Antes do início da Tokyo Game Show 2025, aconteceu o Japan Game Awards 2025 onde foram premiados os melhores jogos lançados entre 1º de abril de 2024 e 31 de março de 2025.
Japan Game Awards 2025
Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry Award
- Nintendo Switch 2
Breakthrough Award
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
Movement Award
- Pokemon Trading Card Game Pocket
Game Designers Award
- Indika (Cocoon e No Case Should Remain Unsolved receberam menções honrosas)
Special Award
- PlayStation Store
Award for Excellence
- Metaphor: ReFantazio
- Urban Myth Dissolution Center
- Romancing SaGa 2: Revenge of the Seven
- Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake
- Dynasty Warriors Origins
- Monster Hunter Wilds
- Tokyo Xtreme Racer
- Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii
- The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy
- Fantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Time
- Elden Ring Nightreign
Grand Award
- Metaphor: ReFantazio
