‘Clair Obscur’ Leads The Game Awards 2025 Nominees With 12 Nods; ‘Silent Hill f’ Has Four Nominations

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Geoff Keighley and company are back again, revealing the nominees for the 2025 edition of The Game Awards, which will stream live from the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles on Thursday, December 11, 2025. This year the one to beat is Sandfall Interactive’s Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, which has received 12 nominations, and the most in the show’s history.

Those 12 nominations nearly double the next nearest nominee in Kojima Productions’ Death Stranding 2: On the Beach and Sucker Punch Productions’ Ghost of Yōtei with seven. Supergiant Games’ Hades II has six nominations, while Team Cherry’s Hollow Knight: Silksong has five.

Making things interesting is that Clair Obscur, Death Stranding 2: On the Beach, Hades II and Hollow Knight: Silksong are all up for Game of the Year, alongside Warhorse Studios’ Kingdom Come: Deliverance II and Nintendo’s Donkey Kong Bananza.

Meanwhile, horror fans have a few nominees to cheer for this year, with Konami’s Silent Hill f receiving four nominations (which is sadly less than what Bloober Team’s Silent Hill 2 received last year), id Software’s Doom: The Dark Ages garnering three, and Compulsion Games’ South of Midnight getting two nominations.

From Software’s Elden Ring Nightreign received its lone nomination in Best Multiplayer Game, while Survios’ Alien: Rogue Incursion has a nomination in Best VR Game alongside Twisted Pixel Games’ Marvel’s Deadpool VR and MoonHood’s The Midnight Walk.

Capcom’s Resident Evil Requiem and CD Projekt Red’s The Wticher IV also received nods in the Most Anticipated Game.

Fans can vote now in all categories via the official website.

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Blackmist@feddit.uk ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 completely dominated the spring and summer. Nobody would shut up about it. This year’s Baldur’s Gate.

Feels like it’s going to sweep most awards here just for that, and they’ve listed the other games just to be polite and pretend it’s a contest.

I should get around to playing it at some point.

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- ohshit604@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  
  Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 completely dominated the spring and summer. Nobody would shut up about it. This year’s Baldur’s Gate.
  
  First time I’ve heard of this game. Wild to see the deluxe edition cost less than the base game Itself though.
  
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  - Rooster326@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Don’t look up spoilers! The game is known for its story and yes it absolutely rewards exploration so look around every nook, nothing is so hidden you will need a guide.
    
    Also don’t kill the White freaks - you’ll know what I mean later.
    
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  - DetectiveNo64@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    It’s an excellent game, enjoy!
    
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- ekZepp@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  This is a very good trend.
  
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Coelacanth@feddit.nu ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Blue Prince only being nominated for the two indie awards is an expected travesty. Merited a GOTY nomination imo and also a OST award nomination. Sad times.

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- Nelots@piefed.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  It’s just one of those years. There were a lot of great games that came out this year.
  
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  - Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    I feel out of touch. The only one I saw nominated for anything that I’ve played was no mans sky.
    
    The only other one that I haven’t played but heard of, was that silksong game.
    
    The rest? No clue what these games are. But I see everyone saying this was a great year for games.
    
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- Blackmist@feddit.uk ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Having played a fair bit of it, I can see why it isn’t.
  
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- Goodeye8@piefed.social ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  I can ignore the RNG fest that is drawing the rooms but for the love of god there so many interactions that have no business being as long as they are (for example anything related to computer terminals). If the game can clearly be better than it currently is then in my books it cannot be a GOTY nomination. In case of Blue Prince the game could absolutely waste less of the players time. It’s the reason I gave up on it because there’s no reason to play if I feel like the time I spend playing is just wasted time.
  
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- idunnololz@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  I olayed the crap out of blue prince and I actually hated the game. Might just be me though but IMO the game has some incredible big flaws.
  
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- Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  It’s kinda up to the judges of the specific event, and they clearly aren’t interested as much in puzzle games.
  
