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IGF 2025 nominees show what a wild and vibrant place indie gaming is

16.01.2025 - 09:19 rockpapershotgun.com

Last year's defining indie smash hit, Balatro? Not nominated for the IGF grand prize. Animal Well, which turned damn near every games journalist into a tiresome obsessive?

Not nominated for anything. UFO 50, an impressive, important, big boy achievement snubbed by our own 2024 list? It did get a Grand Prize nomination.

I don't disagree with any of the nominees or absences in this year's Independent Games Festival Awards, so I don't mention any of the above to stir up trouble.

Instead I look at this list and think: wow, video games are more varied than ever, so much so that there's no longer a dominant cultural narrative even within the specific niche of indie gaming.

If you're not familiar: the IGF Awards have been running for 26 years and the winners are announced during GDC. The nominees, and the winners, are selected by a collection of developers and journalists.

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