Gamescom 2025 Awards Announced: Chinese Game Developers Shine on the Global Stage

On August 27, 2025, local time, the official awards list for “gamescom award 2025” was announced at Gamescom 2025, one of the annual premier events in the global video game industry. This year’s awards featured fierce competition, with a multitude of top-tier entries from around the world, and several major awards were ultimately claimed by various standout productions.

Resident Evil: Requiem emerged as the biggest winner, taking home four awards including “Best Visuals,” “Best Audio,” “Most Epic,” and “Best PlayStation Game,” and was also recognized for “Best Lineup,” solidifying its dominant presence. Capcom also received the award for Best Exhibited Game Lineup.

Domestic Chinese games garnered significant attention at this year’s event. Love and Deep Space, developed by Papergames, won the award for “Best Mobile Game.” Meanwhile, Phantom Blade Zero, a next-gen third-person action-adventure RPG independently developed and published by Beijing S-Game Studio, received a nomination for “Best Audio.” Additionally, miHoYo’s Genshin Impact was nominated in the Best Mobile Game category.

Gamescom 2025 Awards List (Including Nominations)

Best Visuals

Borderlands 4 – Gearbox Software/2K

Bye Sweet Carole – Little Sewing Machine/Maximum Entertainment

Crimson Desert – Pearl Abyss

MIO: Memories in Orbit – Douze Dixièmes/Focus Entertainment

🏆 Resident Evil: Requiem – Capcom Entertainment

Best Audio

Cairn – The Game Bakers

Little Nightmares 3 – Supermassive Games/Bandai Namco Entertainment

Phantom Blade Zero – S-Game

🏆 Resident Evil: Requiem – Capcom Entertainment

Rockbeasts – Lichthund/Team17

Best Gameplay

🏆 Donkey Kong Bananza – Nintendo

Hela – Windup/Knights Peak

Mario Kart World – Nintendo

PVKK: Planetary Defense Cannon Commander – Bippinbits/Kepler Interactive

Resident Evil: Requiem – Capcom Entertainment

Most Epic

Crimson Desert – Pearl Abyss

Dune: Awakening – Funcom

🏆 Resident Evil: Requiem – Capcom Entertainment

Super Meat Boy 3D – Sluggerfly, Team Meat/Headup Games

Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 – Saber Interactive/Focus Entertainment

Most Entertaining

Dispatch – AdHoc Studio

Donkey Kong Bananza – Nintendo

Grounded 2 – Obsidian Entertainment/Xbox Game Studios

🏆 Hela – Windup/Knights Peak

Mario Kart World – Nintendo

Most Wholesome

🏆 Hela – Windup/Knights Peak

Is This Seat Taken? – Poti Poti Studio/Wholesome Games Presents

Star Birds – Toukana Interactive

Tiny Bookshop – neoludic games/Skystone Games, 2P Games

Winter Burrow – Pine Creek Games/Noodlecake

Games for Impact

Cairn – The Game Bakers

Forever Skies – Far From Home

Hollow Home – Twigames/Galaktus

Monowave – Studio BBB

🏆 Tiny Bookshop – neoludic games/Skystone Games, 2P Games

Best Mobile Game

Arknights: Endfield – Hypergryph/Gryphline

Dungeon Clawler – Stray Fawn/Playworks

Genshin Impact – HoYoverse

🏆 Love and Deep Space – Papergames/Infold Games

Servant of the Lake – Rusty Lake

Best Microsoft Xbox Game

Borderlands 4 – Gearbox Software/2K

Crimson Desert – Pearl Abyss

🏆 Grounded 2 – Obsidian Entertainment/Xbox Game Studios

Little Nightmares 3 – Supermassive Games/Bandai Namco Entertainment

Ninja Gaiden 4 – PlatinumGames, Team Ninja/Xbox Game Studios

Best Sony PlayStation Game

Borderlands 4 – Gearbox Software/2K

Crimson Desert – Pearl Abyss

Cronos: The New Dawn – Bloober Team

Pragmata – Capcom Entertainment

🏆 Resident Evil: Requiem – Capcom Entertainment

Best Nintendo Switch 2 Game

Donkey Kong Bananza – Nintendo

🏆 Mario Kart World – Nintendo

Metroid Prime 4: Beyond – Nintendo

Eternal and the祈愿者 of the Sacred Tree – Brownies Inc./Bandai Namco Entertainment

Winter Burrow – Pine Creek Games/Noodlecake

Best PC Game

🏆 Anno 117: Pax Romana – Ubisoft Mainz/Ubisoft

Borderlands 4 – Gearbox Software/2K

PVKK: Planetary Defense Cannon Commander – Bippinbits/Kepler Interactive

Eternal and the祈愿者 of the Sacred Tree – Brownies Inc./Bandai Namco Entertainment

World of Warcraft – Blizzard Entertainment/Activision Blizzard

Special Awards

HEART OF GAMING Award: 🏆 Artist Alleys

Best Lineup: 🏆 Capcom

Best Trailer/Announcement: 🏆 Hollow Knight: Silksong

Best Booth (Jury Selection): 🏆 Ubisoft

Best Booth (Players‘ Choice): 🏆 Pokémon

Best Merch: 🏆 Star Birds Gacha Machine

The Gamescom Awards are among the most influential in Europe, with results determined by a combination of professional jury evaluations and public voting. They largely indicate the upcoming trends and directions in the gaming industry for the next year. The success of Chinese game developers at these awards not only attests to the quality of their work but also signifies that Chinese games are playing an increasingly important role in the global market, continually delighting players worldwide.