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  - Coelacanth@feddit.nu ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    I know it never had a chance to win it. It never had a chance to win the soundtrack award either, but a nomination is still something.
    
    I’m assuming Silksong snags the Indie Award but Best Debut Indie should be possible to win perhaps. It’s such a unique, interesting and inventive game and it deserves recognition.
    
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reksas@sopuli.xyz ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
these awards seem as meaningful as oscars or whatever. Just rich people pretending they can tell us what is good.

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- Blackmist@feddit.uk ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Every award show ever: “Just give most of the prizes to whatever sold the most, with the odd curveball choice to make sure everyone comments to tell us that we are wrong to drive up those engagement metrics”
  
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- FatVegan@leminal.space ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  These awards are fascinating to me. As a child i thought how great it is when a movie won an oscar. You would see a dvd with 5 oscars on it and you go whoooooo.
  
  And then you learn that a lot of these judges don’t even watch the movies, you need to give them gifts and lick their asses to even be considered.
  
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Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Silent Hill fuck?

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VOwOxel@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I like Hades II very much Haven’t played most other nominees (I did play Split fiction and No Man’s Sky, which are both great)

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pyria@kbin.melroy.org ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Why are we still caring about these stupid game award shows when it's clear that they're just padded with commercialism and favoritism?

I hate these awards and I hate the ones Valve hosts on their Steam platform. They are all just utterly meaningless. Just nothing but ways to get 'gamurrrs' to stir up pointless arguments about subjective things for clout.

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- moakley@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  It’s just nice to have another reason to talk about video games. All contexts in which we talk about video games have inherent biases.
  
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  - Rooster326@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Yeah it’s really hard to find so many trailers to know what is up and coming. Am I gonna buy any of them? Not till they discount to the $10 range but shit it’s good to know what I can hope to drop price. Steam recommendations are not very good.
    
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  - pyria@kbin.melroy.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    You mean, argue about them? Because I don't see a lot of good conversations regarding some video games unless it is a hivemind or a circlejerk. It must be on some universally agreed upon ruling before engaging some video game discussions, if not, then bickering or pelting virtual stones at the different thinker with opinions that goes against said hivemind.
    
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- MourningDove@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Yeah, like all awards- it’s a popularity contest.
  
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  - pyria@kbin.melroy.org ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    For a large part, yes. It's just fuel to the fires of pointless arguments.
    
    I'm sure development studios and individuals have a sense of pride and accomplishment in receiving any award for their work. But, even then, there's going to be volumes of people who're going to always feel like their favorites were snuffed for reasons not known to us and it just makes more arguments than actual discussions.
    
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- cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Hah it’s true. There are plenty of indie games that are amazing that don’t get mentioned at all. Ones which I’ve sunk hours into.
  
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- MJKee9@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Sometimes a little opium goes a long way.
  
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newthrowaway20@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
I’m waiting for the montage clip of Geoff just saying “Clair Obscure expedition 33” & “Death Stranding 2 On the Beach” over and over and over.

Those two freaking dominated.

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- TastyWheat@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Then the inevitable yotube mashup with Geoff proudly proclaiming GOTY to Clair Beach 33: Expedition Death!
  
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Ledivin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
How on Earth did Death Stranding get 7 nominations? And how did Blue Prince not get anything? Wild.

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- Blackmist@feddit.uk ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Honestly didn’t think it was as good as the first one.
  
  The truck is a hammer and every single problem is a nail.
  
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- romanticremedy@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Kojima
  
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- Jax@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  It’s a good, weird, game.
  
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- rtxn@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Through brand recognition.
  
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finitebanjo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
I doubt the legitimacy of a game awards where Silent Hil F got four nominations.

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- Tigeroovy@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  I can’t tell if this is a comment for or against Silent Hill f.
  
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  - finitebanjo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    I haven’t seen a single positive review of the game.
    
