Indie Game Awards 2025 Nominees Revealed
Vladislav Nikolaev
November 13, 2025, 07:21 PM
November 13, 2025, 07:23 PM
Six One Indie, an organization that promotes and publishes indie games, has announced the nominees for the Indie Game Awards 2025. Winners will be revealed on December 18 during a YouTube broadcast.
Six One Indie, an organization that promotes and publishes indie games, has announced the nominees for the Indie Game Awards 2025. Winners will be revealed on December 18 during a YouTube broadcast.
Game of the Year:
- Absolum (Dotemu, Guard Crush Games and 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 and Ken Snyder);
- Hades 2 (Supergiant Games);
- Hollow Knight: Silksong (Team Cherry);
- Keep Driving (YCJY Games);
- Pipistrello and the Cursed Yoyo (Pocket Trap).
Best Debut Game:
- 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).
Best Gameplay Design:
- Absolum (Dotemu, Guard Crush Games, Supamonks, Gamirror Games);
- BALL x PIT (Kenny Sun, Devolver Digital);
- Dawnfolk (Darenn Keller, Astra Logical);
- Hades 2 (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).
Best Music:
- 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, and 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).
Best Narrative:
- 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 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).
Best Game Made by a Single Developer:
- ANTONBLAST (Summitsphere, Joystick Ventures);
- Lushfoil Photography Sim (Matt Newell, Annapurna Interactive);
- Megabonk (vedinad);
- NAIAD (HiWarp);
- Spilled! (Lente);
- Vile: Exhumed (Cara Cadaver, DreadXP).
Best Visual Design:
- 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).
Earlier, the nominees for the 68th Grammy Awards were announced.
About the author
Vladislav Nikolaev
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News writer for VGTimes since 2021. Primarily writing about games, but also covering film, TV series, and anime. My passion for gaming began in the mid-2000s. I primarily play on PC, and I especially enjoy RPGs and shooters. Some of my all-time favorite titles include Fallout, S.T.A.L.K.E.R., Borderlands, and The Witcher.
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