With Gamescom 2025 coming to a close, it was time to celebrate everyone and everything that appeared at the annual event with the Gamescom Awards. This year saw 19 awards up for grab, including those for best audio, best visuals, most entertaining, and much more.
The Gamescom 2025 Awards began at 9am ET with winners being updated throughout.
You can check out the full list of Gamescom 2025 award winners below along with the other nominees (if applicable). All of the winners will be bolded.
Gamescom 2025 Award Winners
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
- WINNER: Resident Evil Requiem – Capcom Entertainment
Best Audio
- Cairn – The Game Bakers
- Little Nightmares 3 – Supermassive Games/Bandai Namco Entertainment
- Phantom Blade Zero – S-Game
- WINNER: Resident Evil Requiem – Capcom Entertainment
- Rockbeasts – Lichthund/Team17
Best Gameplay
- WINNER: Donkey Kong Bananza – Nintendo
- Hela – Windup/Knights Peak
- Mario Kart World – Nintendo
- PVKK: Planetenverteidigungskanonenkommandant – Bippinbits/Kepler Interactive
- Resident Evil Requiem – Capcom Entertainment
Most Epic
- Crimson Desert – Pearl Abyss
- Dune: Awakening – Funcom
- WINNER: Resident Evil Requiem – Capcom Entertainment
- Super Meat Boy 3D – Sluggerfly, Team Meat/Headup Games
- Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 – Saber Interactive/Focus Entertainment
Most Entertaining
- Dispatch – AdHoc Studio
- Donkey Kong Bananza – Nintendo
- Grounded 2 – Obsidian Entertainment/Xbox Game Studios
- WINNER: Hela – Windup/Knights Peak
- Mario Kart World – Nintendo
Most Wholesome
- WINNER: 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
- WINNER: Tiny Bookshop – neoludic games/Skystone Games, 2P Games
Best Mobile Game
- Arknights: Endfield – Hypergryph/Gryphline
- Dungeon Clawler – Stray Fawn/Stray Fawn Publishing, Playworks
- Genshin Impact – HoYoverse
- WINNER: Love and Deepspace – Papergames/Infold Games
- Servant of the Lake – Rusty Lake
Best Microsoft Xbox Game
- Borderlands 4 – Gearbox Software/2K
- Crimson Desert – Pearl Abyss
- WINNER: 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 Sony PlayStation Game
- Borderlands 4 – Gearbox Software/2K
- Crimson Desert – Pearl Abyss
- Cronos: The New Dawn – Bloober Team
- Pragmata – Capcom Entertainment
- WINNER: Resident Evil Requiem – Capcom Entertainment
Best Nintendo Switch 2 Game
- Donkey Kong Bananza – Nintendo
- WINNER: 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 PC Game
- WINNER: Anno 117: Pax Romana – Ubisoft Mainz/Ubisoft
- Borderlands 4 – Gearbox Software/2K
- PVKK: Planetenverteidigungskanonenkommandant – Bippinbits/Kepler Interactive
- Towa and the Guardians of the Sacred Tree – Brownies Inc. /Bandai Namco Entertainment
- World of Warcraft – Blizzard Entertainment/Activision Blizzard
HEART OF GAMING Award
The special jury award is open to all Gamescom highlights, including games, expansions, technologies, individuals, organizations, companies, concepts and ideas.
WINNER: Artist Alleys
Best Lineup
The award for Best Lineup goes to the exhibitor with the most compelling overall portfolio of titles as determined by the jury.
WINNER: Capcom
Best Trailer/Announcement
The Gamescom community votes for the coolest game trailer or the best new game announcement presented at Gamescom.
WINNER: Hollow Knight: Silksong
Best Booth
This category recognizes the booth that demonstrates outstanding originality, innovation and attention to detail, with the winner standing out for its exceptional interplay of concept, design and creative execution.
WINNER: Ubisoft
Best Booth (Fan selected)
The community selects the most striking booth at Gamescom for this award.
WINNER: Pokemon
Best Merch
In this category, products are celebrated for their creative design, originality and clear connection to the game or franchise.
WINNER: Star Birds Gacha Machine
Let us know what you think of the 2025 Gamescom Award winners, and if you think anyone else should’ve won down in the comments below!
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