Indie Game Awards 2025 Winners Announced
Vladislav Nikolaev
During a YouTube broadcast, Six One Indie revealed the winners of the Indie Game Awards 2025. The top honor went to the French JRPG Clair Obscur: Expedition 33.
List of Winners:
- Game of the Year — Clair Obscur: Expedition 33;
- Best Debut Game — Clair Obscur: Expedition 33;
- Best Game Design — BALL x PIT;
- Best Music — Rift of the NecroDancer;
- Best Narrative — Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector;
- Best Solo Dev Game — Tall Trails;
- Best Visual Design — 30 Birds;
- Best Innovation — Blue Prince;
- Most Emotional Game — And Roger;
- Best Game Directed by a Woman — Urban Myth Dissolution Center;
- Best Latin American Game — Pipistrello and the Cursed Yoyo;
- Best South African Game — Stick It to the Stickman;
- Best Southeast Asian Game — Artis Impact;
- Best Community Engagement — Team PEAK;
- Accessibility Achievement — Peak.
It's worth noting that Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 recently secured three awards at the PlayStation Blog Game of the Year Awards 2025, winning in the Best Story, Best Soundtrack, and Best Independent Game categories. Prior to that, it was named Game of the Year at The Game Awards 2025.
Earlier, community voting began for the nominees of The Steam Awards 2025. Five projects are competing for the top prize: the Metroidvania Hollow Knight: Silksong, the JRPG Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, the medieval RPG Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2, the superhero visual novel Dispatch, and the extraction-shooter ARC Raiders. The full list of nominees can be found here.
