The Game Awards 2025 Nominees Are Here. What Do You Think?

It's hard to believe it's already that time again, but Geoff Keighley just announced the nominees for this year's Game Awards! There has been a lot of discussion online about who would score the more nominations and now that question has been answered, it's Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 by a mile.

We've listed the nominees for some of the biggest categories below, but you can see the full list and cast your votes at The Game Awards website.

Best Mobile Game

  • Destiny Rising
  • Persona 5: The Phantom X
  • Sonic Rumble
  • Umamusume: Pretty Derby
  • Wuthering Waves

Best Score and Music

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

Best Narrative

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

Best Multiplayer Game

  • Arc Raiders
  • Battlefield 6
  • Elden Ring: NightReign
  • Peak
  • Split Fiction

Best Independent Game

  • Absolum
  • Ball X Pit
  • Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
  • Hades II
  • Hollow Knight: Silksong
  • Blue Prince

Best Debut Indie Game

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

Most Anticipated Game

  • 007: First Light
  • Grand Theft Auto 6
  • Marvel: Wolverine
  • Resident Evil: Requiem
  • The Witcher IV

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

  • Avowed
  • Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
  • Kingdom Come: Deliverance II
  • 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: REVO - World Stage

Best Action Game

  • Battlefield 5
  • DOOM: The Dark Ages
  • Hades II
  • Ninja Gaiden 4
  • Shinobi: Art of Vengeance

Best Family Game

  • Donkey Kong: Bananza
  • LEGO Party
  • LEGO Voyages
  • Mario Kart World
  • Split Fiction
  • Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds

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 FC26
  • EA F1 25
  • Mario Kart World
  • Rematch
  • Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds

Best Game Direction

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

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 2

There you have it, the 2025 Game Awards Nominees. What do you think? Did they miss something? There is still a chance to get another game nominee in the running with the Player's Voice Nominee which isn't announced until Dec 1st. Make sure to head over to The Game Awards website to cast your vote and let them know what you think.

We'll all be watching on December 11th when the Game Awards stream live online. Until then, let the debate begin and may the best games win!