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December 4, 2025
Over 20 Unreal Engine titles nominated in The Game Awards 2025
The Game Awards 2025 will take place on December 11 at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles for a celebration of creativity and technical excellence in the game development community.
This year, over 20 Unreal Engine titles have earned nominations—representing nearly one-third of all contenders. Among them, Sandfall Interactive’s Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 leads the field with a record-setting 12 nominations, the most of any title in the event’s history!
We’d like to give a huge shoutout to all the incredible developers nominated for awards this year—check out the Unreal Engine nominees who are in the running below.
This year, over 20 Unreal Engine titles have earned nominations—representing nearly one-third of all contenders. Among them, Sandfall Interactive’s Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 leads the field with a record-setting 12 nominations, the most of any title in the event’s history!
We’d like to give a huge shoutout to all the incredible developers nominated for awards this year—check out the Unreal Engine nominees who are in the running below.
2XKO
Riot Games | Riot Games
Nominee: Best Fighting Game2XKO is a free-to-play 2v2 tag-team fighting game developed by Riot Games, set in the League of Legends universe. Choose two champions from the League of Legends and Arcane universes, combining their skills in a tag-team format where one acts as the primary fighter and the other as an assist character.
Alien: Rogue Incursion
Survios | Survios
Nominee: Best VR/AR GameAlien: Rogue Incursion is an action-horror VR game that transforms you into ex-Colonial Marine Zula Hendricks on a dangerous mission to the uncharted planet Purdan, featuring innovative real-life motion gameplay, a whole-body loadout, and the most cunning Xenomorphs ever encountered.
Check out our developer interview with Survios on the making of Alien: Rogue Incursion!
ARC Raiders
Embark Studios | Embark Studios
Nominee: Best Multiplayer [Winner]ARC Raiders is a multiplayer extraction adventure, set in a lethal future earth, ravaged by a mysterious mechanized threat known as ARC.
Avowed
Obsidian Entertainment | Xbox Game Studios
Nominee: Best Role-Playing GameAvowed is a first-person fantasy RPG set in the world of Eora, where your choices carve a path through war, intrigue, and ancient mysteries. Navigate a land in turmoil, forge powerful alliances or deadly rivalries, and wield magic and steel to shape the fate of the Living Lands—and your own destiny.
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
Sandfall Interactive | Kepler Interactive
Nominee: GOTY [Winner], Best Performance [Winner], Best Art Direction [Winner], Best Independent Game [Winner], Best Game Direction [Winner], Best Score & Music [Winner], Best Audio Design, Best Narrative [Winner], Best Debut Indie Game [Winner], Best Role-Playing Game [Winner], Players' VoiceLead the members of Expedition 33 on their quest to destroy the Paintress so that she can never paint death again. Explore a world of wonders inspired by Belle Époque France and battle unique enemies in this turn-based RPG with real-time mechanics.
Check out our developer interview with Sandfall Interactive on the making of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33!
Dispatch
AdHoc Studio | AdHoc Studio
Nominee: Best Debut Indie GameDispatch is a superhero workplace comedy where choices matter. Manage a dysfunctional team of misfit heroes and strategize who to send to emergencies around the city, all while balancing office politics, personal relationships, and your own quest to become a hero.
Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves
SNK Corporation | SNK Corporation
Nominee: Best Fighting Game [Winner]Twenty-six years on, a brand-new entry in the Fatal Fury series has arrived on the scene! FATAL FURY: City of the Wolves features a unique art style that stimulates the senses and an innovative REV System that supercharges the excitement.
Fortnite
Epic Games | Epic Games
Nominee: Best Ongoing Game, Best Community SupportCreate, play, and battle with friends for free in Fortnite. Be the last player standing in Battle Royale and Zero Build, experience a concert or live event, or discover hundreds of thousands of developer-made games, including racing, parkour, zombie survival, and more. Each Fortnite island has an individual age rating so you can find the one that's right for you and your friends.
Lost Records: Bloom & Rage
DON’T NOD Montreal | DON’T NOD
Nominee: Games for ImpactEmbark on a new narrative journey by the creators of Life is Strange. Film your summer of 1995 and create memories of a lifetime with your new friends. Twenty-seven years later, confront the dark secrets that made you all promise to never speak again after that fateful summer.
Marvel Rivals
Marvel Games | NetEase Games
Nominee: Best Ongoing GameMarvel Rivals is a super hero team-based PvP shooter. Assemble an all-star Marvel squad, devise countless strategies by combining powers to form unique Team-Up skills, and fight in destructible, ever-changing battlefields across the continually evolving Marvel universe!
Check out our developer interview with NetEase Games on the making of Marvel Rivals!
