Clair Obscur Expedition 33 Dominates The Game Awards 2025
The Game Awards 2025 topped the charts with Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Honors Sees. The French RPG, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, was the toast of The Game Awards 2025. Developed by Sandfall Interactive, this title brought home a stunning tally of nine awards in twelve nominations. Death Stranding 2: On the Beach, Kingdom Come: Deliverance II, and other major contenders fell behind as the biggest winner at the event.
Award Winning Night for Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
The developer swept the categories, and there were many major ones. Some of them were Game of the Year, Best Game Director, Best Narrative, Best Art Direction, Best Soundtrack and Music, Best RPG, Best Indie Game, and Best Acting (Jennifer English as Mael). The Game Awards 2025: Complete Winners List.
Expedition 33 wrote headlines, but games and creators across categories got trophies. Below are the winners from the straight-out awards ceremony:
- Best Audio Design: Battlefield 6
- Best Action Game: Hades II
- Best Action/Adventure: Hollow Knight: Silksong
- Best Game Support: No Man's Sky
- Best Fighting Game: Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves
- Best Family Game: Donkey Kong Bananza
- Best Sim/Strategy: Final Fantasy Tactics - The Ivalice Chronicles
- Best Sports/Racing: Mario Kart World
- Best Mobile Game: Umamusume: Pretty Derby
- Best Adaptation: The Last of Us Season 2
- Best Multiplayer: ARC Raiders
- Most Fear-Inducing Indie Game: Blue Prince
- Innovation in Accessibility: DOOM: The Dark Ages
- Games for Impact: South of Midnight
- Best Community Support: Baldur's Gate III
- Players' Choice: Wuthering Waves
- Most Anticipated Game: Grand Theft Auto VI
- Content Creator of the Year: MoistCr1TiKaL
- Best Esports Game: Counter-Strike 2
- Best Esports Athlete: ZywOo
- Best Esports Team: Team Vitality (Counter-Strike 2)
Major Announcements from the Show
There were some other big-game revelations aside from awards. It saw a new Divinity title being created, a sequel to Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, and what was probably the most anticipated of the bunch, Total War: Warhammer 40,000. It also teased a crime drama from the creator of the Yakuza/Like a Dragon series.
