Top 10 most watched trailers from The Game Awards 2025 is full of surprises

Tomb Raider and Star Wars: Fate Of The Old Republic were not the most popular trailers from The Game Awards 2025, as the top two prove a surprise.

The Game Awards had a strong showing this year, between two new Tomb Raider titles and confirmation of Leon S. Kennedy in Resident Evil Requiem, but the most popular announcements, based on YouTube views, are very different than you might think.

We’ve compiled the top 10 most-watched trailers from The Game Awards 2025 below, and while they largely feature the games you would expect, the top of the crop might prompt some eyebrow raises from the average UK gamer.

Surprisingly, the most watched trailer is the announcement of Deadpool in Marvel Rivals, at over 3.8 million views. The game has maintained a strong player base since it launched last year, and while there’s undoubtedly people out there excited for Deadpool’s arrival (despite the voiceover sounding nothing like him), there’s a notable pattern with this and number two.

In the number two spot is Phantom Blade Zero’s release date trailer with over 3.6 million views. Both of these titles are created by Chinese developers – NetEase and S-Game, respectively – so it’s likely they were shared in some capacity beyond just the show’s usual Western audience. Players in China can’t access YouTube without a VPN though, which makes it harder to discern what’s going on.

On ResetEra, some have speculated Phantom Blade Zero’s numbers may have been inflated through paid-for promotions, considering the difference in the view count and the ‘like’ counter (it has 5,300 ‘likes’, versus 3.6 million views).

Either way, Phantom Blade Zero looks set to be a huge hit in China when it arrives on September 9 next year. On the Chinese video sharing platform Bilibili, the same release date trailer has a massive 5.8 million views, so it feels on course to land in the same way as Black Myth: Wukong in 2024.

Elsewhere on the top 10, Lords Of The Fallen 2’s gameplay trailer pipped Star Wars: Fate Of The Old Republic to third and fourth, respectively. The former seems a bit suspicious considering the difference in its view counts on other secondary channels (IGN’s version has 152K views, whereas PlayStation’s YouTube channel has 314K views). It’s ‘like’ counter is only at 3.7K as well, which suggests it has been inflated through adverts.

Divinity’s gruesome trailer is in fifth position, at over 1.5 million views, while Tomb Raider remake Legacy Of Atlantis (pulled from the version on the PlayStation YouTube account, which has higher views compared to the original) has amassed over 1.4 million views.

The remaining four spots are who you’d expect, between Resident Evil Requiem, Total War: Warhammer 40K, Control: Resonant, and Tomb Raider: Catalyst at 832K views.

So are there any notable omissions? Star Wars: Galactic Racer is just outside the top ten at 567K views, so Sebulba fans need to hustle. However, that was always going to be a smaller release, while the most damning absence is Highguard, the PvP raid shooter from the creators of Apex Legends and Titanfall.

Highguard was used as the big reveal at the end of the show, but despite having a huge slot, the trailer only has 293K views on IGN’s YouTube channel. On The Game Awards channel, meanwhile, it has even less with 75K views, with a 919 vs. 9.5K ‘likes’ to ‘dislikes’ ratio.

If anything, it feels like giving it the mic drop slot at the end of the show has backfired on Highguard, and it’s hard not to get whiffs of Concord’s backlash when that was first revealed. There isn’t much time to change people’s minds either, as Highguard launches as a free-to-play title on January 26, 2026.

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