The Horror Game Awards returns for its fourth year, with a brand new live and in-person event!

London, UK - October 30th 2025 - The Horror Game Awards is back for its fourth year running, and this year will mark its first live, in-person awards ceremony!

Thanks to our partnership with Lost in Cult, the Kensington Conference and Events Centre in London will play host to an evening in celebration of the best, darkest, and most macabre in the past year of horror gaming. Games will compete in 16 categories, including the coveted Game of the Year, for the unique HGA Claw trophy:

• Game of the Year

• Players’ Choice Award

• Most Accessible Horror Game

• Most Anticipated Horror Game

• Best Performance

• Best Narrative

• Best Soundtrack

• New for 2025: Best Art Direction

• Best Indie Horror Game

• Best Multiplayer Horror Game

• Best VR Horror Game

• Horror Content Creator of the Year

• Best Developer

• Best Indie Developer

• Technical Achievement Award

• Lifetime Achievement Award

Two awards categories - the Players’ Choice and Horror Content Creator of the Year - are entirely nominated and voted for by the public.

The remaining fourteen categories are nominated by our jury members, which boasts over 60 content creators in our main selection and includes popular streamer CaseOh. We also have a specialist jury of game developers for our Technical Achievement and Lifetime Achievement awards, and a jury of accessibility experts for our Most Accessible Horror Game award.

Nominees will be announced on Friday 28 November, at which point a public vote will open for all categories. The jury members will then pick the winner from the top three as voted for the public, except in the two categories where the public vote will determine the winner outright.

The night will be hosted by awards co-creators Phil Dickens and Will Penkeyman, alongside co-producer Ash Millman. Individual awards will be presented by developers and content creators from the horror gaming industry, whom we are looking forward to announcing in the coming weeks as we get closer to the event.

Key Points

• The Horror Game Awards returns on Saturday 13th December.

• This fourth annual awards ceremony will be the first to be held in-person, broadcasting LIVE from the Kensington Conference and Events Centre at 19:00 GMT.

• The awards will be broadcast on YouTube, Twitch and TikTok, as well as through broadcast partners including IGN.

• All nominations will be formally announced ahead of the awards on Friday 28 November.

• Popular streamer CaseOh is among the members of the jury nominating for awards.

• Award presenters from across the horror game industry to be announced.

About The Horror Game Awards

The Horror Game Awards was brought to life in 2022, born from a dire lack of representation and appreciation for horror games in mainstream award shows. Believing the innovation, experimentation, and provocation in horror games deserved more appreciation, co-creators Will Penkeyman and Phil Dickens took the genre snub personally, and so they created their own virtual space to praise at the altar of the dark side of gaming.

The aim of The Horror Game Awards is simple: to celebrate horror as one of the most varied, ingenious genres in video games, and to recognise the year’s greatest horror games alongside the developers who make them. Constantly increasing in ambition and scope, the show has come a long way from what originally aired as just a single category; now boasting a huge jury of passionate horror fans, developer collaborations, and star talent appearances. Even with this massive growth, the Horror Game Awards will always champion the DIY spirit of its inception, the same that lies at the black heart of all things horror.