'The Game Awards 2025': GOTY, all the winners and announcements, game by game

The The Game Awards 2025 ceremony made two things very clear: there was a major award and also a flood of announcements for the coming years. Everything happened during the event's official broadcast, with Geoff Keighley as master of ceremonies.

The main headline was the GOTY 2025: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 took home the top prize and ended up as the most awarded game.

GOTY 2025: the big winner of the night

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 was chosen as Game of the Year and closed the ceremony with a huge haul. In addition to the GOTY, it won several of the most important categories announced during the ceremony.

The key awards won by Clair Obscur

• Best Independent Game
• Best Independent Debut
• Best Art Direction
• Best Soundtrack (Lorien Testard)
• Best Narrative
• Best Direction
• Best Role-Playing Game
• Best Performance (Jennifer English)

All confirmed winners at The Game Awards 2025

• Family Game: Donkey Kong Bonanza
• Innovation in Accessibility: Doom: The Dark Ages
• Best eSports Game: Counter-Strike 2
• Best Mobile Game: Umamusume Pretty Derby
• Best Adaptation: The Last of Us (Season 2)
• Best Action Game: Hades 2
• Best Game 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 6
• Best Multiplayer: Arc Raiders
• Best Sports/Racing: Mario Kart World
• Best Community Support: Baldur’s Gate 3
• Best VR: The Midnight Walk
• Players' Choice: Wuthering Waves
• Best Action-Adventure: Hollow Knight: Silksong
• Best Strategy: Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles

All games announced and trailers revealed at the ceremony

These were the announcements and new trailers shown during the official broadcast of The Game Awards 2025:

• The Free Shepherd (PS5/PC, 2027)
• Decrepit (PC, 2026)
• AUDIOMECH
• Pragmata (April 24; also on Switch 2; demo on Steam)
• Solasta II (March 12)
• Bradley the Badger
• Stupid Never Dies (PS5/PC, 2026)
• Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic
• Divinity (new RPG from Larian Studios)
• 4:Loop (PS5/PC)
• Coven of the Chicken Foot
• Ontos
• Resident Evil Requiem (trailer featuring Leon S. Kennedy)
• Order of the Sinking Star
• Exodus (early 2027)
• Warlock (PC/PS5/Xbox, 2027)
• Control Resonant (2026)
• Gang of Dragon
• LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight (May 29)
• Tomb Raider Catalyst (2027) and Tomb Raider Legacy of Atlantis (2026)
• Forest 3
• Invincible VS (April 30)
• Orbitals (Switch 2, 2026)
• Diablo IV: Lord of Hatred (April 28)
• Deadpool arrives in Marvel Rivals (January 16)
• 007 First Light (March 27)
• Warframe (new trailer)
• Lords of the Fallen 2 (2026)
• Saros (April 30)
• No Law
• Devil May Cry (season 2)
• Total War: Warhammer 40,000
• Ace Combat 8: Wings of Theve (2026)
• Star Wars: Galactic Racer (2026)
• Out of Words (2026)
• Duet Night Abyss (new trailer)
• Phantom Blade Zero (September 9, 2026)
• Mega Man Dual Override (2027)
• Super Mario Galaxy (movie, April)
• Nioh 3 (February 6; demo on January 29)
• Highguard (free-to-play, January 26)