Welcome to the seventh BLAEO Game Awards!
It’s that time of the year again: Time to nominate the top games of 2025*! Make sure to return between December 23 and 31 to vote for your absolute favorites. Let’s see which games were most loved by the BLAEO community!
The timeline for this event:
1 December - 22 December: Nomination phase
23 December - 31 December: Voting phase
31 December: The winners are announced
These are the proposed categories:
- Game of the Year
- Choices Matter
- Best Story
- Best Co-op/Multiplayer Game
- Best Free to Play Game
- Most Value for Money
- Best Game Under $20
- Best Addition to an Existing Series
- Most Addictive Game
- Prettiest Game
- Best Soundtrack
- Best DLC
- Best Early Access Game
- Best Underdog/Hidden Gem
- Best Character
- Best Console Exclusive
- Best Mobile Game
- Best Remaster/Remake/Port
- new: Best Quote
Nomination Phase
To nominate your favourite game(s) simply respond to the category comment(s) with a list of games you want to nominate in that category. Only nominations posted under the relevant category comments will count. You can add your thoughts on the games in these posts or create a separate comment to tell us more about the games you’ve played (just make sure that you also post your nominations under the relevant categories).
Please include games even if they have already been mentioned by other users. We might not be able to include every proposed game in the final vote and seeing how popular the games are will make it easier for us to make the final selection.
In a similar way we might not include all the categories in the final vote if there’s an obvious lack of interest/proposed games.
Guidelines for nominating games:
- * Only games released for the first time between 1 December 2024 and 30 November 2025 can be nominated.
- Remasters/remakes/ports can only be nominated in the "Best Remake/Remaster/Port" category.
- Best DLC category: the DLC needs to have been released between 1 December 2024 and 30 November 2025 but the game can be older.
- Best Early Access Game category: added to EA *or* left EA between 1 December 2024 and 30 November 2025.
- Games that are still in Early Access can only be nominated in the Best Early Access Game category.
- The best quote can be any text from a game that was released between 1 December 2024 and 30 November 2025 that moved you, made you laugh, think or see the game in a new light. Please mention the game and the quote (if you have it, feel free to also add a link to a screenshot or video).
Respond to this comment with your nominations for Choices Matter
Crown Gambit
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Dispatch
Road to Empress I
Dispatch
Dispatch
Road to Empress I
Dispatch
Dispatch
Respond to this comment with your nominations for Best Story
Crown Gambit - again sorry
Forever Skies
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
Silksong
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
Road to Empress I
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
Dispatch
Road to Empress I
Respond to this comment with your nominations for Best Co-op/Multiplayer Game
Farm Together 2
Arc Raiders
Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds
PEAK
Split Fiction
Split Fiction
PEAK
R.E.P.O. nvm it’s EA…
PEAK
Split Fiction
PopuCom
Split Fiction
Arc Raiders
Respond to this comment with your nominations for Best Free to Play Game
Respond to this comment with your nominations for Most Value for Money
Forever Skies
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
Silksong
Tormented Souls II
Hollow Knight: Silksong
Hollow Knight: Silksong
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
9 Kings
Hollow Knight: Silksong
Hades II
BALL X PIT
Silksong
Silksong
Hollow Knight: Silksong
Look Outside
Hollow Knight: Silksong
BALL X PIT
9 Kings
Respond to this comment with your nominations for Best Game Under $20
Glass Masquerade 4
Megabonk
Hollow Knight: Silksong
Silksong
Road to Empress I
Hollow Knight: Silksong
Hollow Knight: Silksong
Silksong
Hollow Knight: Silksong
Silksong
Silksong
Terrierble Logic Only $8!
