Game of the Year 2025

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Who won Game of the Year 2025?

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 won the 2025 season with 540 Game of the Year awards, 71.1% of the season's awards, ahead of Kingdom Come: Deliverance II with 48.

What won Game of the Year at the Game Awards 2025?

The Game Awards named Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 its Game of the Year for 2025. The same game collected the most awards across all outlets.

Which game won the most Game of the Year awards in 2025?

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, with 540 Game of the Year awards - 71.1% of every award tracked that season. Kingdom Come: Deliverance II was second with 48.

What was the best game of 2025?

Counted across every outlet that gave an award, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33: 540 awards. 'Best' is each outlet's own judgement; this site adds those judgements up rather than making one of its own.

Did Kingdom Come: Deliverance II win Game of the Year 2025?

No. Kingdom Come: Deliverance II finished second in 2025 with 48 awards, behind Clair Obscur: Expedition 33.

How many Game of the Year awards were given in 2025?

This site documents 760 Game of the Year awards for 2025, from 679 outlets in 59 countries. It is a documented minimum: every award has a source, and awards nobody recorded are not in it.

Major ceremonies 2025

6 of 6 ceremonies on record picked the game the whole field rewarded most. How often each one agrees, across every season →

The players' verdict — 2025

197 of the 2025 awards were readers' and community votes — the public's side of the season, counted separately. Players agreed with the press: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 topped the public vote too.

1. Clair Obscur: Expedition 33154
2. Kingdom Come: Deliverance II20
3. Hollow Knight: Silksong7
4. Silent Hill f2
5. Split Fiction2

When players and critics disagree, across every season →

Best game of 2025, by every award

Every game that won at least one Game of the Year award in 2025, ranked by wins.

1. Clair Obscur: Expedition 33540
2. Kingdom Come: Deliverance II48
3. Hollow Knight: Silksong24
4. Donkey Kong Bananza19
5. Blue Prince18
6. Death Stranding 2: On the Beach16
7. Hades II15
8. Ghost of Yōtei10
9. Dispatch10
10. Silent Hill f9
11. Split Fiction7
12. ARC Raiders6
13. The Alters3
14. Mario Kart World3
15. Umamusume: Pretty Derby2
16. Baby Steps2
17. Despelote2
18. Ghost Town2
19. The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy1
20. Digimon Story: Time Stranger1
21. Drop Duchy1
22. Cronos: The New Dawn1
23. Consume Me1
24. The Séance of Blake Manor1
25. Battlefield 61
26. Pipistrello and the Cursed Yoyo1
27. Shinobi : Art of Vengeance1
28. Elden Ring Nightreign1
29. DELTARUNE Chapters 3 and 41
30. Where Winds Meet1
31. Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter1
32. Horses1
33. Hell is Us1
34. Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves1
35. The Drifter1
36. Nubby's Number Factory1
37. Fantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Time1
38. Wuthering Waves1
39. Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound1
40. Anno 117: Pax Romana1
41. Dynasty Warriors: Origins1
42. Absolum1

Who voted for what

All 760 tracked awards for 2025, from 59 countries. 197 were readers' or community votes. Tap a column heading to sort.