Game of the Year 2025
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
Winner · 2025
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Incomplete year.
Our full outlet-by-outlet dataset runs to 2021, when the source archive ends. For 2025 we currently list only awards we can cite individually, so the counts here are far below the real totals.
What the big awards said
The major ceremonies we have verified winner lists for. Each links to its full history.
| Award | When | Their Game of the Year |
|---|---|---|
| Golden Joystick Awards | November | Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 |
| The Game Awards | Early-to-mid December | Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 |
| D.I.C.E. Awards | February | Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 |
| Game Developers Choice Awards | March, during GDC | Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 |
| BAFTA Games Awards | March or April | Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 |
Documented so far (10)
Awards we can cite individually. This is a fraction of the real total — see below.
| Award / outlet | Type | Winner |
|---|---|---|
| Associated Press | Publication | Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 |
| Rolling Stone | Publication | Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 |
| Empire | Publication | Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 |
| Time | Publication | Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 |
| IGN | Publication | Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 |
| GameSpot | Publication | Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 |
| Game Informer | Publication | Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 |
| GamesRadar+ | Publication | Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 |
| TechRadar | Publication | Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 |
| Destructoid | Publication | Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 |
Source: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
From our own archive (15)
The source site was still updating its 2025 page when it went offline. These are the awards it had recorded by then — a fraction of the season, kept because they are ours rather than cited from elsewhere.
| Outlet | Country | Their GOTY |
|---|---|---|
| Associated Press | United States | Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 |
| BAFTA Games Awards | United Kingdom | Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 |
| D.I.C.E. Awards | United States | Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 |
| Destructoid | United States | Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 |
| Empire | United Kingdom | Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 |
| Game Developers Choice Awards | United States | Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 |
| Game Informer | United States | Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 |
| GameSpot | United States | Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 |
| GamesRadar+ | United Kingdom | Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 |
| Golden Joystick Awards | United Kingdom | Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 |
| IGN | United States | Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 |
| Rolling Stone | United States | Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 |
| TechRadar | United Kingdom | Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 |
| The Game Awards | United States | Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 |
| Time | United States | Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 |