The Game Awards 2025 Nominations Announced: Who Are Your Winners?

The Game Awards has just unveiled the shortlists for every category at this year’s event, highlighting many fantastic titles that have launched throughout 2025.

As expected, there are some standouts nominated for multiple awards, with the most-nominated titles including Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, Ghost of Yotei, and Death Stranding 2: On the Beach.

Here’s a list of all the nominations (excluding eSports):

Best Performance

Best Ongoing Game

Best Mobile Game

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

Best Art Direction

Best Score and Music

• Christopher Larkin (Hollow Knight: Silksong)
• Darren Korb (Hades 2)
• Lorien Testard (Clair Obscur: Expedition 33)
• Toma Otowa (Ghost of Yotei)
• Wookid & Ludwig Forssell (Death Stranding 2: On the Beach)

Best Audio Design

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

Best Adaptation

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

Best Narrative

Best Community Support

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

Games for Impact

Best Multiplayer

Best Independent Game

Best Debut Indie Game

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

Best VR/AR Game

Content Creator of the Year

• Caedrel
• Kai Cenat
• MoistCr1tikal
• Sakura Miko
• The Burnt Peanut

Most Anticipated Game

Best Action/Adventure Game

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

Best Role-Playing Game

Best Fighting Game

Best Action Game

Innovation in Accessibility

Best Family Game

Best Sim/Strategy Game

Best Sports/Racing Game

Best Game Direction

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

Game of the Year

• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
• Death Stranding 2: On the Beach
• Donkey Kong Bananza
• Hades 2
• Hollow Knight: Silksong
• Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2

So, that’s how it all breaks down this time, and we’ll find out all the winners when The Game Awards itself takes place in mid-December.

However, we’re interested to know — which are your favourites to win in each category? While some of them aren’t super relevant to most, we’ve included polls above, allowing you to have your say on what games deserve to take home which awards.

We’d love to know what you think, so please take part in the polls, and voice your opinions in the comments section below.