New York Game Awards 2025 Winners: The Full List

The New York Game Awards 2024 has arrived and, alongside honoring Remedy Entertainment creative director Sam Lake, the show saw Astro Bot become the big winner of the night as it took home Game of the Year, Best Music, and Best Kids Game. Other highlights included Simone De Rochefort and Clayton Ashley winning the Knickerbocker Award for Best Games Journalism (The same one IGN's Rebekah Valentine won in 2022! ) for their work on The Great Game: The Making of Spycraft, Troy Baker winning Best Acting in a Game for his performance as Indiana Jones in Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, and UFO 50 winning Best Indie Game. You can check out the full list of the winners and nominees of the New York Game Awards 2025 below and see how they compare to IGN's Awards in 2024! You can also read our chat with Sam Lake about the honor of winning the Andrew Yoon Legend Award! New York Game Awards 2025 Winners Big Apple Award for Best Game of the Year Balatro Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth Astro Bot - WINNER UFO 50 1000xResist Indiana Jones and the Great Circle Metaphor: ReFantazio EA Sports College Football 25 Off Broadway Award for Best Indie Game Tales of Kenzera: ZAU Lorelei and the Laser Eyes Balatro I Am Your Beast UFO 50 - WINNER 1000xResist Thank Goodness You’re Here! Neva Herman Melville Award for Best Writing in a Game Harold Halibut Metaphor: ReFantazio - WINNER 1000xResist Life is Strange: Double Exposure Phoenix Springs Indiana Jones and the Great Circle Statue of Liberty Award for Best World Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree - WINNER Tales of Kenzera: ZAU Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess Astro Bot Indiana Jones and the Great Circle S.

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K.E.R 2 Heart of Chornobyl Tin Pan Alley Award for Best Music in a Game Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess Life is Strange: Double Exposure Astro Bot - WINNER Arco Black Myth Wukong 1000xResist Great White Way Award for Best Acting in a Game Abubakar Salim as Zau, Zuberi and Griot Echo in Tales of Kenzera: ZAU John Eric Bentley as Barret in Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth Hannah Telle as Max Caulfield in Life is Strange: Double Exposure Melina Juergens as Senua in Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2 Troy Baker as Indiana Jones in Indiana Jones and the Great Circle - WINNER Humberly González as Kay in Star Wars Outlaws Coney Island Dreamland Award for Best AR/VR Game Thrasher Batman: Arkham Shadow - WINNER Umurangi Generation VR Skydance’s Behemoth Silent Slayer: Vault of the Vampire Shattered Central Park Children’s Zoo Award for Best Kids Game Astro Bot - WINNER Super Mario Party Jamboree Little Kitty, Big City Sonic X Shadow Generations The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom A-Train Award for Best Mobile Game Rabbids: Legends of the Multiverse Wuthering Waves Zenless Zone Zero - WINNER Ex Astris Pokémon Trading Card Game Pocket Freedom Tower Award for Best Remake Soul Reaver 1 and 2 Remastered Silent Hill 2 - WINNER Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth Age of Mythology: Retold Persona 3: Reload Chumley’s Speakeasy Award for Best Hidden Gem Ultros Vampire Therapist Mouthwashing - WINNER Llamasoft: The Jeff Minter Story Mars After Midnight Starstruck: Hands of Time NYC GWB Award for Best DLC Alan Wake II: Night Springs and The Lake House Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown – Mask of Darkness Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree - WINNER Remnant 2: The Dark Horizon Splatoon 3: Side Order Diablo IV: Vessel of Hatred Knickerbocker Award for Best Games Journalism Duncan Fyfe Alexis Ong Grant Stoner Mason Andrew Hamberlin Edwin Evans-Thirlwell Simone De Rochefort & Clayton Ashley - WINNER Andrew Yoon Legend Award Recipient Sam Lake - Winner Have a tip for us? Want to discuss a possible story? Please send an email to newstips@ign.

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