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.

While Astro Bot led the way with three wins, there were many other incredible games and people honored in the other 10 categories, including Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree. The highly praised DLC for Elden Ring was the only other game to win multiple awards as it emerged victorious in the Best World and Best DLC categories.

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.T.A.L.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

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