November 17, 2025
The Game Awards 2025 – Play Every Xbox Nominated Game Today
Summary
- We’re excited to share that a half-dozen Xbox first-party titles (plus one movie) have been nominated for awards across multiple categories – voting is now open on The Game Awards official site.
- You can play many of the nominees announced today with Xbox Game Pass, including top nominee Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, DOOM: The Dark Ages, South of Midnight, and Hollow Knight: Silksong.
- Tune into The Game Awards on December 11 to see if your favorite games from 2025 take home an award.
The Game Awards has officially revealed the full list of nominees for the year, and we’re thrilled to see such a wide range of unique titles being recognized for their contributions to gaming. Even better, many of these nominees can be played today across Xbox consoles, Xbox on PC, ROG Xbox Ally handhelds, Cloud, and with Xbox Game Pass!
This year our first-party studios received nominations for Avowed, DOOM: The Dark Ages, Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, Ninja Gaiden 4, South of Midnight, and The Outer Worlds 2. Troy Baker’s pitch-perfect performance as Indiana Jones was recognized with a Best Performance nomination, and ‘A Minecraft Movie’, one of the biggest hits at the box office in 2025, was nominated for Best Adaptation.
We’re also equally excited to see that many of our third-party partners have been nominated across a wide range of categories – many of which can be played with Game Pass. Ball x Pit, Blue Prince, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, Hollow Knight: Silksong, and Rematch are all up for awards this year, and playable across devices as Xbox Play Anywhere titles. Additionally, Game Pass subscribers receive incredible benefits for nominees League of Legends, Valorant, and – starting tomorrow – Fortnite.
Congratulations to all this year’s amazing nominees – and don’t forget, these nominations join titles on Xbox nominated across the Golden Joysticks, and even the Grammys!
Remember, you can vote for your favorites right now over at TheGameAwards.com. See below for the full list of nominees that you can play today.
First-Party Nominees
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Avowed Standard Edition
Xbox Game Studios
$69.99
$55.99
Nominated for:
- Best RPG
DOOM: The Dark Ages
Bethesda Softworks
$69.99
$55.99
Nominated for:
- Best Action/Adventure Game
- Innovation in Accessibility
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle
Bethesda Softworks
$69.99
$55.99
Nominated for:
- Best Performance: Troy Baker
- Best Action/Adventure Game
NINJA GAIDEN 4 Standard Edition
Xbox Game Studios
Nominated for:
- Best Action/Adventure
The Outer Worlds 2
Xbox Game Studios
Nominated for:
- Best RPG
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Third-Party Nominees
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The Alters
11 bit studios
$34.99
$27.99
Nominated for:
- Best Sim/Strategy
ARC Raiders
Embark Studios
Nominated for:
- Best Multiplayer
Assassin's Creed Shadows
Ubisoft
Nominated for:
- Innovation in Accessibility
Atomfall
Rebellion
$59.99
$47.99
Nominated for:
- Innovation in Accessibility
Baldur's Gate 3
Larian Studios
Nominated for:
- Best Community Support
BALL x PIT
Devolver Digital
$14.99
$13.49
Nominated for:
- Best Independent Game
Battlefield
6
Electronic Arts
$69.99
$62.99
Nominated for:
- Best Multiplayer
- Best Action/Adventure
Blue Prince
Raw Fury
$29.99
$23.99
Nominated for:
- Best Independent Game
- Best Debut Indie Game
Capcom Fighting Collection 2
CAPCOM Co., Ltd.
Nominated for:
- Best Fighting Game
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
Kepler Interactive
$49.99
$39.99
Nominated for:
- Game of the Year
- Best Game Direction
- Best Performance: Ben Starr
- Best Performance: Charlie Cox
- Best Performance: Jennifer English
- Best Narrative
- Best Art Direction
- Best Independent Game
- Best Debut Indie Game
- Best RPG
- Best Score and Music
- Best Audio Design
despelote
Panic
Nominated for:
- Games for Impact
- Best Debut Indie Game
EA SPORTS FC 26 Xbox Series X|S
Electronic Arts
Nominated for:
- Innovation in Accessibility
- Best Sports/Racing
ELDEN RING NIGHTREIGN
Bandai Namco Entertainment America Inc.
Nominated for:
- Best Multiplayer
F1® 25
Electronic Arts
$69.99
$62.99
Nominated for:
- Best Sports/Racing
FATAL FURY: City of the Wolves – Special Edition
SNK CORPORATION
$59.99
$23.99
Nominated for:
- Best Fighting Game
FINAL FANTASY XIV Online – Starter Edition
SQUARE ENIX
Nominated for:
- Best Ongoing
- Best Community Support
FINAL FANTASY TACTICS – The Ivalice Chronicles
SQUARE ENIX
Nominated for:
- Best Sim/Strategy
Fortnite
Epic Games Inc.
Nominated for:
- Best Ongoing
- Best Community Support
HELLDIVERS 2
PlayStation Publishing LLC
Nominated for:
- Best Ongoing
- Best Community Support
Hollow Knight: Silksong
Team Cherry
$19.99
$17.99
Nominated for:
- Game of the Year
- Art Direction
- Best Independent Game
- Best Action Adventure
- Best Score and Music
Jurassic World Evolution 3
Frontier Developments
Nominated for:
- Best Sim/Strategy
Kingdom Come: Deliverance II
Deep Silver
Nominated for:
- Game of the Year
- Best Narrative
- Best RPG
LEGO® Party!
Fictions
Nominated for:
- Best Family
LEGO® Voyagers
Annapurna Interactive
Nominated for:
- Best Family
League of Legends
Riot Games
Nominated for:
- Best Esports
Lost Records: Bloom & Rage
DON'T NOD
Nominated for:
- Games for Impact
Marvel Rivals
NetEase Games
Nominated for:
- Best Ongoing
Monster Hunter Wilds
CAPCOM CO., LTD.
Nominated for:
- Best RPG
Mortal Kombat: Legacy Kollection
Atari
Nominated for:
- Best Fighting Game
No Man's Sky
Hello Games
$59.99
$47.99
Nominated for:
- Best Ongoing
- Best Community Support
REMATCH
Sloclap, Kepler Interactive
$29.99
$23.99
Nominated for:
- Best Sports/Racing
Split Fiction
Electronic Arts
$49.99
$44.99
Nominated for:
- Best Game Direction
- Best Multiplayer
- Best Action Adventure
- Best Family
SILENT HILL f
KONAMI
Nominated for:
- Best Performance: Konatsu Kato
- Best Narrative
- Best Audio Design
SHINOBI: Art of Vengeance
SEGA
Nominated for:
- Best Action/Adventure
Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds
SEGA
Nominated for:
- Best Family
- Best Sports/Racing
Sid Meier's Civilization® VII
2K
Nominated for:
- Best Sim/Strategy
Two Point Museum
SEGA
Nominated for:
- Best Sim/Strategy
VALORANT
Riot Games
Nominated for:
- Best Esports
Virtua Fighter 5 R.E.V.O. World Stage 30th Anniversary Edition
SEGA
Nominated for:
- Best Fighting Game
Wanderstop
Annapurna Interactive
Nominated for:
- Games for Impact
- Best Audio Design
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