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


2018 Finalists & Winners

Seumas McNally Grand Prize

Honorable Mentions: Tacoma (Fullbright), Rain World (VIDEOCULT), Dream Daddy: A Dad Dating Simulator (Game Grumps), Cosmic Top Secret (klassefilm), Hollow Knight (Team Cherry), Cuphead (StudioMDHR), Everything Is Going to Be OK (Nathalie Lawhead)

Best Student Game

Honorable Mentions: Crewsaders (Titan Squad), A.L.F.R.E.D. (Hugo Lefevre, Joseph Reichenbach, Romain Jaohar-Gaillard, Garance Royere Lebigre, Nicolas Tham, Marion Speiser, Delphine Migeot de Baran, Song Huang), MOLOCH (Zero) (Seemingly Pointless), Kyklos Code (Cube Factory), Membrane (Perfect Hat / Seth S. Scott), That Blooming Feeling (The Tots Team), Tell Me What You See (Pesky Bees)

Excellence in Audio

Honorable Mentions: Tumbleseed (Benedict Fritz, Greg Wohlwend, Joel Corelitz, David Laskey and Jenna Blazevich), Hollow Knight (Team Cherry), Tacoma (Fullbright), Tooth and Tail (Pocketwatch Games), Million Onion Hotel (Onion Games), Night in the Woods (Infinite Fall)

Excellence in Design

Honorable Mentions: Heat Signature (Suspicious Developments), Dead Cells (Motion Twin), Factorio (Wube Software), Space Pirate Trainer (I-Illusions), Battle Chef Brigade (Trinket Studios)

Excellence in Narrative

Honorable Mentions: A Mortician's Tale (Laundry Bear Games), Lost Memories Dot Net (Star Maid Games), Dream Daddy: A Dad Dating Simulator (Game Grumps), Bury me, my Love (The Pixel Hunt, Figs and ARTE France), Cosmic Top Secret (klassefilm), West of Loathing (Asymmetric Publications), Rakuen (Laura Shigihara)

Excellence in Visual Art

Honorable Mentions: Jettomero: Hero of the Universe (Ghost Time Games), Dead Cells (Motion Twin), AER - Memories of Old (Forgotten Key), Tooth and Tail (Pocketwatch Games), Rain World (VIDEOCULT), Shape of the World (Hollow Tree Games), Hollow Knight (Team Cherry)

Nuovo Award

Honorable Mentions: Where the Water Tastes Like Wine (Dim Bulb Games), IO Interloper (DANG!), The Norwood Suite (Cosmo D Studios), Cheap Golf (Pixeljam), Witchball (S.L.Clark), Million Onion Hotel (Onion Games)

Audience Award

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