IGN Awards 2025: The Nominees

It's astir clip to invited successful 2026, the twelvemonth that we finally get to play Grand Theft Auto 6. But there's inactive a fewer days near to observe the top hits of this year, and that's precisely what the IGN Awards 2025 is present to do. There was a monolithic stack of large games, movies, and TV shows this year, and we privation to grant the precise champion of the past 12 months of pop-culture.

This was the twelvemonth erstwhile the long, agelong improvement of Hollow Knight: Silksong yet ended, and proved that bully things truly bash travel to those who wait. But 2025 was conscionable arsenic overmuch astir caller faces arsenic it was long-awaited sequels, with Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 from caller workplace Sandfall Interactive being the taxable of astatine slightest fractional of each gaming speech for astir of the year. Over connected the large screen, the bluesy fearfulness enactment of Sinners and the break-neck thrills of One Battle After Another had america connected the edges of our seats, and successful our surviving rooms we were glued to the twists and turns of Severance's 2nd play and leafing done issues of Batman: Dark Patterns. All of these superb titles and much are nominated for 1 of our end-of-year awards.

Here we contiguous the afloat database of nominees for the 2025 IGN Awards. Starting connected Monday, December 15, and continuing passim the week, we volition denote the winners of our Best Xbox, PlayStation, and Nintendo crippled awards, the Best Movie, Best TV Show, and Best Anime, positive galore much categories. This week of awards volition culminate connected Friday, December 19, wherever we volition uncover IGN’s Game of the Year. Be definite to cheque backmost to this leafage each day, which volition beryllium updated with each of the winners arsenic they are announced.

Before we start, a enactment astir our platform-specific awards. We've not typically mandated that games connected the champion PlayStation, Xbox, and Nintendo shortlists have to beryllium level exclusives, but we've usually tried to take games that are notably "aligned" with each console. This year, successful designation of shifting manufacture trends, we've decided that any crippled published connected these platforms is just game, careless of exclusivity. The resulting shortlists archer an absorbing communicative astir however multi-platform, third-party games shaped each console successful 2025 arsenic overmuch arsenic their exclusives.

The IGN Awards are voted for by our contented team, who are the radical that make everything you work and ticker connected IGN, from societal posts to in-depth reviews and multi-page guides. But we don't conscionable privation to archer you what we deliberation was champion this year: we privation to cognize what you loved, too. Vote for your favourite games, movies, shows and much successful the polls below.

The Best Game of 2025

• Blue Prince
• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
• Death Stranding 2: On the Beach
• Donkey Kong Bananza
• Hades 2
• Hollow Knight: Silksong

The Best Movie of 2025

• Frankenstein
• KPop Demon Hunters
• One Battle After Another
• Marty Supreme
• Sinners
• Weapons

The Best TV Show of 2025

• Alien: Earth (season 1)
• Andor (season 2)
• The Pitt (season 1)
• Pluribus (season 1)
• The Rehearsal (season 2)
• Severance (season 2)

The Best Anime Series of 2025

• Apothecary Diaries (season 2)
• Dan Da Dan (season 2)
• Takopi's Original Sin
• The Summer Hikaru Died
• Zenshu

The Best Comic Book oregon Graphic Novel of 2025

• Absolute Wonder Woman
• Assorted Crisis Events
• Batman: Dark Patterns
• Drome
• Ice Cream Man

The Best PlayStation Game of 2025

• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
• Death Stranding 2: On the Beach
• Dispatch
• Ghost of Yotei
• Hollow Knight: Silksong

The Best Xbox Game of 2025

• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
• Hollow Knight: Silksong
• Keeper
• The Outer Worlds 2
• Split Fiction

The Best Nintendo Game of 2025

• Donkey Kong Bananza
• Hades 2
• Hollow Knight: Silksong
• Kirby Air Riders
• Mario Kart World

The Best PC Game of 2025

• Blue Prince
• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
• Hollow Knight: Silksong
• Hades 2
• Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2

The Best RPG of 2025

• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
• Dragon Quest 1 & 2 HD-2D Remake
• Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2
• The Outer Worlds 2
• Trails successful the Sky 1st Chapter

The Best Action-Adventure Game of 2025

• Death Stranding 2: On the Beach
• Donkey Kong Bananza
• Ghost of Yotei
• Hollow Knight: Silksong
• Split Fiction

The Best Action Game of 2025

• The First Berserker: Khazan
• Hades 2
• Monster Hunter Wilds
• Ninja Gaiden 4
• Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound

The Best Shooter Game of 2025

• Arc Raiders
• Battlefield 6
• Borderlands 4
• Doom: The Dark Ages
• Marvel Rivals*

*While Marvel Rivals was released successful December 2024, it arrived excessively precocious to beryllium considered for past year's IGN Awards. We person decided to marque it eligible for this year's awards instead.

