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The Game Awards 2025: Complete Winners List and Every World Premiere Trailer

General·December 12, 2025·43 min read

The Game Awards 2025 has wrapped, and one game walked away holding nearly every trophy in sight. Beyond the prizes, the broadcast also delivered a steady run of world premiere trailers, with brand new IPs sharing the stage alongside long awaited sequels. If you missed the live show, here is a clean breakdown of every winner and every new trailer revealed that night.

Every World Premiere and Trailer Reveal

Each year more studios use The Game Awards as a launchpad for their biggest reveals, and the 2025 lineup leaned heavily into both directions: returning franchises plus fresh IPs that caught the room off guard. Every link below points to the official upload on The Game Awards YouTube channel, so you can binge whatever sparked your interest.

Full Winners List

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 was the headline story of the evening, claiming most of the major categories on the board. The full nominee lists for every category are below, with winners highlighted in bold.

Game of the Year

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

Best Game Direction

  • Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
  • Death Stranding 2: On The Beach
  • Ghost of Yōtei
  • Hades II
  • Split Fiction

Best Narrative

  • Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
  • Death Stranding 2: On The Beach
  • Ghost of Yōtei
  • Kingdom Come: Deliverance II
  • Silent Hill f

Best Art Direction

  • Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
  • Death Stranding 2: On The Beach
  • Ghost of Yōtei
  • Hades II
  • Hollow Knight: Silksong

Best Score and Music

  • Hollow Knight: Silksong, by Christopher Larkin
  • Hades II, by Darren Korb
  • Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, by Lorien Testard
  • Ghost of Yōtei, by Toma Otowa
  • Death Stranding 2: On The Beach, by Woodkid and Ludvig Forssell

Best Audio Design

  • Battlefield 6
  • Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
  • Death Stranding 2: On The Beach
  • Ghost of Yōtei
  • Silent Hill f

Best Performance

  • Ben Starr in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
  • Charlie Cox in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
  • Erika Ishii in Ghost of Yōtei
  • Jennifer English in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
  • Konatsu Kato in Silent Hill f
  • Troy Baker in Indiana Jones and the Great Circle

Innovation in Accessibility

  • Assassin's Creed Shadows
  • Atomfall
  • Doom: The Dark Ages
  • EA Sports FC 26
  • South of Midnight

Games for Impact

  • Consume Me
  • Despelote
  • Lost Records: Bloom & Rage
  • South of Midnight
  • Wanderstop

Best Ongoing Game

  • Final Fantasy XIV
  • Fortnite
  • Helldivers 2
  • Marvel Rivals
  • No Man's Sky

Best Community Support

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

Best Independent Game

  • Absolum
  • Ball x Pit
  • Blue Prince
  • Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
  • Hades II
  • Hollow Knight: Silksong

Best Debut Indie Game

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

Best Mobile Game

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

Best VR / AR Game

  • Alien: Rogue Incursion
  • Arken Age
  • Ghost Town
  • Marvel's Deadpool VR
  • The Midnight Walk

Best Action Game

  • Battlefield 6
  • Doom: The Dark Ages
  • Hades II
  • Ninja Gaiden 4
  • Shinobi: Art of Vengeance

Best Action / Adventure Game

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

Best RPG

  • Avowed
  • Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
  • Kingdom Come: Deliverance II
  • Monster Hunter Wilds
  • The Outer Worlds 2

Best Fighting Game

  • 2XKO
  • Capcom Fighting Collection 2
  • Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves
  • Mortal Kombat: Legacy Kollection
  • Virtua Fighter 5 R.E.V.O. World Stage

Best Family Game

  • Donkey Kong Bananza
  • LEGO Party!
  • LEGO Voyagers
  • Mario Kart World
  • Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds
  • Split Fiction

Best Sim / Strategy Game

  • Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles
  • Jurassic World Evolution 3
  • Sid Meier's Civilization VII
  • Tempest Rising
  • The Alters
  • Two Point Museum

Best Sports / Racing Game

  • EA Sports FC 26
  • F1 25
  • Mario Kart World
  • Rematch
  • Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds

Best Multiplayer Game

  • ARC Raiders
  • Battlefield 6
  • Elden Ring Nightreign
  • Peak
  • Split Fiction

Best Adaptation

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

Most Anticipated Game

  • 007 First Light
  • Grand Theft Auto VI
  • Marvel's Wolverine
  • Resident Evil Requiem
  • The Witcher IV

Content Creator of the Year

  • Caedrel
  • Kai Cenat
  • MoistCr1TiKaL
  • Sakura Miko
  • The Burnt Peanut

Best Esports Game

  • Counter-Strike 2
  • DOTA 2
  • League of Legends
  • Mobile Legends: Bang Bang
  • VALORANT

Best Esports Athlete

  • Brawk (Brock Somerhalder)
  • Chovy (Jeong Ji-hoon)
  • F0rsakeN (Jason Susanto)
  • Kakeru (Kakeru Watanabe)
  • MenaRD (Saul Leonardo)
  • Zyw0o (Mathieu Herbaut)

Best Esports Team

  • G in League of Legends
  • NRG in VALORANT
  • Team Falcons in DOTA 2
  • Team Liquid PH in Mobile Legends: Bang Bang
  • Team Vitality in Counter-Strike 2

Players' Voice

  • Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
  • Dispatch
  • Genshin Impact
  • Hollow Knight: Silksong
  • Wuthering Waves

Closing Notes

Between Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 storming the major awards and the steady run of trailer drops, the 2025 ceremony gave fans plenty to talk about heading into the next release cycle. Bookmark this page if you plan to circle back to the trailers, since the schedule for 2026 already looks packed.

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