2018 Finalists & Winners

• Night in the Woods (Infinite Fall)
• Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy (Bennett Foddy)
• West of Loathing (Asymmetric Publications)
• Into the Breach (Subset Games)
• Heat Signature (Suspicious Developments)
• Baba is You (Hempuli)

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)

• Baba Is You (Hempuli)
• IO Interloper (DANG!)
• Don't Make Love (Maggese)
• Penny Blue Finds a Clue (DigiPen Team Cactus Curse)
• We Were Here (Total Mayhem Games)
• Guardian of the Gears (DigiPen Team Studio 76)

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)

• Uurnog Uurnlimited (Nifflas Games)
• Tormentor X Punisher (e-studio)
• Cuphead (StudioMDHR)
• Vignettes (Skeleton Business)
• Rain World (VIDEOCULT)
• Celeste (Matt Makes Games)

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)

• Baba Is You (Hempuli)
• Into the Breach (Subset Games)
• SHENZHEN I/O (Zachtronics)
• Wilmot's Warehouse (Richard Hogg, Ricky Haggett, Eli Rainsberry)
• Uurnog Uurnlimited (Nifflas Games)
• Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy (Bennett Foddy)

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

• Night in the Woods (Infinite Fall)
• Tacoma (Fullbright)
• Attentat 1942 (Charles University and Czech Academy of Sciences)
• Where the Water Tastes Like Wine (Dim Bulb Games)
• Butterfly Soup (Brianna Lei)
• Tooth and Tail (Pocketwatch Games)

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)

• CHUCHEL (Amanita Design)
• Night in the Woods (Infinite Fall)
• Cuphead (StudioMDHR)
• ECHO (ULTRA ULTRA)
• Luna (Funomena)
• The Gardens Between (The Voxel Agents)

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)

• Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy (Bennett Foddy)
• TAROTICA VOO DOO (TPM.CO SOFT WORKS)
• 10 Mississippi (Karina Popp)
• A Mortician's Tale (Laundry Bear Games)
• Cosmic Top Secret (klassefilm)
• Everything Is Going to Be OK (Nathalie Lawhead)
• Baba Is You (Hempuli)
• KIDS (Playables)

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)

• Celeste (Celeste Team)