The German Computer Game Prize will be awarded again in 2025 and now the nominees in the individual categories have been determined in advance.
A jury has now determined the best games of the year from Germany in a pre -selection and knitted the nominated for the German Computer Game Prize 2025. In the royal category “Best German Game”, Enshrouded from Keen Games, Lonely Mountains: Snow Riders from Megagon Industries and Thron Fool from Grizzly Games compete for the prestigious title.
The most frequently nominated game is Enshrouded, which has chances of winning in a total of three categories. Whether the title will also take a corresponding success will decide on May 14, 2025. Then the winners of the German Computer Game Prize 2025 are chosen in the Palais on the radio tower in Berlin. These can then look forward to a total of 800,000 dollars.
The nominees in 2025 at a glance:
Best German game (endowed with 100,000 dollars for the winning game and 30,000 dollars each for the two other nominated)
Best family game (endowed with 40,000 dollars)
Young talent price: best debut (endowed with 60,000 dollars for the winning game and 25,000 dollars for the two other nominated)
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Footgun: Underground (Turtle Knight Games / CobraTekku Games)
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Northhold (Stunforge / Stunforge & HypeTrain Digital)
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Mindlock – The Apartment (Roof Cut Media / United Soft Media)
Young talent price: best prototype (endowed with 50,000 dollars for the winning game and 25,000 dollars for the four other nominated)
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Blob The Donx (Melena Dressel, Alejandro Rebolledo, Laura Octavianus / Darmstadt University)
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Echoes of Mora (Meike Strippel, Namin Hansen, Daria Pankau, Anita-Emmely Franz, Alina Alonzova / HTW Berlin)
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Map Map – A Game About Maps (Pipapo Games / HAW Hamburg)
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Exhibit A (Olivia Falke, Gabrielle Sibucao, Flynn Schrammek, Vivian Kraffert, Martina Miskic, Leonhard Thiel, Fabiola Words, Arezou Rezaei / MDH Munich)
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STUNTBOOST (Julian Höltge, Tobias Kozel / Kempten University)
Best innovation and technology (endowed with 40,000 dollars)
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Closer the Distance (Osmotic Studios / Skybound Games)
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Your voice (Sebastian Grünwald & Reality Twist / Bavarian State Center for Political Education work)
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Enshrouded (Keen Games)
Best audio design (endowed with 40,000 dollars)
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Duck Detective: The Secret Salami (Happy Broccoli Games)
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Enshrouded (Keen Games)
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Submission (Sven Ahlgrimm, Mathilde Hoffmann, Bastian Clausdorff / Sven Ahlgrimm)
Best gamedesign (endowed with 40,000 dollars)
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Between Horizons (DigiTales Interactive / Assemble Entertainment)
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Northhold (Stunforge / Stunforge & HypeTrain Digital)
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Thronefall (Grizzly Games)
Best graphic design (endowed with 40,000 dollars)
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Harold Halibut (Slow Bros.)
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PBJ – Musical Das (Kamibox)
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Songs of Silence (Chimera Entertainment)
Best mobile game (endowed with 40,000 dollars)
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Bauhaus Bonk (Spoonful Games)
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Duck Detective: The Secret Salami (Happy Broccoli Games)
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Dungeons of Dreadrock 2 – The dead King’s Secret (Christoph Minnama)
Best Story (endowed with 40,000 dollars)
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Mini Mini Golf Golf (Three More Years)
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Tavern Talk (Gentle Troll Entertainment)
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Vampire Therapist (Little Bat Games)
Bestes Serious Game (endowed with 40,000 dollars)
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Your voice (Sebastian Grünwald & Reality Twist / State Center for Political Education work)
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Remember. The children from Bullenhuser Damm (Paintbucket Games / Hamburg memorials and learning places to remember the victims of the Nazi crimes)
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UNHOME – Apart from Society. A virtual reality experience about homelessness. (Curious Company)
Studio of the year (endowed with 50,000 dollars)
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Aesir Interactive (München)
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Gentle Troll Entertainment (Würzburg)
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Megagon Industries (Berlin)
Player*in the year (undotated)
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Dom Schott
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Justnoahde
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Lunarie_ttv
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Staiy
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Steinwallen
Best international game (undotated)
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Astro Bot (Team Asobi / Sony Interactive Entertainment)
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Indiana Jones and the large circle (MachineGames / ZeniMax Media)
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Split Fiction (Hazelight Studios / Electronic Arts)
