Serious Games Showcase & Challenge 2025: winners and finalists
The 2025 Serious Games Showcase & Challenge lists 23 finalist games, and 8 awards went to games from that list.
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2025 results
The 2025 results page on the SGS&C website names 23 finalist games. It records 8 winner rows across 7 categories: Best General Audience Game, Best Government Audience Game, Best Student-Developed Game, Best XR (VR/AR/MR) Game, Innovation Award, People's Choice Award and Students' Choice Award. People's Choice has two winners, Cyber H20 and the Surface Warfare Officer Reactive Decision Simulator (SWORDS). The page does not say whether the two entries tied.
Each winner row repeats a game that also has a finalist row, so the table holds 31 rows for 23 games. The organization column shows the submitting organization named on each game's page, which is not always the studio. Wayfinder reads "Independently Developed" there. The other years and programs are in the awards overview.
All 2025 rows
| Game | Organization | Category | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| Venture Valley Business Tycoon | Singleton Foundation | Best General Audience Game | Winner |
| Serve to Lead Game Series | British Army | Best Government Audience Game | Winner |
| Speak Your Heart | Carnegie Mellon University | Best Student-Developed Game | Winner |
| MilExTS: Tactical Trauma Trainer | Exonicus, Inc. | Best XR (VR/AR/MR) Game | Winner |
| Wayfinder | Independently Developed | Innovation Award | Winner |
| Cyber H20 | Virginia Digital Maritime Center | People's Choice Award | Winner |
| Surface Warfare Officer Reactive Decision Simulator (SWORDS) | Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University | People's Choice Award | Winner |
| Wildfire Resilience Minigame Collection | University of California Santa Cruz | Students' Choice Award | Winner |
| Battleline: Taiwan Defense | Gronstedt Group | Finalist | Finalist |
| Becoming Fei | Institute for Creative Technologies, University of Southern California | Finalist | Finalist |
| Bin It Right! | IIT Kharagpur | Finalist | Finalist |
| Conclave of Chaos | Pandamancer Games | Finalist | Finalist |
| Cyber H20 | Virginia Digital Maritime Center | Finalist | Finalist |
| Dragonfly 2 | Army Game Studio | Finalist | Finalist |
| Forensics Virtual Investigation Unit | Utah Valley University | Finalist | Finalist |
| FutureView Accelerated Learning in an Ill-defined Military Setting | ACSILabs, Inc. | Finalist | Finalist |
| Graph Navigation | IIT Kharagpur | Finalist | Finalist |
| Influent | Three Flip Studios | Finalist | Finalist |
| Life As A | National University of Singapore | Finalist | Finalist |
| MilExTS: Tactical Trauma Trainer | Exonicus, Inc. | Finalist | Finalist |
| R-ECOMECH | University of Central Florida – Florida Interactive Entertainment Academy (FIEA) | Finalist | Finalist |
| Sector Down | Rochester Institute of Technology | Finalist | Finalist |
| Serve to Lead Game Series | British Army | Finalist | Finalist |
| Speak Your Heart | Carnegie Mellon University | Finalist | Finalist |
| Surface Warfare Officer Reactive Decision Simulator (SWORDS) | Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University | Finalist | Finalist |
| Tune | Kaliens Kollective | Finalist | Finalist |
| Venture Valley Business Tycoon | Singleton Foundation | Finalist | Finalist |
| Veterans Health Administration (VHA) Sexual Harassment Prevention Virtual Reality (VR) Training | Customer Value Partners (CVP) | Finalist | Finalist |
| Wayfinder | Independently Developed | Finalist | Finalist |
| Wildfire Resilience Minigame Collection | University of California Santa Cruz | Finalist | Finalist |
| Year of The Cicadas | Yale School of Medicine | Finalist | Finalist |