Awards that remain more varied than the Game Awards
But fortunately, unlike the Game Awards, this Indie Game Awards 2025 ceremony is a little more eclectic and varied, leaving room for many other games, in order to show that the year did not stop with the release of the French RPG.
Here is the list of winners at the Indie Game Awards 2025 :
Better accessibility
- Abiotic Factor (Deep Field Games, Playstack)
- Barista (YofiAsi)
- Calm the Storm (Ludic Lemur)
- Winner: Peak (Team PEAK, Aggro Crab, Landfall)
- Spray Paint Simulator (North Star Video Games, Whitethorn Games)
- Squeakross: Home Squeak Home (Alblune)
ANZ Indie Game Award (Best Australian Game)
- Abiotic Factor
- Hollow Knight: Silksong
- Mars First Logistics
- PROXIMATE
- Tempopo
- Winner: The Drifter
Best short game
- CARIMARA: Beneath the Forlorn Limbs
- FlyKnight
- Many Nights a Whisper
- The Dark Queen of Mortholme
- this game will end in 205 clicks.
- Winner: Time Flies
Black Voices in Gaming Award
- Advent Neon
- Winner: Altheia: The Wrath of Aferi
- Sorry We’re Closed
- Spirit Swap: Lofi Beats to Match-3 To
- Sunken Stones
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tactical Takedown
Community Management
- Consume Me
- Date Everything!
- IKEELYA
- Winner: PEAK
- Soulstone Survivors
- Strange Scaffold
Best first game
- Winner: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
- Discounty
- Fretless: The Wrath of Riffson
- ILA: A Frosty Glide
- Sorry We’re Closed
- Tyrant’s Realm
Emotional impact
- Afterlove EP
- Winner: and Roger
- Don’t Get Your Hopes Up
- Henry Halfhead
- Wanderstop
- Wednesdays
Best gameplay design
- Absolute
- Winner: BALL x PIT
- Dawnfolk
- Hades II
- Hollow Knight: Silksong
- Keep Driving
- Look Outside
- Ooo
- Pipistrello and the Cursed Yoyo
- The King is Watching
Innovation
- Winner: Blue Prince
- FREERIDE
- Gas Station Story
- PBJ The Musical
- Ruffy and the Riverside
- Taria & Como
Latin American Indie Award
- Adventure of Samsara
- despelote
- Kulebra and the Souls of Limbo
- Winner: Pipistrello and the Cursed Yoyo
- Taria & Como
- Tormented Souls II
Best soundtrack
- Everhood 2
- Herding
- Winner: Rift of the NecroDancer
- SONOKUNI
- Sword of the Sea
- Wheel World
Best Storytelling
- Winner: Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector
- Consume Me
- Promise Mascot Agency
- The Drifter
- The Roottrees are Dead
- The Seance of Blake Manor
Best solo developed game
- Winner: Tall Trails
- Lushfoil Photography Sim
- Megabonk
- NAIAD
- Spilled!
- Vile: Exhumed
South African Indie Game Award
- Bru & Boegie Get Da Milk!
- Finding Father
- Flibbius McDoogle and The Mysterious Flying Machine
- IKEELYA
- Metavoidal
- Winner: Stick It to the Stickman
Southeast Asian Indie Award
- Afterlove EP
- Winner: Artis Impact
- Glyphica: Typing Survival
- SEDAP! A Culinary Adventure
- Urban Jungle
- Whisper Mountain Outbreak
Best visual design
- Winner: 30 Birds
- Artis Impact
- Cat Detective Albert Wilde
- Eclipsium
- Mashina
- Slime Rancher 2
Women-Led Indie Game Award
- Cabernet
- Duck Detective: The Ghost of Glamping
- Gemporium: A Cute Mining Sim
- Spilled!
- Winner: Urban Myth Dissolution Center
- White Knuckle
Game of the Year
- Absolute
- and Roger
- Blue Prince
- Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector
- Winner: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
- Consume Me
- Hades II
- Hollow Knight: Silksong
- Keep Driving
- Pipistrello and the Cursed Yoyo