The js13kGames 2025 winners have been announced a few days ago already, including all the category rankings. Let’s see the specific criteria that comprise the overall results. Plus some extra rankings about the voters in our community.
Criteria
We had six different criteria each entry was judged on: Theme, Innovation, Gameplay, Graphics, Audio, and Controls. Balancing them all was key to end up high in the overall results and win cool prizes in the process.
Let’s look at the best games in all the criteria, as there are prizes assigned specifically to all those rankings:
- Top 5 Theme: Phaser Professional license for 12 months
- Top 5 Innovation: Kenney Asset Pack with Game Assets All-in-1 and Asset Forge Deluxe
- Top 10 Gameplay: Vampire Survivors bundled with all DLCs
- Top 10 Graphics: Pyxel Edit pixel art editor
- Top 5 Audio: Jsfxr Pro Solo lifetime license
- Top 5 Controls: How to Make a Video Game All By Yourself ebook
We’ve extended the Gameplay and Graphics ranking this year simply because we had 10 prizes to give away compared to the regular 5 in all the other criteria.
Top 5 Theme
- CLAWSTRIKE by Rémi Vansteelandt (4.24)
- Whiskers Witch Adventure by Rob Louie (4.05)
- Cat Survivors by Elias Ku and Alexandra Al (4.00)
- Alley Kitty by Gabor Héja (4.00)
- Dinner for Two by Feenposhleen (4.00)
Top 5 Innovation
- Wash the cat by Homer Dilpleu (4.03)
- I got up on the wrong foot by xem (3.94)
- Black Cat Detective Agency by Sarah Hubschman (3.90)
- Kuro Neko Market by Federico Tibaldo (3.85)
- Triska the Ninja Cat by John Edvard (3.84)
Top 10 Gameplay
- Cat Survivors by Elias Ku and Alexandra Al (4.37)
- CLAWSTRIKE by Rémi Vansteelandt (4.37)
- Black Cat Squadron by Jesper Rasmussen (4.19)
- Triska the Ninja Cat by John Edvard (4.16)
- Non-Mewtonian Cat by Mohammed Saud (4.14)
- Witchcat by Jonathan Vallet and Lylouf (4.06)
- Gravity Cat by Jani Nykänen (4.00)
- Roni and Kira by Jorge Rubiano (3.87)
- Echoes of Nyx by Corentin Pillet (3.82)
- Kittens United by Almut Kieffer-Jones (3.78)
Top 10 Graphics
- CLAWSTRIKE by Rémi Vansteelandt (4.56)
- Cat Survivors by Elias Ku and Alexandra Al (4.55)
- Black Cat on Cybertower by mooookar (4.53)
- Witchcat by Jonathan Vallet and Lylouf (4.51)
- They took my cat by one grumpy dude (4.45)
- Infinite Hunger by Jani Nykänen (4.40)
- Catculus by Antti Haavikko (4.33)
- Gravity Cat by Jani Nykänen (4.27)
- Black Cat - Nine Lives, No Mercy by Cliff Earl (4.26)
- Ashes of Ulthar by Elliot Nelson (4.26)
Top 5 Audio
- CLAWSTRIKE by Rémi Vansteelandt (4.22)
- Black Cat Squadron by Jesper Rasmussen (4.19)
- Catculus by Antti Haavikko (4.17)
- Cat Survivors by Elias Ku and Alexandra Al (4.16)
- They took my cat by one grumpy dude (4.10)
Top 5 Controls
- Cat Survivors by Elias Ku and Alexandra Al (4.45)
- Non-Mewtonian Cat by Mohammed Saud (4.23)
- Triska the Ninja Cat by John Edvard (4.07)
- Catculus by Antti Haavikko (4.00)
- Gravity Cat by Jani Nykänen (4.00)
Community stats
Since the refined voting process provides us with more insights than before, we’ve decided to use this opportunity to thank some of the most active members of our community for their efforts in providing constructive feedback to their fellows. Their prize? Eternal gratitude from our whole community!*
Top voters (by ratings)
- xem (179 ratings)
- Jasper Renow-Clarke (178 ratings)
- Dmytro Kozhukhar (175 ratings)
- Anthony Cosgrave (175 ratings)
- Cliff Earl (175 ratings)
- Michael M. (175 ratings)
- smhaaker (140 ratings)
- Andy Sommerville (129 ratings)
- Jani Nykänen (118 ratings)
- Rob Louie (113 ratings)
Top voters (by comments)
- Jasper Renow-Clarke (188 comments)
- xem (178 comments)
- Anthony Cosgrave (138 comments)
- Elias Ku (113 comments)
- smhaaker (110 comments)
- Jonathan Vallet (97 comments)
- Andy Sommerville (89 comments)
- Christoph Schansky (83 comments)
- Attila Horváth (77 comments)
- João Lopes (70 comments)
Most popular games
And finally, the 5 games with the biggest number of votes received this year:
- Cat Survivors by Elias Ku and Alexandra Al (73 votes)
- I got up on the wrong foot by xem (65 votes)
- Non-Mewtonian Cat by Mohammed Saud (57 votes)
- Mochi and the midnight escape by Jasper Renow-Clarke (55 votes)
- CatNFish by smhaaker (51 votes)
Rating the ratings
We’re planning to publish a post-mortem post about recent changes to the voting process and their influence on it, so make sure to keep an eye on our blog in the coming days.
* But we are discussing how to better reward feedback.
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