Awarded Gamescom Award

As Gamescom slowly approaches the end of this year's edition, yesterday the awards for the best were presented. The jury, composed of journalists and social media creators, had no easy task as they had to choose winners from 19 categories.

The most awards (4) went to Capcom, specifically their upcoming Resident Evil Requiem. Visitors also had their own category where they could nominate the best booths present at the fair.

The full list of winners of the Gamescom Award 2025 is as follows:

Best Visuals

Borderlands 4 – Gearbox Software/2K
Bye Sweet Carole – Little Sewing Machine/Maximum Entertainment
Crimson Desert – Pearl Abyss
MIO: Memories In Orbit – Douze Dixièmes/Focus Entertainment
WINNER: Resident Evil Requiem – Capcom Entertainment

Best Audio

Cairn – The Game Bakers
Little Nightmares 3 – Supermassive Games/Bandai Namco Entertainment
Phantom Blade Zero – S-Game
WINNER: Resident Evil Requiem – Capcom Entertainment
Rockbeasts – Lichthund/Team17

Best Gameplay

WINNER: Donkey Kong Bananza – Nintendo
Hela – Windup/Knights Peak
Mario Kart World – Nintendo
PVKK: Planetenverteidigungskanonenkommandant – Bippinbits/Kepler Interactive
Resident Evil Requiem – Capcom Entertainment

Most Epic

Crimson Desert – Pearl Abyss
Dune: Awakening – Funcom
WINNER: Resident Evil Requiem – Capcom Entertainment
Super Meat Boy 3D – Sluggerfly, Team Meat/Headup Games
Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 – Saber Interactive/Focus Entertainment

Most Entertaining

Dispatch – AdHoc Studio
Donkey Kong Bananza – Nintendo
Grounded 2 – Obsidian Entertainment/Xbox Game Studios
WINNER: Hela – Windup/Knights Peak
Mario Kart World – Nintendo

Most Wholesome

WINNER: Hela – Windup/Knights Peak
Is This Seat Taken? – Poti Poti Studio/Wholesome Games Presents
Star Birds – Toukana Interactive
Tiny Bookshop – neoludic games/Skystone Games, 2P Games
Winter Burrow – Pine Creek Games/Noodlecake

Games for Impact

Cairn – The Game Bakers
Forever Skies – Far From Home
Hollow Home – Twigames/Galaktus
Monowave – Studio BBB
WINNER: Tiny Bookshop – neoludic games/Skystone Games, 2P Games

Best Mobile Game

Arknights: Endfield – Hypergryph/Gryphline
Dungeon Clawler – Stray Fawn/Stray Fawn Publishing, Playworks
Genshin Impact – HoYoverse
WINNER: Love and Deepspace – Papergames/Infold Games
Servant of the Lake – Rusty Lake

Best Microsoft Xbox Game

Borderlands 4 – Gearbox Software/2K
Crimson Desert – Pearl Abyss
WINNER: Grounded 2 – Obsidian Entertainment/Xbox Game Studios
Little Nightmares 3 – Supermassive Games/Bandai Namco Entertainment
Ninja Gaiden 4 – PlatinumGames, Team Ninja/Xbox Game Studios

Best Sony PlayStation Game

Borderlands 4 – Gearbox Software/2K
Crimson Desert – Pearl Abyss
Cronos: The New Dawn – Bloober Team
Pragmata – Capcom Entertainment
WINNER: Resident Evil Requiem – Capcom Entertainment

Best Nintendo Switch 2 Game

Donkey Kong Bananza – Nintendo
WINNER: Mario Kart World – Nintendo
Metroid Prime 4: Beyond – Nintendo
Towa and the Guardians of the Sacred Tree – Brownies Inc. /Bandai Namco Entertainment
Winter Burrow – Pine Creek Games/Noodlecake

Best PC Game

WINNER: Anno 117: Pax Romana – Ubisoft Mainz/Ubisoft
Borderlands 4 – Gearbox Software/2K
PVKK: Planetenverteidigungskanonenkommandant – Bippinbits/Kepler Interactive
Towa and the Guardians of the Sacred Tree – Brownies Inc. /Bandai Namco Entertainment
World of Warcraft – Blizzard Entertainment/Activision Blizzard