The Best Roguelike Game of 2025

• Ball x Pit
• Blue Prince
• Elden Ring Nightreign
• Hades 2
• Monster Train 2

The Best Puzzle Game of 2025

• Blue Prince
• Is This Seat Taken?
• Keeper
• Lumines Arise
• The Séance of Blake Manor

The Best Strategy Game of 2025

• Anno 117: Pax Romana
• Europa Universalis 5
• The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy
• Monster Train 2
• Two Point Museum

The Best Remake oregon Remastered Game of 2025

• Dragon Quest 1 & 2 HD-2D Remake
• The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remastered
• Final Fantasy Tactics - The Ivalice Chronicles
• Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater
• Trails successful the Sky 1st Chapter

The Best Art Direction successful a Video Game of 2025

• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
• Ghost of Yotei
• Hades 2
• Hollow Knight: Silksong
• South of Midnight

The Best Video Game Music/Score of 2025

• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
• Death Stranding 2: On the Beach
• Donkey Kong Bananza
• Hades 2
• Hollow Knight: Silksong

The Best Performance successful a Video Game of 2025

• Aaron Paul (Robert Robertson/Mecha Man, Dispatch)
• Ben Starr (Verso, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33)
• Erika Ishii (Atsu, Ghost of Yotei)
• Jennifer English (Maelle, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33)
• Konatsu Kato (Hinako Shimizu, Silent Hill f)

The Best Ensemble Cast successful a Video Game of 2025

• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
• Death Stranding 2: On the Beach
• Dispatch
• Ghost of Yotei
• Hades 2

The Best Performer successful a Movie of 2025

• Amy Madigan (Gladys, Weapons)
• Chase Infiniti (Willa Ferguson, One Battle After Another)
• Jacob Elordi (The Creature, Frankenstein)
• Leonardo DiCaprio (Bob Ferguson, One Battle After Another)
• Michael B. Jordan (Elijah "Smoke" Moore and Elias "Stack" Moore, Sinners)
• Timothée Chalamet (Marty Mauser, Marty Supreme)

The Best Performer successful a TV Show of 2025

• Babou Ceesay (Morrow, Alien: Earth)
• Genevieve O'Reilly (Mon Mothma, Andor)
• Noah Wyle (Dr. Michael "Robby" Robinavitch, The Pitt)
• Owen Cooper (Jamie Miller, Adolescence)
• Rhea Seehorn (Carol Sturka, Pluribus)

The Best Ensemble Cast successful a TV Show oregon Movie of 2025

• Andor (season 2)
• One Battle After Another
• The Pitt (season 1)
• Severance (season 2)
• Sinners

The Best TV Episode of 2025

• Adolescence Season 1, Episode 3 - "Episode 3"
• Andor Season 2, Episode 8 - “Who Are You?”
• The Pitt Season 1, Episode 12 - "6:00 P.M."
• The Rehearsal Season 2, Episode 3 - "Pilot's Code"
• Severance Season 2, Episode 10 - "Cold Harbor"

The Best Superhero Movie of 2025

• The Fantastic Four: First Steps
• Superman
• Thunderbolts*

The Best Sci-Fi oregon Fantasy Movie of 2025

• Bugonia
• Companion
• Frankenstein
• Predator: Badlands
• Predator: Killer of Killers

The Best Horror Movie of 2025

• 28 Years Later
• Bring Her Back
• Sinners
• Together
• Weapons

Make definite to cheque backmost passim the week starting December 15 arsenic we volition beryllium unveiling caller winners each day. IGN's Game of the Year 2025 volition beryllium announced connected Friday, December 19!