Category: The Game Awards

November 17, 2025

The Game Awards 2025 – Play Every Xbox Nominated Game Today

Mike Nelson, Xbox Wire Editor

Summary

We’re excited to share that a half-dozen Xbox first-party titles (plus one movie) have been nominated for awards across multiple categories – voting is now open on The Game Awards official site.
You can play many of the nominees announced today with Xbox Game Pass, including top nominee Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, DOOM: The Dark Ages, South of Midnight, and Hollow Knight: Silksong.
Tune into The Game Awards on December 11 to see if your favorite games from 2025 take home an award.

The Game Awards has officially revealed the full list of nominees for the year, and we’re thrilled to see such a wide range of unique titles being recognized for their contributions to gaming. Even better, many of these nominees can be played today across Xbox consoles, Xbox on PC, ROG Xbox Ally handhelds, Cloud, and with Xbox Game Pass!

This year our first-party studios received nominations for Avowed, DOOM: The Dark Ages, Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, Ninja Gaiden 4, South of Midnight, and The Outer Worlds 2. Troy Baker’s pitch-perfect performance as Indiana Jones was recognized with a Best Performance nomination, and ‘A Minecraft Movie’, one of the biggest hits at the box office in 2025, was nominated for Best Adaptation.

We’re also equally excited to see that many of our third-party partners have been nominated across a wide range of categories – many of which can be played with Game Pass. Ball x Pit, Blue Prince, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, Hollow Knight: Silksong, and Rematch are all up for awards this year, and playable across devices as Xbox Play Anywhere titles. Additionally, Game Pass subscribers receive incredible benefits for nominees League of Legends, Valorant, and – starting tomorrow – Fortnite.

Congratulations to all this year’s amazing nominees – and don’t forget, these nominations join titles on Xbox nominated across the Golden Joysticks, and even the Grammys!

Remember, you can vote for your favorites right now over at TheGameAwards.com. See below for the full list of nominees that you can play today.

First-Party Nominees

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The Game Awards 2025 – Play Every Xbox Nominated Game Today

Summary

First-Party Nominees

Avowed Standard Edition

DOOM: The Dark Ages

Indiana Jones and the Great Circle

NINJA GAIDEN 4 Standard Edition

The Outer Worlds 2

Third-Party Nominees

The Alters

ARC Raiders

Assassin's Creed Shadows

Atomfall

Baldur's Gate 3

BALL x PIT

Battlefield 6

Blue Prince

Capcom Fighting Collection 2

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

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EA SPORTS FC 26 Xbox Series X|S

ELDEN RING NIGHTREIGN

F1® 25

FATAL FURY: City of the Wolves – Special Edition

FINAL FANTASY XIV Online – Starter Edition

FINAL FANTASY TACTICS – The Ivalice Chronicles

Fortnite

HELLDIVERS 2

Hollow Knight: Silksong

Jurassic World Evolution 3

Kingdom Come: Deliverance II

LEGO® Party!

LEGO® Voyagers

League of Legends

Lost Records: Bloom & Rage

Marvel Rivals

Monster Hunter Wilds

Mortal Kombat: Legacy Kollection

No Man's Sky

REMATCH

Split Fiction

SILENT HILL f

SHINOBI: Art of Vengeance

Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds

Sid Meier's Civilization® VII

Two Point Museum

VALORANT

Virtua Fighter 5 R.E.V.O. World Stage 30th Anniversary Edition

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