The Game Awards 2025 Nominees Confirmed

Less the month left before The Game Awards 2025 - one of the biggest events in game industry. For those who doesn't know, it's annual awards ceremony like Oscar for the movie, but for the video games. It is a really anticipated event and now we finally know the nominees for each category.

It's been confirmed which games are now locked in per each category and all the result you can see below:

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: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, Death Stranding 2: On The Beach, Ghost of Yotei, Hades II, Split Fiction.

Best Narrative: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, Death Stranding 2: On The Beach, Ghost of Yotei, Kingdom Come: Deliverance II, Silent Hill f.

Best Art Direction: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, Death Stranding 2: On The Beach, Ghost of Yotei, Hades II, Hollow Knight: Silksong.

Best Score and Music: Christopher Larkin (Hollow Knight: Silksong), Darren Korb (Hades II), Lorien Testard (Clair Obscur: Expedition 33), Toma Otowa (Ghost of Yotei), Woodkid and Ludvig Forssell (Death Stranding 2: On The Beach)

Best Audio Design: Battlefield 6, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, Death Stranding 2: On The Beach, Ghost of Yotei, Silent Hill f.

Best Performance: Ben Starr (Clair Obscur: Expedition 33), Charlie Cox (Clair Obscur: Expedition 33), Erika Ishii (Ghost of Yotei), Jennifer English (Clair Obscur: Expedition 33), Konatsu Kato (Silent Hill f)

Innovation in Accessibility: Assassin's Creed Shadows, Atomfall, Doom: The Dark Ages, EA Sports FC 26, South of Midnight.

Games for Impact: Consume Me, Lost Records: Bloom & Rage, South of Midnight, Wanderstop, Despelote.

Best Ongoing: Final Fantasy XIV, Fortnite, Helldivers 2, Marvel Rivals, No Man's Sky.

Best Community Support: Baldur's Gate 3, Final Fantasy XIV, Fortnite, Helldivers 2, No Man's Sky.

Best Independent Game: Absolum, Ball x Pit, Blue Prince, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, Hades II, 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 AR/VR: Alien: Rogue Incursion, Arken Age, Ghost Town, Marvel's Deadpool VR, The Midnight Walk.

Best Action: Battlefield 6, Doom: The Dark Ages, Hades II, Ninja Gaiden 4, Shinobi: Art of Vengeance.

Best Action/Adventure: Death Stranding 2: On The Beach, Ghost of Yotei, Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, Hollow Knight: Silksong, Split Fiction.

Best RPG: Avowed, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, Kingdom Come: Deliverance II, The Outer Worlds 2, Monster Hunter Wilds.

Best Fighting: 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: Donkey Kong Bananza, LEGO Party!, LEGO Voyagers, Mario Kart World, Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds, Split Fiction.

Best Sim/Strategy: 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: EA Sports FC 26, F1 25, Mario Kart World, Rematch, Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds.

Best Multiplayer: Arc Raiders, Battlefield 6, Elder Ring Nightreign, Peak, Split Fiction.

Best Adaptation: A Minecraft Movie, Devil May Cry, The Last of Us: Season 2, Splinter Cell: Deathwatch, Until Dawn.

Most Anticipated Game: 007 First Light, Grand Theft Auto VI, Marvel's Wolverine, Resident Evil Requiem, The Witcher IV.

Content Creator of the Year: Caedrel, Kai Cenat, MoistCr1TiKaL, Sakura Miko, The Burnt Peanut.

Best eSports Game: Counter-Strike 2, DOTA 2, League of Legends, Mobile Legends: Bang Bang, Valorant.

Best eSports Athlete: brawk - Brock Somerhalder (Valorant), Chovy - Jeong Ji-Hoon (League of Legends), f0rsakeN - Jason Susanto (Valorant), Kakeru - Kakeru Watanebe (Street Fighter), MenaRD - Saul Leonardo (Street Fighter), Zyw0o - Mathieu Herbaut (Counter-Strike 2).

Best eSports Team: Gen.G - League of Legends, NPG - Valorant, Team Falcons - DOTA 2, Team Liquid PH - Mobile Legends: Bang Bang, Team Vitality - Counter-Strike 2.

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