インディーゲームを対象としたアワード「2025 IGF Awards」ファイナリスト発表！

インディーゲームを対象とした年次イベント「The Independent Games Festival」で決定するアワード「Independent Games Festival Awards（IGF Awards）」の第27回ノミネート作品が発表されました。

応募作品500本の中から数百人の審査員による一次審査を経て、ゲーム業界全体から集まった多様な専門審査員が実際にプレイして選出される「IGF Awards」。今回は開発者自身のダイエットや摂食障害の体験を基にティーンエイジャーの生活を描く『Consume Me』が大賞の「Seumas McNally Grand Prize」を含む最多5部門でノミネート。また、2001年のエクアドルを舞台にサッカーに魅了された少年を描く『Despelote』が同じく大賞を含む4部門でノミネートしています。

各部門のノミネート作品は次の通りです。

Best Student Game

• A Dual Ascent (Mountain Toad Entertainment / Rubika Supinfogame)




• DisplaceMen (Eversea Club / leafaleaves)




• Growth Spurt: A Meandering Intermission into the Afterhours of a Miscalculation (Games for my Computer)




• Slot Waste (Vinny Roca / pickpanpuck productions)




• The WereCleaner (Howlin' Hugs / USC Games)




• Year Unknown (Julian Heuser)

選外佳作:

• Cards of Heart (GoodMind Games)




• Duck Paradox (Magic Games / Midwest Games)




• Lost Garden (​​Ori Shany, Yoni Pushett, Ramon Zerem)




• Perfect World (Michael Overton Brown)




• Timeworks (Starworks Studios)

Excellence in Audio

• Anger Foot (Free Lives / Devolver Digital)




• Despelote (Julián Cordero, Sebastian Valbuena / Panic)




• INDIKA (Odd Meter / 11 bit studios)




• ODDADA (Sven Ahlgrimm, Mathilde Hoffmann, Bastian Clausdorff)




• Thank Goodness You're Here! (Coal Supper / Panic)




• Utopia Must Fall (Pixeljam)

選外佳作:

• Animal Well (Billy Basso / Bigmode)




• Mouthwashing (Wrong Organ / CRITICAL REFLEX)




• Pacific Drive (Ironwood Studios / Kepler Interactive)




• Rise of the Golden Idol (Color Gray Games / Playstack)




• UFO 50 (Mossmouth)

Excellence in Design

• Balatro (LocalThunk / Playstack)




• Blue Prince (Dogubomb / Raw Fury)




• Caves of Qud (Freehold Games / Kitfox Games)




• Consume Me (Jenny Jiao Hsia, AP Thomson, Jie En Lee, Violet W-P, Ken "coda" Snyder)




• Pacific Drive (Ironwood Studios / Kepler Interactive)




• Tactical Breach Wizards (Suspicious Developments)

選外佳作:

• Animal Well (Billy Basso / Bigmode)




• No Case Should Remain Unsolved (Somi)




• UFO 50 (Mossmouth)




• LOK Digital (Letibus Design, Icedrop Games / Draknek and Friends)




• Eigengrau (Martin Mauersics)




• The Rise of the Golden Idol (Color Gray Games / Playstack)

Excellence in Narrative

• Caves of Qud (Freehold Games / Kitfox Games)




• Closer the Distance (Osmotic Studios / Skybound Games)




• Consume Me (Jenny Jiao Hsia, AP Thomson, Jie En Lee, Violet W-P, Ken "coda" Snyder)




• Despelote (Julián Cordero, Sebastian Valbuena / Panic)




• INDIKA (Odd Meter / 11 bit studios)




• No Case Should Remain Unsolved (Somi)

選外佳作:

• Blue Prince (Dogubomb / Raw Fury)




• Miniatures (Other Tales Interactive)




• Mouthwashing (Wrong Organ / CRITICAL REFLEX)




• Tactical Breach Wizards (Suspicious Developments)




• Thank Goodness You're Here! (Coal Supper / Panic)




• The Thaumaturge (Fool's Theory / 11 bit studios)

Excellence in Visual Arts

• Children of the Sun (René Rother / Devolver Digital)




• Consume Me (Jenny Jiao Hsia, AP Thomson, Jie En Lee, Violet W-P, Ken "coda" Snyder)




• Hauntii (Moonloop Games / Firestoke)




• Judero (Talha and Jack Co, J. King-Spooner, Talha Kaya)




• Nine Sols (RedCandleGames)




• Thank Goodness You're Here! (Coal Supper / Panic)

選外佳作:

• Crow Country (SFB Games)




• Death of the Reprobate (Joe Richardson)




• Miniatures (Other Tales Interactive)




• Tiny Glade (Pounce Light)




• Ultros (Hadoque / Kepler Interactive)

Nuovo Award

• Consume Me (Jenny Jiao Hsia, AP Thomson, Jie En Lee, Violet W-P, Ken "coda" Snyder)




• Despelote (Julián Cordero, Sebastian Valbuena / Panic)




• Extreme Evolution: Drive to Divinity (Sam Atlas)




• Ginger (Kevin Du / lizu ktap)




• individualism in the dead-internet age: an anti-big tech asset flip shovelware rant manifesto (alienmelon)




• Starship Home (Creature)




• tapeçaria (tapestry) (mut/moochi (with help from plunderludics working group))




• 8番出口 (KOTAKE CREATE / Active Gaming Media Inc)

選外佳作:

• Arctic Eggs (The Water Museum, cockydoody, abmarnie, Cameron Ginex / CRITICAL REFLEX)




• Judero (Talha and Jack Co, J. King-Spooner, Talha Kaya)




• Onto Maizilind Unto Infinity (Kas Ghobadi, Julián Palacios Gechtman / Kasrah Ghobadi)




• Price of Flight (WATERBOX)




• Project Y (Project_Y Production Committee)




• Refind Self: The Personality TestGame (Lizardry / PLAYISM)

Seumas McNally Grand Prize

• Caves of Qud (Freehold Games / Kitfox Games)




• Consume Me (Jenny Jiao Hsia, AP Thomson, Jie En Lee, Violet W-P, Ken "coda" Snyder)




• Despelote (Julián Cordero, Sebastian Valbuena / Panic)




• INDIKA (Odd Meter / 11 bit studios)




• Thank Goodness You're Here! (Coal Supper / Panic)




• UFO 50 (Mossmouth)

選外佳作:

• Animal Well (Billy Basso / Bigmode)




• Balatro (LocalThunk / Playstack)




• Blue Prince (Dogubomb / Raw Fury)




• Mouthwashing (Wrong Organ / CRITICAL REFLEX)




• Nine Sols (RedCandleGames)




• Tactical Breach Wizards (Suspicious Developments)

最終的な受賞者は「2025 Game Developers Conference（GDC 2025）」開催期間中の現地時間3月26日に発表予定です。