Best of 2025: Game of the Year Awards Tracker
Recent updates:
November 17, 2025: Scorecard launched with this year's The Game Awards nominees and Indie Game Award nominees.
Key to awards:
[BAFTA] BAFTA Games Awards - noms tba Jan / winners tba Mar
[DICE] D.I.C.E. Awards - noms tba Jan / winners tba Feb
[GDC] Game Developers Choice Awards - finalists tba Feb / winners Mar. 12
[IND] Indie Game Awards - winners announced Dec. 18
[MC] Metacritic Game of the Year (overall highest Metascore) - tba Jan
[NY] New York Game Awards - noms tba / winners Jan. 18
[TGA] The Game Awards - winners announced Dec. 11
★ Wins in bold and starred / nominations in regular text
Game of the Year
tbd Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 - TGA
tbd Death Stranding 2: On the Beach - TGA
tbd Donkey Kong Bananza - TGA
tbd Hollow Knight: Silksong - TGA
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Kingdom Come: Deliverance II - TGA
Indie Game of the Year
tbd Ball x Pit - TGA
tbd Blue Prince - IND, TGA
tbd Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector - IND
tbd Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 - IND, TGA
tbd Consume Me - IND
tbd Hollow Knight: Silksong - IND, TGA
tbd Keep Driving - IND
tbd Pipistrello and the Cursed Yoyo - IND
Debut Game of the Year *
tbd Blue Prince - TGA
tbd Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 - IND, TGA
tbd Fretless - The Wrath of Riffson - IND
tbd ILA: A Frosty Glide - IND
tbd Sorry We're Closed - IND
tbd Tyrant's Realm - IND
* Megabonk was originally a TGA nominee but later withdrew itself from consideration.
AR/VR/IR Game of the Year *
tbd Alien: Rogue Incursion - TGA
tbd Ghost Town - TGA
tbd Marvel's Deadpool VR - TGA
tbd The Midnight Walk - TGA
* Note: In cases where a game is playable on both VR and non-VR devices, the Metascore displayed above is for the general version of the game and not specifically the VR version.
Multiplayer/Online Game of the Year
tbd ARC Raiders - TGA
tbd Battlefield 6 - TGA
tbd Elden Ring Nightreign - TGA
tbd Split Fiction - TGA
Ongoing/Evolving Game of the Year
Games first released in or prior to 2025 with post-release content added in 2025
Final Fantasy XIV - TGA
Fortnite - TGA
Helldivers 2 - TGA
Marvel Rivals - TGA
No Man's Sky - TGA
Mobile Game of the Year
tbd Destiny: Rising - TGA
tbd Persona 5: The Phantom X - TGA
tbd Sonic Rumble - TGA
tbd Umamusume: Pretty Derby - TGA
tbd Wuthering Waves - TGA
Best Narrative/Story/Writing
tbd Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector - IND
tbd Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 - TGA
tbd Consume Me - IND
tbd Death Stranding 2: On the Beach - TGA
tbd The Drifter - IND
tbd Ghost of Yōtei - TGA
tbd Kingdom Come: Deliverance II - TGA
tbd Promise Mascot Agency - IND
tbd The Roottrees Are Dead - IND
tbd The Seance of Blake Manor - IND
tbd Silent Hill f - TGA
Best Art Direction/Visual Design
tbd Artis Impact - IND
tbd Cat Detective Albert Wilde - IND
tbd Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 - TGA
tbd Death Stranding 2: On the Beach - TGA
tbd Ghost of Yōtei - TGA
tbd Hollow Knight: Silksong - TGA
tbd Slime Rancher 2 - IND
Genre-Specific Awards 
Action Game of the Year
tbd Battlefield 6 - TGA
tbd DOOM: The Dark Ages - TGA
tbd Ninja Gaiden 4 - TGA
tbd Shinobi: Art of Vengeance - TGA
Adventure (or Action-Adventure) Game of the Year
tbd Death Stranding 2: On the Beach - TGA
tbd Ghost of Yōtei - TGA
tbd Hollow Knight: Silksong - TGA
tbd Indiana Jones and the Great Circle - TGA
tbd Split Fiction - TGA
Fighting Game of the Year
tbd Capcom Fighting Collection 2 - TGA
tbd Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves - TGA
tbd Mortal Kombat: Legacy Kollection - TGA
tbd Virtua Fighter 5 R.E.V.O. World Stage - TGA
Role-Playing Game of the Year
tbd Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 - TGA
tbd Kingdom Come: Deliverance II - TGA
tbd Monster Hunter Wilds - TGA
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The Outer Worlds 2 - TGA
Simulation/Strategy Game of the Year
tbd The Alters - TGA
tbd Final Fantasy Tactics - The Ivalice Chronicles - TGA
tbd Jurassic World Evolution 3 - TGA
tbd Sid Meier's Civilization VII - TGA
tbd Tempest Rising - TGA
tbd Two Point Museum - TGA
Sports/Racing Game of the Year
tbd EA Sports FC 26 - TGA
tbd Mario Kart World - TGA
tbd Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds - TGA
Note that most awards organizations also honor games and creators in additional categories not listed above. We opted to concentrate on those categories that tend to recur most frequently among the different awards groups. In addition, we have omitted awards and organizations (such as the Golden Joystick Awards) that are determined solely by public voting, as well as any awards (like those theoretically handed out in the summer at E3) that don't primarliy correspond to the calendar year.
