The finalists for the Develop:Star Awards 2025 are:

Best Audio

• Astro Bot
• Atomfall
• Indiana Jones and the Great Circle
• Monument Valley 3
• Tales Of Kenzera: Zau
• Thank Goodness You’re Here!

Best EDI Initiative - NEW

• Brainspark Games
• Ensemble (part of London Games Festival)
• Limit Break Mentorship
• Out Making Games
• Playground Games
• Women in Games

Best Game

• Astro Bot
• Atomfall
• Indiana Jones and the Great Circle
• Split Fiction
• Still Wakes the Deep
• Thank Goodness You’re Here!

Best Game Design

• Astro Bot
• Expelled!
• Indiana Jones and the Great Circle
• Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II
• Thank Goodness You’re Here!
• Two Point Museum

Best Marketing Campaign - NEW

• Animal Well
• Dungeons of Hinterberg
• FuturLab - PowerWash Simulator
• HITMAN World of Assassination
• Indiana Jones and the Great Circle
• Monument Valley 3
• PlanetPlay’s Make Green Moves

Best Mobile Game

• A Little to the Left
• Maid of Sker
• Monument Valley 3
• Paper Trail
• PBJ – The Musical
• Sniper Elite 4

Best In-Game Accessibility - NEW

• Atomfall
• Mythwrecked: Ambrosia Island
• Paper Trail
• Sea Of Thieves – Custom Text Overlay
• Silent Hill 2
• Trash Goblin

Best Narrative

• Closer the Distance
• Expelled!
• FINAL FANTASY XIV: Dawntrail
• Indiana Jones and the Great Circle
• Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II
• Thank Goodness You’re Here!

Best Original IP

• Paper Trail
• Stellar Blade
• Still Wakes the Deep
• Thank Goodness You’re Here!
• Uncle Chop’s Rocket Shop
• Vampire Therapist

Best Small Studio

• Coal Supper
• Cyberwave
• Newfangled Games
• Polygon Treehouse
• Shared Memory
• Spilt Milk Studios

Best Studio

• Facepunch Studios
• FuturLab
• Hazelight Studios
• Larian Studios
• Rebellion
• Team Asobi
• The Chinese Room

Best Technical Innovation

• Astro Bot
• Code Wizards Group
• Harold Halibut
• Indiana Jones and the Great Circle
• Lego Horizon Adventures
• Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II

Best Visual Art

• Dungeons of Hinterberg
• Harold Halibut
• Neva
• Paper Trail
• Songs of Silence
• Still Wakes the Deep

Publishing Star

• Curve Games
• Fireshine Games
• No More Robots
• Playstack
• Raw Fury
• Secret Mode
• Team17

Supporting Star

• Airship Interactive
• GG Insurance Services
• Green Man Gaming
• PitStop Productions
• Room 8 Group
• Side
• Tanglewood Games
• Unreal Engine

Talent & Recruitment Star

• Aardvark Swift
• Amiqus
• Datascope Recruitment
• Playground Games Recruitment Team
• Skillsearch Limited

Tomorrow’s Star

• Emma Marshall-Newson, Sumo Digital
• Francesca White, Behaviour Interactive
• Gurvinder Bisran, BOM
• Marco Ng, Otterweave Game Studio
• Melodie Showell, Side
• Summer Davies, BLAST
• Valeriya Lakhtikova, Dovetail Games