The Game Awards announced its show on December 11 broke viewership records with an estimated 171 million global livestreams of the full broadcast, up 11% over 154 million in 2024.
Viewership from Prime Video, which was one of the new live broadcasters this year, is not included in the 2025 total.
The Game Awards delivered over 171 million live streams across a multitude of digital networks, including YouTube, Twitch, Steam, TikTok Live, X, Kick, Facebook and Instagram Live as well as global viewership across China on a record-setting number of networks and JioHotstar in India. According to StreamCharts, Twitch, YouTube and other western platforms had 4.4 million peak concurrent viewers combined, up 9% from TGA 2024.
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On YouTube, the 4K TGA feed delivered a 8% jump in YoY peak concurrently to nearly 1.4 million. Platform-wide (including co-streams), TGA on YouTube was up 9% to over 2.4M peak concurrent. Over 8,600 channels co-streamed the show on YouTube, a new record.
On Twitch, more than 1.8 million peak concurrent users watched TGA 2025 with total unique viewers increasing 5% YoY, and hours watched increasing 5% over TGA 2024 as well.
Co-streaming exploded on Twitch with a record-setting 16,500 creators sharing the show with their audiences, up 50% from 11,000 co-streamers for TGA 2024.
On Twitter/X, posts about The Game Awards were up 12% YoY to more than 1.79 million between December 10-12. There were over 60 million video views on X between the official broadcast and related videos shared to X.
Authenticated viewer voting for The Game Awards increased over 10% from 2024 to more than 123 million, including the Players’ Voice award.
Globally, TGA achieved its biggest ever results with live distribution in China on a record number of platforms including live distribution on Bilbili, Huya, Weibo, WeChat, Douyin, Zhihu, DouYu, Baidu, TapTap, XiaoHongShu, QQ, Kuishou, YouKu, RED, HeyBox; in South Korea or CHZZK and Soop, and NicoNico in Japan.
Here are the historical live stream numbers for The Game Awards:
2025: 171 Million
2024: 154 Million
2023: 118 Million
2022: 103 Million
2021: 85 Million
2020: 83 Million
2019: 45.2 Million
2018: 26.2 Million
2017: 11.5 Million
2016: 3.8 Million
2015: 2.3 MIllion
2014: 1.9 Million
This year at The Game Awards, Sandfall Interactive and Kepler Interactive’s Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 received top honors as the 2025 Game of the Year award recipient, as well as Best Game Direction, Best Narrative, Best Art Direction, Best Score and Music, Best Performance, Best Independent Game, Best Debut Indie Game and Best RPG.
The show included a special live musical performance by Grammy-Award winning American rock band Evanescence who performed “Afterlife” from the Netflix animated series Devil May Cry, based on Capcom’s popular action-adventure video game franchise. Additionally, the cast of Paramount Pictures’ upcoming film Street Fighter including Andrew Koji, Andrew Schulz, Callina Liang, Cody Rhodes, David Dastmalchian, Jason Momoa, Mel Jarson, Noah Centineo, Olivier Richters , Orville Peck, Rayna Vallandingham, Roman Reigns and Vidyut Jammwal presented the award for Best Ongoing Game.
With appearances from the biggest names in entertainment and video games including, Dan Houser, David Harbour, Elijah Wright, Felicia Day, Gemma Chan, J.J. Abrams, Jeffrey Wright, Lenny Kravitz, Maggie Robertson, Megan Everett, Mike Booth, Milla Jovovich, Miss Piggy, Neil Newbon, Nicolas Doucet, Rahul Kohli, Rebecca Ford, Rowlf, Todd Howard and Tricia Helfer took to the stage to present awards at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles for The Game Awards 2025 live, in-person production. The Game Awards Orchestra’s “Game of the Year” medley, composed by Lorne Balfe, featured music from this year’s beloved slate of Game of the Year nominees.
While honoring the games and creatives who propelled the industry forward in 2025, The Game Awards also revealed a first look at highly anticipated games and entertainment properties including, 007 First Light (IO Interactive), 4:LOOP (Bad Robot Games and Sony Interactive Entertainment), Invincible VS (Skybound Entertainment), Out of Words (Kong Orange, WiredFly and Morten Søndergaard in partnership with Epic Games Publishing), Resident Evil: Requiem (Capcom), Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic (Arcanaut Studios), The Super Mario Galaxy Movie (Universal Pictures), Tomb Raider: Catalyst (Amazon Games and Crystal Dynamics) and Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis (Amazon Games and Crystal Dynamics) and WARLOCK: DUNGEONS & DRAGONS (Invoke Studios and Wizards of the Coast).
The Game Awards is executive produced by Geoff Keighley and Kimmie Kim. Richard Preuss is the director, LeRoy Bennett is the creative director, and Michael E. Peter is co-executive producer.