Best of December 2025!

Thank you again to everyone who makes NG a special destination on the web. We enjoyed the 30th Anniversary projects, culminating in the otherworldly 30th Anniversary Collab. December was a big month for collabs all around!

Other News

Pixel Day is January 23rd!

Our sixth annual Flash Forward event will kick off at the start of February.

See the calendar for more events!

Working on Nightmare Cops!

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Response to Best of December 2025! 2026-01-14 11:09:29

I am so so proud to have been on NG30 and Tankmas in one year and gotten them both in the top seven games!

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Response to Best of December 2025! 2026-01-14 11:20:56

I noticed a 6th place has been added for movies, nice.

Other than that yeah 2025 rocked for the many submissions we were blessed with, especially in the Decemeber.

My favorites for December folder is here:

Let's hope 2026 will be as cool a year for submissions!

I will gladly contribute my voice to well made trash, or beauty, either one is fine by me because ART IS FOREVER!!!!

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Response to Best of December 2025! 2026-01-14 11:33:02

Christmas has finally come to an end, and to our joy, we had several Christmas projects during this period!

As the tradition says: "Tankmas ADVENTure will won 1th monthly place", and that's dope! The game is really cool too :3

It's really hard to say how many great projects we had, but all we can is that December of 2025 was awesome 🤩

Roses are red... Violets are blue... I'm working on Flappy Parrot too...

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Response to Best of December 2025! 2026-01-14 11:34:17 (edited 2026-01-14 11:36:26)

Yeahhhhhh!! NG's 30th Anniversary Collab wins 2nd Place! I'm so happy to have been a small part of an epic collab! Thank you, @Intrapath and crew!

Congrats to @larrynachos and his elves for winning 1st place!! Truly it was a wonderful Tankmas. Congrats as well to @DjDieswyx for coming in 4th in music! Always good stuff. 💜

And Congrats to the rest of the Winners!! 💖

Also, my contest is going for about two more weeks! Thanks to everyone who's entered so far!

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Response to Best of December 2025! 2026-01-14 11:43:08

> "Top Six Games"

> "Top Seven Games"

(thanks for monthly 5th! <3)

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Response to Best of December 2025! 2026-01-14 11:52:25

At 1/14/26 10:46 AM, TomFulp wrote:Voter of the Month

The voter of the month and winner of honorary Supporter status is @kawlv1!

Collabs and Events Roundup

@Whirlguy, @Intrapath, @jamriot and @Mantis organized the NG’s 30th Anniversary Collab.

@larrynachos organized Tankmas ADVENTure 2025!

@SereneFalconer organized Art Secret Santa.

@Emizip organized the Pajama Girl Creepypasta Collab.

@KingCrowned organized The Sketch Collab 2025.

@Megacharlie organized The Christmas Dance Collab 2025.

@ZimReanimateProject organized Invader Poonchy.

@Themaskedmoon organized The Homestuck Art Collab.

@Carcitypilot31 organized the Garbage Pail Kids 40th Anniversary Collab.

@DJChidow organized Jack the Box 2.

@RedWonder8 organized The Glitch Productions Art Collab.

@fish-flop organized the Classic Archie Sonic Collab.

@KazuniArts organized the Mega Man Parade Art Collab.

@Stonmann organized the Heritage Day Collab 2025.

@PutoTyraStudios organized the Covered UP ALBUM COLLAB.

@StitchMiss organized Merry Madness Xmas 2025.

@fwugkris organized the (KRIS)MAS ART COLLAB.

@RedWonder8 organized the Ugly Christmas Sweater Art Collab.

@starcoryl organized the Christmas Cookie Collab 2025.

Thank you everyone who organized collabs and events!

Closing Thoughts

What a great finale to an impressive year! If you missed it, be sure to read the 2025 Year-End Recap.

Big thanks to everyone involved with running Art Secret Santa (@SereneFalconer, @LegolaSS, @WizardoFrank, @Oddlem, @RavioliBox, @Skoops, @Queen-EVVVVVE and @PsychoGoldfish), resulting in nearly 500 pieces.

Thank you again to everyone who makes NG a special destination on the web. We enjoyed the 30th Anniversary projects, culminating in the otherworldly 30th Anniversary Collab. December was a big month for collabs all around!

Other News

Pixel Day is January 23rd!

