TIGA, the trade association representing the UK video games industry, is delighted to announce the finalists for the prestigious TIGA Games Industry Awards 2025.
The Awards celebrate creative, technical and business excellence in the UK games sector, highlighting the achievements of studios, publishers, educational institutions, and service providers across a wide range of categories.
This year’s shortlist showcases the extraordinary talent, innovation and ambition of the UK games industry, with finalists spanning genres from Action and Adventure to Puzzle, VR/XR, Strategy and more, as well as business categories recognising leadership, education, diversity, recruitment and technical innovation.
The winners will be announced at the awards ceremony at the prestigious Hurlingham Club, London on Tuesday November 4th. Tickets are limited, so booking early is advised - https://tiga.org/events/tiga-games-industry-awards-2025
The full list of finalists:
GAMES CATEGORIES
ACTION AND ADVENTURE
- Kwalee: The Precinct
- Playground Games: Forza Horizon 5
- Rebellion: Atomfall
- Saber Interactive: Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2
- Sandfall Interactive: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
- Secret Mode: Still Wakes the Deep: Siren’s Rest
- Sony Interactive Entertainment: Astro Bot
- Sony Interactive Entertainment: Death Stranding 2: On The Beach
- Soul Assembly: Last Stand
ARCADE
- Auroch Digital: Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun – Words of Vengeance
- KeelWorks: CYGNI: All Guns Blazing
- Psypher Interactive: Cosmic Race: Galactic Showdown
- Secret Mode: DEATHSPRINT 66
- Secret Mode: Parcel Corps
- Sloclap: REMATCH
- Sony Interactive Entertainment: Astro Bot
- Wales Interactive: Sker Ritual
AUDIO DESIGN
- Discipleship Tech: The Serpent & The Seed
- Fireproof Games: Ghost Town
- Frontier Developments: Planet Coaster 2
- KeelWorks: CYGNI: All Guns Blazing
- Monster And Monster: Star Trucker
- Playground Games: Forza Horizon 5
- Rebellion: Atomfall
- Sony Interactive Entertainment: Until Dawn
- ustwo games: Monument Valley 3
BEST USE OF A LICENCE
- Auroch Digital: Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun – Words of Vengeance
- BBC with Mobile Pie: BBC Wonder Chase (Roblox)
- Bithell Games: TRON: Catalyst
- Dovetail Games: Train Sim World® 5: Spoorlijn Zwolle - Groningen Route Add-On
- FuturLab: PowerWash Simulator
- Saber Interactive: Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2
- Sony Interactive Entertainment: LEGO Horizon Adventures
- Tactile Games: Simon's Cat Match!
- Team 17: Nice Day for Fishing
CASUAL
- EA Playdemic: Golf Clash
- FuturLab: PowerWash Simulator
- Secret Mode: Critter Café
- Soul Assembly: Just Dance VR – Welcome to Dancity
- Spilt Milk Studios: Trash Goblin
- Tactile Games: Simon's Cat Match!
- Two Point Studios: Two Point Museum
- University of Staffordshire: Crab Sticks
- ustwo games: Monument Valley 3
CREATIVITY
- Ant Workshop: Into the Restless Ruins
- Dovetail Games: Train Sim World 5: Thomas & Friends™ 80th Anniversary Expansion
- Illam Software Entertainment: Mirage: Ignis Fatuus
- KeelWorks: CYGNI: All Guns Blazing
- Secret Mode: Still Wakes the Deep: Siren’s Rest
- Secret Mode: Empyreal
- Spilt Milk Studios: Trash Goblin
- Two Point Studios: Two Point Museum
- University of Staffordshire: Crab Sticks
DIVERSITY
- Don’t Nod: Lost Records: Bloom & Rage
- ESDigital Games: Island of Winds
- NikkiJay: Quantum Witch
- Sony Interactive Entertainment: Death Stranding 2: On The Beach
- Spilt Milk Studios: Trash Goblin
- Trailmix: Love & Pies
- Wispfire: Herald: The Interactive Period Drama - Complete Edition
- Women in Games
EDUCATIONAL/SERIOUS/SIMULATION
- BBC with Chunk: JoJo and Gran Gran: A Day with JoJo
- BBC with Playerthree: Guardians: Defenders of Mathematica
- Dovetail Games: Train Sim World 5
- Frontier Developments: Planet Coaster 2
- FuturLab: PowerWash Simulator
