Megabonk May Have Withdrawn Itself For Consideration At The Game Awards 2025, But Another Category Has Put It Back

Megabonk whitethorn person withdrawn itself for information for champion indie crippled astatine adjacent week's The Game Awards 2025, but it's present long-listed arsenic 1 of 30 fan-favorite games successful the moving for the Players' Voice category.

Megabonk was nominated for Best Debut Indie, alongside Blue Prince, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, Despelote, and Dispatch. Developer Vedinad, however, withdrew their crippled from The Game Awards successful mid-November, saying it didn't suffice for the category, arsenic Megabonk was not their debut game.

"It's an grant and a imagination for Megabonk to beryllium nominated for TGA, but unfortunately, I don't deliberation it qualifies for the class 'Debut Indie Game,'" the developer said astatine the time. "I've made games successful the past nether antithetic workplace names, truthful Megabonk is not my debut game."

Shortly aft that, The Game Awards creator Geoff Keighley shared a connection of his ain acknowledging the petition and stating that Megabonk would beryllium removed successful a Twitter/X post, which it yet was.

That was seemingly not the extremity of the communicative for Megabonk's travel astatine The Game Awards, however. It's present besides been nominated nether the publicly-voted Players' Voice category.

30 games are nominated for this section, the shortlist for which volition beryllium whittled down crossed 3 rounds of van-voting. Megabonk is up against large hitters similar Death Stranding 2, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, Arc Raiders, Battlefield 6, Hades 2, and Fortnite.

The Game Awards 2025 Players' Voice nominations:

• Arc Raiders - Embark Studios
• Battlefield 6 - Battlefield Studios/EA
• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 - Sandfall Interactive/Kepler Interactive
• Death Stranding 2: On The Beach - Kojima Productions/Sony Interactive Entertainment
• Delta Force - Team Jade/TiMi Studio Group
• Dispatch - AdHoc Studio
• Donkey Kong Bananza - Nintendo EPD/Nintendo
• Doom: The Dark Ages - id Software/Bethesda Softworks
• Elden Ring Nightreign - FromSoftware/Bandai Namco Entertainment
• Final Fantasy XIV - Square Enix
• Fortnite - Epic Games
• Genshin Impact - HoYoverse
• Ghost of Yōtei - Sucker Punch Productions/Sony Interactive Entertainment
• Hades II - Supergiant Games
• Helldivers 2 - Arrowhead Game Studios/Sony Interactive Entertainment
• Hollow Knight: Silksong - Team Cherry
• Indiana Jones and the Great Circle - MachineGames/Bethesda Softworks
• Kingdom Come: Deliverance II - Warhorse Studios/Deep Silver
• Mario Kart World - Nintendo EPD/Nintendo
• Marvel Rivals - NetEase Games
• Megabonk - Vedinad
• Ninja Gaiden 4 - Platinum Games/Team Ninja/Xbox Game Studios
• No Man’s Sky - Hello Games
• Peak - Aggro Crab/Landfall
• R.E.P.O. - Semiwork Studios
• Silent Hill f - NeoBards Entertainment/Konami
• Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds - Sonic Team/Sega
• Split Fiction - Hazelight Studios/EA
• Warframe - Digital Extremes
• Wuthering Waves - Kuro Games

"WE'RE SO BACK," Vedinad wrote (thanks, Polygon). "Megabonk is nominated for The Game Awards - Player's Voice!! I withdrew my different information owed to Megabonk not fitting the category, but with this caller information we're much backmost than ever. spell ballot pls."

We had a bully clip with Megabonk. In IGN's Megadonk speedy review, we wrote: "As acold arsenic survivors-likes go, this is simply a beauteous beardown one. I'd accidental it's worthy a look if you person an appetite for different 1 of these that isn't fundamentally conscionable a Vampire Survivors reskin. I conscionable privation determination was a small much level variety."

Vikki Blake is simply a newsman for IGN, arsenic good arsenic a critic, columnist, and advisor with 15+ years acquisition moving with immoderate of the world's biggest gaming sites and publications. She's besides a Guardian, Spartan, Silent Hillian, Legend, and perpetually High Chaos. Find her astatine BlueSky.