Hollow Knight: Silksong, Hades 2 e Clair Obscur guidano le nomination agli Indie Game Awards 2025

Le candidature degli Indie Game Awards 2025 sono state ufficialmente annunciate, e tra i protagonisti spiccano Hollow Knight: Silksong, Hades 2 e Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, tutti in corsa in più categorie, incluso l’ambito premio per il Gioco dell’Anno.

Giunto alla sua seconda edizione, l’evento IGA Awards comprende 18 categorie, tra cui riconoscimenti regionali, premi scelti dalla community e l’introduzione dell’inedita categoria Indie Vanguard Class, pensata per “mettere in luce il futuro dell’industria”.

La Indie Vanguard Class è composta da cinque sviluppatori che, secondo l’organizzazione, “rappresentano il futuro del settore e tracciano la via per la scena indie di domani”. Durante la cerimonia verranno inoltre assegnati anche il Mohammad Fahmi Storyteller Award e l’Industry Impact Award, due riconoscimenti dedicati alla narrazione e all’impatto culturale nel mondo videoludico.

Le nomination di quest’anno sono state valutate da “una giuria ampia e diversificata di curatori di showcase indie ed esperti del settore”. A presentare la manifestazione saranno 28 ospiti, tra cui Chandana Ekanayake, Lena Raine, Remy Siu e Chipzel.

Gli Indie Game Awards 2025 si terranno il 18 dicembre, alle 15:30 (PT) / 18:30 (ET), e saranno trasmessi in streaming sui canali YouTube e Twitch di Six One Indie, oltre che su IGN e GameSpot.

Game of the Year

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

Debut Game

• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
• 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 (À la mode Games/Akupara Games)
• Tyrant’s Realm (Team Tyrant/Skystone Games)

Bite-Sized Game

• 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)
• This game will end in 205 clicks (Insertdisc5)
• Time Flies (Playables/Panic)

Solo Development

• Antonblast (Summitsphere/Joystick Ventures)
• Lushfoil Photography Sim (Matt Newell/Annapurna Interactive)
• Megabonk (Vedinad)
• NAIADHiWarp (HiWarp)
• Spilled (Lente)
• Vile: ExhumedCara (Cadaver/DreadXP)

Gameplay Design

• Absolum
• BallxPit (Kenny Sun/Devolver Digital)
• Dawnfolk (Darenn Keller/Astra Logical)
• Hades 2
• Hollow Knight: Silksong
• Keep Driving
• Look Outside(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 Factor (Deep Field Games/Playstack)
• BaristaYofiAsi(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/Alblune)

ANZ Indie Game Award (curated by Frosty Games)

• Abiotic Factor
• Hollow Knight: Silksong
• Mars First Logistics (Shape Shop/Outersloth)
• Proximate (Cain Maddox)
• Tempopo (Witchbeam/Cult Games)
• The Drifter (Powerhoof)

Latin American Indie Game Award (curated by Latin American Games Showcase)

• 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
• Taria & Como(Poppyseed Studio Inc/JuVee Productions)
• Tormented Souls 2 (Dual Effect/PQube)

South African Indie Game Award (curated by the Playtopia Festival)

• 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 Game Award (curated by the Southeast Asian Games Showcase)

• 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)

Black Voices in Gaming Award (curated by Black Voices in Gaming)

• Advent Neon (CryoGX)
• Altheia: The Wrath of Aferi (MarsLit Games/Neon Doctrine, Game Seer Publishing)
• Sorry We’re Closed (À 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)

Women-led Indie Game Award (curated by Women-Led Games)

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

Community Management

• Consume Me
• Date Everything (Sassy Chap Games/Team17)
• Ikeelya
• Peak
• Soulstone Survivors (Game Smithing Limited)
• Strange Scaffold (Strange Scaffold, Frosty Pop)

Emotional Impact

• Afterlove EP
• And Roger
• 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)

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