The Indie Game Awards 2025 nominations have been introduced, with the likes of Hollow Knight: Silksong, Hades 2, and Clair Obscur: (*33*) 33 choosing up nominations throughout a number of classes together with Game of the Yr.
Returning for its second 12 months, the IGA Awards spans 18 classes together with region-specific spotlights, community-voted awards, and the introduction of the primary Indie Vanguard Class aimed to “highlight the way forward for the business.”
The Indie Vanguard Class is a collection of 5 builders “who symbolize the way forward for the business and stand amongst these paving the way in which ahead for the indie scene.”
This award, in addition to The Mohammad Fahmi Storyteller Award, and the Trade Influence Award, might be introduced through the ceremony.
This 12 months’s nominations have been deliberated by “a broad and various panel of indie showcase curators and business specialists.”
The present might be hosted by 28 presenters together with Chandana Ekanayake, Lena Raine, Remy Siu, and Chipzel.
The Indie Game Awards 2025 takes place on December 18 at 3:30pm PT/6:30pm ET.
The ceremony might be accessible to stream on Six One Indie’s YouTube and Twitch channels, in addition to IGN and GameSpot.
Listed here are this 12 months’s nominees:
Game of the Yr
- Absolum (Dotemu, Guard Crush Video games, Supamonks/Gamirror Video games)
- And Roger (TearyHand Studio/Kodansha)
- Blue Prince (Dogubomb/Uncooked Fury)
- Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector (Leap Over the Age)
- Clair Obscur: (*33*) 33 (Sandfall Interactive/Kepler Interactive)
- Devour Me (Jenny Jiao Hsia, AP Thomson, Jie En Lee, Violet W-P, and Ken “coda” Snyder/Hexecutable)
- Hades 2 (Supergiant Video games)
- Hollow Knight: Silksong (Staff Cherry)
- Maintain Driving (YCJY Video games)
- Pipistrello and the Cursed Yoyo (Pocket Entice/PM Studios, Inc.)
Debut Game
- Clair Obscur: (*33*) 33
- Discounty (Crinkle Reduce Video 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 (À la mode Video games/Akupara Video games)
- Tyrant’s Realm (Staff Tyrant/Skystone Video games)
Chunk-Sized Game
- Carimara – Beneath the Forlorn Limbs (Bastinus Rex/Important Reflex)
- FlyKnight (Wabbaboy)
- Many Nights a Whisper (Deconstructeam, Selkie Harbour)
- The Darkish Queen of Mortholme (Mosu/Monster Theater)
- This sport will finish in 205 clicks (Insertdisc5)
- Time Flies (Playables/Panic)
Solo Improvement
- Antonblast (Summitsphere/Joystick Ventures)
- Lushfoil Pictures Sim (Matt Newell/Annapurna Interactive)
- Megabonk (Vedinad)
- NAIADHiWarp (HiWarp)
- Spilled (Lente)
- Vile: ExhumedCara (Cadaver/DreadXP)
Gameplay Design
- Absolum
- BallxPit (Kenny Solar/Devolver Digital)
- Dawnfolk (Darenn Keller/Astra Logical)
- Hades 2
- Hollow Knight: Silksong
- Maintain Driving
- Look Outdoors(Francis Coulombe/Devolver Digital)
- Öoo (NamaTakahashi, Tiny Cactus Studio, Tsuyomi/NamaTakahashi)
- Pipistrello and the Cursed Yoyo
- The King is Watching(Hypnohead/TinyBuild)
Achievement in Accessibility
- Abiotic Issue (Deep Area Video games/Playstack)
- BaristaYofiAsi(YofiAsi)
- Calm the Storm (Ludic Lemur)
- Peak (Staff Peak/Aggro Crab/Landfall)
- Spray Paint Simulator(North Star Video Video games/Whitethorn Video games)
- Squeakross: House Squeak House (Alblune/Alblune)
ANZ Indie Game Award (curated by Frosty Video games)
- Abiotic Issue
- Hollow Knight: Silksong
- Mars First Logistics (Form Store/Outersloth)
- Proximate (Cain Maddox)
- Tempopo (Witchbeam/Cult Video games)
- The Drifter (Powerhoof)
Latin American Indie Game Award (curated by Latin American Video games Showcase)
