Indie Game Awards 2025 – Conheça indicados

Os Indie Game Awards 2025 estão se aproximando, e a Six One Indie divulgou a lista oficial de indicados, apresentadores e jurados da nova edição do evento. A cerimônia acontece em 18 de dezembro, às 6h30 PM ET / 3h30 PM PT, com transmissão pelos canais da organização no YouTube e Twitch.

A premiação chega ao seu segundo ano com a missão de destacar jogos independentes que poderiam passar despercebidos, reforçando a relevância crescente do mercado indie. Ao todo, a edição deste ano conta com 21 categorias.

Entre os apresentadores confirmados estão nomes como Wout van Halderen, da Playstack, Jade Meadows, Justin Woodward (The MIX) e outras personalidades influentes da cena independente. A seleção de jurados reúne jornalistas, criadores de conteúdo e profissionais da indústria.

A organização informa que todos os jurados e apresentadores estão listados no site oficial do evento. Além disso, há categorias definidas por júri de curadoria, como Indie Vanguard, The Mohammad Fahmi Storyteller Award e Industry Impact, cujos vencedores serão revelados ao vivo. Também estão abertas as indicações para os prêmios de escolha da comunidade até 24 de novembro.

Indicados ao Indie Awards 2025

Conquista em Acessibilidade

• 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)

ANZ Indie Game Award (Austrália e Nova Zelândia)

• 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)

Pequenas Experiências

• 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)
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• Time Flies (Playables, Panic)

Vozes Negras nos Games

• Advent Neon (CryoGX)
• Altheia: The Wrath of Aferi (MarsLit Games, Neon Doctrine, Game Seer Publishing)
• Sorry We’re Closed (a la mode games, Akupara Games)
• Spirit Swap: Lofi Beats to Match-3 To (Soft Not Weak)
• Sunken Stones (Spritewrench)
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tactical Takedown (Strange Scaffold)

Gestão de Comunidade

• Consume Me (Jenny Jiao Hsia, AP Thomson, Jie En Lee, Violet W-P, Ken “coda” Snyder, Hexecutable)
• Date Everything! (Sassy Chap Games, Team17)
• IKEELYA (ALL DAY ALL NIGHT)
• Peak (Team PEAK, Aggro Crab, Landfall)
• Soulstone Survivors (Game Smithing Limited)
• Strange Scaffold (Strange Scaffold, Frosty Pop)

Jogo de Estreia

• 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 We’re Closed (a la mode Games, Akupara Games)
• Tyrant’s Realm (Team Tyrant, Skystone Games)

Impacto Emocional

• Afterlove EP (Pikselnesia, Fellow Traveller)
• and Roger (TearyHand Studio, Kodansha)
• Don’t 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)

Design de Jogabilidade

• 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)

Inovação

• 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)

Jogo Indie Latino-Americano

• Adventure of Samsara (Ilex Games, Atari)
• despelote (Julian Cordero, Sebastian Valbuena, Panic)
• Kulebra and the Souls of Limbo (Galla, Fellow Traveller)
• Pipistrello and the Cursed Yoyo (Pocket Trap, PM Studios)
• Taria & Como (Poppyseed Studio Inc, JuVee Productions)
• Tormented Souls II (Dual Effect, PQube)

Trilha Sonora

• 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, 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)

Narrativa

• 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)

Desenvolvimento Solo

• ANTONBLAST (Summitsphere, Joystick Ventures)
• Lushfoil Photography Sim (Matt Newell, Annapurna Interactive)
• Megabonk (vedinad)
• NAIAD (HiWarp)
• Spilled! (Lente)
• Vile: Exhumed (Cara Cadaver, DreadXP)

Jogo Indie Sul-Africano

• Bru & Boegie Get Da Milk! (MIKDOG)
• Finding Father (Studio Bo)
• Flibbius McDoogle and The Mysterious Flying Machine (Unsigned Double Collective)
• IKEELYA (ALL DAY ALL NIGHT)
• Metavoidal (Yellow Lab Games)
• Stick It to the Stickman (Free Lives, Devolver Digital)

Southeast Asian Indie Award (Sudeste Asiático)

• Afterlove EP (Pikselnesia, Fellow Traveller)
• Artis Impact (Mas, Feuxon)
• Glyphica: Typing Survival (aliasBLACK, Squeaky Wheel)
• SEDAP! A Culinary Adventure (kopiforge, Isolated Games Publishing, IndieArk)
• Urban Jungle (Kylyk Games, Assemble Entertainment)
• Whisper Mountain Outbreak (Toge Productions)

Design Visual

• 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)

Estúdios Liderados por Mulheres

• Cabernet (Party for Introverts, Akupara Games)
• Duck Detective: The Ghost of Glamping (Happy Broccoli Games)
• Gemporium: A Cute Mining Sim (Merge Conflict Studio)
• Spilled! (Lente)
• Urban Myth Dissolution Center (Hakaba Bunko, Shueisha Games)
• White Knuckle (Dark Machine Games, DreadXP)

Jogo do Ano

• 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)
• Consume Me (Jenny Jiao Hsia, AP Thomson, Jie En Lee, Violet W-P, Ken “coda” Snyder)
• Hades II (Supergiant Games)
• Hollow Knight: Silksong (Team Cherry)
• Keep Driving (YCJY Games)
• Pipistrello and the Cursed Yoyo (Pocket Trap)

Com a aproximação da segunda edição, os Indie Game Awards 2025 reforçam sua proposta de valor ao dar visibilidade a estúdios de todos os portes. A cerimônia promete destacar produções inovadoras que movimentaram — e continuarão movimentando — a cena independente no próximo ano.