EDGE Magazine Releases 2025 Game Awards and Top Games List
The final issue of EDGE magazine for 2025 has been published, featuring its annual awards and a list of the year's top games. The selection includes several titles relevant to Nintendo platforms.
Main Awards
The full list of 2025 EDGE Main Awards is as follows:
- PlayStation Game of the Year: Lumines Arise
- Xbox Game of the Year: Routine
- Nintendo Game of the Year: Hades 2
- PC Game of the Year: Spooky Express
- VR Game of the Year: Lumines Arise
- Sound Design: Hollow Knight Silksong
- Visual Design: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
- Soundtrack: Lumines Arise
- Narrative Design: Despelote
- Performance: Jennifer English (Clair Obscur: Expedition 33)
- Studio of the Year: Sandfall Interactive
- Publisher of the Year: Raw Fury
Top Games of 2025
EDGE's list of the top games for 2025 includes the following titles:
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
- Hades 2
- Blue Prince
- Donkey Kong Bananza
- Elden Ring
- Nightreign
- Lumines Arise
- Despelote
- Two Point Museum
- Absolum
- Lonely Mountains: Snow Riders
Hades 2, which also received the Nintendo Game of the Year award, and Donkey Kong Bananza are included in this list.
Past Awards
Information regarding EDGE magazine's awards from previous years is available for 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, and 2017.