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New York Game Awards 2025 Winners Revealed

The 14th Annual New York Game Awards held by the New York Videogame Critics Circle honored tons of games released in 2024 and celebrated a clear winner in multiple categories of which Astro Bot was the biggest winner as it took home Game of the Year, Best Music, and Best Kids Game. The award ceremony also honored Remedy Entertainment Creative Director Sam Lake for his decades-long contribution to the Videogame industry.

While Astro Bot was the main star of the show with winning the most awards, several other amazing games were also honored along with some of the people as well who have played an important role in the industry for the past couple years. Among them was the highly praised DLC for Elden Ring which is Shadow of the Erdtree which won multiple awards in both Best World and Best DLC categories.

Astro Bot

Other award winners in the show were Simone De Rochefort and Clayton Ashley in the Knickerbocker Award for Best Games Journalism category for the duo’s contribution in The Great Game: The Making of Spycraft, Troy Baker winning Best Acting in a Game for his terrific performance as Indiana Jones in Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, along with UFO 50 winning in the Best Indie Game category.

Here’s the full list of winners in this year’s New York Game Awards.

Big Apple Award for Best Game of the Year

Astro Bot

Off Broadway Award for Best Indie Game

UFO 50

Herman Melville Award for Best Writing in a Game

Metaphor: ReFantazio

Statue of Liberty Award for Best World

Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree

Tin Pan Alley Award for Best Music in a Game

Astro Bot

Great White Way Award for Best Acting in a Game

Troy Baker as Indiana Jones in Indiana Jones and the Great Circle

Coney Island Dreamland Award for Best AR/VR Game

Batman: Arkham Shadow

Central Park Children’s Zoo Award for Best Kids Game

Astro Bot

A-Train Award for Best Mobile Game

Zenless Zone Zero

Freedom Tower Award for Best Remake

Silent Hill 2

Chumley’s Speakeasy Award for Best Hidden Gem

Mouthwashing

NYC GWB Award for Best DLC

Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree

Knickerbocker Award for Best Games Journalism

Simone De Rochefort & Clayton Ashley

Andrew Yoon Legend Award Recipient

Sam Lake

Shouvik Bose

Shouvik Bose became fascinated with Videogames at an early age, he loves playing and writing about what he plays. He enjoys the whole craft of writing as much as playing, and feels that both are forms of Art by themselves. Primarily a PC gamer, he enjoys games that excel at gameplay and replayability. The Crysis series, Dishonored and Dragon Age are some of his most cherished Videogame franchises.