The Indie Game Awards 2025: data e candidati

Six One Indie ha annunciato che i The Indie Game Awards 2025 si terranno il 18 dicembre ore 21:30 italiane. L’evento potrà essere seguito tramite i canali YouTube e Twitch di IGN, GameSpot e Six One Indie.

L’annuncio arriva attraverso un filmato presentato da Mike Towndrow e Kyle Stephenson di Six One Indie, che potete vedere in fondo alla notizia.

Questi i nominati nelle 18 categorie, selezionati da una giuria eterogenea composta da curatori di fiere di giochi indipendenti ed esperti del settore.

Achievement in Accessibility

• Abiotic Factor (Deep Field Games, Playstack)
• Barista (YofiAsi)
• Calm the Storm (Ludic Lemur)
• Peak (Team PEAK, Aggro Crab, Landfall)
• Spray Paint Simulator (North Star Video Games, Whitethorn Games)
• Squeakross: Home Squeak Home (Alblune)

ANZ Indie Game Award

• Abiotic Factor (Deep Field Games, Playstack)
• Hollow Knight: Silksong (Team Cherry)
• Mars First Logistics (Shape Shop, Outersloth)
• PROXIMATE (Cain Maddox)
• Tempopo (Witchbeam, CULT Games)
• The Drifter (Powerhoof)

Bite-Sized

• CARIMARA: Beneath the Forlorn Limbs (Bastinus Rex, CRITICAL REFLEX)
• FlyKnight (Wabbaboy)
• Many Nights a Whisper (Deconstructeam, Selkie Harbour)
• The Dark Queen of Mortholme (Mosu, Monster Theater)
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• Time Flies (Playables, Panic)

Black Voices in Gaming Award

• Advent Neon (CryoGX)
• Altheia: The Wrath of Aferi (MarsLit Games, Neon Doctrine, Game Seer Publishing)
• Sorry We’re Closed (a la mode games, Akupara Games)
• Spirit Swap: Lofi Beats to Match-3 To (Soft Not Weak)
• Sunken Stones (Spritewrench)
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tactical Takedown (Strange Scaffold)

Community Management

• Consume Me (Jenny Jiao Hsia, AP Thomson, Jie En Lee, Violet W-P, Ken “coda” Snyder, Hexecutable)
• Date Everything! (Sassy Chap Games, Team17)
• IKEELYA (ALL DAY ALL NIGHT)
• PEAK (Team PEAK, Aggro Crab, Landfall)
• Soulstone Survivors (Game Smithing Limited)
• Strange Scaffold (Strange Scaffold, Frosty Pop)

Debut Game

• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Sandfall Interactive, Kepler Interactive)
• Discounty (Crinkle Cut Games, PQube)
• Fretless: The Wrath of Riffson (Ritual Studios, Playdigious Originals)
• ILA: A Frosty Glide (Magic Rain Studios, First Break Labs)
• Sorry We’re Closed (a la mode Games, Akupara Games)
• Tyrant’s Realm (Team Tyrant, Skystone Games)

Emotional Impact

• Afterlove EP (Pikselnesia, Fellow Traveller)
• and Roger (TearyHand Studio, Kodansha)
• Don’t Get Your Hopes Up (Krish Raghav)
• Henry Halfhead (Lululu Entertainment, popagenda)
• Wanderstop (Ivy Road, Annapurna Interactive)
• Wednesdays (Pierre Corbinais, The Pixel Hunt, exaheva, ARTE France)

Gameplay Design

• Absolum (Dotemu, Guard Crush Games, Supamonks, Gamirror Games)
• BALL x PIT (Kenny Sun, Devolver Digital)
• Dawnfolk (Darenn Keller, Astra Logical)
• Hades II (Supergiant Games)
• Hollow Knight: Silksong (Team Cherry)
• Keep Driving (YCJY Games)
• Look Outside (Francis Coulombe, Devolver Digital)
• Ooo (NamaTakahashi, tiny cactus studio, Tsuyomi)
• Pipistrello and the Cursed Yoyo (Pocket Trap, PM Studios)
• The King is Watching (Hypnohead, tinyBuild)

Innovation

• Blue Prince (Dogubomb, Raw Fury)
• FREERIDE (Flightyfelon Games, Future Friends Games)
• Gas Station Story (enzi)
• PBJ The Musical (Philipp Stollenmayer)
• Ruffy and the Riverside (Zockrates Laboratories, Phiphen Games)
• Taria & Como (Poppyseed Studio Inc, JuVee Productions)

