Gamescom 2025 Awards: Full list of all winners

Annual Gamescom awards time!

The biggest gaming event of the year ended with a bang, celebrating the Gamescom 2025 Awards, its annual ceremony.

Nineteen categories were honored, ranging from best visuals to making a community impact. Here is the list of all winners and nominees from every category.

We're pleased to share that Resident Evil Requiem has won 4 Gamescom awards at #Gamescom2025! 🏆 Best Visuals🏆 Best Audio🏆 Most Epic🏆 Best Sony PlayStation game Thank you to everyone who's come to play! pic.twitter.com/iHBFUP3SYM

— Resident Evil (@RE_Games) August 22, 2025

Gamescom 2025 Awards categories and winners

Here are all the categories and winners from the award event:

Best Visuals

• Winner: Resident Evil Requiem – Capcom Entertainment
• Nominees: 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

Best Audio

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

Best Gameplay

• Winner: Donkey Kong Bananza – Nintendo
• Nominees: Hela – Windup/Knights Peak, Mario Kart World – Nintendo, PVKK: PlanetenverteidigungskanoMost Entertaining
• nenkommandant – Bippinbits/Kepler Interactive, Resident Evil Requiem – Capcom Entertainment

Most Epic

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

Most Entertaining

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

Most Wholesome

• Winner: Hela – Windup/Knights Peak
• Nominees: 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

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

Best Mobile Game

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

Best Microsoft Xbox Game

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

Best Sony PlayStation Game

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

Best Nintendo Switch 2 Game

• Winner: Mario Kart World – Nintendo
• Nominees: Donkey Kong Bananza – 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
• Nominees: 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

And the winners are… 🥁🏆A BIG ROUND OF APPLAUSE for our @IGN gamescom award winners! pic.twitter.com/rQpFB8Sreh

— gamescom (@gamescom) August 22, 2025

Special awards

There were also special awards given at Gamescom 2025 Awards event. Here are the special awards categories and winners:

HEART OF GAMING Award

• Winner: Artist Alleys
• Description: A special jury award open to all Gamescom highlights, including games, expansions, technologies, individuals, organizations, companies, concepts, and ideas.

Best Lineup

• Winner: Capcom
• Description: Awarded to the exhibitor with the most compelling overall portfolio of titles as determined by the jury.

Best Trailer/Announcement

• Winner: Hollow Knight: Silksong
• Description: Voted by the Gamescom community for the coolest game trailer or the best new game announcement presented at Gamescom.

Best Booth

• Winner: Ubisoft
• Description: Recognizes the booth demonstrating outstanding originality, innovation, and attention to detail, with exceptional interplay of concept, design, and creative execution.

Best Booth (Fan Selected)

• Winner: Pokémon
• Description: Selected by the community as the most striking booth at Gamescom.

Best Merch

• Winner: Star Birds Gacha Machine
• Description: Celebrates products for their creative design, originality, and clear connection to the game or franchise.

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