What esports titles are at the SEA Games 2025?

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While several esports circuits are winding down for 2025, the SEA Games 2025 will feature esports as a medal discipline alongside several traditional sporting categories.

The 33rd edition of the biennial event features a different selection of esports titles from the previous edition, with four of the region’s most popular games included in the lineup.

Before the action gets underway, Esports Insider takes a closer look at the SEA Games 2025, including the titles being used and which nations are competing for six sets of medals.

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SEA Games And Esports

Since 2019, esports has featured as a medal event at the SEA Games. The debut of competitive gaming at the event featured six titles, including Tekken 7, Hearthstone, and Dota 2.

In 2021, the ten medal events were announced across eight games. Alongside League of Legends and PUBG Mobile making its debut, the event included a women’s events for League of Legends: Wild Rift. Moving on to 2023, six games were utilised across nine medal competitions.

For 2025, only four esports titles have been selected this year across six medal events. Esports tournaments at the SEA Games 2025 event will take place from December 13th to 19th, 2025, in Bangkok, Thailand.

The Huamark Sports Training Center will host most phases of the esports tournaments, including the medal matches. This is except for the Mobile Legends: Bang Bang matches, which will occur at Chulalongkorn University.

SEA Games 2025 Esports Titles

Mobile Legends: Bang Bang will headline the 33rd edition of the SEA Games. The mobile MOBA title will have men’s and women’s tournaments at the event. It is the fourth time the game has been featured as a medal event.

In addition, MOONTON Games, the developer of MLBB, partnered with the Thailand E-Sports Federation in February to unlock economic opportunities through esports.

Another mobile MOBA, Arena of Valor, will also feature as a medal event at the SEA Games 2025. The title is no stranger to the event, having featured as part of its esports slate since the introduction of esports six years ago.

The third mobile title appearing at the SEA Games is the first-person shooter title Free Fire. The title remains one of Southeast Asia’s most popular games. 2025 marks the second time Free Fire has featured at the SEA Games after debuting in 2021.

Football simulation title FC Online rounds out the esports lineup and is the only non-mobile esports title at the event.

SEA Games Esports Medal Winners

Thailand, the host city of SEA Games 2025, is no stranger to success at the event’s esports tournaments. In 2019, the country won gold in Arena of Valor, beating Indonesia and Vietnam, which secured silver and bronze medals.

However, the most successful country that year was the Philippines, The nation secured gold in Mobile Legends: Bang Bang, Starcraft II and Dota 2.

In esports, the 2021 SEA Games was ultimately won by Vietnam. The country secured four gold medals, including victories in League of Legends, Crossfire, Wild Rift (men’s) and PUNG Mobile (individual).

2023’s SEA Games saw Indonesia top the medal table, winning three golds and two silvers across VALORANT, PUBG Mobile, MLBB, and Crossfire.

However, the Philippines’ men’s MLBB team defended its title in 2023, with Malaysia securing silver and the pairing of Myanmar and Cambodia taking home a bronze medal. In the women’s MLBB event, Indonesia triumphed with a gold medal while the Philippines won silver. Malaysia and Vietnam rounded off the podium with bronze.