The Game Awards 2025 Nominees Include Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

Ahead of The Game Awards on December 11, 2025, all game nominees were revealed on November 17, 2025. Voting is now open for 29 categories on the official site. The game with the most nominations this year is Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, as it appeared in 12 categories like Game of the Year. Other games appearing in multiple categories include Death Stranding 2, Hades 2, and Hollow Knight: Silksong. 

Here’s the full list of some of the most notable categories The Game Awards 2025 categories and the nominees you can vote for in each one this year: 

Game of the Year:

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

Best Game Direction:

• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 
• Death Stranding 2: On the Beach
• Ghost of Yotei 
• Hades 2 
• Split Fiction 

Best Narrative:

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

Best Art Direction:

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

Best Score and Music:

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

Best Audio Design: 

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

Best Perfromance: 

• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33: Ben Starr as Verso
• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33: Charlie Cox as Gustave
• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33: Jennifer English as Maelle
• Ghost of Yotei: Erika Ishii as Atsu
• Indiana Jones and the Great Circle: Troy Baker as Indiana Jones
• Silent Hill f: Konatsu Kato as Hinako Shimizu

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 Independent Game: 

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

Best Debut Indie Game:

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

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 2
• Ninja Gaiden 4
• Shinobi: Art of Vengeance

Best Action/Adventure Game:

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

Best RPG: 

• Avowed
• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 
• Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2
• 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: 

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

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

Most Anticipated Game: 

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

The Game Awards 2025 voting for nominees is open on the official site until December 10, 2025, and the show willing announce the winning games and people will start at 4:30pm PT/7:30pm ET on December 11, 2025.