The Game Awards 2025 Overview: Best Announcements

TGA 2025 announcements landed on December 11, 2025, at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles, with a show built around rapid award calls and premiere trailers. Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 dominated the night, taking Game of the Year and a historic haul of wins. The broadcast leaned into spectacle, including a high-wire act over the crowd. The winners list and reveal slate made it one of the most decisive Game Awards in years.

Game of The Year 2025: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 won Game of the Year after leading the field with 12 nominations and converting nine of them into trophies, a record night for a single game at the show. Its sweep covered direction, narrative, art direction, score and music, debut indie, independent game, and RPG, signalling broad support rather than a single-category surge. Reporting around the win framed it as a moment where smaller teams and sharper creative identities outpaced prestige-budget competitors. The same night, the game’s DLC launched immediately, extending its momentum beyond the ceremony itself.

The Game Awards 2025 Show Overview

In the Game Awards 2025 winners list, categories typically cycled through nominees on-screen before the host moved straight to the announcement, often with little pause for extended speeches. Expedition 33’s run sat alongside wins like Doom: The Dark Ages for Innovation in Accessibility, Hades II for Best Action Game, Hollow Knight: Silksong for Best Action/Adventure, and Arc Raiders for Best Multiplayer, giving the night a clear pattern: nominations first, verdict immediately after.

EGamersWorld is preparing its own short list of the announcements it rated highest from the night.

Baldur’s Gate Devs Announced A New Divinity Game

Divinity is an RPG from Larian Studios.

• Release date: Not announced

Larian returned to its Divinity IP with a reveal built around a purely cinematic trailer and a press line that placed the story back in Rivellon:

“The gods are silent. Rivellon bleeds. New powers stir.”

The trailer of the future Divinity game shows a medieval festival and a ritual burning that detonates into a violent supernatural outbreak, before tying back to the desert statue that fueled weeks of guessing. Larian positioned the project as a standalone entry that does not require prior series knowledge, while still leaving room for continuity for Original Sin players.

Resident Evil Requiem: Leon S. Kennedy Is Confirmed

Resident Evil Requiem is a survival horror game from Capcom.

• Release date: February 27, 2026

Capcom’s new trailer confirmed Leon S. Kennedy as a playable co-lead alongside FBI analyst Grace Ashcroft, framing a split structure with contrasting styles. Developer messaging around the reveal pointed to a campaign divided between the two leads. The trailer leaned on familiarity—Leon’s return—while keeping plot specifics tight beyond the immediate setup.

Tomb Raider Returns With Catalyst And A 1996 Reimagining

Tomb Raider: Catalyst is an action-adventure game from Crystal Dynamics.

• Release date: 2027

Catalyst is a new adventure set in northern India, while Legacy of Atlantis was framed as a ground-up rebuild meant to modernize combat and puzzle flow. Publisher alignment underscored how broadly the franchise is being reactivated.

A second title, Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis, was announced as a reimagining of the 1996 original built in Unreal Engine 5, with a 2026 target.

New Remedy Game - Control: Resonant

Control: Resonant is an action game from Remedy Entertainment.

• Release date: 2026

Remedy presented Control: Resonant as a follow-up that shifts the spotlight to Dylan Faden and replaces the familiar firearm-centric framing with a transforming melee weapon augmented by paranormal abilities. The announcement positioned it as a new crisis rather than an epilogue, using the trailer to signal scale while leaving story specifics largely untouched.

Saros Gets A New Trailer

Saros is an action game from Housemarque.

• Release date: April 30, 2026

Housemarque’s Saros trailer introduced Rahul Kohli’s Arjun Devraj and a loop-structured survival premise under a looming eclipse, framed around returning stronger after each death. The date landed cleanly, and the rest of the pitch stayed focused on tone and setting.

Mega Man: Dual Override

Mega Man: Dual Override is an action platformer from Capcom.

• Release date: 2027

Capcom revealed a new Mega Man entry with a short announcement trailer and a simple timing marker: it arrives in 2027. The presentation kept details sparse, leaning on recognition rather than a systems breakdown.

