New York Game Awards 2025 will take place on January 21: what are the nominations and who is up for the win?

By: Vladyslav Nuzhnov | yesterday, 15:47

Although 2024 is already over, the shows where the best games of the past year are selected are still going on. One of them will be the New York Game Awards 2025, which will take place on 21 January at the SVA Theatre in Manhattan, New York. Now we know about the nominees.

Here's What We Know

There will be 13 nominations in total. Astro Bot, Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, and 1000xResist have the most nominations, with each of them competing for four statuettes.

List of all nominations and participants:

Big Apple Award for Best Game of the Year

  • Balatro
  • Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth
  • Astro Bot
  • UFO 50
  • 1000xResist
  • Indiana Jones and the Great Circle
  • Metaphor: ReFantazio
  • EA Sports College Football 25

Off Broadway Award for Best Indie Game

  • Tales of Kenzera: ZAU
  • Lorelei and the Laser Eyes
  • Balatro
  • I Am Your Beast
  • UFO 50
  • 1000xResist
  • Thank Goodness You're Here!
  • Neva

Herman Melville Award for Best Writing in a Game

  • Harold Halibut
  • Metaphor: ReFantazio
  • 1000xResist
  • Life is Strange: Double Exposure
  • Phoenix Springs
  • Indiana Jones and the Great Circle

Statue of Liberty Award for Best World

  • Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree
  • Tales of Kenzera: ZAU
  • Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth
  • Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess
  • Astro Bot
  • Indiana Jones and the Great Circle
  • S.T.A.L.K.E.R 2 Heart of Chornobyl

Tin Pan Alley Award for Best Music in a Game

  • Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess
  • Life is Strange: Double Exposure
  • Astro Bot
  • Arco
  • Black Myth Wukong
  • 1000xResist

Great White Way Award for Best Acting in a Game

  • Abubakar Salim as Zao, Zuberi and Griot Echo in Tales of Kenzara: ZAO
  • John Eric Bentley as Barret in Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth
  • Hannah Telle as Max Caulfield in Life is Strange: Double Exposure
  • Melina Juergens as Senua in Senua's Saga: Hellblade 2
  • Troy Baker as Indiana Jones in Indiana Jones and the Great Circle
  • Humberly González as Kay in Star Wars Outlaws

Coney Island Dreamland Award for Best AR/VR Game

  • Thrasher
  • Batman: Arkham Shadow
  • Umurangi Generation VR
  • Skydance's Behemoth
  • Silent Slayer: Vault of the Vampire
  • Shattered

Central Park Children's Zoo Award for Best Kids Game

  • Astro Bot
  • Super Mario Party Jamboree
  • Little Kitty, Big City
  • Sonic X Shadow Generations
  • The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom

A-Train Award for Best Mobile Game

  • Rabbids: Legends of the Multiverse
  • Wuthering Waves
  • Zenless Zone Zero
  • Ex Astris
  • Pokémon Trading Card Game Pocket

Freedom Tower Award for Best Remake

  • Soul Reaver 1 and 2 Remastered
  • Silent Hill 2
  • Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door
  • Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth
  • Age of Mythology: Retold
  • Persona 3: Reload

Chumley's Speakeasy Award for Best Hidden Gem

  • Ultros
  • Vampire Therapist
  • Mouthwashing
  • Llamasoft: The Jeff Minter Story
  • Mars After Midnight
  • Starstruck: Hands of Time

NYC GWB Award for Best DLC

  • Alan Wake II: Night Springs and The Lake House
  • Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown - Mask of Darkness
  • Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree
  • Remnant 2: The Dark Horizon
  • Splatoon 3: Side Order
  • Diablo IV: Vessel of Hatred

Knickerbocker Award for Best Games Journalism

  • Duncan Fyfe
  • Alexis Ong
  • Grant Stoner
  • Mason Andrew Hamberlin
  • Edwin Evans-Thirlwell
  • Simone De Rochefort Clayton Ashley

Source: NYVGCCC