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Will The Game Awards finally nominate two indies for GOTY?
As we’ve observed before, indie games, no matter how well reviewed they are, tend to get short shrift in the Game of the Year category at The Game Awards. An indie game has never won GOTY — unless you count Larian’s self-published, but lavishly made, Baldur’s Gate 3 (which the jury clearly didn’t, because it wasn’t nominated for the Best Independent Game award). In 2020, Hades was somewhat controversially beaten by The Last of Us Part 2.
More telling than the eventual winners, perhaps, is the scarcity of indie-game nominees for TGA’s big prize. In the awards’ history, there have only been five instances of games nominated in both Game of the Year and Best Independent Game: Inside, Celeste, Hades, Stray, and Balatro. And there have never been more than two such games in a single year.
The 10 Best Games Of 2025 According To Metacritic, With A Few Missing
It has been an absolutely wild year for gaming releases, one of the best in at least a decade, I would argue. Every month brings some new game that most would consider GOTY material, and I wanted to line them up in one place. Though with three months left in the year, we can estimate what could slide in at the last minute.
Here’s the list of best-reviewed games of 2025 via Metacritic. I am using the platform with the most reviews in for the score. I am excluding simply re-releases like the Zelda games for Switch 2 (which are #1 and #2, if you do count them, but that’s cheating). I’m going to count games with at least 30 reviews in, as many of these have close to 100. Ties go to the game with the most reviews in. So, here we go, with those caveats:
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Are the Game of the Year nominees already obvious? We discuss on the latest The Gamereactor Show episode
It's getting to that time of the year where we spend all of our time discussing which games are the best of the bunch. Yep, awards season is nearing, and while The Game Awards for one will happen in December, it does feel as though the main contenders are already clear.
With games like Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, Hollow Knight: Silksong, Split Fiction, Donkey Kong Bananza, Death Stranding 2: On the Beach, Kingdom Come: Deliverance II, and Hades II launching soon, it does seem like the top titles of the year and the awards-hopefuls have arrived.
So, with this being the case, and with some promising projects like Ghost of Yotei on the way, Alex and I talk about which games we expect to lead the pack and likewise which ones we think might face snubs due to when they launched or likewise simply not being able to match the rest of the pack, like Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, Monster Hunter Wilds, Mario Kart World, Doom: The Dark Ages, Borderlands 4, and more.
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