25th Game Developers Choice Awards
The 25th Game Developers Choice Awards was an award ceremony honoring outstanding achievements by game developers and video games released in 2024. The event took place on March 19, 2025, at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, California and was hosted by Alexa Ray Corriea. It was held alongside the Independent Games Festival awards.
Winners and nominees
Game of the Year">Game Developers Choice Award for Game of the Year">Game of the Year
Balatro- * Astro Bot
- * Black Myth: Wukong
- * Final Fantasy VII Rebirth
- * Helldivers 2
- * ''Metaphor: ReFantazio''
Best Audio
Astro BotBest Debut
Balatro- * 1000xResist
- * Animal Well
- * Pacific Drive
- * ''Tiny Glade''
Best Design
BalatroInnovation Award
Balatro- * Animal Well
- * Astro Bot
- * Black Myth: Wukong
- * ''UFO 50''
Best Narrative
Metaphor: ReFantazioBest Technology
Astro BotBest Visual Art
Black Myth: Wukong- * Animal Well
- * Astro Bot
- * Metaphor: ReFantazio
- * ''Neva''
Social Impact
Life is Strange: Double Exposure- * 1000xResist
- * Astro Bot
- * Frostpunk 2
- * ''Neva''
Lifetime Achievement Award
- Sam Lake, creative director at Remedy Entertainment, writer for the Max Payne and Alan Wake series
Pioneer Award
- Lucas Pope, developer of Papers, Please and ''Return of the Obra Dinn''