The Game Awards 2025 | Summary

[Moonface]

The Game Awards 2025 begins in just under ten minutes at 7:30pm ET / 4:30pm PT. All announcements and winners will be compiled into this post once the event begins.


In the meantime, does anyone have anything they hope to see announced during the show or predictions for any winners? I'm expecting Expedition 33 to sweep a lot of the categories it got a nomination in myself.

Winners

• Best Family Game - Donkey Kong Bananza
  
• Innovation in Accessibility - Doom: The Dark Ages
  
• Best eSports Game - 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 (Clair Obscur: Expedition 33)
  
• Games for Impact - South of Midnight
  
• Best Ongoing Game - No Man's Sky
  
• Best Audio Design - Battlefield 6
  
• Best Fighting Game - Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves
  
• Most Anticipated Game - Grand Theft Auto VI
  
• 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
  
• 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 Game - Arc Raiders
  
• Best Game Direction - Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
  
• Game of the Year - Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
  

Announcements

• The Free Shepherd
  • Release Date: 2027
    
  
  
• Decrepit
  • Release Date: N/A
    
  
  
• Audio Mech
  • Release Date: N/A
    
  • Demo Available: December 12, 2025
    
  
  
• Pragmata
  • Release Date: April 24, 2026
    
  • Demo Available: Today
    
  
  
• Solasta II
  • Release Date: March 12, 2026
    
  
  
• Tank Rat
  • Release Date: Spring 2026
    
  
  
• Bradley the Badger
  • Release Date: N/A
    
  
  
• Stupid Never Dies
  • Release Date: 2026
    
  
  
• Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic
  • Release Date: N/A
    
  
  
• Divinity 3
  • Release Date: N/A
    
  
  
• 4 Loop
  • Release Date: N/A
    
  
  
• Coven of the Chicken Foot
  • Release Date: N/A
    
  
  
• Ontos
  • Release Date: 2026
    
  
  
• Zenless Zone Zero - Angels of Delusion
  • Release Date: N/A
    
  
  
• Resident Evil Requiem
  LEON!!
  • Release Date: February 27, 2026
    
  
  
• Order of the Sinking Star
  • Release Date: 2026
    
  
  
• Exodus
  • Release Date: Early 2027
    
  
  
• Warlock
  Gameplay reveal coming in Summer 2026.
  • Release Date: 2027
    
  
  
• Screamer
  • Release Date: March 26, 2026
    
  
  
• Control: Resonant
  • Release Date: 2026
    
  
  
• Gang of Dragon
  • Release Date: N/A
    
  
  
• Street Fighter: The Movie
  • Release Date: 2026
    
  
  
• Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight
  • Release Date: May 29, 2026
    
  
  
• Tomb Raider: Catalyst
  • Release Date: 2027
    
  
  
• Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis
  Remake of Tomb Raider 1.
  • Release Date: 2026
    
  
  
• The Forest 3
  • Release Date: N/A
    
  
  
• Orbitals
  • Release Date: 2026
    
  
  
• Wuthering Waves - Version 3.0
  • Release Date: December 25, 2025
    
  
  
• Diablo IV: Lord of Hatred
  • Release Date: April 28, 2026
    
  
  
• Marvel Rivals - Season 6
  • Release Date: 2026
    
  
  
• 007: First Light
  • Release Date: March 27, 2026
    
  
  
• Lords of the Fallen II
  • Release Date: 2026
    
  
  
• Saros
  • Release Date: April 30, 2026
    
  
  
• No Law
  • Release Date: N/A
    
  
  
• Where Winds Meet - The Imperial Legacy Update
  • Release Date: N/A
    
  
  
• Phasmophobia: Nintendo Switch 2 Edition
  • Release Date: 2026
    
  
  
• Total War: Warhammer 40K
  • Release Date: N/A
    
  
  
• Ace Combat 8: Wings of Theve
  • Release Date: 2026
    
  
  
• Star Wars: Galactic Racers
  Now this is pod racing baby!
  • Release Date: 2026
    
  
  
• Out of Words
  • Release Date: N/A
    
  
  
• Phantom Blade 0
  • Release Date: September 9, 2026
    
  
  
• Mega Man: Dual Override
  • Release Date: 2027
    
  
  
• The Super Mario Galaxy Movie
  • Release Date: April 2026
    
  
  
• Nioh 3
  • Release Date: February 6, 2026
    
  • Demo Available: January 2026
    
  
  
• High Guard
  • Release Date: January 26, 2026
    

[Dragon Lord]

>FFT winning a game award in 2025
>E33 taking out the trash

Best year of TGA ever. Well, minus all the game announcements being complete slop and watching trash steal Player's Voice from E33.

E33 deserved all that it got though. One of the absolute best games to ever be made, and the best all-around game released since NieR: Automata. For once the game that deserved to win everything did in fact win everything. I think the only other game up there that had a sliver of a chance would have been Silksong, but it's still nothing compared to E33 (let's not even talk about how much of a joke DK Bonanza being up there was LOL).

I gotta add though, Genshin needs to be banned from being eligible for Player's Voice. I love the game, but man it's five years old now and has already won multiple awards. It's had its time and we need to let it just chill. Let newer games be allowed in there instead (maybe live service/gacha games just need to be banned from winning awards outside of their release year/first year of eligibility besides the "Best Ongoing" category).

[Moonface]

Yeah DK Bananza was the only game I felt didn't remotely deserve to be in the GotY category. By itself it isn't good enough to be there and against the rest of the nominees it doesn't even come close to them.

I also think Sonic Racing Crossworlds should've won over MKW, but there's no way Mario isn't going to win an award whenever it has a nomination.

[Maniakkid25]

I'll be honest, I'm much less interested in the awards, and more interested in the reveal trailers. New Ace Combat? Hell yeah! Control sequel? Hell yeah! Solasta II? Nice! A full-blown remake of Tomb Raider 1? Again?! Didn't we already do this in Tomb Raider Legend Anniversary (edit: I'm dumb and forgor)? Okay.

By the name of it, Fate of the Old Republic is clearly a spiritual successor to KotOR. Galactic Racers is actually a really interesting game, though. It's developed by former Burnout and old-school NFS developers. That is definitely a game on my watch list. Tomb Raider Catalyst apparently looks like a soft reboot, so that's neat.

Oh, and I have to mention this: Street Fighter the Movie sounds like its going to be an absolute blast for all the wrong reasons. 50 Cent is gonna play Balrog. That's the only thing I needed to see to understand this is going to be a great MST3K-style movie (watch and mock it live)!

[Dragon Lord]

Yeah DK Bananza was the only game I felt didn't remotely deserve to be in the GotY category. By itself it isn't good enough to be there and against the rest of the nominees it doesn't even come close to them.

Yeah, it was where it belonged in the best family game, but when you look at the GoTY list and you see that game next to a name like Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 you just can't help but laugh at the absurdity of it. Then again you might be able to say that about all of the nominations up against something as god-tier as E33. Silksong was the only other game that deserved to be up there and even it had a snowball's chance in hell at winning over E33.

I do kind of feel bad for Silksong though. It should have won something. While I haven't played it myself (or finished Hollow Knight for that matter), from everything I've heard about the game, it not only lived up to the expectations set by the hype and the first game, but it surpassed how good Hollow Knight was as well. Which is not something easily done for a sequel. A large majority of the time a sequel falls flat compared to the first game. 

I was really hoping maybe it'd come out in the Player's Voice category since I knew E33 was going to clean house every where else, but sadly it sounds like Wuthering Waves had Chinese players voting so they could get free shit in the game, so it as an unwinnable battle in there for Silksong. Though just the fact that a small indie game like Silksong was even up there for GoTY should make Team Cherry feel really good.