2025 GOTY Scoreboard: In Progress

The New York Game Awards were held this weekend and that officially marks the start of the second half of the 2025-2026 awards season for video games.

We kicked things off with Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 winning “Game of the Year” at The Game Awards and the Golden Joystick Awards… and that’s more or less where things have stood ever since. Sandfall Interactive’s turn-based RPG has continued to dominate the conversation ever since, winning “Game of the Year” honors from more than a dozen publications.

Though like most years, a handful of other games were able to collect at least one “Game of the Year” statuette of their own, including Blue Prince, Death Stranding 2: On the Beach, Despelote, Dispatch, Donkey Kong Bananza, Ghost of Yotei, Hollow Knight: Silksong, and Silent Hill F.

Links to these lists can be found below, and I will continue to add more in the weeks ahead.

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Blue Prince

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

Death Stranding 2: On the Beach

Despelote

Dispatch

Donkey Kong Bananza

Ghost of Yotei

Hollow Knight: Silksong

Silent Hill F

Wuthering Waves

Unranked Lists

 
More “Game of the Year” lists from 2025 will be added as I find them (or as they happen), but here is a pretty good overview of what’s been honored by critics and players so far:

2025 GOTY Scoreboard (Expand)