Hollow Knight: Silksong
Look Outside
Hollow Knight: Silksong
Hollow Knight: Silksong
Respond to this comment with your nominations for Best Addition to an Existing Series
Respond to this comment with your nominations for Most Addictive Game
Respond to this comment with your nominations for Prettiest Game
Forever Skies
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
Ghost of Yotei
Silksong
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
Hollow Knight: Silksong
Silent Hill F
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
Silksong
Lumines Arise
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
Respond to this comment with your nominations for Best Soundtrack
Lumines arise - here too
Top Spin 2K5
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
Silksong
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
Touhou Kinjoukyou ～ Fossilized Wonders
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
Silksong
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
Hades II
Hollow Knight: Silksong
ENDER MAGNOLIA: Bloom in the Mist
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
Silksong
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
Dispatch
Lumines Arise
Respond to this comment with your nominations for Best DLC
Respond to this comment with your nominations for Best Early Access Game
Hollywood Animal
Schedule 1
R.E.P.O.
Hades II
R.E.P.O
R.E.P.O.
9 Kings
Hades II
The Slormancer
Hades II
Hades II
The Karters 2: Turbo Charged
The Slormancer
Secret Agent Wizard Boy and the International Crime Syndicate
Stick It to the Stickman
Schedule 1
Respond to this comment with your nominations for Best Underdog/Hidden Gem
Respond to this comment with your nominations for Best Character
Verso (Clair Obscur: Expedition 33)
Kingdom Come: Deliverance II - Henry of Skalitz
Expedition 33 - Maelle
Maelle (Clair Obscur: Expedition 33)
Maelle (Clair Obscur: Expedition 33)
Pierre (Look Outside)
Guy just tries to help with the trauma, but makes it so much worse.
Maelle (Clair Obscur: Expedition 33)
Henry of Skalitz (Kingdom Come: Deliverance II)
Respond to this comment with your nominations for Best Console Exclusive
Donkey Kong Bananza
Mario Kart World
Donkey Kong Bananza
Death Stranding 2
Respond to this comment with your nominations for Best Remaster/Remake/Port
Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater
The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remastered
Virtua Fighter 5 R.E.V.O. World Stage
The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remastered
MGS Delta: Snake Eater
Platypus Reclayed
Heretic + Hexen - They did similarly with DOOM + DOOM II, making them work better, adding extra campaign or all content there is, new music and overall support. Original owners get it all for free. Damn they just feel too good in comparison to many. o.o’
Honorable or not mentions:
The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remastered - Performance issues from what heard, but just to keep Creation Engine they did do black magic and overlapped it with Unreal 5, wth? :D
System Shock 2 Remastered - Honestly there might not be that much improvement original release, mainly co-op features and such slapped on it. Still really fun after a long time.
The Thing Remasted - This needed a remake.
The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remastered
The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remastered
Respond to this comment with your nominations for Best Quote
‘If saving you means losing you, then so be it’ (Renoir - Clair Obscur: Expedition 33)
‘For those who come after’ (Gustave - Clair Obscur: Expedition 33)
‘For those who come after’ (Clair Obscur: Expedition 33)
“When one falls, we continue. When one falls. WHEN one falls! Not IF – WHEN.” (Lune - Clair Obscur: Expedition 33)
‘For those who come after’ (Clair Obscur: Expedition 33)
“Life keeps forcing cruel choices.” (Verso - Clair Obscur: Expedition 33)
“When one falls, we continue. Not if, when. WHEN one falls” (Lune - Clair Obscur: Expedition 33)
“We are all hypocrites. Doing the same thing to each other” (Verso - Clair Obscur: Expedition 33)
“The scam is all I got. I mean, look at me. I’m a gatdam freak. I can’t even put clothes on.” (Godhead Fred - Look Outside)
“When the pain finally comes, it comes all at once. And it never ends.” (a Newborn God - Look Outside)
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Heya Nelly! I was just thinking when the Voting will be up? ;)
Respond to this comment with your nominations for Game of the Year
Crown Gambit
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Forever Skies
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
Silksong
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
DELTARUNE
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
Blue Prince
Kingdom Come: Deliverance II
Hollow Knight: Silksong
Silksong
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
Dispatch
Silksong
Slime Rancher 2
Terrierble Logic cough cough
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
Silksong
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
Kingdom Come: Deliverance II
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
Dispatch
Kingdom Come: Deliverance II