Deutscher Computerspielpreis 2025 Will Be Presented Today

All eyes in the German gaming industry will be on Berlin tonight, where the Deutscher Computerspielpreis 2025 (DCP; German Computer Game Award) will be presented at a grand gala. Here's an overview of this important event for the industry.

The Deutscher Computerspielpreis (DCP; German Computer Game Award) will be presented in Berlin today during a major ceremony at the Palais am Funkturm. Among those expected to attend are personalities from the worlds of gaming, culture, media and politics, including Dorothee Bär, the recently appointed Federal Minister for Research, Technology and Space. She will give a laudatory speech. The Governing Mayor of Berlin, Kai Wegner, will also be among those presenting the awards. Other guests in attendance will include streamer Jasmin Sibel (Gnu), cosplay artist Leslie ‘Farbenfuchs’, Crytek co-founder Avni Yerli, comedian Kaya Yanar, and presenter Ruth Moschner.

The awards ceremony begins at 18:00 and will be streamed live on several platforms (DCP YouTube channel, game Twitch channel, DCP website). The award is organised by the German government and game - the German Games Industry Association. Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg is sponsoring this year's awards.

The teams behind the best games made in Germany will be celebrated at the show, hosted by Katrin Bauerfeind and Uke Bosse. The DCP is awarded in 15 categories with a total of €800,000 in prize money. With three nominations, Keen Games' Enshrouded leads the field, competing in the categories Audio Design and Innovation and Technology, as well as in the main category Best German Game. In the latter, it faces competition from Thronefall by Grizzly Games and Lonely Mountains: Snow Riders by Megagon Industries. Additionally, Thronefall is nominated for Best Game Design, while Megagon Industries is one of three contenders for Best Studio. Aesir Interactive and Gentle Troll Entertainment are also in the running for the 'Studio of the Year' award.

The nominees for the Deutscher Computerspielpreis (DCP) 2025

Best German Game (€100,000 for the winning game, €30,000 each for the two other nominees)

• Enshrouded (Keen Games)
  
• Lonely Mountains: Snow Riders (Megagon Industries)
  
• Thronefall (Grizzly Games)
  
  

Studio of the Year (€50,000)

• Aesir Interactive (München)
  
• Gentle Troll Entertainment (Würzburg)
  
• Megagon Industries (Berlin)
  
  

Best Family Game (€40,000)

• In Season (Strawfools)
  
• Mindbug Online (Kissaki Studio)
  
• PRIM (Common Colors / Application Systems Heidelberg)
  
  

Newcomer Award for Best Debut (€60,000 for the winning game, €25,000 each for the other two nominees)

• Footgun: Underground (Turtle Knight Games / CobraTekku Games)
  
• Nordhold (Stunforge / Stunforge & HypeTrain Digital)
  
• Mindlock – The Apartment (Roof Cut Media / United Soft Media)​​​​​​
  
  

Newcomer Award for Best Prototype (€50,000 for the winning game, €25,000 each for the other four nominees)

• Blob the Klex (Melena Dressel, Alejandro Rebolledo, Laura Octavianus / Hochschule Darmstadt)
  
• Echoes of Mora (Meike Strippel, Namin Hansen, Daria Pankau, Anita-Emmely Franz, Alina Alonzova / HTW Berlin)
  
• Map Map - A Game About Maps (Pipapo Games / HAW Hamburg)
  
• Exhibit A (Olivia Falke, Gabrielle Sibucao, Flynn Schrammek, Vivian Kraffert, Martina Miskic, Leonhard Thiel, Fabiola Wörter, Arezou Rezaei / MDH München)
  
• Stuntboost (Julian Höltge, Tobias Kozel / Hochschule Kempten)
  
  

Best Innovation and Technology (€40,000)

• Closer the Distance (Osmotic Studios / Skybound Games)
  
• Deine Stimme (Sebastian Grünwald & Reality Twist / Bayerische Landeszentrale für politische Bildungsarbeit)
  
• Enshrouded (Keen Games)
  
  

Best Audio Design (€40,000)

• Duck Detective: The Secret Salami (Happy Broccoli Games)
  
• Enshrouded (Keen Games)
  
• Oddada (Sven Ahlgrimm, Mathilde Hoffmann, Bastian Clausdorff / Sven Ahlgrimm)
  
  

Best Game Design (€40,000)

• Between Horizons (DigiTales Interactive / Assemble Entertainment)
  
• Nordhold (Stunforge / Stunforge & HypeTrain Digital)
  
• Thronefall (Grizzly Games)
  
  

Best Graphic Design (€40,000)

• Harold Halibut (Slow Bros.)
  
• PBJ – Das Musical (kamibox)
  
• Songs of Silence (Chimera Entertainment)
  
  

Best Mobile Game (€40,000)

• Bauhaus Bonk (Spoonful Games)
  
• Duck Detective: The Secret Salami (Happy Broccoli Games)
  
• Dungeons of Dreadrock 2 – The dead King’s Secret (Christoph Minnameier)
  
  

Best Story (€40,000)

• Mini Mini Golf Golf (Three More Years)
  
• Tavern Talk (Gentle Troll Entertainment)
  
• Vampire Therapist (Little Bat Games)
  
  

Best Serious Game (€40,000)

• Deine Stimme (Sebastian Grünwald & Reality Twist / Landeszentrale für politische Bildungsarbeit)
  
• Erinnern. Die Kinder vom Bullenhuser Damm (Paintbucket Games / Stiftung Hamburger Gedenkstätten und Lernorte zur Erinnerung an die Opfer der NS-Verbrechen)
  
• Unhome – Apart from Society. A virtual reality experience about homelessness. (Curious Company)
  
  

Player of the Year (Unendowed)

• Dom Schott
  
• JustNoahDE
  
• Lunarie_TTV
  
• STAIY
  
• Steinwallen
  
  

Best International Game (Unendowed)

• Astro Bot (Team Asobi / Sony Interactive Entertainment)
  
• Indiana Jones und der große Kreis (MachineGames / ZeniMax Media)
  
• Split Fiction (Hazelight Studios / Electronic Arts)​​
  

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