A edição 2025 do Golden Joystick Awards a premiação de games mais antiga votada pelo público anunciou sua shortlist com todas as categorias e indicados em 3 de outubro, com votação popular aberta até 31 de outubro e a lista final do Ultimate Game of the Year divulgada separadamente em novembro.

Aqui você encontra a lista completa e organizada por categoria: jogos, expansões, adaptações, hardware, trailers, e as categorias “Still Playing” para PC/console e mobile. Use este guia como referência definitiva para cobrir a premiação, fazer comparativos ou criar rankings dos favoritos do público.

Lista completa de indicados — Golden Joystick Awards 2025

(Fonte consolidada: lista publicada por Future / GamesRadar e veículos que reproduziram a shortlist).

Ultimate Game of the Year (UGOTY)

• Split Fiction
• Death Stranding 2: On The Beach
• PEAK
• Kingdom Come: Deliverance II
• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
• Blue Prince
• SILENT HILL f
• Ghost of Yōtei
• Indiana Jones and the Great Circle
• Hades II
• Donkey Kong Bananza
• Hollow Knight: Silksong

Best Storytelling (Melhor narrativa)

• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
• SILENT HILL f
• Blue Prince
• Mafia: The Old Country
• Lost Records: Bloom & Rage
• The Hundred Line – Last Defense Academy

Best Multiplayer Game (Melhor multiplayer)

• Battlefield 6
• PEAK
• ELDEN RING: NIGHTREIGN
• Split Fiction
• Mario Kart World
• REMATCH

Best Visual Design (Melhor direção de arte/visual)

• Death Stranding 2: On the Beach
• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
• The Midnight Walk
• Ghost of Yōtei
• Sword of the Sea
• Assassin’s Creed Shadows

Best Indie Game (Melhor indie)

• Blue Prince
• Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector
• Wanderstop
• Skin Deep
• despelote
• Herdling
• Abiotic Factor
• Baby Steps
• Caves of Qud
• Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor

Best Indie Game – Self Published (Indie autopublicado)

• Hollow Knight: Silksong
• Hades II
• Sword of the Sea
• PEAK
• Keep Driving
• Spilled!
• Lonely Mountains: Snow Riders
• DELTARUNE
• Promise Mascot Agency
• Consume Me

Still Playing Award – PC and Console

• Minecraft
• Dead by Daylight
• HELLDIVERS 2
• NARAKA: BLADEPOINT
• Satisfactory
• Call of Duty: Warzone
• Marvel Rivals
• Fortnite
• Apex Legends
• Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege X
• GTA Online
• Warframe

Still Playing Award – Mobile

• Call of Duty: Mobile
• Pokémon GO
• Subway Surfers
• Clash Royale
• Honkai: Star Rail
• Genshin Impact
• Zenless Zone Zero
• Roblox
• Free Fire
• PUBG MOBILE

Best Remake / Remaster

• METAL GEAR SOLID Δ: SNAKE EATER
• The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered
• Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter
• The Talos Principle: Reawakened
• Gears of War: Reloaded
• Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 + 4
  

Studio of the Year

• Team Cherry
• Sandfall Interactive
• Aggro Crab and Landfall
• Bloober Team
• Sloclap
• Rebellion

Best Game Expansion

• Indiana Jones and the Great Circle: The Order of Giants
• Lies of P: Overture
• No Man’s Sky: Voyagers
• Atomfall Story Expansion Pack: The Red Strain
• Assassin’s Creed Shadows – Claws of Awaji
• Still Wakes the Deep: Siren’s Rest

Best Audio Design

• Ghost of Yōtei
• Battlefield 6
• Donkey Kong Bananza
• Death Stranding 2: On the Beach
• Two Point Museum
• Cronos: The New Dawn

Best Soundtrack

• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
• South of Midnight
• SILENT HILL f
• Eriksholm: The Stolen Dream
• DELTARUNE
• Sword of the Sea

Best Lead Performer

• Jennifer English – Maelle (Clair Obscur: Expedition 33)
• Troy Baker – Indiana Jones (Indiana Jones and the Great Circle)
• Tom McKay – Henry (Kingdom Come: Deliverance II)
• Alex Jordan – Jan Dolski (The Alters)
• Erika Ishii – Atsu (Ghost of Yōtei)
• Adriyan Rae – Hazel (South of Midnight)

Best Supporting Performer

• Troy Baker – Higgs Monaghan (Death Stranding 2: On the Beach)
• Jim High – Erik (Kingdom Come: Deliverance II)
• Ben Starr – Verso (Clair Obscur: Expedition 33)
• Lucy Griffiths – Alva (Eriksholm: The Stolen Dream)
• Logan Cunningham – (Hades II)
• Marios Gavrilis – Emmerich Voss (Indiana Jones and the Great Circle)

PC Game of the Year

• Hollow Knight: Silksong
• The Alters
• Kingdom Come: Deliverance II
• PEAK
• Abiotic Factor
• Dune: Awakening

Console Game of the Year

• Donkey Kong Bananza
• Monster Hunter Wilds
• Ghost of Yōtei
• Death Stranding 2: On the Beach
• Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds
• Mario Kart World

Best Early Access Game

• Grounded 2
• Schedule I
• 9 Kings
• R.E.P.O.
• skate.
• White Knuckle

Best Gaming Hardware

• Nintendo Switch 2
• Nintendo Switch 2 Pro Controller
• WD_BLACK SN8100 NVMe SSD
• Elgato Facecam 4K
• Razer Blade 16
• AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D

Best Game Adaptation (jogos/filmes/séries adaptados)

• Devil May Cry (Netflix)
• Arcane Season 2 (Netflix)
• The Last of Us Season 2 (HBO)
• A Minecraft Movie (Warner Bros. Pictures)
• Secret Level (Prime Video)
• Sonic the Hedgehog 3 (Paramount Pictures)

Best Game Trailer

• Grand Theft Auto VI — Trailer 2
• Battlefield 6 — Official Launch Live Action Trailer
• Rhythm Doctor — Official Release Date Trailer
• The Expanse: Osiris Reborn — Announcement Trailer
• ROMEO IS A DEAD MAN — Announcement Trailer
• Kingdom Come: Deliverance II — Official CGI Trailer “Live a Life Medieval”

Most Wanted Game

(Shortlist de jogos ainda não lançados, lista extensa)

• Grand Theft Auto VI
• Resident Evil Requiem
• The Witcher 4
• Black Myth: Zhong Kui
• LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Night
• 007 First Light
• EXODUS
• Subnautica 2
• Light No Fire
• The Expanse: Osiris Reborn
• Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet
• SAROS
• The Blood of Dawnwalker
• Crimson Desert
• KINGDOM HEARTS IV
• Marvel’s Wolverine
• Hell Let Loose: Vietnam
• OD – KNOCK
• Onimusha: Way of the Sword
• Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy