New York Game Awards 2025 winners: full list

The 2024 New York Game Awards are here, and while honoring Remedy Entertainment creative director Sam Lake, Astro Bot was the big winner of the night, winning Game of the Year, Best Music, and Best Children's Game.

While Astro Bot leads the way with three wins, there were many other incredible games and characters winning in the other 10 categories, including Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree. Elden Ring's critically acclaimed DLC is the only game to win multiple awards, winning in the Best World and Best DLC categories.

Other highlights include Simone de Rochefort and Clayton Ashley winning the Knickerbocker Award for Best Games Journalism (same award) IGN's Rebekah Valentine wins in 2022!) thank them for their work The Great Game: The Making of World of Spies, Troy Baker won Best Game Performance for his role as Indiana Jones in Raiders of the Lost Ark, while UFO 50 won Best Independent Game.

You can check out the full list of New York Game Awards 2025 winners and nominees below, as well as See how they compare to the 2024 IGN Awards! You can also read We chat with Sam Lake about the honor of receiving the Andrew Yoon Legend Award!

2025 New York Game Awards Winners

Big Apple Awards Game of the Year

• Balatero
• Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth
• Astro Robot – Winner
• UFO 50
• 1000x resistance
• Indiana Jones and the Circle
• Metaphor: ReFantasia
• EA Sports College Football 25

Off-Broadway Best Independent Game Award

• Kenzela’s Story: ZAU
• Lorelai and Laser Eyes
• Balatero
• I am your beast
• UFO 50 – Winner
• 1000x resistance
• Thank God you are here!
• neva river

Herman Melville Award for Best Writing on Games

• harold halibut
• Metaphor: ReFantazio – Winner
• 1000x resistance
• Life is Strange: Double Exposure
• Phoenix Spring
• Indiana Jones and the Circle

Statue of Liberty Best of the World Award

• Elden Ring: Shadow of the Tree – Winner
• Kenzela’s Story: ZAU
• Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth
• Kunitsujin: Path of the Goddess
• astronomy robot
• Indiana Jones and the Circle
• STALKER 2 Heart of Chernobyl

Tin Pan Alley Award for Best Music in a Game

• Kunitsujin: Path of the Goddess
• Life is Strange: Double Exposure
• Astro Robot – Winner
• Arco
• black myth wukong
• 1000x resistance

Great White Way Award for Best Performance in a Game

• Abubakar Salim stars as Zau, Zuberi and Griot Echo in The Legend of Kenzera: ZAU
• John Eric Bentley plays Barrett in Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth
• Hannah Taylor stars as Max Caulfield in Life is Strange: Double Exposure
• Melina Juergens plays Senua in Senua's Legend: Hellblade 2
• Troy Baker as Indiana Jones in “Indiana Jones and the Circle” – Winner
• Humberly Gonzalez plays Kai in Star Wars: Desperados

Coney Island Dreams Award for Best AR/VR Game

• Thrasher
• Batman: Shadow of Arkham – Winner
• Painter Generation VR
• The dancing beast in the sky
• Silent Killer: Vampire Vault
• broken

Central Park Children's Zoo Award for Best Children's Game

• Astro Robot – Winner
• super mario party carnival
• kitten, big city
• Sonic
• The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom

A-Train Award for Best Mobile Game

• Rabbids: A Tale from the Multiverse
• Howling waves
• Zenless Zone Zero – Winner
• from the stars
• Pokémon Trading Card Game Pocket

Freedom Tower Award for Best Remake

• Soul Reaver 1 and 2 Remastered Edition
• Silent Hill 2 – Winner
• Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door
• Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth
• Age of Mythology: Retold
• Persona 3: Reloaded

Chumley Speakeasy Award for Best Hidden Gem

• Otros
• vampire healer
• Mouthwash – Winner
• Llamasoft: The Jeff Minter Story
• Mars after midnight
• Groupies: The Hands of Time

New York GWB Best DLC Award

• Alan Wake II: Night Springs and Lake House
• Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown – Mask of Darkness
• Elden Ring: Shadow of the Tree – Winner
• Remnant 2: Dark Horizon
• Splatoon 3: Sideman
• Diablo IV: Ship of Hate

Knickerbocker Award for Best Gaming Journalism

• Duncan Fife
• Alexis Ong
• Grant Stoner
• Mason Andrew Hamblin
• Edwin Evans-Therwell
• Simone De Rochefort and Clayton Ashley – Winners

Andrew Yoon Legend Award Winner

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