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Independent Games Festival
The IGF Takes Place During GDC
PAVILION: March 19-21, 2025
CEREMONY: March 19, 2025


2020 Finalists & Winners

Seumas McNally Grand Prize

Honorable Mentions: Katana ZERO (Askiisoft), Lonely Mountains: Downhill (Megagon Industries), Song of Bloom (Philipp Stollenmayer), Wide Ocean, Big Jacket (Turnfollow), Elsinore (Golden Glitch), Astrologaster (Nyamyam), Heaven's Vault (inkle)

Best Student Game

Honorable Mentions: Unhatched (Filip Loster), Du Rejser (You Travel) (Victor Selnæs Breum + Katinka), Trail Mix (Puzzsoft), Where the Bees Make Honey (Brian Wilson), Northbound (Johannes Köberle & Arno Justus), Evergreen Blues (David Su and Dominique Star)

Excellence in Audio

Honorable Mentions: Afterparty (Night School Studio), Kind Words (lo fi chill beats to write to) (Popcannibal), Manifold Garden (William Chyr Studio), Alt-Frequencies (Accidental Queens), Don't Look (Don't Look Team), Lonely Mountains: Downhill (Megagon Industries), Tales From Off-Peak City Vol. 1 (Cosmo D)

Excellence in Design

Honorable Mentions: Guildlings (Sirvo Studios), Nauticrawl (Andrea Interguglielmi), Blabyrinth (Sleeping Beast Games), Children of Morta (Dead Mage), Void Bastards (Blue Manchu), Untitled Goose Game (House House), Creature in the Well (Flight School Studio)

Excellence in Narrative

Honorable Mentions: American Election (Greg Buchanan), Night Call (Monkey Moon, BlackMuffin), Astrologaster (Nyamyam), A Short Hike (Adam Robinson-Yu), Adventures With Anxiety! (Nicky Case), Observation (No Code)

Excellence in Visual Art

Honorable Mentions: LUNA The Shadow Dust (Lantern Studio), Eastshade (Eastshade Studios), Minute of Islands (Studio Fizbin), Katana ZERO (Askiisoft), Song of Bloom (Philipp Stollenmayer), A Short Hike (Adam Robinson-Yu), Creaks (Amanita Design)

Nuovo Award

Honorable Mentions: Astrologaster (Nyamyam), Elsinore (Golden Glitch), Fit for a King (Brent Ellison & Tanya X. Short), My Exercise (Atsushi Wada, Ryoya Usuha, Nobuaki Doi), Where the Bees Make Honey (Brian Wilson), Smile For Me (Gabe Lane and Yugo Limbo / LimboLane)

Audience Award

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