Two weeks after Megabonk developer Vedinad withdrew the game from contention in the Best Debut Indie category at The Game Awards, it’s back in the fight—not as a debut (or indie) game, but in the fan-voted Players’ Voice category.
“WE’RE SO BACK,” Vedinad screamed (virtually, of course) on X. “Megabonk is nominated for The Game Awards—Player’s Voice!!
But the Players’ Voice category is separate from all that. It’s 100% based on a public vote, beginning with a slate of 30 games and running through three rounds of voting until only one is left standing.
And with all due respect, that’s not great for Megabonk’s chances. It was up against very tough competition to start with in the Best Debut Indie category, which includes Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, the most-nominated game in TGA history. But now its odds are even longer—the full list of contenders include some of the biggest games of 2025 as well as perennially popular live service hits:
Anything can happen and I think it’d be great to see a dark horse come up the middle and steal gold, but this field is stacked. This is the one category where I think there’s reasonable odds that Clair Obscur will come up short, but that still leaves obvious favorites like Arc Raiders, Silksong, and KC:D2 in the mix, not to mention Helldivers 2 and Fortnite, which can bring significant communities to bear on the voting effort.
We’ll find out how it goes in less than two weeks: The Game Awards 2025 takes place on December 11.
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