The Game Awards 2025: Biggest announcements, surprises, winners

Gaming’s biggest night of the year is in the books. The Game Awards 2025 rewarded the most notable games of 2025. Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 took home the coveted Game of the Year award.

It also set a new record with the most wins at 8 — beating out 2020’s The Last of Us Part 2, which won 7 awards. Check out the full list — and below it, our pick from a plethora of announcements from games companies.

Game of the Year: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

Best Indie Game: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

Best Debut Indie Game: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

Best Mobile Game: Umamusume: Pretty Derby

Best Virtual Reality/Augmented Reality Game: The Midnight Walk

Best Action Game: Hades II

Best Action/Adventure Game: Hollow Knight: Silksong

Best Fighting Game: Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves

Best Family Game: Donkey Kong Bananza

Best Simulation/Strategy Game: Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles

Best Sports/Racing Game: Mario Kart World

Best Multiplayer Game: ARC Raiders

Best Game Direction: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

Best Narrative: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

Best Art Direction: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

Best Score and Music: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

Best Audio Design: Battlefield 6

Best Performance: Jennifer English in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

Innovation in Accessibility: Doom: The Dark Ages

Games for Impact: South of Midnight

Best Ongoing Game: No Man’s Sky

Best RPG: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

Best Community Support: Baldur’s Gate III

Best Game Adaptation: The Last of Us Season 2

Most-Anticipated Game: Grand Theft Auto VI

Content Creator of the Year: MoistCr1TiKaL

Best eSports Game: Counter-Strike 2

Best eSports Athlete: Chovy – Jeong Ji-hoon (League of Legends)

Best eSports Team: Team Vitality

Players’ Voice: Wuthering Waves

Lucasfilm returns to the Old Republic

Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic is a new title from Lucasfilm games, directed by Casey Hudson.

Hudson previously worked on the classic Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, as well as the Mass Effect Trilogy.

No release date was announced, but the game will be available on PC and consoles.

Fate of the Republic features a single-player narrative adventure where players step into the role of a Force user; the original story is set in the era of the Old Republic, hundreds of years before the events of the original Star Wars.

Plus there's another Star Wars game! Star Wars: Galactic Racer is just pure pod racing. Your skill truly matters here. It’s being developed by Fuse Games and published by Secret Mode, and it’s set to release sometime in 2026 for PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X|S.

'Divinity' goes stand-alone

Baldur’s Gate 3 developer Larian Studios and winner of The Game Awards 2023 Game of the Year Award, has announced Divinity. It’s a continuation of the Divinity saga, and doesn’t require experience with previous Larian titles.

Those who’ve played Divinity: Original Sin and Divinity: Original Sin II will be able to enjoy it even more.

Although no other information was revealed, Larian Studios says that it will be their biggest game yet. 

'Control' gets a new sibling

Surprising no one who saw the leaked news, Remedy Entertainment officially announced Control: Resonant.

It’s a new game in the Control universe, where you explore a warped Manhattan on the brink of paranatural annihilation. You control a new protagonist named Dylan Faden (brother of Control protagonist, Jesse Faden) as he faces off against a supernatural threat.

Control: Resonant is set to come out sometime in 2026 for PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X|S.

'Tomb Raider' returns twice

Two new Tomb Raider games have been announced: Tomb Raider Catalyst and Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis.

The former is the next brand new adventure for the iconic Lara Croft set in Northern India, coming in 2027. The latter is a remake of the very first Lara Croft game from 1996, set to launch in its thirtieth anniversary year — 2026.