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


2019 Finalists & Winners

Seumas McNally Grand Prize

Honorable Mentions: Beat Saber (Beat Games), Iconoclasts (Joakim Sandberg), Mirror Drop (Ian Lilley), Moss (Polyarc), Subnautica (Unknown Worlds Entertainment), Unavowed (Wadjet Eye Games), Virtual Virtual Reality (Tender Claws), Wandersong (Greg Lobanov & A Shell in the Pit)

Best Student Game

Honorable Mentions: Atlas' Fate: Between Light and Darkness (Baby Robot Games), Coffin Rot Brewing Co. (Rosser-McGraw Studio), Fling to the Finish (SplitSide Games), Indecision. (Bilge Kaan), Marbloid (Supyrb), Seasons (David Su and Dominique Star), supertype (Philipp Stollenmayer), We Should Talk (HeartBeetStudio)

Excellence in Audio

Honorable Mentions: Creaks (Amanita Design), Distance (Refract Studios), Holedown (grapefrukt games), Pikuniku (Sectordub), The Messenger (Sabotage), Wandersong (Greg Lobanov & A Shell in the Pit), Wattam (Funomena)

Excellence in Design

Honorable Mentions: Beat Saber (Beat Games), Black Room (Cassie McQuater), Carto (Sunhead Games), Hypnospace Outlaw (Jay Tholen, Mike Lasch, Xalavier Nelson Jr., Corey Cochran), JUMPGRID (Ian MacLarty), Mirror Drop (Ian Lilley), Subnautica (Unknown Worlds Entertainment)

Excellence in Narrative

Honorable Mentions: after HOURS (Bahiyya Khan, Claire Meekel, Tim Flusk, Abi Meekel), Do Not Feed the Monkeys (Fictiorama Studios), Fortune-499 (AP Thomson), Marie's Room (like Charlie), Speed Dating for Ghosts (Copychaser Games), Tango: The Adventure Game (Inca Games), The Hex (Daniel Mullins Games)

Excellence in Visual Art

Honorable Mentions: Beat Saber (Beat Games), Guildlings (Sirvo Studios), Iconoclasts (Joakim Sandberg), Moss (Polyarc), Paratopic (Arbitrary Metric), Subnautica (Unknown Worlds Entertainment), Wandersong (Greg Lobanov & A Shell in the Pit)

Nuovo Award

Honorable Mentions: All Our Asias (Sean Han Tani), Cyberpet Graveyard (alienmelon), Hypnospace Outlaw (Jay Tholen, Mike Lasch, Xalavier Nelson Jr., Corey Cochran), levedad (solimporta), macdows 95 (gamebra.in), Nerve Damage (Dennis Carr), Subserial Network (Aether Interactive), The Norwood Suite (Cosmo D)

Audience Award

  • ETHEREAL (Nonsense Arts - Nicolás Recabarren and Tomás Batista)

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