Marvel's Deadpool VR
Twisted Pixel Games | Oculus Studios
Nominee: Best VR/AR GameMarvel’s Deadpool VR blends savage ranged and melee combat with fast-paced and uncompromising traversal. Defeat enemies with an upgradeable arsenal of weapons and discover stylish and creative ways to take down anyone who stands in your way.
Rematch
Sloclap | Sloclap, Kepler Interactive
Nominee: Best Sports/Racing GameControl one player on your team and compete in fast-paced 5v5 matches from an immersive third-person perspective. Team up with your friends and join the action.
Check out our developer interview with Sloclap on the making of Rematch!
Silent Hill F
NeoBards Entertainment | Konami
Nominee: Best Performance, Best Audio Design, Best NarrativeHinako's hometown is engulfed in fog, driving her to fight grotesque monsters and solve eerie puzzles. Uncover the disturbing beauty hidden in terror.
Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds
Sonic Team | SEGA
Nominee: Best Family Game, Best Sports/Racing GameRace across land, sea, air, space, and time in Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds! Warp through Travel Rings into new dimensions where something new awaits around every twist and turn.
South of Midnight
Compulsion Games | Xbox Game Studios
Nominee: Games for Impact [Winner], Innovation in AccessibilitySouth of Midnight is an action-adventure from Compulsion Games. Explore the mythos and confront mysterious creatures of the Deep South in this modern folktale while learning to weave an ancient power to surmount obstacles and unravel your family’s hidden past.
Split Fiction
Hazelight Studios | EA
Nominee: Best Multiplayer, Best Family Game, Best Game Direction, Best Action/Adventure GameEmbrace mind-blowing moments as you’re pulled deep into the many worlds of Split Fiction, a boundary-pushing co-op adventure from the studio behind It Takes Two.
Check out our developer interview with Hazelight Studios on the making of Split Fiction!
Tempest Rising
Slipgate Ironworks, 2B Games | 3D Realms, Knights Peak
Nominee: Best Sim/Strategy GameCommand distinct factions in a desperate struggle for power and resources in Tempest Rising—a classic RTS set on earth after a nuclear war.
The Alters
11 Bit Studios | 11 Bit Studios
Nominee: Best Sim/Strategy GameExplore an emotional sci-fi game that features a unique blend of adventure, survival, and base-building elements. Play as Jan Dolski, a simple worker who creates alternative versions of himself in a desperate attempt to escape from a planet where even sun rays can prove deadly.
The Midnight Walk
MoonHood | Fast Travel Games
Nominee: Best VR/AR Game [Winner]Follow The Midnight Walk in a dark adventure from the minds behind Lost in Random. Befriend a lost lantern creature and light your way through a world of wonder and terror. Outsmart monsters and marvel at details in a landscape handcrafted with real clay and animated in a stop-motion style.
Check out our Inside Unreal livestream with MoonHood on the making of The Midnight Walk!
The Outer Worlds 2
Obsidian Entertainment | Xbox Game Studios
Nominee: Best Role-Playing GameThe Outer Worlds 2 is the eagerly-awaited sequel to the award-winning first-person sci-fi RPG from Obsidian Entertainment. Get ready for an action-packed adventure with a new crew, new weapons, and new enemies in a new colony.
The Witcher 4
CD PROJEKT RED | CD PROJEKT
Nominee: Most Anticipated GameThe Witcher 4 is a single-player, open-world RPG from CD PROJEKT RED. At the start of a new saga, players take on the role of Ciri, a professional monster slayer, and embark on a journey through a brutal dark-fantasy world.
Watch the ‘The Witcher 4 Unreal Engine 5 Tech Demo’ from this year’s State of Unreal.
VALORANT
Riot Games | Riot Games
Nominee: Best eSports GameVALORANT is a character-based 5v5 tactical shooter set on the global stage. Outwit, outplay, and outshine your competition with tactical abilities, precise gunplay, and adaptive teamwork.
Check out our developer interview with Riot Games on the making of VALORANT!
Wanderstop
Ivy Road | Annapurna Interactive
Nominee: Games for ImpactWanderstop is a cozy tea shop management game. Play as a fallen fighter who runs a tea shop in a magical forest and serves customers with different preferences. Grow and harvest the needed ingredients and mix them together in an unusual tea-making contraption. Along the way, speak with the many travelers who pass through the shop, learn their stories, and make tea that’s just right for them.
Wuthering Waves
Kuro Games | Kuro Games
Nominee: Best Mobile Game, Players' Voice [Winner]Wuthering Waves is a story-rich open-world action RPG with a high degree of freedom. You wake from your slumber as Rover, joined by a vibrant cast of Resonators on a journey to reclaim your lost memories and change the world.
Check out our developer interview with Kuro Games on the making of Wuthering Waves!