Our sixth annual Flash Forward event will kick off at the start of February.

See the calendar for more events!

December was one of if not the craziest month I've had on this site... and to see me mentioned TWICE in this post is super cool.

lol

I can't believe we're already halfway done with the first month of 2026... but we still have plenty of time to make this an awesome year!

2025 was a great year... so let's see if we can make 2026 better!

and to wrap up this post...

if anyone is interested... make sure to check out THE VOCALOID ART COLLAB!

@q9 and I are hosting it and if you thought the Glitch Productions collab was cool... then just wait until you see what we have planned for this 👀

I mean... we even made a whole announcement video for it... so you can tell that this collab is going to be epic.

do you like Hatsune Miku?

you do?

THEN COME JOIN THE VOCALOID ART COLLAB!

ANYONE CAN JOIN! DEADLINE IS MARCH 6TH 2026!!

my wonderful art thread

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Response to Best of December 2025! 2026-01-14 11:54:25

Hi creator of the homestuck art collab here and thanks to everyone who loved the collab and joined it also good job to everyone who made other collabs

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Response to Best of December 2025! 2026-01-14 12:04:17

Nobody can't beat suction cup man. Congratulations to all the winners this month.

This rocks!

Join the Tankmen collab today!

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Response to Best of December 2025! 2026-01-14 12:05:13

Congrats everyone!

Also, I think Pajama got misspelled in the body of the original post FYI.

FREE T-SHIRTS TO THE 1st 200 CLICKS!

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Response to Best of December 2025! 2026-01-14 12:08:04

This has been an insane December! This place is the best Christmas present.

Super thank you!

@CappyCatII @CaptainStevie @CasualBreather @Cyberdevil

@DioShiba @makestuff @OiPriPri @Porter @TeffyD

Our album got a spot!

The money is going to go right back to the community in the form of the 80s Inspired Music Jam

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Response to Best of December 2025! 2026-01-14 12:22:27 (edited 2026-01-14 12:24:24)

Dope!!!!

I was so glad when I saw that!!

Congratz to you @Aalasteir and everyone involved in the project!!!

And congratz to all the other winners!!!!

🔥🔥🔥

Music dude

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Nggyunglydnraahy ...

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Response to Best of December 2025! 2026-01-14 12:28:32

congratulations, everyone!

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Response to Best of December 2025! 2026-01-14 12:32:44

Those runner ups in art look very impressive.

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Response to Best of December 2025! 2026-01-14 12:33:08

At 1/14/26 12:22 PM, CasualBreather wrote:Dope!!!!
I was so glad when I saw that!!
Congratz to you @Aalasteir and everyone involved in the project!!!
And congratz to all the other winners!!!!

🔥🔥🔥

Thank you so much CasualBreather! You're an absolute bro! 🙏

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Response to Best of December 2025! 2026-01-14 12:34:20

GPK 40th Collab creator here. Congrats to everyone!

And thank you to everyone who joined my collab!

See Chicken Little in theatres October 30th!

You know Snap from Chalkzone? Then join the Snap Army Collab! DEADLINE IS APRIL 1ST!!

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Response to Best of December 2025! 2026-01-14 12:48:29

At 1/14/26 12:05 PM, BoMToons wrote:Congrats everyone!

Also, I think Pajama got misspelled in the body of the original post FYI.

Fixed!

Pajam Girl has a nice ring to it tho

Working on Nightmare Cops!

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Response to Best of December 2025! 2026-01-14 12:49:37

What a great way to end 2025. Congratulations to all the winners!

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Response to Best of December 2025! 2026-01-14 14:06:57

Congrats to all winners!

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Response to Best of December 2025! 2026-01-14 14:12:56

What a fantastic way to finish off 2025! ^o^ There were some fantastic entries there, especially all the incredible Tankmas pics :D A huge congrats to all the Winners and for the incredible collabs held! :D

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Response to Best of December 2025! 2026-01-14 14:31:51

It's been a really good month for this site, one hit after another. I wonder what the new year will bring for NG.

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Response to Best of December 2025! 2026-01-14 16:04:35 (edited 2026-01-14 16:09:05)

much love to all of the winners of December last year :3

these submission look pretty incredible ^o^

they/them 💛🤍💜🖤 (^_^)

emoticonz n' starz - drawn by me on ibisPaint (^ω^)

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Nice job everyone <:

@LanceXD

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Response to Best of December 2025! 2026-01-14 17:10:44

I'm super excited to see Pajama girl placing so highly!! I thought we were totally screwed since we missed the Halloween season as a launch time...

