The Indie Game Awards 2025 – Confira os vencedores

A segunda edição do Indie Game Awards aconteceu na noite de quinta-feira, 18 de dezembro, e anunciou os vencedores em 21 categorias dedicadas ao cenário de jogos independentes. A cerimônia foi transmitida ao vivo às 18h30 no horário do leste dos Estados Unidos e às 15h30 no Pacífico, apresentando premiações que destacaram desde Game of the Year até acessibilidade, design e inovação.

Organizado pelo grupo responsável pelo canal Six One Indie, o evento reuniu jogos e estúdios de diversas regiões do mundo. A programação destacou segmentos gravados para cada premiação, com possibilidade de assistir aos trechos separadamente ou acompanhar a apresentação completa no canal oficial.

Confira abaixo a lista dos indicados e os vencedores de cada categoria:

Conquista em Acessibilidade

• Abiotic Factor (Deep Field Games, Playstack)
• Barista (YofiAsi)
• Calm the Storm (Ludic Lemur)
• Peak (Team PEAK, Aggro Crab, Landfall) – VENCEDOR
• 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) – VENCEDOR

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) – VENCEDOR

Vozes Negras nos Games

• Advent Neon (CryoGX)
• Altheia: The Wrath of Aferi (MarsLit Games, Neon Doctrine, Game Seer Publishing) – VENCEDOR
• 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) – VENCEDOR
• Soulstone Survivors (Game Smithing Limited)
• Strange Scaffold (Strange Scaffold, Frosty Pop)

Jogo de Estreia

• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Sandfall Interactive, Kepler Interactive) – VENCEDOR
• 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) – VENCEDOR
• 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) – VENCEDOR
• 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) – VENCEDOR
• 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) – VENCEDOR
• 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) – VENCEDOR
• 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) – VENCEDOR
• 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)
• Tall Trails (Brady Soglin) – VENCEDOR

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) – VENCEDOR

Southeast Asian Indie Award (Sudeste Asiático)

• Afterlove EP (Pikselnesia, Fellow Traveller)
• Artis Impact (Mas, Feuxon) – VENCEDOR
• 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) – VENCEDOR
• 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) – VENCEDOR
• 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) – VENCEDOR
• 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)

A cerimônia reforçou o crescimento global da produção independente, dando visibilidade a estúdios que atuam em escalas menores e com recursos limitados. A diversidade de categorias, regiões representadas e estilos premiados mostrou que a cena indie segue expandindo linguagens e formatos, com influências culturais distintas e abordagens autorais. Com transmissões, trechos dedicados e plateia digital, a edição de 2025 amplia o alcance da premiação e posiciona o Indie Game Awards como um espaço consolidado dentro da indústria.