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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 won Game of the Year at The Game Awards 2025 and also took home awards in eight other categories. Below is the complete category-by-category winners and nominees list, including the separately fan-voted Players’ Voice award.
The results below follow The Guardian’s winners roundup, published December 12, 2025, which covered the prizes presented at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles. The winner is marked in each category.
Game of the Year and creative awards
Game of the Year
- Winner: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
- Death Stranding 2: On the Beach
- Donkey Kong Bananza
- Hades II
- Hollow Knight: Silksong
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance II
Best Game Direction
- Winner: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
- Death Stranding 2: On the Beach
- Ghost of Yōtei
- Hades II
- Split Fiction
Best Narrative
- Winner: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
- Death Stranding 2: On the Beach
- Ghost of Yōtei
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance II
- Silent Hill f
Best Art Direction
- Winner: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
- Death Stranding 2: On the Beach
- Ghost of Yōtei
- Hades II
- Hollow Knight: Silksong
Best Score and Music
- Winner: Lorien Testard, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
- Christopher Larkin, Hollow Knight: Silksong
- Darren Korb, Hades II
- Toma Otowa, Ghost of Yōtei
- Woodkid and Ludvig Forssell, Death Stranding 2: On the Beach
Best Audio Design
- Winner: Battlefield 6
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
- Death Stranding 2: On the Beach
- Ghost of Yōtei
- Silent Hill f
Best Performance
- Winner: Jennifer English, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
- Ben Starr, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
- Charlie Cox, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
- Erika Ishii, Ghost of Yōtei
- Konatsu Kato, Silent Hill f
- Troy Baker, Indiana Jones and the Great Circle
Impact, accessibility, and ongoing games
Innovation in Accessibility
- Winner: DOOM: The Dark Ages
- Assassin’s Creed Shadows
- Atomfall
- EA Sports FC 26
- South of Midnight
Games for Impact
- Winner: South of Midnight
- Consume Me
- despelote
- Lost Records: Bloom & Rage
- Wanderstop
Best Ongoing
- Winner: No Man’s Sky
- Final Fantasy XIV
- Fortnite
- Helldivers 2
- Marvel Rivals
Best Community Support
- Winner: Baldur’s Gate 3
- Final Fantasy XIV
- Fortnite
- Helldivers 2
- No Man’s Sky
Independent, mobile, and immersive games
Best Independent Game
- Winner: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
- Absolum
- BALL x PIT
- Blue Prince
- Hades II
- Hollow Knight: Silksong
Best Debut Indie Game
- Winner: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
- Blue Prince
- despelote
- Dispatch
Best Mobile Game
- Winner: Umamusume: Pretty Derby
- Destiny: Rising
- Persona 5: The Phantom X
- Sonic Rumble
- Wuthering Waves
Best VR/AR
- Winner: The Midnight Walk
- Alien: Rogue Incursion
- Arken Age
- Ghost Town
- Marvel’s Deadpool VR
Genre awards
Best Action Game
- Winner: Hades II
- Battlefield 6
- DOOM: The Dark Ages
- Ninja Gaiden 4
- SHINOBI: Art of Vengeance
Best Action/Adventure
- Winner: Hollow Knight: Silksong
- Death Stranding 2: On the Beach
- Ghost of Yōtei
- Indiana Jones and the Great Circle
- Split Fiction
Best RPG
- Winner: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
- Avowed
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance II
- Monster Hunter Wilds
- The Outer Worlds 2
Best Fighting
- Winner: Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves
- 2XKO
- Capcom Fighting Collection 2
- Mortal Kombat: Legacy Kollection
- Virtua Fighter 5 REVO World Stage
Best Family
- Winner: Donkey Kong Bananza
- LEGO Party!
- LEGO Voyagers
- Mario Kart World
- Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds
- Split Fiction
Best Sim/Strategy
- Winner: Final Fantasy Tactics – The Ivalice Chronicles
- Jurassic World Evolution 3
- Sid Meier’s Civilization VII
- Tempest Rising
- The Alters
- Two Point Museum
Best Sports/Racing
- Winner: Mario Kart World
- EA Sports FC 26
- F1 25
- Rematch
- Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds
Best Multiplayer
- Winner: ARC Raiders
- Battlefield 6
- Elden Ring Nightreign
- Peak
- Split Fiction
Adaptation, anticipation, creators, and esports
Best Adaptation
- Winner: The Last of Us: Season 2
- A Minecraft Movie
- Devil May Cry
- Splinter Cell: Deathwatch
- Until Dawn
Most Anticipated Game
- Winner: Grand Theft Auto VI
- 007 First Light
- Marvel’s Wolverine
- Resident Evil Requiem
- The Witcher IV
Content Creator of the Year
- Winner: MoistCr1TiKaL
- Caedrel
- Kai Cenat
- Sakura Miko
- The Burnt Peanut
Best Esports Game
- Winner: Counter-Strike 2
- Dota 2
- League of Legends
- Mobile Legends: Bang Bang
- Valorant
Best Esports Athlete
- Winner: Chovy (Jeong Ji-Hoon)
- Brawk (Brock Somerhalder)
- f0rsakeN (Jason Susanto)
- Kakeru (Kakeru Watanabe)
- MenaRD (Saul Leonardo)
- ZywOo (Mathieu Herbaut)
Best Esports Team
- Winner: Team Vitality
- Gen.G
- NRG
- Team Falcons
- Team Liquid PH
Players’ Voice
Players’ Voice is the fan-voted award, listed separately from the other categories. Its winner was Wuthering Waves.
- Winner: Wuthering Waves
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
- Dispatch
- Genshin Impact
- Hollow Knight: Silksong
Where to play the Game of the Year winner
Xbox Wire’s event recap said Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 was available through Game Pass when the recap was published on December 11, 2025. That is a dated availability statement, not confirmation of the game’s current catalog status or availability on any particular platform; check the current service listing before subscribing or downloading.
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