The Game Awards 2025: Top 5 Announcements, Trailers & Biggest Reveals

The Game Awards 2025: Top 5 Announcements, Trailers & Biggest Reveals

The Game Awards 2025 delivered exactly what fans expected—massive world premieres, surprise reveals, and long-awaited franchise returns. Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 took home the prestigious Game of the Year trophy, but let’s be honest… this event has always been just as much about the trailers. And this year, the lineup felt bigger, bolder, and far more surprising than the usual remasters and reboots.

From Larian’s next giant RPG to a new Star Wars game built by the creators behind KotOR and Mass Effect—here are the five biggest announcements you absolutely shouldn’t miss.

1. Larian Studios Unveils “Divinity” — Its Biggest Game Ever

Fans suspected Larian was returning to the Divinity universe, and now it’s official. Their next project is simply titled Divinity, not Original Sin 3, not a remake, but an entirely new game in the franchise.

The cinematic reveal is as dark, twisted, and unsettling as you’d expect from the studio that made Baldur’s Gate 3. Strange transformations, body horror, and a world dripping with hostile magic hint that this will be Larian’s most ambitious narrative yet.

A giant desert statue known as the “Hellstone” closes out the trailer—something Geoff Keighley himself called “their biggest game ever, even larger than BG3.”
Swen Vincke had previously teased that they were “deep in the trenches” working on a project codenamed Excalibur. Now we finally know what that means.

What we know:

• Entirely new entry in the Divinity universe

• Bigger than Baldur’s Gate 3

• No release window yet

If BG3 raised expectations for CRPGs, Divinity looks ready to explode them.

2. Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic — A Spiritual Successor to KotOR

The moment fans have waited over a decade for—KotOR is finally getting a successor, even if it’s not officially called KotOR 3.

From Arcanaut Studios, led by Casey Hudson (yes, the Mass Effect and KotOR legend), Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic is a single-player, narrative-driven action RPG where your decisions push you toward the light or dark.

The crashed Sith capital ship in the teaser immediately confirms its timeline roots—even if Lucasfilm is calling it a spiritual successor rather than a direct continuation.

Arcanaut described it as an action RPG, meaning we should expect something closer to Mass Effect + Jedi: Fallen Order rather than classic D20 dice mechanics.

What we know:

• Single-player action RPG

• Choices define your alignment

• Deep Old Republic setting

• Early development stage

The hype is real: this is the Old Republic reboot fans have begged for.

3. Frictional Games Returns With Ontos, a Sci-Fi Psychological Nightmare

The creators of Amnesia and Soma showed their next horror experience—Ontos, a chilling sci-fi thriller featuring Stellan Skarsgård.

The trailer gives us:

• A head wired into machines

• Exposed tendons

• Reality-warped environments

• A slow spiral into existential dread

Frictional says Ontos follows your character’s hunt for answers tied to their father’s past, eventually descending into deeply disturbing revelations about reality itself.

What we know:

• Coming in 2026

• Sci-fi horror with philosophical themes

• Narrative-driven with Frictional’s signature tension

If Soma kept you up at night, Ontos looks like it wants to rewrite your dreams entirely.

4. Control Resonant — Remedy’s Ambitious Open-World Reinvention

Control 2 has a new identity: Control Resonant.

This time:

• It’s an open-world action RPG

• Set in a surreal version of Manhattan

• Starring Dylan Faden, not Jesse

New York folds in on itself like an Inception fever dream, while Dylan uses reality-warping metal fragments that shape into weapons—including a colossal magical hammer.

The shift from the Oldest House to a sprawling open city suggests Remedy is completely rebuilding Control’s formula.

What we know:

• Full open-world exploration

• Reality-bending gameplay

• Coming in 2026

If Control was a supernatural sandbox, Resonant is shaping up to be a full cosmic playground.

5. Total War: Warhammer 40,000 — The Ultimate Fantasy-Sci-Fi Crossover

Creative Assembly is finally doing the unthinkable—bringing the Warhammer 40K universe into a full-scale Total War game.

Prepare for:

• Space Marines

• Orks

• Astra Militarum

• Aeldari

• Orbital strikes

• Mechs

• Thousands of units

• A fresh UI built for futuristic warfare

Given how polished Total War: Warhammer became, this feels like the natural evolution of large-scale fantasy battles into even bigger sci-fi destruction.

What we know:

• Four factions confirmed

• More likely coming as DLC

• New large-scale battlefield mechanics

This could become the definitive 40K strategy title.

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