- HexWar Games: Company Commander
- Lockwood Publishing: Avakin Life x PlanetPlay
- Mrs Wordsmith: Word Tag
- Playerthree: Art Leap
- Sony Interactive Entertainment: Climate Station
HERITAGE
- Ant Workshop: Into the Restless Ruins
- BBC with Mobile Pie: History Explorer: Secrets Through Time
- Exient: Lemmings / Lemmings Creatorverse
- Rebellion: Atomfall
- ustwo games: Monument Valley Trilogy
- Wales Interactive: Maid of Sker
- Wales Interactive: Sker Ritual
- Wispfire: Herald: The Interactive Period Drama - Complete Edition
NARRATIVE / STORYTELLING
- Devolver Digital: Look Outside
- Fireproof Games: Ghost Town
- Fireshine Games: Shadows of Doubt
- Psychic Software: The Necromancer's Tale
- Rebellion: Atomfall
- Sandfall Interactive: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
- Sony Interactive Entertainment: Death Stranding 2: On The Beach
- Sony Interactive Entertainment: Until Dawn
- Team 17: Date Everything
PUZZLE
- ESDigital Games: Island of Winds
- Exient: Lemmings / Lemmings Creatorverse
- Fragile Shapes Studio: Beyond the Board
- IDEA Games: In other Words
- Fireproof Games: Ghost Town
- Fireshine Games: Shadows of Doubt
- Kwalee: Text Express: Word Adventure
- Robust Games: Loco Motive
- ustwo games: Monument Valley 3
SOCIAL
- Fireshine Games: Core Keeper
- Saber Interactive: Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2
- Sloclap: REMATCH
- Soul Assembly: Just Dance VR: Welcome to Dancity
- Sony Interactive Entertainment: Death Stranding 2: On The Beach
- Torn Ltd: Torn
- University of Staffordshire: Crab Sticks
- University of Staffordshire: Disc-Go!
STRATEGY
- Abylight Barcelona: Citadelum
- Ant Workshop: Into the Restless Ruins
- Chimera Entertainment GmbH: Songs of Silence
- Kalypso Media: Commandos: Origins
- Megabit Publishing: Grit and Valor – 1949
- Only4Gamers: Space Menace 2
- Shiny Shoe/Big Fan Games: Monster Train 2
- Slitherine: Broken Arrow
VISUAL DESIGN
- Atomhawk Design: Hell Divers 2
- ESDigital Games: Steel Seed
- Fireproof Games: Ghost Town
- Fireshine Games: Core Keeper
- Outsider Games: Jennifer Wilde: Unlikely Revolutionaries
- Playground Games: Forza Horizon 5
- Secret Mode: Still Wakes the Deep: Siren’s Rest
- Sony Interactive Entertainment: Astro Bot
- Wales Interactive: Maid of Sker
VR / XR / AR / MR
- Devolver Digital: GORN 2
- IO Interactive: HITMAN World of Assassination
- nDreams: Frenzies
- Nosebleed Interactive: Arcade Paradise VR
- Rebellion: Zombie Army VR
- Resolution Games: Spatial Ops
- Soul Assembly: Just Dance VR: Welcome to Dancity
- Super Hyper Mega: Project AEROES
SMALL STUDIO
- Ant Workshop
- Code Wizards
- Dlala Studios
- Fireproof Studios
- KeelWorks
- Silent Games
- Spilt Milk
- Two Point Studios
- ustwo games
- Wales Interactive
BUSINESS CATEGORIES
ART/ANIMATION/TRAILER SUPPLIER
- Big Farmer
- Liquid Crimson
- Room 8 Group
- Side
- Trailer Farm
AUDIO SERVICES SUPPLIER
- PitStop Productions
- Side
- Soundcuts
- Tazman Audio
CO-DEVELOPMENT PARTNER
- Expression Games
- Flix Interactive
- Red Kite Games
- Rocket Science Group
- Room 8 Group
- Side
- Sumo Digital
COMMITMENT TO ESG
- Dovetail Games
- Flix Interactive
- PlanetPlay
- Playground Games
- Rebellion
- Room 8 Group
- University of Portsmouth
- University of the Arts, London
COMMITMENT TO WORKPLACE WELLBEING
- Dovetail Games
- Expression Games
- Flix Interactive
- Playground Games
- Rebellion
- Room 8 Group
- Side
- Slitherine Software
- Sumo Digital
EDUCATION INITIATIVE
- Birmingham City University
- Manchester Metropolitan University
- Norwich University of the Arts
- Rebellion
- Sumo Academy (Sumo Digital)
- University of Portsmouth
- University of Staffordshire
- University of the West of England
EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION
- Birmingham City University
- Bournemouth University
- Manchester Metropolitan
- Norwich University of the Arts
- University of Greenwich
- University of Hertfordshire
- University of Portsmouth
