This mobile game just won the Player’s Voice Award

With such a resounding sweep from Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, I kind of expected the Players’ Voice award at The Game Awards 2025 to follow the trend. Or, at the very least, I expected a game like Silksong, which has amassed huge broad appeal, to take the cake. Wuthering Waves might have been the least likely candidate in my mind, but gacha heads have prevailed: Wuthering Waves is the choice of the people.

Funnily enough, the game had just lost the Mobile Game of the Year award to one Umamusume: Pretty Derby, which had a pretty great year but was nonetheless not included on the highly contested Player’s Voice shortlist. Wuthering Waves is a hit with players and less with gaming experts, I guess.

Undoubtedly, there will be a ton of prizes for Wuthering players to collect as a reward for helping the game win the award. We already received 1k Astrite for the nominations, so we can expect more in our inboxes pretty soon, perhaps revealed in tomorrow’s livestream for the Wuthering Waves update, along with some extra Wuthering Waves codes.

Aside from goodies for WuWa players, the implications of this are exciting. A mobile game beating out some of the more standard games bodes well for the future of the industry, and though I’m personally sad that Dispatch didn’t take the cake, I think this can only be a good thing for portable gamers.

Gacha continues to reign supreme. If you missed any of the other The Game Awards announcements, we can clue you in on the two new Tomb Raider games, that Leon Kennedy Resident Evil: Requiem announcement, and the Switch 2 South of Midnight port.