Gamescom Award 2025 nominees detailed

It's a stacked list.

Gamescom Award 2025 nominees have been detailed ahead of an announcement of winners, and we’ve got the full list for you below.

Here’s which games are up for which awards.

Best visuals

• Borderlands 4 – Gearbox Software / 2K
• Bye Sweet Carole – Little Sewing Machine / Maximum Entertainment
• Crimson Desert – Pearl Abyss
• MIO: Memories In Orbit – Douze Dixièmes / Focus Entertainment
• Resident Evil Requiem – Capcom Entertainment

Best audio

• Cairn – The Game Bakers
• Little Nightmares 3 – Supermassive Games / Bandai Namco Entertainment
• Phantom Blade Zero – S-Game
• Resident Evil Requiem – Capcom Entertainment
• Rockbeasts – Lichthund / Team17

Best gameplay

• Donkey Kong Bananza – Nintendo
• Hela – Windup / Knights Peak
• Mario Kart World – Nintendo
• PVKK – Bippinbits / Kepler Interactive
• Resident Evil Requiem – Capcom Entertainment

Most entertaining

• Dispatch – AdHoc Studio
• Donkey Kong Bananza – Nintendo
• Grounded 2 – Obsidian Entertainment / Xbox Game Studios
• Hela – Windup / Knights Peak
• Mario Kart World – Nintendo

Most epic

• Crimson Desert – Pearl Abyss
• Dune: Awakening – Funcom
• Resident Evil Requiem – Capcom Entertainment
• Super Meat Boy 3D – Sluggerfly, Team Meat / Headup
• Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 – Saber Interactive / Focus Entertainment

Most wholesome

• Hela – Windup / Knights Peak
• Is This Seat Taken? – Poti Poti Studio / Wholesome Games Presents
• Star Birds – Toukana Interactive
• Tiny Bookshop – neoludic games / Skystone Games, 2P Games
• Winter Burrow – Pine Creek Games / Noodlecake

Games for impact

• Cairn – The Game Bakers
• Forever Skies – Far From Home
• Hollow Home – Twigames / Galaktus
• Monowave – Studio BBB
• Tiny Bookshop – neoludic games / Skystone Games, 2P Games

Best Xbox game

• Borderlands 4 – Gearbox Software / 2K
• Crimson Desert – Pearl Abyss
• Grounded 2 – Obsidian Entertainment / Xbox Game Studios
• Little Nightmares 3 – Supermassive Games / Bandai Namco Entertainment
• Ninja Gaiden 4 – PlatinumGames, Team Ninja / Xbox Game Studios

Best PC game

• Anno 117: Pax Romana – Ubisoft Mainz / Ubisoft
• Borderlands 4 – Gearbox Software / 2K
• PVKK – Bippinbits / Kepler Interactive
• Towa and the Guardians of the Sacred Tree – Brownies inc. / Bandai Namco Entertainment
• World of Warcraft – Blizzard Entertainment / Activision Blizzard

Best PlayStation game

• Borderlands 4 – Gearbox Software / 2K
• Crimson Desert – Pearl Abyss
• Cronos: The New Dawn – Bloober Team
• Pragmata – Capcom Entertainment
• Resident Evil Requiem – Capcom Entertainment

Best Switch 2 game

• Donkey Kong Bananza – Nintendo
• Mario Kart World – Nintendo
• Metroid Prime 4: Beyond – Nintendo
• Towa and the Guardians of the Sacred Tree – Brownies Inc. / Bandai Namco Entertainment
• Winter Burrow – Pine Creek Games / Noodlecake

Best mobile game

• Arknights: Endfield – Hypergryph / Gryphline
• Dungeon Clawler – Stray Fawn / Stray Fawn Publishing, Playworks
• Genshin Impact – HoYoverse
• Love and Deepspace – Papergames / Infold Games
• Servant of the Lake – Rusty Lake

We’ll let you know when winners have been announced.