TGA 2025: All Nominees Announced for Every Category—Game of the Year, Best RPG, Most Anticipated, and More

TGA 2025: All Nominees Announced for Every Category—Game of the Year, Best RPG, Most Anticipated, and More

Hennadiy Chemеris
November 17, 2025, 09:25 PM
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The live broadcast announcing the nominees for “Game of the Year” at The Game Awards 2025 has begun. You can watch it on YouTube as well as on Twitch. During the event, host Geoff Keighley revealed the nominees across various categories.

Game of the Year:

Which project do you think will win Game of the Year at TGA 2025?

Results

Best Performance:

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

Best Ongoing Game:

Best Mobile Game:

Best Art Direction:

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

Best Score and Music:

  • Hollow Knight: Silksong — Christopher Larkin;
  • Hades 2 — Darren Korb;
  • Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 — Lorien Testard;
  • Ghost of Yotei — Toma Otowa;
  • Death Stranding 2: On the Beach — Woodkid & Ludvig Forssell.

Best Audio Design:

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

Best Adaptation:

  • A Minecraft Movie;
  • Devil May Cry;
  • Splinter Cell: Death Watch;
  • The Last of Us — Season 2;
  • Until Dawn.

Best Narrative:

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

Best Community Support:

  • Baldur's Gate 3;
  • Final Fantasy XIV Online;
  • Fortnite;
  • Helldivers 2;
  • No Man's Sky.

Games for Impact:

Best Multiplayer:

Best Independent Game:

Best Debut Indie Game:

Best VR/AR Game:

Best Content Creator:

  • Caedrel;
  • Kai Cenat;
  • Moistcr1tikal;
  • Sakura Miko;
  • The Burnt Peanut.

Most Anticipated Game:

Best Action/Adventure Game:

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

Best Role-Playing Game:

Best Fighting Game:

Best Action Game:

Innovation in Accessibility:

Best Family Game:

Best Sim/Strategy Game:

Best Sports/Racing Game:

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

Best Esports Game:

Best Esports Athlete:

  • brawk;
  • Chovy;
  • f0rsakeN;
  • Kakeru;
  • MenaRD;
  • Zyw0o.

Best Esports Team:

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

Best Game Direction:

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

The Game Awards 2025 ceremony will take place on December 11. The event will feature new game announcements and fresh trailers. For example, Exodus is expected to be shown — a space RPG from veterans of Mass Effect and Halo.

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