The winners of the 2025 Gayming Awards have just been announced, with BioWare’s latest action-RPG, Dragon Age: The Veilguard, taking home the coveted Game of the Year trophy, as well as both Best LGBTQ+ Character for Rook, and Best LGBTQ+ Voice Actor of the Year for Erika Ishii’s portrayal of Rook.
This year marked the fifth annual Gayming Awards, a competition and event celebrating LGBTQ+ themes, characters, and developers in video games that was founded by Robin Gray of Gayming magazine. Each year, the Gayming Awards raise money for the Gayming Foundation, a charity that seeks to “uplift and empower LGBTQ+ games workers and fans to effect change, celebrate inclusivity, and drive forward representation in games.”
In a statement, Gray said: “This year’s winners represent a wonderfully diverse group of people, all of whom are working to make our industry better in their own way. Whether that’s creating games with storylines and characters that represent us, creating communities and holding space for LGBTQ+ people to be themselves, or by changing the industry piece by piece to be more inclusive.”
“Now more than ever, we need to be supporting each other, championing each other, and defending each other. Our partnership with World of Wonder this year has helped us do this in a bigger and better way, and I couldn’t be more grateful and proud.”
Here is the complete list of nominees and winners for the 2025 Gayming Awards:
Game of the Year
- Dragon Age: The Veilguard – Winner
- Dragon’s Dogma 2
- Fear the Spotlight
- The Last of Us Part II Remastered
- Life is Strange: Double Exposure
- Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door
Gayming Magazine Readers’ Award
- The Last of Us Part II Remastered – Winner
- Caravan SandWitch
- Dragon Age: The Veilguard
- Dragon’s Dogma 2
- Final Fantasy VII Rebirth
- Life is Strange: Double Exposure
Industry Diversity Award
- Code Coven – Winner
- Blizzard Entertainment
- Limit Break
- Rare
Community Impact Award
- Stream for a Cause – Winner
- Boston Gaymers
- Charlotte Gaymers Network
- NYC Gaymers
- QueerVox
- The*gamehers
Best LGBTQ+ Character
- Rook (Dragon Age: The Veilguard) – Winner
- Bazz (Concord)
- Micah-10 (Destiny 2: The Final Shape)
- Michelle (Sorry We’re Closed)
- Venture (Overwatch 2)
- Vivian (Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door)
Best LGBTQ+ Indie Game
- Kitsune Tails – Winner
- Beloved Rapture
- Caravan SandWitch
- Fear the Spotlight
- Sorry We’re Closed
- Tavern Talk
LGBTQ+ Voice Actor of the Year
- Erika Ishii – Winner
- Ciarán Strange
- JP Karliak
- Katie Cofield
- Kieran Regan
- Mila Jam
LGBTQ+ Content Creator of the Year
- PearlTeese – Winner
- ChiChi
- Ctrlaltquin
- DataDave
- GaymerONE1
- halfmoonjoe
- Juice Boxx
- Negaoryx
Best LGBTQ+ Contribution to Esports
- Bailey McCann – Winner
- Queer Women of Esports
- SonicFox
- Steve Arhancet
LGBTQ+ Geek Entertainment of the Year
- Arcane: Season 2 – Netflix – Winner
- Agatha All Along – Marvel Studios
- Hazbin Hotel – SpindleHorse Toons / Amazon Studios
- Heartstopper – Netflix
- Interview with the Vampire: Season 2 – AMC
- The Boulet Brothers’ Dragula: Dead by Daylight – Shudder
About the Author
Jarrod Harrison
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Philosopher, avid gamer, and miniature painter. Jarrod is a lover of JRPG’s, connoisseur of all things horror, and professional Last of Us Part II defender.
