Vote for your favorite games from the past year across 19 categories.
It’s been a year of big new releases, long-awaited sequels, must play indies, and some surprises along the way. Today, we start the celebration of PlayStation gaming by asking you, the players, to cast your vote for your favorites of the year: the PS Blog Game of the Year Awards 2025 polls are now open!
We’re highlighting exemplary work from passionate studios worldwide across 19 categories. So help us celebrate the creatives whose hard work and exceptional craft have made this year’s gaming experiences memorable, with fantastic gameplay, great characters, outstanding art direction, unforgettable soundtracks, and much more.
The selections in each category are extensive, and you’ve further choice via the write-in option in each to add a title that, for you, best represents that category this year. As ever, the only votes counted in these awards are those cast by you, the players. Those games earning the majority of votes by the time polls close will be recognized with Bronze, Silver, Gold, and Platinum PS Blog trophies when we reveal the results in a few weeks.
As ever, there are some guidelines regards the categories and their nominees:
- Best PS5 Game category is defined as games that have been newly released this calendar year, rather than previously released titles with new updates. (This includes games released after the November 30 cutoff for 2024’s PS Blog Game of the Year nominees.)
- As with the majority of the other categories, Best Multiplayer Experience focuses on titles released in 2025. Best Ongoing Game focuses on titles that have seen new, large-scale content or game-changing updates launch over this past year.
- Best Rerelease refers to games that have been upgraded, ported, or remastered but are otherwise similar to their original game. This category does not include full-scale remakes of older titles, which are eligible in other categories.
- Cut off for inclusion in this year’s nominees list was November 30. Titles releasing after this date aren’t eligible for inclusion, but will be eligible for nomination and voting in next year’s PS Blog Game of the Year awards.
- If a title won a Platinum Trophy in the Most Anticipated category any previous year, it won’t be eligible for inclusion this year to allow other titles a chance to shine. As such, Grand Theft Auto VI is excluded from The Most Anticipated Game of 2026 and Beyond category as it earned a Platinum in that category in the 2023’s Awards.
So, cast your vote in the polls below to support your favorite games and developers. Don’t delay though: voting closes next Monday, December 8 at 23.59pm PT. So scroll below and get clicking.
Good luck to all the nominees!
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Rolling with Dispatch and Ghost of Yōtei
The most i played on my PS5 for 2025 is Death Stranding 2 on the beach, but Ghost of Yotei is my game of the year.
Good luck guys
Done
How is it possible that Kingdom Come 2: Deliverance is missing from all the major categories where it should clearly be? Some amateur must’ve been picking the nominees, right? :)
And don’t tell me it’s just my subjective opinion, because the game has nominations and awards in all the major global gaming polls. Not to mention an average of 9/10 metacritic and a global 94% on Steam… For example, the soundtrack is brilliant — miles better than most of the nominees. Is it seriously missing from there?
Why isn’t the game nominated anywhere Kingdom Come Deliverance II?
Clair Obscur will win every category in which it’s nominated for !
Let’s hope clair obscure wins . And if it’s ghost of yotei … well… rigged.
May The Best Game Win 🏆
I really hope Ghost Of Yotei wins bro
They only include games that are played massively by children; in reality, most categories should have other games nominated, so this rating shouldn’t be a reference for anything.
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Surprised Katamari wasn’t on there for Soundtrack. Maybe it didnt make the cutoff? I heard it was “okay” but it’s usually killer for tunes.
Otherwise Sonic Racing aces all the categories it’s up for. Amazing soundtrack and a great multiplayer game. I hope Battlefield 6 walks away with some awards as it’s a lot of fun despite overheating my PS5
Waiting for Marvel’s Wolverine! And I hope Marvel Rivals win at that category.
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
Arc Raiders is easily my game of the year
The poll doesnt seem to be working. only categories are showing.
Can’t believe there’s no option for The Witcher 4 on most anticipated game.
So definitely had to choose the other option!
Most Anticipated Game of 2026 and Beyond
Where is GTA VI? 👀
Arc Raiders 🙌🏻❤️💪🏻🔥
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Never could figure out this voting, there still isn’t any way for me to actually vote. It just says a bunch of categories nothing to click on.
Turns out it was Firefox, worked with Edge. C’mon