Sandfall Interactive and Kepler Interactive’s Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 received top honors as the 2025 Game of the Year award recipient, as well as Best Game Direction, Best Narrative, Best Art Direction, Best Score and Music, Best Performance, Best Independent Game, Best Debut Indie Game and Best RPG.
The top stars across entertainment and video games including, Dan Houser, David Harbour, Elijah Wright, Felicia Day, Gemma Chan, J.J. Abrams, Jeffrey Wright, Lenny Kravitz, Maggie Robertson, Megan Everett, Mike Booth, Milla Jovovich, Miss Piggy, Neil Newbon, Nicolas Doucet, Rahul Kohli, Rebecca Ford, Rowlf, Todd Howard and Tricia Helfer took to the stage to present awards at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles for The Game Awards 2025 live, in-person production.
The show included a special live musical performance by Grammy-Award winning American rock band Evanescence who performed “Afterlife” from the Netflix animated series Devil May Cry, based on Capcom's popular action-adventure video game franchise. Additionally, the cast of Paramount Pictures’ upcoming film Street Fighter including Andrew Koji, Andrew Schulz, Callina Liang, Cody Rhodes, David Dastmalchian, Jason Momoa, Mel Jarson, Noah Centineo, Olivier Richters , Orville Peck, Rayna Vallandingham, Roman Reigns and Vidyut Jammwal presented the award for Best Ongoing Game. The Game Awards Orchestra conducted by BAFTA and Emmy nominated composer Lorne Balfe, performed scores from the year’s Game of the Year nominees and more.
While honoring the games and creatives who propelled the industry forward in 2025, The Game Awards also revealed a first look at highly anticipated games and entertainment properties including, 007 First Light (IO Interactive), 4:LOOP (Bad Robot Games and Sony Interactive Entertainment), Invincible VS (Skybound Entertainment), Out of Words (Kong Orange, WiredFly and Morten Søndergaard in partnership with Epic Games Publishing), Resident Evil: Requiem (Capcom), Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic (Arcanaut Studios), The Super Mario Galaxy Movie (Universal Pictures), Tomb Raider: Catalyst (Amazon Games and Crystal Dynamics) and Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis (Amazon Games and Crystal Dynamics) and WARLOCK: DUNGEONS & DRAGONS (Invoke Studios and Wizards of the Coast).
For the fourth year, The Game Awards honored the most beloved new entertainment experiences inspired by video games, with The Last of Us: Season 2 (HBO/PlayStation Productions) taking home the “Best Adaptation” award this year.
The comprehensive list of winners can be found below:
- GAME OF THE YEAR - Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Sandfall Interactive/Kepler Interactive)
- BEST GAME DIRECTION - Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Sandfall Interactive/Kepler Interactive)
- BEST NARRATIVE - Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Sandfall Interactive/Kepler Interactive)
- BEST ART DIRECTION - Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Sandfall Interactive/Kepler Interactive)
- BEST SCORE AND MUSIC, LEVELED UP BY SPOTIFY - Lorien Testard, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
- BEST AUDIO DESIGN - Battlefield 6 (Battlefield Studios/EA)
- BEST PERFORMANCE - Jennifer English, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
- INNOVATION IN ACCESSIBILITY - Doom: The Dark Ages (id Software/Bethesda Softworks)
- GAMES FOR IMPACT - South of Midnight (Compulsion Games/Xbox Game Studios)
- BEST ONGOING - No Man’s Sky (Hello Games)
- BEST COMMUNITY SUPPORT - Baldur’s Gate 3 (Larian Studios)
- BEST INDEPENDENT GAME - Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Sandfall Interactive)
- BEST DEBUT INDIE GAME - Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Sandfall Interactive)
- BEST MOBILE GAME - Umamusume: Pretty Derby (Cygames Inc.)
- BEST VR/AR - The Midnight Walk (MoonHood/Fast Travel Games)
- BEST ACTION - Hades II (Supergiant Games)
- BEST ACTION/ADVENTURE - Hollow Knight: Silksong (Team Cherry)
- BEST RPG - Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Sandfall Interactive/Kepler Interactive)
- BEST FIGHTING - Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves (SNK Corporation)
- BEST FAMILY - Donkey Kong Bananza (Nintendo EPD/Nintendo)
- BEST SIM/STRATEGY - FINAL FANTASY TACTICS - The Ivalice Chronicles (Square Enix)
- BEST SPORTS/RACING - Mario Kart World (Nintendo EPD/Nintendo)
- BEST MULTIPLAYER - Arc Raiders (Embark Studios)
- BEST ADAPTATION - The Last of Us: Season 2 (HBO/PlayStation Productions)
- MOST ANTICIPATED GAME - Grand Theft Auto VI (Rockstar Games)
- CONTENT CREATOR OF THE YEAR - MoistCr1TiKaL
- BEST ESPORTS GAME - Counter-Strike 2 (Valve)
- BEST ESPORTS ATHLETE - Chovy - Jeong Ji-hoon (League of Legends)
- BEST ESPORTS TEAM - Team Vitality - Counter-Strike 2
- PLAYERS’ VOICE - Wuthering Waves (Kuro Games)