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TGA 2025 Winners: Clair Obscur Dominates, Kingdom Come 2 Misses Out

December 12, 2025, 07:44 AM December 12, 2025, 07:46 AM

During The Game Awards 2025, this year’s best games were officially crowned, with standout titles celebrated across multiple categories. The night’s biggest winner was Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, which launched in April and walked away with the most awards.

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Game of the Year:

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

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 — winner;
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:

Destiny Rising;
Persona 5 The Phantom X;
Sonic Rumble;
Umamusume: Pretty Derby — Party Dash — winner;
Wuthering Waves.

Best Art Direction:

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 — winner;
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 — winner;
Ghost of Yotei — Toma Otowa;
Death Stranding 2: On the Beach — Woodkid & Ludvig Forssell.

Best Audio Design:

Battlefield 6 — winner;
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 — winner;
Until Dawn.

Best Narrative:

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

Best Community Support:

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

Games for Impact:

Best Multiplayer:

Best Independent Game:

Absolum;
BALL x PIT;
Blue Prince;
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 — winner;
Hades 2;
Hollow Knight: Silksong.

Best Debut Indie Game:

Blue Prince;
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 — winner;
Despelote;
Dispatch;
Megabonk.

Best VR/AR Game:

Alien Rogue Incursion;
Arken Age;
Ghost Town;
Marvel's Deadpool VR;
The Midnight Walk — winner.

Best Content Creator:

Caedrel;
Kai Cenat;
Moistcr1tikal — winner;
Sakura Miko;
The Burnt Peanut.

Most Anticipated Game:

Best Action/Adventure Game:

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

Best Role-Playing Game:

Avowed;
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 — winner;
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 — winner;
Mortal Kombat: Legacy Kollection;
Virtua Fighter 5 R.E.V.O. World Stage.

Best Action Game:

Battlefield 6;
Doom: The Dark Ages;
Hades 2 — winner;
Ninja Gaiden 4;
Shinobi: Art of Vengeance.

Innovation in Accessibility:

Assassin's Creed Shadows;
Atomfall;
Doom: The Dark Ages — winner;
EA Sports FC 26;
South of Midnight.

Best Family Game:

Best Sim/Strategy Game:

The Alters;
FINAL FANTASY TACTICS — The Ivalice Chronicles — winner;
Jurassic World Evolution 3;
Sid Meier's Civilization 7;
Tempest Rising;
Two Point Museum.

Best Sports/Racing Game:

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

Best Esports Game:

Best Esports Athlete:

brawk;
Chovy — winner;
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 — winner.

Best Game Direction:

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

Player's Choice:

Wuthering Waves — winner;
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33;
Dispatch;
Genshin Impact;
Hollow Knight: Silksong.

Game Changer Award:

Girls Make Games.

In our review of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, we listed the main pros and cons of the game.

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