Split Fiction has secured the top prize for International Game of the Year at the German Computer Game Awards 2025, with Keen Studios’ Enshrouded taking home the award for Best German Game, as well as Best Innovation and Technology.
Megagon Industries was voted Studio of the Year, and Steinwallen Player of the Year. Prize money totalling €800,000 was shared between the winners, with Enshrouded securing the highest prize – €100,000 – for winning best German game.
Here’s the full list of all the winners of the German Computer Game Awards 2025:
Best International Game
- Split Fiction (Hazelight Studios / Electronic Arts)
Best German Game
- Winner: Enshrouded (Keen Games)
- Lonely Mountains: Snow Riders (Megagon Industries)
- Thronefall (Grizzly Games)
Best Family Game
- PRIM (Common Colors / Application Systems Heidelberg)
Newcomer Award – Best Debut
- Winner: Nordhold (Stunforge / Stunforge & HypeTrain Digital)
- Footgun: Underground (Turtle Knight Games / CobraTekku Games)
- Mindlock – The Apartment (Roof Cut Media / United Soft Media)
Newcomer Award – Best Prototype
- Winner: Blob the Klex (Melena Dressel, Alejandro Rebolledo, Laura Octavianus / Hochschule Darmstadt)
- 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
Best Audio Design
- ODDADA (Sven Ahlgrimm, Mathilde Hoffmann, Bastian Clausdorff / Sven Ahlgrimm)
Best Game Design
- Thronefall (Grizzly Games)
Best Graphic Design
- Harold Halibut (Slow Bros.)
Best Mobile Game
- Duck Detective: The Secret Salami (Happy Broccoli Games)
Best Story
- Vampire Therapist (Little Bat Games)
Best Serious Game
- Deine Stimme (Sebastian Grünwald & Reality Twist / Bavarian State Centre for Political Education)
Studio of the Year
- Megagon Industries (Berlin)
Player of the Year
Special Jury Award
- Winner: Flipper und Arcade Museum Seeligenstadt
- GAME:IN
“We congratulate all the award winners,” said Felix Falk, Managing Director of game – The German Games Industry Association. “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.”
Earlier this week, we reported new research that showed over 37.5 million people play video games in Germany, the highest number ever recorded for the country.
