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Best Xbox 360 Game Ever is a special category for 2025, celebrating the 20th anniversary of the console’s release. The Xbox 360 era was packed with generation-defining titles, unforgettable multiplayer experiences, and franchises that still matter today. This category is all about looking back and recognizing the game that stood above the rest. Any title from the 360’s library is eligible. If it represents the peak of that generation for you, nominate it here. Drop your nomin

Best Content Creator is for the individuals who made a real impact on gaming and entertainment in 2025. Streamers, YouTubers, analysts, critics, comedians, VTubers, breakout personalities, long-time veterans - anyone whose content elevated the community. This category is about the creators who informed you, entertained you, or kept you coming back all year. If someone stood out above the rest, nominate them here. Drop your nominations in the comments.

Best Value of 2025 is for the games that gave you the most for what you paid. Maybe it launched at a lower price, maybe it delivered a huge amount of content, or maybe it simply felt worth every dollar. This category highlights the titles that respected your time, your wallet, and delivered more than expected in 2025. If a game stood out as a great deal, nominate it here. Drop your nominations in the comments.

Best Hidden Gem is for the games in 2025 that didn’t get the spotlight they deserved. Maybe they launched quietly, maybe they were overshadowed, or maybe they just slipped under most people’s radar. This category celebrates the titles that surprised you, impressed you, and stuck with you even if the rest of the world missed them. If you found a game that more people should know about, nominate it here. Drop your nominations in the comments.

Best New IP is for the brand-new worlds, characters, and ideas that launched in 2025. No sequels, no remakes, no reboots. This category highlights the games that introduced something completely fresh and showed the potential to become the next big franchise. If a new title grabbed your attention and proved it could stand on its own, nominate it here. Drop your nominations in the comments.

Best Indie Game is for the titles in 2025 that delivered big ideas without the big studio backing. These are the games built on creativity, passion, and risk-taking. Whether it was a fresh mechanic, a unique art style, a powerful story, or something completely unexpected, this category celebrates the independent games that stood out on their own terms. If an indie release made an impact on you this year, nominate it here. Drop your nominations in the comments.

Best In-Game Moment is for the scenes, twists, battles, reveals, or unexpected surprises that defined your gaming year in 2025. This category isn’t about the whole game - it’s about that one moment you still think about. Emotional moments, shocking turns, big victories, perfectly executed set pieces, or anything that left a lasting impression. If it hit you hard, this is where it belongs. Drop your nominations in the comments.

Best Console Exclusive Game is for the titles you could only play on one platform in 2025. Whether it was on PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo Switch, or any other console-specific release, this category highlights the games that made hardware ownership feel worth it. If a console exclusive delivered something memorable, unique, or completely standout this year, nominate it here. Drop your nominations in the comments.

Best Game That Won’t Die is for the games that just keep going. Maybe they launched years ago, maybe they reinvented themselves, or maybe the community refuses to let them fade. Updates, expansions, mods, live service support, or pure staying power — whatever the reason, these games continue to thrive in 2025. If a game is still a regular part of your life long after its release, nominate it here. Drop your nominations in the comments.

Best Horror Game is for the titles in 2025 that actually got under your skin. Whether it was survival horror, psychological horror, action horror, or something strange that came out of nowhere, this category is about the games that delivered real tension, real atmosphere, and moments you didn’t forget. If a game scared you, unsettled you, or kept you thinking about it long after you stopped playing, nominate it here. Drop your nominations in the comments.

Best Retro Inspired Game is for the titles in 2025 that captured the look, feel, or spirit of classic gaming while bringing something new to the table. Whether it pulled from the NES, SNES, PS1, Genesis, arcade history, or any other era, this category celebrates games that knew exactly what made older styles fun and delivered that feeling again. If a modern game scratched that retro itch for you, nominate it here. Drop your nominations in the comments.

Best Action Adventure Game is for the titles that blended combat, exploration, story, and momentum into one standout experience in 2025. These are the games that kept you moving, discovering new areas, fighting through challenges, and staying hooked the whole way through. If a game delivered a memorable mix of action and adventure that defined your year, nominate it here. Drop your nominations in the comments.

Voting Members, Best Community Mod is all about you, the gamers who keep pushing this industry forward. This category celebrates the mods that made an impact in 2025 because the community poured time, creativity, and passion into them. Whether it was new content, fixes the developers never got to, fresh mechanics, visual upgrades, or something completely off the wall, these projects exist because you made them happen. This category is here to recognize that. Drop your nominat

Voting Members, Best Multiplayer Game is for the titles that kept people playing together in 2025. Online, local, co-op, competitive, party games, shooters, strategy games, whatever brought players together and delivered the best shared experience of the year. If the fun came from teaming up, talking trash, or trying to stay alive with or against others, this is where it belongs. Drop your nominations in the comments.

Voting Members, Best Jiggle Physics is one of the categories that makes The Real Game Awards what it is. This is for the games in 2025 that went the extra mile with their character animation, physics, and… attention to detail. If a game put real effort into making things move, bounce, sway, or react in ways that stood out, this is where you recognize it. Serious entries, funny entries, whatever you think earned it. Drop your nominations in the comments.

Voting Members, Best Shooting Game covers anything built around guns. First-person shooters, third-person shooters, tactical shooters, arena shooters, hero shooters, and anything else that put a weapon in your hands in 2025. If the core of the gameplay was aiming, firing, and surviving through skill and chaos, this is where it belongs. Drop your nominations in the comments.

Voting Members, Biggest Letdown of 2025 is for the games that didn’t live up to the hype. Maybe the trailers oversold it. Maybe the launch was a mess. Maybe the final product just didn’t come close to what was promised. Whatever the reason, this category is for the titles that left you disappointed, frustrated, or wondering what went wrong. Drop your nominations in the comments.

Voting Members, Best RPG is for the games that pulled you in and didn’t let go. Whether it was the story, the world, the choices, the combat, or the grind, this category is all about the role-playing experience that defined 2025 for you. Big studios, small teams, turn-based, action-focused, Western or JRPG — if it delivered that feeling of living inside another world, it belongs here. Drop your nominations in the comments.

Voting Members, Shitty Ass Game of the Year is back because you wanted it back. We celebrate the best, but we’re absolutely going to celebrate the worst. This category is for the games that completely whiffed. The ones that were broken, boring, embarrassing, or flat-out painful to play in 2025. Whatever game let you down so badly that you still think about it, this is where it belongs. Nominate down below.

Voting Members, Game of the Year is the category everyone expects to see, which is why we’re announcing it first. It isn’t the most important part of The Real Game Awards, but it’s definitely the one most people are curious about. Every show has a Game of the Year category, and of course we will too. This is your chance to put forward the game that stood above the rest for you in 2025, whatever your reasons may be. Drop your nominations in the comments.