About

The Pocket Gamer Awards are a celebration of the best in mobile games, from the publishers of the leading and longest-running mobile games website. Since 2006, Pocket Gamer has been delivering news, reviews, tips, guides and features that inform and entertain mobile and handheld gamers around the world.

Organised by industry experts but voted on by you, the fans, the Pocket Gamer Awards reward the passion and effort that developers pour into making games. The last 12 months have flown by and we've also seen some amazing games come our way, this is your chance to celebrate them.

The process unfolded in three stages. Here’s how it works:

STEP 1: NOMINATIONS

We reveal the categories and invite the world – that includes you and your pals – to nominate their favourite game in each category. This process lasts around a month and helps us build the longlist for the awards.

This stage is now completed, thank you to everybody who submitted nominations for consideration for the awards!

Any game that was released between 1 October 2024 and 30 September 2025 was eligible as a new release, while some categories lean instead on mobile gaming's vast back catalogue.

STEP 2: VOTES

We total up the responses and make sure nothing important was missed. From this, we created a shortlist. We reveal that shortlist right here and then fans and players have a month to vote on their choices from it.

Said shortlist is now live, as we're currently at this stage of the awards! So why not head over to our voting page and let us know the games that you think should be securing the win and collecting their trophy?

STEP 3: WINNERS

In January, as a part of our flagship event, Pocket Gamer Connects London, we will hold a live event to reveal the winners of each of the categories in a celebration of the greatest games.

Please note: this is a different set of categories to the Mobile Games Awards, our partner celebration run by our friends at PocketGamer.biz, which reward behind-the-scenes industry talent.