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The Game Awards 2025 at a glance
The ceremony was held live at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles on December 11, 2025, and streamed worldwide. Epic Games Store listed the broadcast start as 7:30 p.m. ET / 4:30 p.m. PT and provides an event page for catching up on winners, trailers and reveals: The Game Awards 2025 on Epic Games Store.
The event’s announcements are a record of what was revealed in December 2025. Release dates and windows mentioned at the time should not be taken as confirmation that a game is still on that schedule.
All the winners
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 was the night’s dominant winner, taking Game of the Year and eight additional awards. The full category list below is based on The Guardian’s December 12, 2025 winners list.
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| Category | Winner |
|---|---|
| Game of the Year | Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 |
| 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 Performance | Jennifer English, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 |
| Best Independent Game | Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 |
| Best Debut Indie Game | Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 |
| Best RPG | Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 |
| Best Audio Design | Battlefield 6 |
| Innovation in Accessibility | DOOM: The Dark Ages |
| Games for Impact | South of Midnight |
| Best Ongoing Game | No Man’s Sky |
| Best Community Support | Baldur’s Gate 3 |
| Best Mobile Game | Umamusume: Pretty Derby |
| Best VR/AR | The Midnight Walk |
| Best Action Game | Hades II |
| Best Action/Adventure | Hollow Knight: Silksong |
| Best Family Game | Donkey Kong Bananza |
| Best Sim/Strategy | Final Fantasy Tactics – The Ivalice Chronicles |
| Best Sports/Racing | Mario Kart World |
| Best Multiplayer | ARC Raiders |
| Best Adaptation | The Last of Us: Season 2 |
| Most Anticipated Game | Grand Theft Auto VI |
| Best Esports Game | Counter-Strike 2 |
| Best Esports Athlete | Chovy |
| Best Esports Team | Team Vitality |
| Players’ Voice | Wuthering Waves |
Major reveals and announcements
The show mixed game announcements with trailers and first looks. The organizer’s recap highlighted the following projects; for the actual trailers, use the event archive.
- 007 First Light
- 4:LOOP
- Invincible VS
- Out of Words
- Resident Evil: Requiem
- Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic
- The Super Mario Galaxy Movie
- Tomb Raider: Catalyst
- Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis
- WARLOCK: DUNGEONS & DRAGONS
A December 12 roundup by Video Games Chronicle catalogued more than 50 announcements, reveals and trailers. Among its other notable items were a new Divinity game from Larian Studios, Coven of the Chicken Foot, Leon Kennedy’s appearance in Resident Evil: Requiem, new footage for Exodus, Control Resonant, Gang of Dragon, No Law, Saros, Bradley the Badger, Star Wars: Galactic Racer, Mega Man: Dual Override, Pragmata, Solasta II, TankRat, Stupid Never Dies, John Carpenter’s Toxic Commando, Ontos, Order of the Sinking Star, Screamer, a Street Fighter movie teaser, Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight, Forest 3, Orbitals, Diablo IV: Lord of Hatred, Total War: Warhammer 40,000, Ace Combat 8: Wings of Theve, Phantom Blade 0 and Highguard.
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Xbox Wire’s recap also drew attention to Diablo IV: Lord of Hatred, Control Resonant, Ontos and the two Tomb Raider projects, alongside Xbox-related wins for DOOM: The Dark Ages and South of Midnight: Xbox Wire’s Game Awards 2025 recap.
Viewership and audience figures
The Game Awards said its 2025 show reached an estimated 171 million full-show livestreams globally, 11% above the 154 million livestreams it reported for 2024. The organizer specified that the 2025 figure excluded Prime Video viewing. It also reported more than 123 million authenticated votes, including Players’ Voice, over 8,600 YouTube co-streaming channels and 16,500 Twitch co-streamers. The reported peak of 4.4 million concurrent viewers across Twitch, YouTube and other western platforms was a StreamCharts figure cited by the organizer, not a measurement attributed to The Game Awards itself. Details appear in The Game Awards’ December 2025 announcement.
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Where to catch up on the show
Epic Games Store’s event page is a practical route to the 2025 winners, trailers and reveals. Amazon also published a guide to the event’s Prime Video broadcast in November 2025, but that describes how the past show was distributed rather than a current viewing offer: About Amazon’s November 2025 viewing guide.
Quick Recap
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