The Indie Game Awards

Thank you all for your love, enthusiasm, and support for all of our 2025 nominees, presenters, and the countless other indies that crossed the finish line this year. Continue being a positive backbone for those who drive our industry forward. We’ll see you in 2026. 🏆 www.indiegameawards.gg

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This made me cry during the awards show. Beautiful moment. ❤️

It was an honor to present the award for Visual Design this year. Congrats to 30 Birds!

Ganhamos o prêmio de Melhor Indie Game da América Latina em 2025 no @indiegameawards.gg com o Pipistrello 🥹💜 Muito obrigado a todos que jogaram e nos apoiaram! 🇧🇷

Thank you so much to everyone at the Indie Game Awards for selecting us for this year’s Indie Vanguard ❤️ #indiegame #indiedev #indiegameawards

So proud of our wild, weird, genre-defying soundtrack getting recognized last night at the @indiegameawards.gg!! Huge shoutouts to @dannybstyle.bsky.social @alexmoukala.bsky.social @familyjules7x.bsky.social @sam-webster.bsky.social, Nick & the whole Rift Team. Could not be more inspired by y'all.

For a year fraught with many challenges, turmoil, & shaken sense of stability, we cannot wait to continue living up to the honor bestowed upon us: bringing impactful programming, funding, & scholarships to devs of color. Thank you for the kind words, & thank you @indiegameawards.gg for this honor!🏆

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Played this just now in one sitting at a coffee shop 👍🏽

I was lucky enough to be a judge for The Indie Game Awards (@indiegameawards.gg) this year. Now that the votes have been counted and the awards handed out, I wanted to share my personal ballot. Here's how I voted. insider-gaming.com/the-indie-ga...

We won an award! 🤍🏆🤍

Inside Baseball: As a small organizational crew with big ambitions, we have to get pretty creative when it comes to production. The hosted segments you saw last night were filmed way back in early August; the same day (and different NYC borough) as the most recent Six One Indie Showcase.

One of the best written games of the decade.

A new trophy has been permanently added to the Trophy Room! 🏆 Thank you so much Indie Game Awards for awarding Blue Prince the Innovation Award & the community for choosing us for Best Puzzle Game in the Community Picks category.

what an honor to help present this award :) I attended my first GDoC expo around the same time I started prototyping Building Relationships, and those talks really helped lay the groundwork So glad I got to talk at GDoC expo this year (it truly was the most pleasant recording experience)

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA #IndieGameAwards

So beyond honored to have been a presenter for the Indie Game Awards and congrats again to Dogubomb for winning the innovation award!♟️✨️

Congratulations @neondoctrine.games !!! 🎉

So thankful to Six One Indie and their Jury for this award! 🥳

CONGRATS TIME FLIES!!!! DEFEATED BY A WORTHY ADVERSARY 😤 (also their ingame speech was so cute)

Wieew!

Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector has won the Narrative award at the Indie Game Awards! Congrats to @jumpovertheage.com for creating a deeply moving work, 🙏 to everyone who played. Shoutout to all nominees and winners! What an honor to be among such incredible games 🫶 @indiegameawards.gg

Basically everything I know about community management is from learning in the communities of Landfall and Aggrocrab, so this felt very full circle. 🥰 Yay team PEAK!

I am both honored and beyond excited to share that Chantey and Gortyn Code just became the first inductee into the @indiegameawards.gg Indie Vanguard Class of 2025! A huge 'thank you' to everyone who supported the game along the way! This is fuel in the fire for what's coming next!

really excited & honored - Tall Trails received the indie game award in solo development !! ,')

We cut down some of the acceptance speeches for @indiegameawards.gg for time, but wanted to post them in full here ❤️ Thank you again!

Welp I 100% did not expect to be crying but here I am absolutely in tears. In an especially hard year with all the attempts to dismantle support for equity initiatives, I've personally been staving off feelings of hopelessness. So it means a lot to know that we are making an impact. Thanks 💖

Tanat Boozayaangool, C. Bedford, and Remy Siu introduce our 2025 Industry Impact recipient, Game Devs of Color.

Time to store an award in that boot. Congratulations to our Solo Development recipient for 2025, Tall Trails!

Congratulations to the Latin American Indie Game Award recipient for 2025, Pipistrello and the Cursed Yoyo! Thanks again to the Latin American Games Showcase for curating our final regional category of the evening.

Introducing the fifth and final inductee into our Indie Vanguard Class of 2025: Crashable Studios.

Can we draw a trophy room from the ever-changing chambers? Congratulations to our Innovation recipient for 2025, Blue Prince!

Straight-up bangers in the rift. Congratulations to our Music recipient for 2025, Danny Baranowsky and the entire composition team behind Rift of the NecroDancer!

Introducing the fourth inductee into our Indie Vanguard Class of 2025: Alice Bottino and Chancellor Wallin.

Congratulations to the Southeast Asian Indie Game Award recipient for 2025, Artis Impact! Thanks again to the Southeast Asian Games Showcase for curating our next regional category of the evening.

A profound experience we will never forget. Congratulations to our Emotional Impact recipient for 2025, and Roger!

Introducing the third inductee into our Indie Vanguard Class of 2025: Gabby DaRienzo.

The legacy of a Guardian continues to be written. Congratulations to the Black Voice in Gaming Award recipient for 2025, Altheia: The Wrath of Aferi! Thanks again to Black Voices in Gaming for curating the category.

We’re still deep in the pit and may never escape. Congratulations to our Gameplay Design recipient for 2025, BALL x PIT!

Your votes have been tallied, and the results are in. Across ten genres and one overall recipient, here are your Community Picks for 2025!

A drifter awakens… Congratulations to the ANZ Indie Game Award recipient for 2025, The Drifter! Thanks again to Frosty Games for curating our next regional category of the evening.

Who knew a fly could pack such a punch? Congratulations to our Bite-Sized Game recipient for 2025, Time Flies!

Introducing the second inductee into our Indie Vanguard Class of 2025: Cookiecrayon.

It takes a village to take care of a whole bunch of Scouts. Congratulations to our Community Management recipient for 2025, Team PEAK!

The case has been solved. Congratulations to the Women-Led Indie Game Award recipient for 2025, Urban Myth Dissolution Center! Thanks again to Women-Led Games for curating the category.

The one and only Lena Raine introduces the 2025 recipient of The Mohammad Fahmi Storyteller Award, Maddy Thorson.

Wake up, Sleeper. Congratulations to our Narrative recipient for 2025, Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector!