This is by far the most I've ever felt a game has gotten robbed at one of these but aside from that this was an overall nice show and definitely better than the last couple. The highlight for me is for sure the announcement of Larian's next game. That was easily one of the best reveal trailers I've seen for a game.

Still annoyed that they not only nominated Clair Obscur for both indie awards, but also gave them the actual thing. Categories supposed to be for small dev teams with small budgets just trying to create something and put it out there... Imagine how that feels for the Blue Prince devs to lose that award, or rather, how it would've felt for them to win it. Instead the show became a huge Clair Obscur circlejerk-fest to the point that it got a little embarrassing, I know Sandfall is technically an independent team and they took a gamble on this game but they had a huge budget compared to other indies. They still deserve most of the awards they got, just wish this event would've given some light to smaller studios - especially on the awards that were supposedly made for them.

I ended up doing this during the middle of the show lol. 

Weird choice for a closer.

Star Wars or Divinity would've been a better choice. Decent show in the end though. Hard to top the last couple of years in terms of reveals.

Shitshow as always

The vast majority of the announcements should be all written up on the site. Here is the overview article.

https://www.vgchartz.com/article/466553/the-game-awards-2025-winners-announcements-trailers-more/

High points

•Control 2 has major Prototype vibes.

•New Larian RPG looks dark as fuck

•KOTOR3! Aka FOTOR

•SOMA2! Aka Ontos

Low points

•TR remakes look terrible 

•Geoff

Clair Obscur E33 deserved it however. 

Death Stranding 2 should have won best art direction and there should be a separate award for best art. Cause they keep awarding for art and not direction. Regardless of whether it makes sense to the story there are floating, streamer climbing game assets in many areas of E33 and a whole heck of a lot of refused assets and even then Yotei should probably win a best art award with Death Stranding 2 taking a best graphics award. 

I didn't even play much into KCD2 and I know that should have won best RPG Just based on the emergent story, the choices and complexity of it. 

Sound also needs two categories. E33 should have won best OST and perhaps Battlefeild deserves sound design.

I'm glad I didn't stay up for this one after seeing the Star Wars game. Weirdly, the second half of this show continues to be inexplicably bad.

Cant say im surprised and cant say its undeserved. E33 is that good, and happy to see it got all that recognition.

The Goty show itself tho, meh.