Full stream: https://www.youtube.com/live/kEXe913VjSs
IGF 2025 Winners Roundup: https://youtu.be/qNQnW7cbYsw
2025 Independent Games Festival Winners
Best Student Game: Slot Waste (Vinny Roca)
Excellence in Audio: Despelote (Julián Cordero, Sebastián Valbuena, Panic)
Excellence in Design: Tactical Breach Wizards (Suspicious Deployment)
Excellence in Narrative: Caves of Qud (Freehold Games, Kitfox Games)
Excellence in Visual Art: Haunth (Moonloop Games, Firestoke)
Nuovo Award: Consume Me (Jenny Jiao Hsia, AP Thomson, Jie En Lee, Violet W-P, Ken “Coda” Snyder)
Seamus McNally Grand Prize: Consume Me (Jenny Jiao Hsia, AP Thomson, Jie En Lee, Violet W-P, Ken “Coda” Snyder)
GDCA 2025 Winners Roundup: https://youtu.be/BLzWLIk0_e8
2025 Game Developers Choice Awards Winners
Best Debut: Balatro (LocalThunk, Playstack)
Best Audio: Astro Bot (PlayStation Studios Team Asobi, Sony Interactive Entertainment)
Best Design: Balatro (LocalThunk, Playstack)
Best Narrative: Metaphor: Refantazio (Studio Zero, Atlus)
Best Visual Art: Black Myth: Wukong (Game Science)
Innovation Award: Balatro (LocalThunk, Playstack)
Social Impact Award: Life is Strange: Double Exposure (Deck Nine Games, Square Enix)
Audience Award: Final Fantasy VII Rebirth (Square Enix)
Game of the Year: Balatro (LocalThunk, Playstack)
Congratulations to the winners and finalists!