Церемония награждения Indie Game Awards 2025 пройдёт 18 декабря. В этом году у премии появилась новая номинация Indie Vanguard Class. Она отмечает разработчиков, которые прокладывают путь инди-сцене и создают будущее независимого игропрома.
В жюри оказались крупные организаторы выставок, эксперты индустрии, крупные СМИ, специализирующиеся на игровой тематике, а также контентмейкеры.
Лидерами по числу номинаций в ключевых категориях стали Hollow Knight: Silksong, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 и игры поменьше, в том числе Absolum, Hades 2, Blue Prince и Citizen Sleeper.
Список основных номинаций
Игра года
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).
Лучший дебют
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 Weʼre Closed (a la mode Games, Akupara Games); Tyrantʼs Realm (Team Tyrant, Skystone Games).
Лучшая крошечная игра
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).
Лучшая игра разработчика-одиночки
ANTONBLAST (Summitsphere, Joystick Ventures); Lushfoil Photography Sim (Matt Newell, Annapurna Interactive); Megabonk (vedinad); NAIAD (HiWarp); Spilled! (Lente); Vile: Exhumed (Cara Cadaver, DreadXP).
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).
Лучшее эмоциональное влияние
Afterlove EP (Pikselnesia, Fellow Traveller); and Roger (TearyHand Studio, Kodansha); Donʼt 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).
Лучший нарратив
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).
Лучший дизайн игрового процесса
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).
Лучший визуальный дизайн
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)
Лучшая музыка
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).
Награда за достижения в доступности
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);
Награда за инновации
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).