Hello and welcome to VGChartz’s 19th annual Game of the Year Awards!
As always the winners will be chosen by a combination of community and staff voting, using a two-stage voting system:
- The first stage is called Preliminary Voting. It lasts five days and the idea behind it is for community voting alone to reduce the often lengthy lists of games for each award down to a much smaller list of Nominees. Games that receive 5% or more of the vote during Preliminary Voting will go through to the second stage.
- This second stage is called Final Voting. Final Voting will determine both the final Shortlist of games to be featured in each award article and, of course, the Winner. It will last around 10-14 days, just like the old system of voting, and will use a mixture of user and staff voting (with the usual 50/50 split in terms of weighting).
Here’s the link to our Preliminary Voting Form. All you need to take part is a Google account:
>>VOTING NOW CLOSED<<
As a reminder this first round of voting will not determine any winners – be sure to come back in a few days’ time to take part in Final Voting and help decide which title from 2025 will be joining this illustrious list of former winners:
Previous Winners
Astro Bot
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
Elden Ring
Metroid Dread
The Last of Us Part II
Resident Evil 2
God of War
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
Uncharted 4: A Thief's End
Rocket League
Super Smash Bros. for Wii U
Super Mario 3D World
Journey
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
Mass Effect 2
Uncharted 2: Among Thieves
LittleBigPlanet
BioShock
