🏆 The Game Awards 2025 Winners List: Clair Obscur Just Made History
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 didn’t just win Game of the Year at The Game Awards 2025 — it delivered one of the most dominant performances in the show’s history, walking away with nine awards and shattering a long-standing record.
The French RPG from Sandfall Interactive broke The Last of Us Part II’s previous benchmark of seven wins, instantly cementing itself as one of the most celebrated games ever honored at TGA.
If you missed the show live — which aired at 4:30 a.m. UAE time — here’s your complete breakdown of every winner, every nominee, and what the results say about gaming in 2025.
⭐ Key Takeaways from The Game Awards 2025
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 won 9 awards, including Game of the Year and Best RPG
- It set a new TGA record, surpassing The Last of Us Part II
- No other game won more than one award
- Wuthering Waves claimed Players’ Voice, diverging from the jury vote
- Indies and long-supported live games dominated alongside big publishers
🎮 Clair Obscur’s Record-Breaking Night
Clair Obscur arrived as the frontrunner — and left as a phenomenon.
🏆 Awards Won:
- Game of the Year
- Best RPG
- Best Narrative
- Best Art Direction
- Best Performance
- Best Score & Music
- Best Audio Design
- Plus multiple additional category wins
With 13 nominations, the most of any title this year, its clean sweep across story, visuals, music, and performance pushed it into rare “award-season titan” territory usually reserved for mega-budget franchises.
🔍 What the Results Say About Gaming in 2025
Beyond Clair Obscur’s dominance, the winners reveal clear trends:
- Indie and indie-adjacent games continue to compete head-to-head with AAA titles
- Hades II and Hollow Knight: Silksong secured major genre wins
- No Man’s Sky and Baldur’s Gate 3 proved long-term support still matters
- A new Game Changer Award spotlighted Girls Make Games, emphasizing impact over profit
Despite Sony-adjacent titles dominating nominations (Death Stranding 2, Ghost of Yōtei, The Last of Us Season 2), the final awards spread widely — outside of Clair Obscur’s historic run.
🏅 Full List of The Game Awards 2025 Winners & Nominees
Winners are in bold
GAME OF THE YEAR
- 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
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
- Death Stranding 2: On The Beach
- Ghost of Yōtei
- Hades II
- Split Fiction
BEST NARRATIVE
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
- Death Stranding 2
- Ghost of Yōtei
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance II
- Silent Hill f
BEST ART DIRECTION
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
- Death Stranding 2
- Ghost of Yōtei
- Hades II
- Hollow Knight: Silksong
BEST SCORE & MUSIC
- Christopher Larkin – Hollow Knight: Silksong
- Darren Korb – Hades II
- Lorien Testard – Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
- Toma Otowa – Ghost of Yōtei
- Woodkid & Ludvig Forssell – Death Stranding 2
BEST AUDIO DESIGN
- Battlefield 6
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
- Death Stranding 2
- Ghost of Yōtei
- Silent Hill f
BEST PERFORMANCE
- Ben Starr – Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
- Charlie Cox – Clair Obscur
- Erika Ishii – Ghost of Yōtei
- Jennifer English – Clair Obscur
- Konatsu Kato – Silent Hill f
- Troy Baker – Indiana Jones and the Great Circle
PLAYERS’ VOICE
- Wuthering Waves
GAME CHANGER (Honorary Award)
- Girls Make Games
🧭 The Bottom Line
The Game Awards 2025 will be remembered less for its trailers — and more for a single game rewriting the history books.
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 didn’t just win.
It defined the year.