The Game Awards 2025 Nominees Announced: Expedition 33 Earns a Record 12 Nominations

Sony leads publishers with 19 nominations.

Geoff Keighley has revealed the full slate of nominees for The Game Awards.

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 garnered 12 nominations across 10 categories, including Best Art Direction, Best Narrative, Best Music, and three nods for Best Performance — more than any other title in the awards’ history.

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

• Supergiant Games – Hades 2
• Hazelight Studios – Split Fiction
• Kojima Productions / PlayStation – Death Stranding 2: On The Beach
• Sandfall Interactive – Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
• Sucker Punch Productions – Ghost of Yotei

Best Performance

• Erika Ishii (Atsu) – Ghost of Yotei
• Charlie Cox (Gustav) – Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
• Jennifer English (Mael) – Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
• Troy Baker (Indiana Jones) – Indiana Jones and the Great Circle
• Konatsu Kato (Hinako) – Silent Hi
• Ben Starr (Verso) – Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 ll

Best Ongoing Support

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

Best Indie Game

• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
• Absolum
• Blue Prince
• Ball x Pit
• Hollow Knight: Silksong
• Hades 2

Best Community Support

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

Best Narrative

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

Best Creative Direction

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

Best Score / Music

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

Best Audio Design

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

Games for Impact (socially impactful games)

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

Best Debut Indie Game

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

Best Mobile Game

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

Best VR/AR Game

• The Midnight Walk
• Marvel Deadpool VR
• Alien: Rogue Invasion
• Arken Age
• Ghost Town

Best Action

• Ninja Gaiden 4
• Hades 2
• Shinobi: Art of Vengeance
• Battlefield 6
• Doom: The Dark Ages

Best Action-Adventure

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

Best Role-Playing Game

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

Best Fighting Game

• Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves
• Capcom Fighting Collection 2
• 2XKO
• Mortal Kombat: Legacy Kollection
• Virtua Fighter 5 REVO World Stage

Best Family Game

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

Best Simulation / Strategy Game

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

Best Sports / Racing Game

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

Best Multiplayer Game

• Elden Ring: Nightreign
• Battlefield 6
• PEAK
• ARC Raiders
• Split Fiction

Best Accessibility Options

• Assassin’s Creed Shadows
• Atomfall
• Doom: The Dark Ages
• EA FC26
• South of Midnight

Most Anticipated Game

• 007: First Light
• Grand Theft Auto VI
• Resident Evil: Requiem
• The Witcher 4
• Marvel’s Wolverine

Source: iXBT.games