2025 German Computer Game Awards winners announced

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Winners of the 2025 German Computer Game Awards were unveiled last night in Berlin’s Palais am Funkturm.

Enshrouded was the big winner of the night with awards for Best German Game and Best Innovation and Technology. Other winners at the event include Split Fiction (Best International Game) and Harold Halibut (Best Graphic Design). A full list of winners can be seen below.

Felix Falk, Managing Director of game – The German Games Industry Association said this about the ceremony:

“We congratulate all the award winners! Impressive variety, captivating stories and first-rate technologies: once again, on the grand stage of the German Computer Game Awards 2025, the enormous strength of German games studios was clear to see. Germany produces exciting games with world-market potential. These successes send a strong signal and show what Germany has to offer as a game production location. Together with the new Federal Government, we want to enable this creative and technological excellence to shine even more brightly on the international stage in the future.”

2025 German Computer Game Awards winners

Best International Game (not endowed)

• Split Fiction (Hazelight Studios / Electronic Arts)

 Best German Game (endowed with 100,000 euros)

• Enshrouded (Keen Games)

 The other nominees will each receive 30,000:

• Lonely Mountains: Snow Riders (Megagon Industries)

• Thronefall (Grizzly Games)

 Best Family Game (endowed with 40,000 euros)

• PRIM (Common Colors / Application Systems Heidelberg)

 Newcomer Award – Best Debut (endowed with 60,000 euros)

• Nordhold (Stunforge / Stunforge & HypeTrain Digital)

 The other nominees will receive 25,000 euros each:

• Footgun: Underground (Turtle Knight Games / CobraTekku Games)

• Mindlock – The Apartment (Roof Cut Media / United Soft Media)

 Newcomer Award – Best Prototype (endowed with 50,000 euros)

• Blob the Klex (Melena Dressel, Alejandro Rebolledo, Laura Octavianus / Hochschule Darmstadt)

 The other nominees will receive 25,000 euros each:

• MapMap – A game about Maps (HAW Hamburg / Pipapo Games)

• Stuntboost (Julian Höltge, Tobias Kozel)

• Echoes of Mora (HTW Berlin / Meike Strippel, Namin Hansen, Daria Pankau, Anita-Emmely Franz, Alina Alonzova)

• Exhibit A (MDH München / Olivia Falke, Gabrielle Sibucao, Flynn Schrammek, Valentin Kraffert, Martina Miskic, Leonhard Thiel, Fabiola Wörter, Arezou Rezaei, Seraphina Lange)

 Best Innovation and Technology (endowed with 40,000 euros)

• Enshrouded (Keen Games)

 Best Audio Design (endowed with 40,000 euros)

• ODDADA (Sven Ahlgrimm, Mathilde Hoffmann, Bastian Clausdorff / Sven Ahlgrimm)

Best Game Design (endowed with 40,000 euros)

• Thronefall (Grizzly Games)

Best Graphic Design (endowed with 40,000 euros)

• Harold Halibut (Slow Bros.)

Best Mobile Game (endowed with 40,000 euros)

• Duck Detective: The Secret Salami (Happy Broccoli Games)

Best Story (endowed with 40,000 euros)

• Vampire Therapist (Little Bat Games)

 Best Serious Game (endowed with 40,000 euros)

• Deine Stimme (Sebastian Grünwald & Reality Twist / Bavarian State Centre for Political Education)

 Studio of the Year (endowed with 50,000 euros)

• Megagon Industries (Berlin)

 Player of the Year (not endowed)

• Steinwallen

Special Jury Award (endowed with a total of 10,000 euros; the two winners each receive 5,000 euros)

• Flipper und Arcade Museum Seeligenstadt

• GAME:IN

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