Thank you to everyone who contributed to that project and to everyone who voted for it! It was a total labor of love and I'm so damn grateful to see the reception its gotten on here. One of the nicest parts about this site and community is I feel like I can make some weird experimental shit and people will actually see it and give it an honest shot, I never wanna take that for granted! December really was a crazy month for collabs, like It was especially surreal to see that Pajama Girl herself cameo'd in the 30th anniversary collab, Which man that whole project is also so damn sick.

Much love Newgrounds, Hope to keep makin weird junk for you guys for many more years to come!

btw go stand in front of the first floor mens bathroom door for like 30 seconds, trust me

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Response to Best of December 2025! 2026-01-14 17:48:18

Personal Favourite Movie: TANKMEN NG 30TH ANNIVERSARY (@NoobClock666 + @PKToasty, 13th place)

The audio may be pretty scuffed, sure, but I know a wonderful celebration when I see one.

Personal Favourite Game: Pajama Girl [Creepypasta Collab] (@Emizip + 42 artists (myself included), 3rd place)

It was a tough choice between three truly beautiful collabs, but given its a personal favourite, I had to go with this one.

I feel a deep, DEEP personal connection with the Creepypasta Collab. Knowing I played a part (however small) in making this come together makes it all the sweeter in my eyes.

Honorable Mention: NG's 30th Anniversary Collab (192 artists, 2nd place)

If anyone ever asked me to pick one game to define Newgrounds' spirit, I'd point to this, and call it a day.

Honorable Mention: Tankmas ADVENTure 2025 (89 artists, 1st place)

Tankmas is always a treat, and this was no exception. This brought a more cozy feeling, compared to the sheer bombast of 2024, but god damn did I love it nonetheless.

Personal Favourite Audio: Like Blood on Snow (10 artists, 3rd place)

A truly beautiful album for the December season. Everyone involved did a fantastic fucking job.

Personal Favourite Art: Baby Gromit Fridge Run (@TuckeredArt, 8th place)

A fantastically done celebration of a British-made classic, and a flawless recreation of Aardman's inimitable claymation style.

Congratulations to the winners and runners up of December.

In an unending torrent of soulless AI slop, your humanity and passion burned all the harder. In a time of increasing hopelessness, your contributions to the world shone all the brighter. And in a maelstrom of cruelty and misery, your cooperation and kindness stood out all the more.

May you inspire more to follow in your footsteps, and may your actions bring us towards a kinder world.

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Response to Best of December 2025! 2026-01-14 18:46:02

Ah yes.

Tankmas 1st place, btw I was planning to join Tankmas earlier but I said no more collabs but in Tankmas voice acting will be?

Okay, dope but I didn't expect that I will be voicing in Tankmas.

Sooooooo yea....

Congrats to the winners.

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Response to Best of December 2025! 2026-01-14 18:48:08

A wonderful end to another wonderful year! Congratulations to all the winners and many thanks to all the game devs for closing out the year with some fun games, and with all the great community collabs that showcase just how much diverse talent this site has!

I see most of my favs in the top which is nice to see, but a few others I wanted to shout out were Strand Together from @VerilyFine (didn't think I could get surprised by another survivors-like!) and Scrapli from @ElWils (a stylish boss rush? aww, it's just what i wanted for christmas!)

As usual, you can check out the rest on my news post.

I'm currently hoping to compile a list of the best games of the year and put out a news post in a week or so, so stay tuned for that!

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Response to Best of December 2025! 2026-01-14 19:01:03

At 1/14/26 10:46 AM, TomFulp wrote:Your votes are in and the Best of December have been determined!

Top Six Movies ($100 each + $200 for best Original)

https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/1010944
https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/1009986
https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/1009751
https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/1010018
https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/1010049
https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/1009130

The top movie based on original material and winner of $300 total is PUNCH PUNCH. Congrats @Speedo!

Thank you @matt-likes-swords for the $100 sponsorship. Play Matt’s games on Steam!

