TUNIC and Betrayal at Club Low are front runners in IGF 2023 nominations
The 2023 Independent Games Festival Awards nominees have been unveiled—with exciting independent games about a heroic fox, a mystery told through lost film footage, and an undercover mission... with pizza.
Organizers of the 2023 Game Developers Conference are excited to reveal this year's finalists for the 25th annual IGF Awards, part of the longest-running festival, summit, and showcase celebrating independent games and their creators. Seumas McNally Grand Prize nominees TUNIC and Betrayal at Club Low are tied for three nominations each. In addition to the grand prize nods, TUNIC is also nominated for Excellence in Audio and Excellence in Visual Arts, and Betrayal at Club Low also has noms for Excellence in Design and the Nuovo Award, which celebrates games that make jurors think differently about games as a medium.
TUNIC(TUNIC Team) is an action adventure starring a heroic little fox who sets about exploring a foreign land brimming with colossal beasts, strange and powerful items, and long-lost secrets around every corner. Betrayal at Club Low (Cosmo D Studios) is an indie-tabletop-inspired RPG with tactile dice-driving gameplay that gives players multiple ways to approach each undercover mission, set in the eponymous former coffin factory-turned-nightclub.
The Independent Games Festival is part of GDC 2023, which will be held in San Francisco March 20-24, 2023.
Here are the other nominees for the Seumas McNally Grand Prize:
This year's nominees were selected from a list of over 500 entries, thanks to the hard work of our expert juries in each individual category (more on them here and here)—who chose the finalists after playing, discussing, and meticulously evaluating each of the games in consideration. Be sure to
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