Here are all the nominees and winners at The Game Awards 2025 aka the Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Awards

Gaming's Biggest Night (tm), The Video Game Awards, took place on December 11, 2025, in the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles, Calif., hosted by video game journalist and presenter Geoff Keighley. The first took place in 2014 with Dragon Age: Inquisition taking Game of the Year.

You'd hardly know it coming from a three-and-a-half-hour ceremony. But the first 30 minutes of The Keighleys takes place on a side stage. It speeds through seven of the 31 awards, and is pre-show hosted by Sydnee Goodman, freelance content creator and host of The Daily Fix. 

If you read through this list and don't feel robbed in at least one of the 31 categories, then I envy you and the life you live. Here's a prerequisite congratulations to all of the winners, and a hearty salute to all of the nominees walking away empty-handed.

Best Family Game

• WINNER Donkey Kong Bananza (Gaming Nexus 10/10)
• LEGO Party!
• LEGO Voyagers (GN 7/10)
• Mario Kart World
• Sonic Racing: Crossworlds
• Split Fiction (GN 10/10)

Innovation in Accessibility

• WINNER DOOM: The Dark Ages (GN 9.5/10)
• Assassin's Creed Shadows (GN 9/10)
• Atomfall (GN 8/10)
• EA Sports FC 26
• South of Midnight (GN 8/10)

Best Esports Game

• WINNER Counter-Strike 2 
• DOTA 2
• League of Legends (GN 8/10)
• Mobile Legends: Bang Bang
• Valorant

Best Esports Athlete

• WINNER Chovy
• Brawk
• Forsaken
• Kakeru
• Menard
• Zywoo

Best Esports Team

• WINNER Team Vitality
• Gen.G
• NRG
• Team Falcons
• Team Liquid PH

Best Mobile Game

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

Best Independent Game

• WINNER Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (GN 8.5/10)
• Absolum (GN 9/10)
• Ball X Pit (GN 9.5/10)
• Blue Prince
• Hades II (GN 10/10)
• Hollow Knight: Silksong

Best Adaptation

• WINNER The Last of Us: Season 2
• A Minecraft Movie
• Devil May Cry
• Splinter Cell: Deathwatch
• Until Dawn

Best Action Game

• WINNER Hades II (GN 10/10)
• Battlefield 6 (GN 8/10)
• DOOM: The Dark Ages (GN 9.5/10) 
• Ninja Gaiden 4 (GN 8/10)
• Shinobi: Art of Vengeance

Best Performance

• WINNER Jennifer English (Clair Obscure: Expedition 33)
• Ben Starr (Clair Obscure: Expedition 33)
• Charlie Cox (Clair Obscure: Expedition 33)
• Erika Ishii (Ghost of Yotei)
• Konatsu Kato (Silent Hill f)
• Troy Baker (Indiana Jones and the Great Circle)

Games for Impact

• WINNER South of Midnight (GN 8/10)
• Consume Me
• Despelote
• Lost Records: Bloom & Rage (GN 6.5/10 and 7.5/10)
• Wanderstop

Best Ongoing Game

• WINNER No Man's Sky (GN 7/10)
• Final Fantasy XIV (GN 8.5/10)
• Fortnite
• Helldivers 2 (GN 8/10)
• Marvel Rivals

Best Audio Design

• WINNER Battlefield 6 (GN 8/10)
• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (GN 8/10)
• Death Stranding 2: On the Beach (GN 10/10)
• Ghost of Yotei (GN 9/10)
• Silent Hill f

Content Creator of the Year

• WINNER MoistCr1TiKaL
• Caedrel
• Kai Cenat
• Sakura Miko
• The Burnt Peanut

Best Fighting Game

• WINNER Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves
• 2XKO
• Capcom Fighting Collection 2 (GN 8/10)
• Mortal Kombat: Legacy Kollection (9.5/10)
• Virtua Fighter 5 R.E.V.O. World Stage

Most Anticipated Game

• WINNER Grand Theft Auto VI
• 007 First Light
• Marvel's Wolverine
• Resident Evil Requiem
• The Witcher IV

Game Changer

• WINNER Girls Make Games

Best Action/Adventure Game

• WINNER Hollow Knight: Silksong
• Death Stranding 2: On the Beach (GN 10/10)
• Ghost of Yotei (GN 9/10)
• Indiana Jones and the Great Circle (GN 8.5/10)
• Split Fiction (GN 10/10)

Best Art Direction

• WINNER Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (GN 8.5/10)
• Death Stranding 2: On the Beach (GN 10/10)
• Ghost of Yotei (GN 9/10)
• Hades II (GN 10/10)
• Hollow Knight: Silksong

Best Sim/Strategy Game

• WINNER Final Fantasy Tactics - The Ivalice Chronicles
• Jurassic World Evolution 3
• Sid Meier's Civilization VII (GN 7/10)
• Tempest Rising
• The Alters
• Two Point Museum

Best Debut Indie Game

• WINNER Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (GN 8.5/10)
• Blue Prince
• Despelote
• Dispatch (GN 9/10)

Best Score & Music

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

Best Sports/Racing Game

• WINNER Mario Kart World
• EA Sports FC 26
• F1 25
• Rematch
• Sonic Racing: Crossworlds

Best Community Support

• WINNER Baldur's Gate 3 (GN 9.5/10)
• Final Fantasy XIV (GN 8.5/10)
• Fortnite
• Helldivers 2 (GN 8/10)
• No Man's Sky (GN 7/10)

Best VR/AR Game

• WINNER The Midnight Walk
• Alien: Rogue Incursion (GN 7/10)
• Arken Age
• Ghost Town
• Marvel's Deadpool VR (GN 8.5/10)

Best RPG

• WINNER Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (GN 8.5/10)
• Avowed (GN 8/10)
• Kingdom Come: Deliverance II (GN 9/10)
• Monster Hunter Wilds (GN 8.5/10)
• The Outer Worlds 2 (GN 9/10)

Players' Voice

• WINNER Wuthering Waves
• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (GN 8.5/10)
• Dispatch (GN 9/10)
• Genshin Impact
• Hollow Knight: Silksong

Best Narrative

• WINNER Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (GN 8.5/10)
• Death Stranding 2: On the Beach (GN 10/10)
• Ghost of Yotei (GN 9/10)
• Kingdom Come: Deliverance II (GN 9/10)
• Silent Hill f

Best Multiplayer Game

• WINNER ARC Raiders
• Battlefield 6 (GN 8/10)
• Elden Ring Nightreign
• Peak
• Split Fiction (GN 10/10)

Best Game Direction

• WINNER Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (GN 8.5/10)
• Death Stranding 2: On the Beach (GN 10/10)
• Ghost of Yotei (GN 9/10)
• Hades II (GN 10/10)
• Split Fiction (GN 10/10)

Game of the Year

• WINNER Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (GN 8.5/10)
• Death Stranding 2: On the Beach (GN 10/10)
• Donkey Kong Bananza (GN 10/10)
• Hades II (GN 10/10)
• Hollow Knight: Silksong
• Kingdom Come: Deliverance II (GN 9/10)

As can be seen, these were the Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Awards hosted by Everybody Else. If Expedition 33 was nominated, Expedition 33 won. Except in Best Sound Design which was Battlefield 6's one win for the night.

Congratulations to all the winners. Can't wait to see 2026's The Game Awards.