Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 sets new record at The Game Awards 2025: All winners & nominees

The Game Awards 2025 is now behind us, as Geoff Keighley’s spectacle showcased the year’s biggest releases on the biggest stage. Clair Obscur made history by winning the most awards in a single night and taking out the big one, Game of the Year, in the process.

It’s the most wonderful time of the year if you love video games. The Game Awards is a chance to not only celebrate a fantastic year gone by, but also to look ahead and get a glimpse of what’s around the corner.

2025 has been no slouch, with a diverse mix of Game of the Year contenders vying for the crown. From Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 to Silent Hill f and Death Stranding 2: On the Beach, sensational games kept us all busy over the past 12 months. At The Game Awards 2025, we got a chance to celebrate them all, but only one could win the biggest prize.

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 was crowned this 2025’s Game of the Year winner, but that’s not all. It won nine awards in total, making it the most successful title in Game Awards history. The record was previously held by The Last of Us Part 2, which won seven awards in 2020.

All Game Awards 2025 categories and winners

Below are all categories and respective winners for The Game Awards 2025.

Game of the Year

Recognizing a game that delivers the absolute best experience across all creative and technical fields.

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

Best Game Direction

Awarded for outstanding creative vision and innovation in game direction and design.

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

Best Narrative

For outstanding storytelling and narrative development in a game.

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

Best Art Direction

For outstanding creative and technical achievement in artistic design and animation.

• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 – Winner
• Death Stranding 2
• Ghost of Yotei
• Hades II
• Hollow Knight Silksong

Best Score and Music

For outstanding music, including score, original song, and licensed soundtrack.

• Christopher Larkin – Hollow Knight Silksong
• Darren Korb – Hades II
• Lorien Testard – Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 – Winner
• Toma Otowa – Ghost of Yotei
• Woodkid & Ludvig Forssell – Death Stranding 2

Best Audio Design

Recognizing the best in-game audio and sound design.

• Battlefield 6 – Winner
• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
• Death Stranding 2
• Ghost of Yotei
• Silent Hill F

Best Performance

Award to an individual for voice-over acting, motion capture, or performance capture.

• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 — Ben Starr
• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 — Charlie Cox
• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 — Jennifer English – Winner
• Silent Hill f — Konatsu Kato
• Indiana Jones and the Great Circle — Troy Baker

Games for Impact

For a thought-provoking game with a pro-social meaning or message.

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

Best Ongoing Game

Awarded to a game for outstanding development of ongoing content that evolves the player experience, focusing on titles released in previous award cycles.

• Final Fantasy XIV
• Fortnite
• Helldivers II
• Marvel Rivals
• No Man’s Sky – Winner

Best Community Support

Recognizing outstanding community support and transparency, including social media, updates, and patch activity.

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

Best Independent Game

Awarded to a game with higher risk tolerance created outside the traditional publisher system.

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

Best Debut Indie Game

Recognizing an independent studio that shipped its first game in 2025.

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

Megabonk was originally in this category, but its solo developer withdrew after confirming it wasn’t actually their debut game.

Best Mobile Game

For the best game playable on a dedicated mobile device.

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

Best VR/AR Game

For the best virtual, mixed, or augmented reality experience.

• Alien Rogue Incursion
• Arken Age
• Ghost Town
• Deadpool VR
• The Midnight Walk – Winner

Best Action Game

For the best action-focused combat experience.

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

Best Action/Adventure Game

For action-adventure games that combine combat, traversal, and puzzle solving.

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

Best Role-Playing Game

For games designed around rich character progression, customization, and role-playing, both offline and online.

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

Best Fighting Game

For a game designed primarily around head-to-head combat.

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

Best Family Game

For the best game suitable for family play.

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

Best Sim/Strategy Game

For games focused on simulation, strategy, or turn-based gameplay.

• The Alters
• FINAL FANTASY TACTICS – The Ivalice Chronicles – Winner
• Jurassic World Evolution 3
• Sid Meier’s Civilization VII
• Tempest Rising
• Two Point Museum

Best Sports/Racing Game

For traditional and non-traditional sports and racing titles.

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

Best Multiplayer Game

For outstanding online multiplayer design, including co-op and massively multiplayer experiences.

• Arc Raiders – Winner
• Battlefield 6
• Elden Ring Nightreign
• Peak
• Split Fiction

Best Adaptation

Recognizing creative work that authentically adapts a video game to television, film, streaming, comics, podcasts, or other media.

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

Most Anticipated Game

For the most promising upcoming game scheduled for release after December 11, 2025.

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

Content Creator of the Year

Recognizing some of the best content creators of 2025.

• Caedrel
• Kai Cenat
• MoistCr1TiKal – Winner
• Sakura Miko
• The Burnt Peanut

Innovation in Accessibility

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

Best Esports Game

For the best Esports-focused video game.

• Counter-Strike 2 – Winner
• DOTA 2
• League of Legends
• Mobile Legends: Bang Bang
• Valorant

Best Esports Team

Recognizing some of the top Esports teams in the industry

• Gen.G – League of Legends
• NRG – Valorant
• Team Falcons – DOTA 2
• Team Liquid PH – Mobile Legends: Bang Bang
• Team Vitality – Counter-Strike 2 – Winner

Best Esports Athlete

Acknowledging the best Esports athletes from around the world

• brawk
• Chovy – Winner
• f0rsakeN
• Kakeru
• MenaRD
• Zyw0o