teams behind them – based on how players engaged with Xbox throughout 2025. Honorees were selected across these four categories that reflect players’ enthusiasm, passion, engagement, and love for these experiences: Store Rating, Player Engagement, Daily Active Users, and Units Sold.
This year’s list features 55 total games, with 16 currently available through Xbox Game Pass. It features 48 unique developers hailing from 13 countries, and brought to you by 24 publishers, alongside 19 self-published titles. Taken as a whole, it’s an encapsulation of development on Xbox – we want gaming to reach players wherever they are, and for the teams making those games to find players from wherever they are.
To see the full list of winners across the Store Rating, Player Engagement, Daily Active Users, and Units Sold categories, please see our Xbox Wire post.
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