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- RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  I agree. As a Silent Hill fan, Silent Hill f was just a random action horror game skinwalking with the Silent Hill name. It was mid at best and had a lot of moments where I didn’t feel like I was playing a Silent Hill game at all. Which is extremely disappointing considering f was the one Silent Hill project I was actually excited about when Konami showed their other offerings (like Silent Hill Ascension, lol what a disaster that was).
  
  Except the music. It was really cool music, so I can see it being nominated for that. I mean, it wasn’t really a Silent Hill OST, but the quality of the music was still good. Akira Yamaoka always makes bangers. At least it wasn’t Korn this time.
  
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  - finitebanjo@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    I saw one person claiming it had a different title during early development but Konami decided to just slap the Silent Hill branding over it to push sales up.
    
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romanticremedy@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Year of the indie games!

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11111one11111@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
I tried the expedition 33 game but couldnt get into it quick enough so I just refunded it and scooped a bunch of better priced steam sale games. Any one here stick around with the game long enough to convince me why I made an ill-guided choice?

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- Kyle_The_G@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Its an incredible game but not for everyone. I’ve been saying for a while that a game for everyone is a game for no one. These guys picked a specific genre and set out to tell an interesting/artistic story with a very specific vision and IMO they hit a grand slam/it is executed very well. If you bounced off it thats completely fine, not everyone is looking for what this game has to offer. It just happened to really click with me.
  
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  - Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    
    a game for everyone is a game for no one
    
    Not true. Pong is AMAZING!
    
    See, there’s this square dot, and these two paddles…oh, I won’t spoil the plot! Just play it!
    
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  - elgordino@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    I picked it up in a sale recently, it’s not normally my type of game but I thought I’d give it a shot. I’m only a couple of hours in and loving it so far.
    
    The story is sucking me in and I’m starting to appreciate the combat, things seem to be unlocking at about the pace I can understand. I’m a little worried it’ll be repetitive but it looks like there’s plenty of opportunity to be creative to keep it interesting.
    
    Definitely my solo game for the longer nights ahead.
    
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- oyfrog@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  It depends on how much you like QTE gameplay and turn based JRPGs. If neither appeals to you, then the refund was a great idea. If one or the other appeals to you, then I think it’s worth sitting through because both gameplay mechanics are executed well enough and the narrative is good. If both appeal to you then you’ve missed out in getting a refund.
  
  I really enjoyed this game. The gameplay is intuitive, but challenging; the narrative is engaging; the soundtrack is incredible.
  
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  - rockerface@lemmy.cafe ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    That’s an accurate description. The game itself tries to present the highest difficulty as “real-time mechanics” oriented, but all that really does is make QTEs more punishing. After some frustration, I just swapped back to the normal difficulty and am enjoying the game a lot.
    
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  - ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    What if you like turn based JRPGs but hate QTE? lol
    
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- SkyezOpen@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  I don’t blame you at all. It’s styled after the old final fantasy games, meaning very fiddly with a lot of different abilities, and with the added twist of having to dodge stuff fairly precisely which involves a lot of learning. There is a “story” difficulty which makes the game much less punishing, but I still didn’t feel like playing it.
  
  I did watch my girlfriend play though, and soon I was the one telling her to play so I could watch because the story and soundtrack are that fucking amazing. Just watch a playthrough of at least all the major fights and cutscenes and you’ll understand.
  
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- who@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  You’re not alone. The visuals are nice, the voice acting is good, and the music is gorgeous, but the gameplay is very repetitive JRPG combat with a minor twist.
  
  As art, I could see it winning awards. As a game, I think others are more deserving.
  
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- kinther@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Like you I could not get into it, but I gave it the old college try. Got about eight hours in and can’t get a refund now.
  
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- mysticpickle@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  The gameplay itself is just “okay”. Turn based JRPG combat with some QTE not much different from Super Mario RPG on the SNES.
  
