2025 TechRaptor Awards – Greatest Enlargement/DLC

Extra of an excellent factor is good, particularly in relation to the video games we love. Yearly some wonderful new content material will get made for video games all of us already like to play, and 2025 is not any completely different.

Listed below are the nominees for TechRaptor’s 2025 Greatest Enlargement/DLC Award for the very best piece of extra content material to an present sport.

Elden Ring Nightreign: The Forsaken HollowsIndiana Jones and the Nice Circle: The Order of GiantsLies of P: OvertureNo Man’s Sky: VoyagersSea of Stars: Throes of the Watchmaker

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Third Place – Elden Ring Nightreign: The Forsaken Hollows

Developer: FromSoftware | Launch Date: December third, 2025

Written by Joe Allen

Forsaken Hollows gives extra of what made Elden Ring Nightreign so unusually compelling, which is to say extra alternatives to fail.

The enlargement’s new map (which is technically a Shifting Earth situation, sure, but it surely’s fairly transformative) is a labyrinthine maze of crystals, chasms, and vertiginous falls, and new bosses just like the Lord of Blood and the Demon Prince give no quarter.

Two new lessons slot properly into proceedings as effectively, particularly the Scholar, which performs a assist position you received’t discover wherever else in Nightreign’s already-diverse solid of playables.

All of this gloriously troublesome adventuring culminates in two new Nightlords, each of whom present a unique problem for you and your two buddies (or randoms), necessitating that particular combination of ahead planning and seat-of-your-pants, howling improvisation that Nightreign excels at.

In brief, if you happen to favored Nightreign, you’ll virtually definitely like Forsaken Hollows, and hey, extra of the identical ain’t no unhealthy factor on this case.

Second Place – No Man’s Sky: Voyagers

Developer: Whats up Video games | Launch Date: August twenty seventh, 2025

Written by Andrew Otton

No Man’s Sky has been a constant nominee and typically winner in each this class and Greatest Evolving Recreation since 2018. In 2025, Voyagers launched, which was an enormous replace to the sport. Really wonderful simply how a lot this continues to evolve over time.

The largest a part of this replace introduced absolutely customizable ships to the sport. You in all probability noticed a number of the meme ships folks created posted someplace on social media, as we now have the instruments to make just about no matter we wish. That features the inside of the ship as effectively, which you’ll be able to stroll round after stylizing it nevertheless you need.

Past simply the look, there’s plenty of utility you’ll be able to put in your ship as effectively, and might even fly round with your pals on missions or simply exploring. All in all, Voyagers was an enormous replace that introduced plenty of life to No Man’s Sky.

Winner – Indiana Jones and the Nice Circle: The Order of Giants

Developer: MachineGames | Launch Date: September 4th, 2025

Written by Andrew Stretch

It was nice to interrupt out the hat and whip once more in The Order of the Giants DLC for Indiana Jones and the Nice Circle. This DLC returned Indy to the Vatican with a smaller side-adventure to tackle.

Whereas the DLC did not have as a lot likelihood to discover an open hub space, what it did have was the form of historic intrigue and tomb delving that most accurately fits the third act in most Indy adventures. Platform by means of tunnels, clobber these making an attempt to cease you, and navigate by means of a sequence of puzzles to study a bit extra concerning the mysterious Nephilim.

Above all is Machina Video games’ skill to make unimaginable set items to discover, and listening to Troy Baker’s unbelievable Harrison Ford impersonation.