Develop:Star Awards 2025: Thank Goodness You’re Here, Astro Bot and Indiana Jones Lead Finalists as Industry Vote Opens

Finalists in the new In-Game Accessibility category include Rebellion’s Atomfall, as well as BLOOBER TEAM’s remake of Silent Hill 2. Sea of Thieves, developed by Rare, is shortlisted for its 2025 Custom Text Overlay update to the game.

As well as these 17 awards, there will be the Develop Star Award, which this year will be awarded to Remedy Entertainment’s Sam Lake in recognition of his remarkable achievements in the industry.

Tables and individual tickets for the awards are available to purchase now with an Early Bird discount offering up to £400 off until 4 June.

Further details and links to purchase tickets can be found here. All tickets include a three-course dinner and invite to the drinks reception and after party.

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