To Hell With the Ugly (La Poule Noire, ARTE France).

RPG Time: The Legend of Wright (DeskWorks Inc.).

How Deep Is the Dark Water? (Rhett Tsai).

Honourable Mentions: Eternal Threads (Cosmonaut Studios), Queer Man Peering Into a Rock Pool.jpg (Fuzzy Ghost), Roadwarden (Moral Anxiety Studio), The Case of the Golden Idol (Color Gray Games), The Excavation of Hob’s Barrow (Cloak and Dagger Games), The Wreck (The Pixel Hunt) Excellence in Visual Arts

Immortality (Sam Barlow, Half Mermaid).

I Was a Teenage Exocolonist (Northway Games).

Honourable Mentions: Citizen Sleeper (Jump Over the Age), Cursed to Golf (Chuhai Labs), Potion Craft: Alchemist Simulator (niceplay games), Swordship (Digital Kingdom), Terra Nil (Free Lives), Tinykin (Splashteam) Excellence in Narrative

The Case of the Golden Idol (Color Gray Games).

Honourable Mentions: Betrayal at Club Low (Cosmo D Studios), Cult of the Lamb (Massive Monster), Immortality (Sam Barlow, Half Mermaid), Melatonin (Half Asleep), Neon White (Angel Matrix), Tinykin (Splashteam) Excellence in Design Honourable Mentions: A Mallard’s Song (Ducky Elford), Error143 (Jenny Vi Pham), Paper Planet (Doodlegames), The Longest Walk (Alexander Tarvet), zenosyne (Ezra Szanton) Excellence in Audio

Presenter Slides (Mathias Schifter & Brin Žvan).

Here’s the full list of Independent Games Festival nominees, courtesy of the IGF.

IGF Awards 2023 – Full list of nominations The incredible-looking RPG Time: The Legend of Wright won the award for Excellence in Visual Art, with its pencil-drawn and cardboard cutout collage style, and the brilliant Immortality took out the award for Excellence in Narrative.Ĭongratulations to all the winners, finalists, and honorable mentions of the 2023 IGF Awards. The Case of the Golden Idoltook out the award for Excellence in Design, which shouldn’t surprise anyone who has experienced the game’s fantastic approach to player-driven deduction.

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