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The Digital Foundry 2025 Community Game Awards (Patreon)

Published:
2025-12-08 18:41:48
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2025-12

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Welcome to The Digital Foundry Community Game Awards for 2025! Organised by the community itself, this is your chance to share your thoughts on the year in gaming with the Digital Foundry team. Final results will be collated and shared in a future edition of DF Direct Weekly,

The form is the same as last year's, with drop down lists to pick from and there's also an "other" option, allowing you to write in games that may not be present on the list. If you can't input an entire list of 10 games, just do as many as you can.

More awards? There is a Hardware of the Year Award also this year, with a curated list of hardware to select from. Beyond that, there's the inevitable "most anticipated games of 2026" to consider too.

The scoring system works like this: your first placed game will receive 10 points, your second placed game will receive nine points and so on. If you have any questions please post them below.

Here's the link for your valued inputs, but please, as this is a community-based endeavour, please do not share the link.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSch9Q1C_atJZavAVsAZy9CAz3IdL-ynw4rBSNGezbj9nSiihg/viewform

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C

fifa 25, madden 25, nba 25, fortnite, call of duty, arc raiders, helldivers, battlefield in running out of multiplayer slop to list uhhh. hope this was entertaining thank you

Keaten

Trails in the Sky! Love my niche JRPGS!

Michael Bach

Done. Doing this made me realize I mostly played old games this year.

CABBAC

There's no "Other" selection for best hardware. That needs to be there so I can vote for the VMU Pro! 😜

Someguyperson

Hades II is listed as an example of a game that is valid, yet it's not in the drop-down menu? What gives? (Definitely my #1 game of the year)

Alan

The main list came from games that DF covered, there is a "other" space to write in games not on the drop-down.

zephyr

Write it in! The drop down menu is based on games that DF covered. They never actually did a video on Hades II

Alan

There wasn't room to include everything, also having "other" section would be impossible to be scored as everyone would pick something different.

Alan

15th December UK time-zone

Someguyperson

I guess that makes sense. Next year, you guys could also include a bunch of the general GOTY contenders next year. I think it would be interesting to see which games the DF community likes outside of what DF covered.

zephyr

I'd like to but it can be a bit subjective to determine which games are "general GOTY contenders". Don't want people to accuse us of bias. Maybe can go off of TGA and/or Golden Joystick nominees

Someguyperson

Exactly. The Geoffies are probably a good general list of GOTY contenders.

CABBAC

There's literally an "Other" section for every other question. 😅

BespokeEP

For anyone interested in the best cozy game since Stardew Valley, I couldn't recommend "Nice Day for Fishing" anymore. It helps if you are a fan of Viva La Dirt League as all the characters are from their sketches. If you haven't heard of them, I also highly recommend checking out their RDR2 logic videos to get a small taste.

Evan

Did you vote for the newest mainstream console this year the Switch 2? How about the highest performing GPU the RTX 5090 or the retro marvel the Analogue3D? No? Must have been the latest PC gaming handheld then? Still no? Surely....you didn't vote for the DDR5 RAM kit.....right? Right?! But seriously, I would love to know how many people thought the best piece of gaming hardware this year was a high speed RAM kit.

pfausto

Is it a mistake that both Saros and "Returnal 2" are in the most anticipated list?

Skyrimfest 26 FPS Edition

Had to write in for Dispatch and Ball X Pit, which is a reminder that we really did have a great year for games.

Trog Troginson

It would be the top of the list if anyone could actually afford it

Magnumstache

My favourite game has come in right at the death: Sektori. I didn't think anything would top Ball X Pit but I'm absolutely obsessed with Sektori and it's making me want to go back to the twin stick shooters of yesteryear...

Alan

Yes

Snorlax cat

I want to thank A1an for his amazing effort to make this happen

Naryoril

What about games that came out last year (or earlier) in Japan, but only made it to the west this year? I'm thinking of he Legend of Heroes: Trails through Daybreak 2

Alan

It has to be the original release date, you can write any game in "other" and it will be checked if it is valid or not. The reason it is the original release date is if a game is released one year on PC and then on PS5/XSX and then the following year on Switch2, it will be eligible for three years, so there has to be a hard rule otherwise members will argue.

Naryoril

The problem with this is, that it will effectively exclude any non western/non english game that gets a belated western release that isn't in the same year since hardly anyone here will play them in their original language. You could also set the rule to "original American/European release" to avoid this as well as the issues you mention.

Niels de Rijk

Kinda weird to leave out Metroid Prime 4 only because it released 3 days after Dec 1. The reviews are live and we had enough time to play the game.

Swedgin

I only played a single "new" game this year, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, so easy choice for the top spot. It's my Game of the Decade though so it would have stayed up there anyway :)

DrUnK_PuNk

Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era should be on that most anticipated 2026 games, it's a game that can be played right now through their demo so the hype is real. Of course we all know GTA 6 will win but as I'm planning on playing it on PC which won't release until 2027 I'm not really hyped for it's 2026 console release.