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All Winners Announced for the Golden Joystick Awards 2025 — Game of the Year, Best Narrative, Studio of the Year, and More

All Winners Announced for the Golden Joystick Awards 2025 — Game of the Year, Best Narrative, Studio of the Year, and More

Hennadiy Chemеris
November 20, 2025, 09:57 PM November 20, 2025, 10:01 PM

The Golden Joystick Awards 2025 ceremony has wrapped, with players—not a jury—selecting the best games of the year across multiple categories. This year’s show was hosted by Maggie Robertson, best known for voicing Lady Dimitrescu in Resident Evil Village.

Best Narrative

Best Multiplayer

Best Visual Design

Best Indie Game

Best Indie (Self-Published)

Studio of the Year

  • Sandfall Interactive — winner;
  • Rebellion;
  • Sloclap;
  • Bloober Team;
  • Aggro Crab & Landfall;
  • Team Cherry.

Best Early Access Game

Best Soundtrack

Best DLC

Best Audio Design

Best Trailer

Best Ongoing Mobile Game

Best Ongoing PC & Console Game

  • Minecraft — winner;
  • Apex Legends;
  • Marvel Rivals;
  • Warframe;
  • Call of Duty: Warzone;
  • Helldivers 2;
  • Tom Clancyʼs Rainbow Six Siege X;
  • Fortnite;
  • Satisfactory;
  • Dead by Daylight;
  • Grand Theft Auto Online;
  • Naraka: Bladepoint.

Best Remake or Remaster

Best Gaming Hardware

  • AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D — winner;
  • Razer Blade 16;
  • Nintendo Switch 2;
  • Nintendo Switch 2 Pro Controller;
  • WD_BLACK SN8100 NVMe SSD;
  • Elgato Facecam 4K.

Best Adaptation

  • Arcane Season 2 (Netflix) — winner;
  • Devil May Cry (Netflix);
  • The Last of Us Season 2 (HBO);
  • Minecraft (Warner Bros. Pictures);
  • Side Quest (Prime Video);
  • Sonic the Hedgehog 3 (Paramount Pictures).

Best Supporting Performance

  • Ben Starr — Verso in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 — winner;
  • Troy Baker — Higgs Monaghan in Death Stranding 2: On the Beach;
  • Jim High — Erik in Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2;
  • Lucy Griffiths — Alva in Eriksholm: The Stolen Dream;
  • Logan Cunningham — Hades 2;
  • Marios Gavrilis — Emmerich Voss in Indiana Jones and the Great Circle.

Best Lead Performance

  • Jennifer English — Maelle in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 — winner;
  • Troy Baker — Indiana Jones in Indiana Jones and the Great Circle;
  • Tom McKay — Henry in Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2;
  • Alex Jordan — Jan in The Alters;
  • Erika Ishii — Atsu in Ghost of Yotei;
  • Adriyan Rae — Hazel in South of Midnight.

Best PC Game

Best Console Game

Most Wanted Game

Ultimate Game of the Year 2025

  • Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 — winner;
  • Donkey Kong Bananza;
  • Death Stranding 2;
  • Ghost of Yotei;
  • Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2;
  • Blue Prince;
  • Split Fiction;
  • Hades 2;
  • Hollow Knight: Silksong;
  • Peak;
  • Indiana Jones and the Great Circle;
  • Silent Hill f.

Additional Awards

  • Breakthrough Award — Schedule I;
  • Streamers’ Choice — Peak.

You can find the nominees for the upcoming The Game Awards 2025 ceremony here.

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    Gaming Journalist. I have been writing news for VGTimes since 2015 on a variety of topics including not only games but also movies, anime, cosplay, cutting-edge technology, artificial intelligence, memes, and social media. I am also the author of several reviews, top lists, compilations, and other articles related to video games. I collect various gamer memorabilia, including figurines, posters, old consoles, and more. I have a keen interest in retro gaming. I have been gaming since the early 2000s on both PC and consoles.
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