Capcom and Resident Evil Requiem Dominate the Gamescom 2025 Awards

The Gamescom Awards 2025 have concluded, and it was a massive night for Capcom and Resident Evil Requiem, which emerged as the standout winner of the event. The annual awards, voted on by an independent jury (with select categories decided by the public), are designed to honor excellence in games, expansions, exhibitors, booths, merch, announcements, and trailers. The regulations state their purpose is “to honor outstanding games, extensions, exhibitors, booths, merch, as well as announcements and trailers.”

This year, Resident Evil Requiem swept four of the most prominent categories, taking home Best Visuals, Best Audio, Most Epic Game, and Best Sony PlayStation Game. These wins not only cemented Capcom’s dominance at Gamescom 2025 but also contributed to the publisher earning the award for Best Lineup.

The only other titles to take home multiple awards were Hela, which won Most Entertaining and Most Wholesome, and Ubisoft’s Anno 117: Pax Romana, which secured Best PC Game and Best Booth for its impressive hands-on and community lounge showcase.

A particularly noteworthy win outside of jury votes was Hollow Knight: Silksong, which was awarded Best Trailer, a category decided by the general public.

Full List of Gamescom 2025 Awards Winners and Nominees

• Best Visuals

  • Borderlands 4

  • Bye Sweet Carole

  • Crimson Desert

  • MIO: Memories in Orbit

  • Resident Evil Requiem – Winner

• Best Audio

  • Carin

  • Little Nightmares III

  • Phantom Blade Zero

  • Resident Evil Requiem – Winner

  • Rockbeasts

• Best Gameplay

  • Donkey Kong Bananza – Winner

  • Hela

  • Mario Kart World

  • PVKK

  • Resident Evil Requiem

• Most Entertaining

  • Dispatch

  • Donkey Kong Bananza

  • Grounded 2

  • Hela – Winner

  • Mario Kart World

• Most Epic

  • Crimson Desert

  • Dune: Awakening

  • Resident Evil Requiem – Winner

  • Super Meat Boy 3D

  • Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2

• Most Wholesome

  • Hela – Winner

  • Is This Seat Taken?

  • Star Birds

  • Tiny Bookshop

  • Winter Burrow

• Games for Impact

  • Carin

  • Forever Skies

  • Hollow Home

  • Monowave

  • Tiny Bookshop – Winner

• Best Microsoft Xbox Game

  • Borderlands 4

  • Crimson Desert

  • Grounded 2 – Winner

  • Little Nightmares III

  • Ninja Gaiden 4

• Best PC Game

  • Anno 117: Pax Romana – Winner

  • Borderlands 4

  • PVKK

  • Towa and the Guardians of the Sacred Tree

  • World of Warcraft

• Best Sony PlayStation Game

  • Borderlands 4

  • Crimson Desert

  • Cronos: The New Dawn

  • Pragmata

  • Resident Evil Requiem – Winner

• Best Nintendo Switch 2 Game

  • Donkey Kong Bananza

  • Mario Kart World – Winner

  • Metroid Prime 4: Beyond

  • Towa and the Guardians of the Sacred Tree

  • Winter Burrow

• Best Mobile Game

  • Arknights: Endfield

  • Dungeon Clawler

  • Genshin Impact

  • Love and Deepspace – Winner

  • Servant of the Lake

Best Lineup

• Capcom – Winner

Best Booth

• Anno 117: Pax Romana Hands-On Booth + Ubisoft Community Lounge – Winner

Best Business Booth

• Ubisoft Business Lounge – Winner

Heart of Gaming Award

• Gamescom Artist Area – Winner

Best Booth (Consumer Voted)

• Pokémon Company – Winner

Best Merch (Consumer Voted)

• Star Birds Gacha Machine – Winner

Best Trailer (Consumer Voted)

• Hollow Knight: Silksong – Winner

With Resident Evil Requiem dominating the awards, Capcom has firmly established itself as the standout publisher of Gamescom 2025. Ubisoft’s success with Anno 117: Pax Romana and indie recognition for Hela also highlighted the diverse winners of this year’s ceremony.

Do you agree with the jury’s choices this year, or do you think another game deserved the spotlight over Resident Evil Requiem?