Diablo 4 Expansion: Lord of Hatred

Diablo 4: Lord of Hatred is an action RPG expansion from Blizzard Entertainment.

• Release date: April 28, 2026

Blizzard announced Lord of Hatred with a firm date and two new classes, including the Paladin. The expansion framing centered on Mephisto’s influence and a new region, with the trailer presenting escalation rather than a reset.

Phantom Blade Zero

Phantom Blade Zero is an action RPG from S-Game.

• Release date: September 9, 2026

The trailer focused on high-speed melee choreography and short bursts of combat meant to sell rhythm and precision. The release date was presented as a headline rather than a tease.

Yakuza-like ‘Gang of Dragon’

GANG OF DRAGON is an action-adventure game from Nagoshi Studio.

• Release date: Not announced

The premiere leaned into mood and street-level intimidation, using a trailer that signaled Kabukicho as a setting and showcased Don Lee’s presence. It arrived without a schedule, leaving the reveal to carry the weight on tone alone.

Forest 3

Forest 3 is a survival game from Endnight Games.

• Release date: Not announced

Endnight announced Forest 3 with a trailer that pushed further into sci-fi hardware and unfamiliar environments than prior entries. Platform and timeline details were kept off stage.

No Law

No Law is an open-world first-person shooter RPG from Neon Giant.

• Release date: Not announced

Neon Giant pitched No Law as a cyberpunk shooter RPG set in Port Desire with an ex-military lead pulled back into violence after attempting a quieter life. The reveal leaned on world texture and premise rather than a feature list.

Lenny Kravitz In 007 First Light

007 First Light is an action-adventure game from IO Interactive.

• Release date: March 27, 2026

The show confirmed Lenny Kravitz as Bawma, presented as a major figure tied to the story. The reveal framed the role as a clean casting headline, with the date doing most of the practical work.

Deadpool In Marvel Rivals Season 6

Marvel Rivals Season 6 is a team-based PvP shooter update from NetEase Games.

• Release date: January 16, 2026

NetEase used the stage to confirm Deadpool’s arrival, pairing the character with a dated seasonal rollout. The announcement treated the character as the hook and the calendar as the proof.

Lords of the Fallen II

Lords of the Fallen II is an action RPG from Hexworks.

• Release date: Not announced

The first gameplay trailer put boss encounters front and center and kept the rest of the pitch narrow. The reveal confirmed active development without pinning it to a window.

Epic’s Co-Op Platformer ‘Out of Words’

Out of Words is a co-op platform adventure from Kong Orange and WiredFly.

• Release date: 2026

The reveal emphasized co-op traversal through a handcrafted world and a stop-motion production approach. It stayed focused on identity and cadence rather than overexplaining mechanics.

Nioh 3

Nioh 3 is an action RPG from Team Ninja.

• Release date: February 6, 2026

The trailer promised variety by letting players swap between samurai and ninja combat, while also teasing a broader field structure. The date placed it early in the 2026 calendar.

Stupid Never Dies

Stupid Never Dies is an action RPG from GPTRACK50.

• Release date: 2026

The reveal introduced GPTRACK50 as a new studio led by former Capcom producer Hiroyuki Kobayashi. The pitch sold a dungeon run driven by a personal rescue motive, with a 2026 target for PS5 and PC.

The Free Shepherd - Game About A Dog

The Free Shepherd is an adventure game; the developer was not confirmed in the reveal coverage.

• Release date: 2027

The opener pitched a sheepdog herding lost sheep toward a hidden refuge across a beautiful but troubled world, using movement and atmosphere to carry the trailer. The date landed as 2027, with little else pinned down.

The Game Awards 2025 Verdict

The night’s The Game Awards' announcements followed a familiar pattern: new trailers, hard dates for a handful of 2026 releases, and title-only reveals designed to keep momentum moving.

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 winning Game of the Year and stacking category victories across creative and genre awards. The official winners roll and the full press reporting converged on the same headline: nine wins for Expedition 33 off 12 nominations, with major category wins spread thinly outside that sweep.