  I think the attention it has received is based on how well they type together the quality of storytelling, dialogue, art direction, music, and the universal theme that resonates with everyone:
  
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  It’s an interactive cinematic experience that has me in emotional shambles multiple times throughout the playthrough.
  
  If you’re dead inside like me and desperate to feel anything, it’ll do it for you :>
  
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- Gerudo@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Hands down, my favorite rpg in years. It has also been one of the super rare games that I kept playing past the end of the main story just so I could stay in the world a bit longer. It will also be one of the only games I’ve bought after playing it on Game Pass too.
  
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- moakley@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  I had a similar experience. I’d honestly prefer boring turn based combat to the ridiculous QTEs in the game.
  
  The story was extremely well-told. Great voice acting and production value. But the actual plot didn’t hook me. It just seemed so arbitrary. I don’t know if there’s some big reveal or anything that makes it make sense.
  
  I only played it on Game Pass, so luckily I’m not out any money. I would have given it another chance eventually, but the Game Pass price hike made me cancel.
  
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  - ArtVandelay@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    
    I don’t know if there’s some big reveal or anything that makes it make sense.
    
    Ummm… I can’t give any spoilers here but…
    
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- mostlikelyaperson@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  It’s a quite enjoyable game, though some elements grew old towards the end. The visual design and music is also amazing. Unfortunately they dropped the ball on the ending a little, and it is very likely that this is the result of a flubbed rewrite, as there are certain hints within the game that imply very strongly that at least at some point things were clearly meant to be more complicated. The version of the ending we got has a very clear message as to what the writers intended to be the right choice.
  
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- Prove_your_argument@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  For me, I found it to be a beautiful work of art and a heartbreaking story about family.
  
  It’s not a mass appeal title that absolutely everyone will love though. The game is not particularly easy and it takes time to develop the story.
  
  Every time you get to the end of an act in Expedition 33 there is so much emotion. If you aren’t following the story, don’t get emotionally attached to the games you play and the stories of the characters, and aren’t patient enough to enjoy it then obviously it won’t be for you. That’s ok. It’s all art. They all mean different things to each one of us.
  
  I’m confident we’ll get another hades, another silksong, another death stranding. I’m sure they’re all the very best representation of their iterative releases and worthy of the highest of praises too. I don’t even know how donkey kong got in the list though, maybe they are being manipulated to include a nintendo title in some way.
  
  I don’t know if i’ll ever be as impressed by another title as I did by expedition 33. Baldur’s Gate 3 amazed me in other ways a couple years ago and it’s a huge feat. Before that for me it was Elden Ring, amazing for other reasons.
  
  I haven’t started kingdom come deliverance 2 yet, and I never played the first one, so I don’t want to say too much. All of the impressions i’ve heard sound like it is very deserving though. My assumption is that this and Exp33 have been the two GOTY contenders, but we’ll see.
  
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  - moakley@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    
    I don’t even know how donkey kong got in the list though, maybe they are being manipulated to include a nintendo title in some way.
    
    It’s one of the best reviewed games this year, it’s in a classic but underrepresented genre, and it’s the flagship title of the fastest selling console of all time. Maybe you’re just a little disconnected on this one?
    
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  - mysticpickle@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Donkey Kong inclusion was definitely Nintendo fan tax 🤭
    
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- Screen_Shatter@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Nah, if it didnt hook you in the beginning nothing would happen later to change that. Good story, acting, visuals, but combat gets repetitive and needed something more to shake it up.
  
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turkalino@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Sad to see Nubby’s Number Factory get nubbed from a nubination :(

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ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
KCD2 is amazing

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zaki_ft@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
So glad I don’t play new video games anymore.

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Pika@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
the nominations for most things this year was fairly disappointing. I hadent heard of any of the events, the content creator one I didn’t watch and only knew of one by name,

I pegged myself as a fairly casual gamer and I do a lot of stream watching but, a good chunk of the games nominated I had never seen or never saw anyone streaming, many I had never heard of. It was surprising since most of my entertainment is via watching people play games or by gaming myself.

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