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Robert Scarpinito
January 09, 2026 • Estimated Reading Time: 6 minutes

We’re ringing in the new year with our objectively correct game awards for 2025. Linked above you’ll find our Game of the Year—don’t worry, it isn’t Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, so you don’t need to have a hot take ready to fire.

Here are all the nominees for our Game of the Year.

  • Blue Prince

  • Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

  • Donkey Kong Bananza

  • Death Stranding 2: On the Beach

  • Ghost of Yotei

  • Hades II

  • Hollow Knight: Silksong

  • Kingdom Come: Deliverance II

  • Silent Hill f

  • Split Fiction

Our staff voted on all these games to determine their order and placement, so it’s as close as it can get to a reflection of our overall thoughts as a staff. You can see the other categories we voted on below with their nominees listed out.

  • Abiotic Factor

  • Ball x Pit

  • Blue Prince

  • Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector

  • Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor

  • Dispatch

  • Hollow Knight: Silksong

  • Megabonk

  • Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound

  • The Roottrees are Dead

  • Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector

  • Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

  • Hades II

  • Kingdom Come: Deliverance II

  • Silent Hill f

  • Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

  • Death Stranding 2: On the Beach

  • Hades II

  • Hollow Knight: Silksong

  • Ghost of Yotei

  • Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

  • Death Stranding 2: On the Beach

  • Donkey Kong Bananza

  • Doom: The Dark Ages

  • Hades II

  • Final Fantasy XIV

  • Fortnite

  • Helldivers 2

  • Marvel Rivals

  • No Man's Sky

  • Elden Ring Nightreign: The Forsaken Hollows

  • Indiana Jones and the Great Circle: The Order of Giants

  • Lies of P: Overture

  • No Man's Sky: Voyagers

  • Sea of Stars: Throes of the Watchmaker

  • Battlefield 6

  • Elden Ring Nightreign

  • Mario Kart World

  • Peak

  • Split Fiction

A Little More Subjective Indulgence for You

We also have individual staff writers—including myself—who wrote our own lists for you to explore if you’re curious! Expedition 33 doesn’t dominate our individual lists either, (though it is on mine).

That’s all from us this week at TechRaptor! We’ll be back in your inbox next week with a news roundup as we start 2026 in earnest.