The winners of the Indie Game Awards 2025 have been announced
The Indie Game Awards 2025, one of the most prestigious organizations in the independent game world, honored outstanding productions and developers throughout the year. Awards were distributed in numerous categories, from game design and storytelling to music and accessibility, providing a clear picture of the indie scene in 2025. Clair Obscur: Expedition 33’s multiple awards were particularly noteworthy, and the wins from productions across diverse geographical regions once again demonstrated the increasing diversity of independent game production.
Indie Game Awards 2025 Winners
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 (WINNER)
- Constance – GODD Games
- Dungeons of Hinterberg – Microbird Games
- Littlelands – Hyper MegaPixel
- Mars First Logistics – Shape Shop
- Pine Hearts – Hyper Luminal Games
- RKGK / Rakugaki – Wabisabi Games
- The Crush House – Nerial
- World of Goo 2 – 2D BOY / Tomorrow Corporation
Achievement in Accessibility
- Abiotic Factor – Deep Field Games
- Barista – YofiAsi
- Calm the Storm – Ludic Lemur
- Peak – Team PEAK (WINNER)
- Spray Paint Simulator – North Star Video Games
- Squeakross: Home Squeak Home – Alblune
ANZ Indie Game Award
- Abiotic Factor – Deep Field Games
- Hollow Knight: Silksong – Team Cherry
- Mars First Logistics – Shape Shop
- PROXIMATE – Cain Maddox
- Tempopo – Witchbeam
- The Drifter – Powerhoof (WINNER)
Bite-Sized Game
- CARIMARA – Beneath the Forlorn Limbs – Bastinus Rex
- FlyKnight – Wabbaboy
- Many Nights a Whisper – Deconstructeam, Selkie Harbour
- The Dark Queen of Mortholme – Mosu
- this game will end in 205 clicks – insertdisc5
- Time Flies – Playables (WINNER)
Black Voices in Gaming Award
- Advent Neon – CryoGX
- Altheia: The Wrath of Aferi – MarsLit Games (WINNER)
- Sorry We’re Closed – à la mode games
- Spirit Swap: Lofi Beats to Match-3 To – Soft Not Weak, LLC
- Sunken Stones – Spritewrench
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tactical Takedown – Strange Scaffold
Community Management
- Consume Me – Jenny Jiao Hsia ve ekip
- Date Everything! – Sassy Chap Games
- IKEELYA – ALL DAY ALL NIGHT
- PEAK – Team PEAK (WINNER)
- Soulstone Survivors – Game Smithing Limited
- Strange Scaffold – Strange Scaffold
Debut Game
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 – Sandfall Interactive (WINNER)
- Discounty – Crinkle Cut Games
- Fretless – The Wrath of Riffson – Ritual Studios
- ILA: A Frosty Glide – Magic Rain Studios
- Sorry We’re Closed – a la mode Games
- Tyrant’s Realm – Team Tyrant
Emotional Impact
- Afterlove EP – Pikselnesia
- and Roger – TearyHand Studio (WINNER)
- Don’t Get Your Hopes Up – Krish Raghav
- Henry Halfhead – Lululu Entertainment
- Wanderstop – Ivy Road
- Wednesdays – Pierre Corbinais
Gameplay Design
- Absolum – Dotemu, Guard Crush Games, Supamonks
- BallxPit – Kenny Sun (WINNER)
- Dawnfolk – Darenn Keller
- Hades II – Supergiant Games
- Hollow Knight: Silksong – Team Cherry
- Keep Driving – YCJY Games
- Look Outside – Francis Coulombe
- Öoo – NamaTakahashi, tiny cactus studio
- Pipistrello and the Cursed Yoyo – Pocket Trap
- The King is Watching – Hypnohead
Innovation
- Blue Prince – Dogubomb (WINNER)
- FREERIDE – Flightyfelon Games
- Gas Station Story – enzi
- PBJ The Musical – Philipp Stollenmayer
- Ruffy and the Riverside – Zockrates Laboratories
- Taria & Como – Poppyseed Studio
Latin American Indie Award
- Adventure of Samsara – Ilex Games
- despelote – Julian Cordero
- Kulebra and the Souls of Limbo – Galla
- Pipistrello and the Cursed Yoyo – Pocket Trap (WINNER)
- Taria & Como – Poppyseed Studio
- Tormented Souls 2 – Dual Effect
Music
- Everhood 2 – Chris Nordgren
- Herdling – Okomotive
- Rift of the NecroDancer – Brace Yourself Games (WINNER)
- SONOKUNI – DON YASA CREW
- Sword of the Sea – Giant Squid
- Wheel World – Messhof
Narrative
- Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector – Jump Over the Age (WINNER)
- Consume Me – Jenny Jiao Hsia ve ekip
- Promise Mascot Agency – Kaizen Game Works
- The Drifter – Powerhoof
- The Roottrees are Dead – Evil Trout
- The Séance of Blake Manor – Spooky Doorway
Solo Development
- Tall Trails – Brady Soglin (WINNER)
- Lushfoil Photography Sim – Matt Newell
- Megabonk – vedinad
- NAIAD – HiWarp
- Spilled! – Lente
- Vile: Exhumed – Cara Cadaver
African Indie Game Award
- Bru & Boegie Get Da Milk! – MIKDOG
- Finding Father – Studio Bo
- Flibbius McDoogle – Unsigned Double Collective
- IKEELYA – ALL DAY ALL NIGHT
- Metavoidal – Yellow Lab Games
- Stick It To The Stickman – Free Lives (WINNER)
Southeast Asian Indie Award
- Afterlove EP – Pikselnesia
- Artis Impact – Mas (WINNER)
- Glyphica: Typing Survival – aliasBLACK
- SEDAP! A Culinary Adventure – kopiforge
- Urban Jungle – Kylyk Games
- Whisper Mountain Outbreak – Toge Productions
Visual Design
- 30 Birds – RAM RAM Games (WINNER)
- Artis Impact – Mas
- Cat Detective Albert Wilde – beyondthosehills
- Eclipsium – Housefire
- Mashina – Talha and Jack Co
- Slime Rancher 2 – Monomi Park
Women-Led Indie Game Award
- Cabernet – Party for Introverts
- Duck Detective: The Ghost of Glamping – Happy Broccoli Games
- Gemporium – Merge Conflict Studio
- Spilled! – Lente
- Urban Myth Dissolution Center – Hakababunko (WINNER)
- White Knuckle – Dark Machine Games