Latin American Indie Award

• Adventure of Samsara (Ilex Games, Atari)
• despelote (Julian Cordero, Sebastian Valbuena, Panic)
• Kulebra and the Souls of Limbo (Galla, Fellow Traveller)
• Pipistrello and the Cursed Yoyo (Pocket Trap, PM Studios)
• Taria & Como (Poppyseed Studio Inc, JuVee Productions)
• Tormented Souls II (Dual Effect, PQube)

Music

• Everhood 2 (Cazok, KM_EXP, Stewart Keller, Lewmoth, Chris Nordgren, CatGod, Beat Tape, Dancefloor Is Lava, INFX, Jordi Roca, Foreign Gnomes)
• Herdling (Joel Schoch, Okomotive, Panic)
• Rift of the NecroDancer (Danny Baranowsky, Alex Moukala, Jules Conroy, Josie Brechner, Sam Webster, and Nick Nausbaum, Brace
• Yourself Games, Tic Toc Games, Klei Publishing)
• SONOKUNI (DON YASA CREW, Kakehashi Games)
• Sword of the Sea (Austin Wintory, Giant Squid)
• Wheel World (Johnny Jewel, JOON, Orion, Messhof, Annapurna Interactive)

Narrative

• Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector (Jump Over the Age, Fellow Traveller)
• Consume Me (Jenny Jiao Hsia, AP Thomson, Jie En Lee, Violet W-P, Ken “coda” Snyder, Hexecutable)
• Promise Mascot Agency (Kaizen Game Works)
• The Drifter (Powerhoof, Dave Lloyd)
• The Roottrees are Dead (Evil Trout Inc.)
• The Seance of Blake Manor (Spooky Doorway, Raw Fury)

Solo Development

• ANTONBLAST (Summitsphere, Joystick Ventures)
• Lushfoil Photography Sim (Matt Newell, Annapurna Interactive)
• Megabonk (vedinad)
• NAIAD (HiWarp)
• Spilled! (Lente)
• Vile: Exhumed (Cara Cadaver, DreadXP)

South African Indie Game Award

• Bru & Boegie Get Da Milk! (MIKDOG)
• Finding Father (Studio Bo)
• Flibbius McDoogle and The Mysterious Flying Machine (Unsigned Double Collective)
• IKEELYA (ALL DAY ALL NIGHT)
• Metavoidal (Yellow Lab Games)
• Stick It to the Stickman (Free Lives, Devolver Digital)

Southeast Asian Indie Award

• Afterlove EP (Pikselnesia, Fellow Traveller)
• Artis Impact (Mas, Feuxon)
• Glyphica: Typing Survival (aliasBLACK, Squeaky Wheel)
• SEDAP! A Culinary Adventure (kopiforge, Isolated Games Publishing, IndieArk)
• Urban Jungle (Kylyk Games, Assemble Entertainment)
• Whisper Mountain Outbreak (Toge Productions)

Visual Design

• 30 Birds (RAM RAM Games, Business Goose Studios, ARTE France)
• Artis Impact (Mas, Feuxon)
• Cat Detective Albert Wilde (beyondthosehills)
• Eclipsium (Housefire, CRITICAL REFLEX)
• Mashina (Talha and Jack Co, J. King Spooner, Talha Kaya, Judatone Studios)
• Slime Rancher 2 (Monomi Park)

Women-Led Indie Game Award

• Cabernet (Party for Introverts, Akupara Games)
• Duck Detective: The Ghost of Glamping (Happy Broccoli Games)
• Gemporium: A Cute Mining Sim (Merge Conflict Studio)
• Spilled! (Lente)
• Urban Myth Dissolution Center (Hakaba Bunko, Shueisha Games)
• White Knuckle (Dark Machine Games, DreadXP)

Game of the Year

• Absolum (Dotemu, Guard Crush Games, and Supamonks)
• and Roger (TearyHand Studio)
• Blue Prince (Dogubomb)
• Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector (Jump Over the Age)
• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Sandfall Interactive)
• Consume Me (Jenny Jiao Hsia, AP Thomson, Jie En Lee, Violet W-P, and Ken “coda” Snyder)
• Hades II (Supergiant Games)
• Hollow Knight: Silksong (Team Cherry)
• Keep Driving (YCJY Games)
• Pipistrello and the Cursed Yoyo (Pocket Trap)

Signature Awards:

I vincitori del 2025 delle seguenti categorie speciali sono stati selezionati dalla giuria curatoriale degli IGA e saranno annunciati durante la cerimonia.

• Indie Vanguard
• The Mohammad Fahmi Storyteller Award
• Industry Impact

Fino al 24 novembre è inoltre possibile votare per i Community Peaks, che eleggeranno dunque i preferiti dai giocatori.

Qui sotto il filmato che annuncia i titoli nominati al The Indie Game Awards 2025, ricordandovi che lo scorso anno il premio di Game of the Year andò a Balatro.