The Game Awards - Game of the Year 2025 Poll

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Since the pandemic and getting back into gaming, it's been fun watching the Game Awards. Usually the noms are pretty spot on, and this year is no exception. If anything, there were so many good releases in 2025, it's inevitable there's a few snubs.

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 – Sandfall Interactive
Death Stranding 2: On the Beach – Kojima Productions
Donkey Kong Bananza – Nintendo
Hades II – Supergiant Games
Hollow Knight: Silksong – Team Cherry
Kingdom Come: Deliverance II – Warhorse Studios


octobeard, Monday, 17 November 2025 21:43 (one week ago)

Biggest snub for me is clearly Blue Prince. Loved it, and would very much consider it my game of the year. I've only played Hades II and Silksong so far, not sure I'll get to any others before the end of the year

octobeard, Monday, 17 November 2025 21:45 (one week ago)

Oh damn, Split Fiction is another snub for me too...

octobeard, Monday, 17 November 2025 21:47 (one week ago)

Clair Obscur is the only one of these I've played. I thought it was pretty excellent, albeit with major flaws. I really only play one or two "new" games each year, everything else is catch-up or vault-digging.

feed me with your chips (zchyrs), Monday, 17 November 2025 21:53 (one week ago)

Have there been this many indies nominated in years prior? It feels notable that Nintendo is the only "big" company repped here

feed me with your chips (zchyrs), Monday, 17 November 2025 21:55 (one week ago)

I've only played Hades II, but have watched my bf play Clair Obscur and Death Stranding 2. Both of those looked pretty good but despite my quibbles on its dedicated thread, Hades II is clearly the greatest. Am slightly obsessed.

emil.y, Monday, 17 November 2025 22:23 (one week ago)

agree that Blue Prince shd have been in the list, haven't played any of these and only likely to get round to 2 or 3 of them eventually

Untitled Goose Band (Noodle Vague), Monday, 17 November 2025 22:41 (one week ago)

only played a bit of donkey kong of these, it's solid but didn't get me in the zone like a lot of the other nintendo 3d platformers do

hate the awards show, its always sooo long without them even presenting all the awards on stage. i end up watching it every few years once i've forgotten how bad it is, but i did last year so this year is a no go

ciderpress, Monday, 17 November 2025 22:43 (one week ago)

Write in vote for Nightreign

Jordan s/t (Jordan), Monday, 17 November 2025 23:07 (one week ago)

Blue Prince was nominated for Best Independent Game (so was BALL X PIT lmao). I'd be surprised if it beat Clair Obscur or Hades II though.

Gotta go with Hades II here.

c u (crüt), Monday, 17 November 2025 23:15 (one week ago)

silksong fuiud

||||||||, Tuesday, 18 November 2025 09:51 (one week ago)

Death Stranding 2 or Kingdom Come 2 from that list. Couldn’t give a shit about the rest of them and I’ve played them all for varying amounts of hours. Clair Obscur has the wildest disparity between popular opinion and how I feel about it.

I would take Blue Prince over 4 of the 6 for sure.

circa1916, Wednesday, 26 November 2025 22:41 (yesterday)


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