Surprise!
We’re full steam ahead with our Stevivor Game of the Year (GOTY) 2025 awards program and using today to honour the best indie game of the year.
This category was fun — and maybe a little surprising. While we awarded Clair Obscur Expedition 33 our best RPG of 2025, we aren’t giving it this award. Instead, Stevivor staffers voted in large numbers for Ball x Pit, the brick-breaker darling from Kenny Sun.
In a 10/10 review, Steve praised Ball x Pit for its “fun sense of progression, coupled with 10-15 minute gameplay runs (that usually end up with you saying, “just one more!”),” concluding he could “recommend Ball x Pit to just about anyone”.
“With a $14.99 USD price tag to boot — and access via Xbox Game Pass if you’re not super-angry with Microsoft right now — this one’s not only a no-brainer, but one of the best games of 2025,” he added.
Coming in second and third, respectively, were Supergiant’s Hades 2 and Sandfall Interactive’s Clair Obscur Expedition 33.
Our Game of the Year 2025 awards program keeps on keeping on; next up is our award for Best Audio in a game this year.
Catch up on previous awards below.
Stevivor’s Game of the Year (GOTY) Awards 2025
- Best Sports: Rematch
- Best RPG: Clair Obscur Expedition 33
- Best Action-Adventure: Indiana Jones and the Great Circle
- Best Multiplayer: Battlefield 6
- Best Ongoing: Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024
- Best Indie: Ball x Pit
- Best Audio: Battlefield 6
- Best Narrative: Clair Obscur Expedition 33
- Best Direction: Clair Obscur Expedition 33
- Best Exclusive: Donkey Kong Bananza
- Game of the Year: Clair Obscure Expedition 33
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