Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 leads the Game Awards 2025 nominations — here are all the nominees for December's show

It's time for another November tradition, with the release of the nominations for the annual Game Awards hosted by Geoff Keighley.

For the Game Awards 2025, developer Sandfall Interactive and publisher Kepler Interactive received an impressive 12 nominations, all for Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. The artistic turn-based adventure is an easy frontrunner, and was of course nominated for Game of the Year.

Other notably nominated games include Kojima Productions' Death Stranding 2, as well as Supergiant Games' Hades 2. Xbox, as a total organization, saw a respectable 10 nominations spread out across different games like DOOM: The Dark Ages and South of Midnight.

Voting is now live, so players can make their opinions known by casting votes across the different categories.

Ahead of the show on December 11 at 8:00 p.m. ET, you can peruse the full list of nominees for the Game Awards 2025 below:

Game of the Year

• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
• Death Stranding 2: On the Beach
• Donkey Kong Bananza
• Hades 2
• Hollow Knight: Silksong
• Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2

Best Game Direction

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

Best Narrative

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

Best Art Direction

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

Best Score and Music

• Christopher Larkin for Hollow Knight: Silkson
• Darren Korb for Hades 2
• Lorien Testard for Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
• Toma Otowa for Ghost of Yotei
• Woodkid & Ludvig Forsell for Death Stranding 2: On the Beach

Best Audio Design

• Battlefield 6
• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
• Death Stranding 2: On the Beach
• Ghost of Yotei
• Silent Hill f

Best Performance

• Ben Starr as Verso in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
• Charlie Cox as Gustave in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
• Erika Ishii as Atsu in Ghost of Yotei
• Jennifer English as Maelle in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
• Konatsu Kato as Hinako in Silent Hill f
• Troy Baker as Indiana Jones in Indiana Jones and the Great Circle

Innovation in Accessibility

• Assassin's Creed Shadows
• Atomfall
• DOOM: The Dark Ages
• EA Sports FC 26
• South of Midnight

Games for Impact

• Consume Me
• Despelote
• Lost Records: Bloom & Rage
• South of Midnight
• Wanderstop

Best Ongoing

• Final Fantasy XIV
• Fortnite
• Helldivers 2
• Marvel Rivals
• No Man's Sky

Best Community Support

• Baldur's Gate 3
• Final Fantasy XIV
• Fortnite
• Helldivers 2
• No Man's Sky

Best Independent Game

• Absolum
• Ball x Pit
• Blue Prince
• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
• Hades 2
• Hollow Knight: Silksong

Best Debut Indie Game

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

Best Mobile Game

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

Best VR/AR

• Alien: Rogue Incursion
• Arken Age
• Ghost Town
• Marvel's Deadpool VR
• The Midnight Walk

Best Action Game

• Battlefield 6
• DOOM: The Dark Ages
• Hades 2
• Ninja Gaiden 4
• Shinobi: Art of Vengeance

Best Action/Adventure

• Death Stranding 2: On the Beach
• Ghost of Yotei
• Hollow Knight: Silkson
• Indiana Jones and the Great Circle
• Split Fiction

Best Role-Playing Game

• Avowed
• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
• Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2
• Monster Hunter Wilds
• The Outer Worlds 2

Best Family

• Donkey Kong Bananza
• LEGO Party!
• LEGO Voyagers
• Mario Kart World
• Sonic Racing CrossWorlds
• Split Fiction

Best Fighting

• 2XKO
• Capcom Fighting Collection 2
• Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves
• Mortal Kombat: Legacy Kollection
• Virtua Fighter 5 R.E.V.O. World Stage

Best Sim/Strategy

• 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

• EA Sports FC 26
• F1 25
• Mario Kart World
• Rematch
• Sonic Racing CrossWorlds

Best Multiplayer

• ARC Raiders
• Battlefield 6
• Elden Ring: Nightreign
• PEAK
• Split Fiction

Best Adaptation

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

Most Anticipated Game

• 007 First Light
• Grand Theft Auto 6
• Marvel's Wolverine
• Resident Evil Requiem
• The Witcher 4

Content Creator of the Year

• Caedral
• Kai Cenat
• MoistCr1TiKaL
• Sakura Miko
• The Burnt Peanut

Best Esports Game

• Counter-Strike 2
• DOTA 2
• League of Legends
• Mobile Legends Bang Bang
• Valorant

Best Esports Athlete

• Brawk
• Chovy
• Forsaken
• Kekaru
• Menard
• Zywoo

Best Esports Team

• GEN.G
• NRG
• Team Falcons
• Team Liquid PH
• Team Vitality

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