The New York Game Awards 2024 has arrived and, alongside honoring Remedy Entertainment creative director Sam Lake, the show saw Astro Bot become the big winner of the night as it took home Game of the Year, Best Music, and Best Kids Game.
While Astro Bot led the way with three wins, there were many other incredible games and people honored in the other 10 categories, including Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree. The highly praised DLC for Elden Ring was the only other game to win multiple awards as it emerged victorious in the Best World and Best DLC categories.
Other highlights included Simone De Rochefort and Clayton Ashley winning the Knickerbocker Award for Best Games Journalism (The same one IGN’s Rebekah Valentine won in 2022!) for their work on The Great Game: The Making of Spycraft, Troy Baker winning Best Acting in a Game for his performance as Indiana Jones in Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, and UFO 50 winning Best Indie Game.
You can check out the full list of the winners and nominees of the New York Game Awards 2025 below and see how they compare to IGN’s Awards in 2024! You can also read our chat with Sam Lake about the honor of winning the Andrew Yoon Legend Award!
New York Game Awards 2025 Winners
Big Apple Award for Best Game of the Year
Balatro Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth Astro Bot – WINNERUFO 50 1000xResistIndiana Jones and the Great Circle Metaphor: ReFantazioEA 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 – WINNER1000xResist Thank Goodness You’re Here! Neva
Herman Melville Award for Best Writing in a Game
Harold Halibut Metaphor: ReFantazio – WINNER1000xResistLife is Strange: Double Exposure Phoenix SpringsIndiana Jones and the Great Circle
Statue of Liberty Award for Best World
Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree – WINNERTales of Kenzera: ZAUFinal 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 – WINNERArcoBlack Myth Wukong1000xResist
Great White Way Award for Best Acting in a Game
Abubakar Salim as Zau, Zuberi and Griot Echo in Tales of Kenzera: ZAUJohn 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 – WINNERHumberly González as Kay in Star Wars Outlaws
Coney Island Dreamland Award for Best AR/VR Game
ThrasherBatman: Arkham Shadow – WINNERUmurangi Generation VR Skydance’s Behemoth Silent Slayer: Vault of the VampireShattered
Central Park Children’s Zoo Award for Best Kids Game
Astro Bot – WINNERSuper Mario Party JamboreeLittle Kitty, Big CitySonic X Shadow Generations The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom
A-Train Award for Best Mobile Game
Rabbids: Legends of the MultiverseWuthering WavesZenless Zone Zero – WINNEREx AstrisPokémon Trading Card Game Pocket
Freedom Tower Award for Best Remake
Soul Reaver 1 and 2 RemasteredSilent Hill 2 – WINNERPaper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth Age of Mythology: Retold Persona 3: Reload
Chumley’s Speakeasy Award for Best Hidden Gem
UltrosVampire TherapistMouthwashing – WINNERLlamasoft: The Jeff Minter StoryMars After MidnightStarstruck: Hands of Time
NYC GWB Award for Best DLC
Alan Wake II: Night Springs and The Lake HousePrince of Persia: The Lost Crown – Mask of DarknessElden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree – WINNERRemnant 2: The Dark HorizonSplatoon 3: Side OrderDiablo IV: Vessel of Hatred
Knickerbocker Award for Best Games Journalism
Duncan Fyfe Alexis Ong Grant Stoner Mason Andrew HamberlinEdwin Evans-ThirlwellSimone De Rochefort & Clayton Ashley – WINNER
Andrew Yoon Legend Award Recipient
Sam Lake – Winner
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