Top Seven Games ($100 each + $200 for best Original)

https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/1008415
https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/1012209
https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/1010203
https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/1011588
https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/1009857
https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/1009761
https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/1008522

The top game based on original material and winner of $300 total is Pajama Girl. Congrats @Emizip and team!

@FuturecopLGF made a Best Games of December post, including a video with game feedback!

Thank you @MassiveMonster for the $200 sponsorship. Play Cult of the Lamb!

Thank you @PuffballsUnited for the $100 sponsorship. Play Among Us!

Top Five Music ($100 each + $100 for best Original)

https://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/1502971
https://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/1502631
https://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/1495787
https://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/1500785
https://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/1500003

The top song based on original material and winner of $200 total is PPF Christmas BGM. Congrats @Speedo!

Thank you @RobTop for the $500 sponsorship. Play Geometry Dash!

Top Five Art ($100 for First Place, $50 each for 2nd-3rd)

https://www.newgrounds.com/art/view/hushpuppe/wyrm-knight
https://www.newgrounds.com/art/view/infestedpear/pomni
https://www.newgrounds.com/art/view/krinkels/rage
https://www.newgrounds.com/art/view/evilsk8r/fnf-five-years-yay
https://www.newgrounds.com/art/view/infestedpear/i-was-born-to-eat-ramen

The top art and winner of $100 total is Wyrm Knight. Congrats @HushPuppE!

Thank you @53xy83457 and @River for boosting our art prizes this month!

Runner-Up Movies

7. Misspelled [DELTARUNE Pixel Animation]
8. Catching Up - Episode 2: Mary Jane
9. POV: Squishy Joe offers you a glass of warm milk
10. Salem & Squid: Clown Job
11. OneyPlays Animated: Chris meets Matt Groening
12. HOT TO GO (no audio)
13. TANKMEN NG 30TH ANNIVERSARY
14. BABE ALERT: FINE ART
15. Bali Hit Combo
16. Night of the Boozeless Beasts
17. My Greedy Friend
18. There Will Be Sunnier Days | Wtbs Ep. 4
19. A TANGLEWHIP XMAS
20. Feathered Friends
21. DOGTOOTH #0

Runner-Up Games

8. Santa's Alien Intervention
9. Resident Evil Ebola 7
10. Scrapli
11. The Homestuck Art Collab
12. BLASTCAT
13. The Loopler - Jam Version
14. Slugg Dogg Adventures
15. RAGE GAME!
16. Applico's School
17. IDENTI-NET
18. Cube Burst 3D
19. Skeledaddler!
20. WinDan

Runner-Up Audio

6. Krima (Tankmas ADVENTure 2025)
7. Welcome To Blithe Street Theme (Instrumental)
8. [TankmasADVENTure2025] warm light
9. Frutiger Christmas
10. last train to utopia
11. Tis the Season ft. Teravex (Tankmas 2025)
12. wake (up)
13. Xmas special 2025
14. 2025
15. Creo - Ripples to Waves
16. Geoplex - Afterburn
17. #1REALFRSTL Introducing Inconito
18. THE PROCESS
19. Sharks - Stargazer
20. ~ Frostheart ~ (Tankmas 2025)

Runner-Up Art

6. Spider-Man
7. Ashley Graham
8. Baby Gromit Fridge Run
9. THE SEGA SONIC
10. Teto SynthV outfit
11. 1840
12. Showdown
13. Knight Skull
14. Friends who Smile
15. leena fan sculpt fig
16. Readin n Gamin
17. The Fortress Of Solitude
18. He raised those boys right
19. Her name is Layla
20. Undead lock

More highlights below!

Hey @TomFulp, I wrote a post reviewing every art nominee of this month, if you'd like to link to it like you do with FuturecopLGF's games one:

https://ferstofus.newgrounds.com/news/post/1595307

It takes a real man to cry

It takes a real woman to strive

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Response to Best of December 2025! 2026-01-14 19:31:22 (edited 2026-01-14 19:42:45)

Clean forgot to vote this month, but Tankmas was a worthy winner. Hope we get something like that again soon!

At 1/14/26 12:48 PM, TomFulp wrote:
At 1/14/26 12:05 PM, BoMToons wrote:Also, I think Pajama got misspelled in the body of the original post FYI.

Fixed!

Pajam Girl has a nice ring to it tho

Shouldn't it be spelled "Pyjama" anyway?

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