Baltimore (March 12, 2025) / NAVGTR CORP. – The National Academy of Video Game Trade Reviewers®, a 501(c)(3) non-profit media organization of 505 media voters and 14,453 subscribers, has announced winners for its twenty-fourth annual awards program honoring video game design and programming.
Some well-known developers to win this year include David Dedeine, Jens Andersson, SWERY, Tetsuya Nomura, Todd Howard, and Yoshinori Kitase. The NAVGTR® Awards honor work in 52 competitive categories recognizing achievement in animation, art, character design, controls, game design, engineering, musical score, sound effects, writing, and more. Since its inception, the academy has nominated over 7,146 talented individuals.
Game of the Year nominees won multiple awards. Black Myth: Wukong won for Character Design, Original Action Game, Animation (Technical), and Original or Adapted Song. Final Fantasy VII Rebirth won for Franchise Role Playing Game. Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom won for Control Design (2D). Metaphor: ReFantazio won for Art Direction (Fantasy), Costume Design, Game Design (New IP), Original Role Playing Game, Original Dramatic Score (New IP), and Game of the Year.
Tied for most wins are Indiana Jones and the Great Circle and Metaphor: ReFantazio with 6 awards. MachineGames and Atlus tied for most awards as developer. Sega and Sony Interactive Entertainment tied for most awards as publisher.
With his fourth career win, Troy Baker (Indiana Jones) has broken his tie with Laura Bailey as NAVGTR’s most awarded voice performer.
Number of Awards Won per Game
06 Metaphor: ReFantazio
06 Indiana Jones and the Great Circle
05 Astro Bot
04 Black Myth: Wukong
03 Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II
03 Helldivers 2
02 Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth
02 Alien: Rogue Incursion
Number of Awards Won per Development Studio
06 MachineGames
06 Atlus
05 Team ASOBI
04 Game Science
03 Ninja Theory
03 Arrowhead Game Studios
02 Survios
02 Ryu ga Gotoku Studio
02 Nintendo
Number of Awards Won per Publisher
08 Sony Interactive Entertainment
08 SEGA
06 Bethesda Softworks
05 Microsoft
04 Game Science
03 Nintendo
02 Survios
02 PlayStack
02 Electronic Arts
Number of Awards Won per Individual
02 Katsura Hashino
02 Jerk Gustafsson
02 Axel Torvenius
Franchise History
Princess Peach: Showtime brings the Mario universe to a grand total of 33 wins.
The Final Fantasy series has 24 wins to date.
The Legend of Zelda franchise has 16 wins.
Star Wars has 12 wins to date.
Silent Hill has 5 wins to date.
Hellblade games have won 5 awards since the first nomination in 2017.
Like a Dragon/Yakuza games have 3 wins since the first Yakuza nomination in 2006.
This year marks the first win for Indiana Jones; a Lego version was nominated in 2008.
Microsoft Flight Simulator has won 3 awards since the first nomination in 2003.
Tekken won its second award on its ninth nomination, including crossovers.
The F1 series won its first award this year on its ninth nomination.
For a complete list of categories, nominees, and winners, please visit https://navgtr.org. Follow @navgtr on twitter.
Key Dates for NAVGTR® Awards
November 24, 2025 – Entries due
January 28, 2026 – Nominations announced
February 14, 2026 – Late deadline for engraver credits
March 11, 2026 – Winners announced
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The general voting body of reviewers, journalists, analysts, content creators, and writers includes contributors for Destructoid, EGM Now, Game Rant, Gamers Temple, GamesIndustry.biz, Gamespot, IGN, Investor’s Business Daily, Kotaku, Mashable, Massively, MMORPG, MSNBC, Nintendo World Report, PC Gamer, Polygon, The Koalition, Ten Ton Hammer, Terminal Gamer, and Venture Beat.
Additional varied outlets include Austin American-Statesman, Chicago Sun-Times, CNN, COIN-OP TV, GamesRadar, Los Angeles Times, Moody’s, NBC, New York Times, NTN24, The Ottawa Citizen, San Jose Mercury-News, USA Today, The Vancouver Sun, Wired News, and hundreds more.
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