2025 Steam Award winners announced, and the player-voted results are a little surprising
43.8 million player votes later, the winners of the 2025 Steam Awards have been announced, with Hollow Knight: Silksong securing top prize, Game of the Year.
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The 50 best games of 2025, ranked
It's been another strange, difficult, and yet somehow also brilliant year for video games in 2025. Triple-A releases have been sparse again, compared to the boom times of old, with a great big GTA 6-shaped hole left in the final few months of the year. And yet once again, every gap left by the established order has been filled twice over with something brilliantly new.
Eurogamer readers' top 50 games of 2025 - "It made me cry three times"
2025 has gone by in a flash, hasn't it? Well, apart from the days I've spent tabulating all your Game of the Year votes and presenting the results here - that has felt like an eternity and I think has given me permanent neck pain. But, let's not worry about that. I'm sure you'll agree it was worth the sacrifice.
After seven years well spent, Hollow Knight: Silksong is unforgiving, unmissable excellence
We reach the penultimate door, and good cripes has it been a long time coming. When was the last door? Like 2017? Ah well, surely everyone’s been completely normal about it.
It’s Hollow Knight: Silksong!
However a non-Hollow Knight game from Team Cherry might look, there's a particular through line you can still expect
Right now, Team Cherry's future is pretty unclear. There is some kind of Hollow Knight: Silksong DLC that'll be coming somewhere along the line, but understandably the developer is keeping their cards close to their chest in terms of what's actually next. They certainly do have some ideas on how they would expand Hollow Knight, i.e. by not making any direct sequels, much like how Silksong isn't one. But in a recent interview, Team Cherry spoke (ever so slightly) more openly about their own future and how the thing that might get in their way most is, well, death.
Hollow Knight fans might have another long wait for a sequel
Hollow Knight: Silksong dev thinks Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 will win Game of the Year: "It's exceptional and broadly palatable"
Hollow Knight: Silksong developer Team Cherry has revealed it won't be making the trip to The Game Awards next month, as the team believes Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 will sweep the Game of the Year award.
Team Cherry says Hollow Knight Silksong pricing was simply “reasonable”
Team Cherry’s excellent Hollow Knight: Silksong was a steal at $20 with many assuming before its release that it would be priced at a much higher price point. Team Cherry’s co-lead, Ari Gibson, has said in ACMI’s paperback Hollow Knight: Silksong guide, said the team thought that the price point was “reasonable” for most people… Read More »Team Cherry says Hollow Knight Silksong pricing was simply “reasonable”
Any future Hollow Knight games after Silksong would "exist alongside" the others as standalone entries, says Team Cherry
Team Cherry has teased more Hollow Knight releases beyond Silksong, which (if they ever do materialise) would sit alongside the studio's previous games, rather than act as any kind of continuation that would require an understanding of earlier lore to appreciate.