Indie Game Awards 2025 revela os nomeados

A Six One Indie revelou a lista de nomeados para os Indie Game Awards 2025, cuja cerimónia será transmitida no dia 18 de dezembro. A cerimónia, dedicada exclusivamente à entrega de prémios, tem como objetivo reconhecer e celebrar o trabalho de videojogos independentes e dos seus criadores.

Em baixo podem ver lista completa de nomeados:

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, 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, 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, Ken “coda” Snyder)

• Hades II (Supergiant Games)

• Hollow Knight: Silksong (Team Cherry)

• Keep Driving (YCJY Games)

• Pipistrello and the Cursed Yoyo (Pocket Trap)