- Journey of Samsara (Ilex Video games/Atari)
- Despelote (Julian Cordero, Sebastian Valbuena/Panic)
- Kulebra and the Souls of Limbo (Galla/Fellow Traveller)
- Pipistrello and the Cursed Yoyo
- Taria & Como(Poppyseed Studio Inc/JuVee Productions)
- Tormented Souls 2 (Twin Impact/PQube)
South African Indie Game Award (curated by the Playtopia Competition)
- Bru & Boegie Get Da Milk (Mikdog)
- Discovering Father (Studio Bo)
- Flibbius McDoogle and The Mysterious Flying Machine (Unsigned Double Collective)
- Ikeelya (All Day All Evening)
- Metavoidal (Yellow Lab Video games)
- Stick It To The Stickman (Free Lives/Devolver Digital)
Southeast Asian Indie Game Award (curated by the Southeast Asian Video games Showcase)
- Afterlove EP (Pikselnesia /Fellow Traveller)
- Artis Influence (Mas/Feuxon)
- Glyphica: Typing Survival (AliasBlack/Squeaky Wheel)
- Sedap: A Culinary Journey(Kopiforge/Remoted Video games Publishing, IndieArk)
- City Jungle(Kylyk Video games/Assemble Leisure)
- Whisper Mountain Outbreak (Toge Productions)
Black Voices in Gaming Award (curated by Black Voices in Gaming)
- Creation Neon (CryoGX)
- Altheia: The Wrath of Aferi (MarsLit Video games/Neon Doctrine, Game Seer Publishing)
- Sorry We’re Closed (À la mode Video games/Akupara Video games)
- Spirit Swap: Lofi Beats to Match-3 To (Smooth Not Weak)
- Sunken Stones (Spritewrench)
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tactical Takedown (Unusual Scaffold)
Ladies-led Indie Game Award (curated by Ladies-Led Video games)
- Cabernet (Celebration for Introverts/Akupara)
- Duck Detective: The Ghost of Glamping (Completely happy Broccoli Video games)
- Gemporium: A Cute Mining Sim (Merge Battle Studio)
- Spilled
- City Delusion Dissolution Middle (Hakababunko/Shueisha Video games)
- White Knuckle(Darkish Machine Video games/DreadXP)
Group Administration
- Devour Me
- Date Every part (Sassy Chap Video games/Team17)
- Ikeelya
- Peak
- Soulstone Survivors (Game Smithing Restricted)
- Unusual Scaffold (Unusual Scaffold, Frosty Pop)
Emotional Influence
- Afterlove EP
- And Roger
- Do not Get Your Hopes Up (Krish Raghav)
- Henry Halfhead (Lululu Leisure/Popagenda)
- Wanderstop (Ivy Street/Annapurna Interactive)
- Wednesdays (Pierre Corbinais, The Pixel Hunt, Exaheva/Arte France)
Innovation
- Blue Prince
- Freeride (Flightyfelon Video games Inc Future Buddies Video games)
- Fuel Station Story (Enzi)
- PBJ The Musical (Philipp Stollenmayer)
- Ruffy and the Riverside (Zockrates Laboratories UG/Phiphen Video games)
- Taria & Como
Music
- Everhood 2 (Cazok, KM_EXP, Stewart Keller, Lewmoth, CatGod, Beat Tape, Dancefloor Is Lava, INFX/Chris Nordgren, Jordi Roca)
- Herdling (Joel Schoch/Okomotive)
- Rift of the NecroDancer (Danny Baranowsky, Alex Moukala, Jules Conroy, Josie Brechner, Sam Webster, Nick Nausbaum/Brace Your self Video games, Tic Toc Video games)
- Sonokuni (Don Yasa Crew)
- Sword of the Sea (Austin Wintory/Big Squid)
- Wheel World (Johnny Jewel, Joon, Orion/Messhof)
Narrative
- Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector
- Devour Me
- Promise Mascot Company (Kaizen Game Works)
- The Drifter
- The Roottrees are Useless (Evil Trout Inc)
- The Séance of Blake Manor (Spooky Doorway/Uncooked Fury)
Visible Design
- 30 Birds (Ram Ram Video games, Enterprise Goose Studios/Arte France)
- Artis Influence
- Cat Detective Albert Wilde (Beyondthosehills)
- Eclipsium (Housefire/Important Reflex)
- Mashina (Talha and Jack Co, J. King Spooner, Talha Kaya/Judatone Studios)
- Slime Rancher 2 (Monomi Park)