- University of Staffordshire
- University of Surrey
- University of the Arts, London
IN-HOUSE RECRUITMENT & TALENT DEVELOPMENT
- Dovetail Games
- Expression Games
- Playground Games
- Rebellion
- Rocket Science Group
- Side
- Ubisoft Consumer Relationship Centre
LARGE STUDIO
- Dovetail Games
- Expression Games
- Kwalee
- nDreams
- Playground Games
- Rebellion
- Steel City Interactive
- Sumo Digital
- Supermassive Games
- Team Asobi
- Trailmix
LEGAL SERVICES SUPPLIER
- Eaton Smith LLP
- Fragomen LLP
- Lee & Thompson LLP
- Lewis Silkin LLP
- Mishcon de Reya LLP
- Stevens & Bolton LLP
- Wiggin LLP
OUTSTANDING LEADERSHIP
- Ben Forrester, VP of PC and Console Publishing, Kwalee
- Ben Lavery, Group Studio Head, Keywords Studios
- Deborah Kirkham, CEO, Side
- Errol Ismail, CEO, Expression Games
- Gemma Brown and Rob O’Farrell, Co-CEOs, Dovetail Games
- Liz Prince, Business Manager, Amiqus
- Professor Chris Headleand, Head of Department, University of Staffordshire
- Rhea Loucas, Founder & CEO, Planet Play
- Stuart Muckley, CEO, Code Wizards
- Tom Daniel, Co-Founder & CEO and Brian Corrigan, President, Rocket Science Group
PUBLISHER
- Dovetail Games
- Kwalee
- nDreams
- Rebellion
- Slitherine Software
- Team 17
QA AND/OR LOCALISATION PROVIDER
- Quantic Labs
- Side
- Testronic
- Universally Speaking
RECRUITMENT AGENCY
- Amiqus
- Avatar
- Datascope Recruitment
SERVICES PROVIDER
- 1minus1
- Amiqus
- Avatar
- Code Wizards
- Flix Interactive
- Maverick
- Pitstop Productions
- PlanetPlay
- Side
- Testronic
TAX AND ACCOUNTANCY FIRM
- Johnston Carmichael
- Plus Accounting
TECHNICAL INNOVATION
- Code Wizards
- Gameworks
- Rebellion
- Room 8 Group
- Side
- Sony Interactive Entertainment
- Sony Interactive Entertainment: LEGO Horizon Adventures
- Speech Graphics
- Ubisoft Consumer Relationship Centre
SPECIAL AWARDS
GAME OF THE YEAR – voted on by attendees of the TIGA Games Industry Awards.
OUTSTANDING INDIVIDUAL OF THE YEAR – winner to be announced on the night.
Dr Richard Wilson OBE, CEO of TIGA, said:
“The TIGA Games Industry Awards 2025 shortlist reflects the creativity, ingenuity and world-class talent that define our industry. We are privileged to be able to celebrate the developers, educators, and service providers who make such an extraordinary contribution to our industry. Congratulations to all those shortlisted – we look forward to recognising your achievements at the Awards ceremony. I would also like to thank all of our sponsors for their support and for making TIGA’s celebration of excellence possible.”
The TIGA Games Industry Awards 2025 are sponsored by Build A Rocket Boy (Party Sponsor); Ubisoft (Gold Sponsor); Abertay University, Lee & Thompson, Playground Games, Staffordshire University and Supermassive Games (Silver Sponsors); Finstock Capital (Drinks Reception Sponsor); Birmingham City University, Bournemouth University, Creative Wales, Eaton Smith, Kwalee, Ninja Theory, Outplay Games, Plus Accounting, Side, Steel City Interactive, Stevens & Bolton and Testronic (Bronze Sponsors).
Find out more about the TIGA Games Industry Awards, including how to attend the awards ceremony, here - https://tiga.org/awards
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About TIGA
TIGA is the trade association for the UK video games industry. TIGA’s vision is to make the UK the best place in the world to develop video games. To this end, TIGA:
- engages with policymakers to create an environment favourable to video games development;
- enhances education and skills through our accreditation programme, the TIGA Games Education Awards and our education conference;
- promotes best practice through our membership services, including the TIGA Games Industry Awards;
- conducts primary research into the games sector, surveying hundreds of companies each year about the business environment, support policies and the health of the industry.
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