A cena independente dos games ganha novamente os holofotes com o anúncio dos indicados da edição 2025 da Indie Awards, celebração anual que homenageia o melhor da produção independente ao redor do mundo. Neste ano, o evento traz novidades, categorias expandidas e um forte destaque para desenvolvedores emergentes de diversas regiões, incluindo o Brasil.
Novas categorias e curadoria global
Entre as adições de 2025 está a Indie Vanguard Class, que reúne cinco desenvolvedores considerados representantes do futuro da indústria indie. Além disso, a cerimônia contará com novas categorias regionais e de curadorias específicas, em parceria com iniciativas como Latin American Games Showcase, Women-Led Games e Black Voices in Gaming.
Os espectadores também poderão participar diretamente da premiação por meio do segmento Community Picks, enviando seus jogos independentes favoritos em diferentes gêneros.
A lista de apresentadores inclui nomes conhecidos como Chandana Ekanayake, Lena Raine, Remy Siu e Chipzel. Já os indicados foram escolhidos por um painel diversificado de curadores e especialistas, entre eles Six One Indie, Wholesome Games, The MIX, Frosty Games Fest, Playtopia Festival e The Indie Informer, além de veículos como Giant Bomb, Game Informer, GameSpot, e criadores de conteúdo como Wanderbots, Steve Saylor e noclip.
O grande destaque da América Latina este ano vem diretamente do Brasil. Desenvolvido pelo estúdio paulista Pocket Trap ,conhecido por Ninjin: Clash of Carrots, Pipistrello and the Cursed Yoyo (e disponível no Nintendo Switch) foi indicado em três categorias importantes:
Latin American Indie Award
Gameplay Design
Game of the Year
Confira abaixo a listagem completa dos indicados:
(Títulos disponíveis ou confirmados para o Nintendo Switch e Switch 2 estão em negrito)
Indicados ao Indie Awards 2025
Achievement in Accessibility (Conquista em Acessibilidade)
Abiotic Factor (Deep Field Games, Playstack)
Barista (YofiAsi)
Calm the Storm (Ludic Lemur)
Peak (Team PEAK, Aggro Crab, Landfall)
Spray Paint Simulator (North Star Video Games, Whitethorn Games)
Squeakross: Home Squeak Home (Alblune)
ANZ Indie Game Award (Austrália e Nova Zelândia)
Abiotic Factor (Deep Field Games, Playstack)
Hollow Knight: Silksong (Team Cherry)
Mars First Logistics (Shape Shop, Outersloth)
PROXIMATE (Cain Maddox)
Tempopo (Witchbeam, CULT Games)
The Drifter (Powerhoof)
Bite-Sized (Pequenas Experiências)
CARIMARA: Beneath the Forlorn Limbs (Bastinus Rex, CRITICAL REFLEX)
FlyKnight (Wabbaboy)
Many Nights a Whisper (Deconstructeam, Selkie Harbour)
The Dark Queen of Mortholme (Mosu, Monster Theater)
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Time Flies (Playables, Panic)
Black Voices in Gaming Award (Vozes Negras nos Games)
Advent Neon (CryoGX)
Altheia: The Wrath of Aferi (MarsLit Games, Neon Doctrine, Game Seer Publishing)
Sorry We’re Closed (a la mode games, Akupara Games)
Spirit Swap: Lofi Beats to Match-3 To (Soft Not Weak)
Sunken Stones (Spritewrench)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tactical Takedown (Strange Scaffold)
Community Management (Gestão de Comunidade)
Consume Me (Jenny Jiao Hsia, AP Thomson, Jie En Lee, Violet W-P, Ken “coda” Snyder, Hexecutable)
Date Everything! (Sassy Chap Games, Team17)
IKEELYA (ALL DAY ALL NIGHT)
Peak (Team PEAK, Aggro Crab, Landfall)
Soulstone Survivors (Game Smithing Limited)
Strange Scaffold (Strange Scaffold, Frosty Pop)
Debut Game (Jogo de Estreia)
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Sandfall Interactive, Kepler Interactive)
Discounty (Crinkle Cut Games, PQube)
Fretless: The Wrath of Riffson (Ritual Studios, Playdigious Originals)
ILA: A Frosty Glide (Magic Rain Studios, First Break Labs)
Sorry We’re Closed (a la mode Games, Akupara Games)
Tyrant’s Realm (Team Tyrant, Skystone Games)
Emotional Impact (Impacto Emocional)
Afterlove EP (Pikselnesia, Fellow Traveller)
and Roger (TearyHand Studio, Kodansha)
Don’t Get Your Hopes Up (Krish Raghav)
Henry Halfhead (Lululu Entertainment, popagenda)
Wanderstop (Ivy Road, Annapurna Interactive)
Wednesdays (Pierre Corbinais, The Pixel Hunt, exaheva, ARTE France)
Gameplay Design (Design de Jogabilidade)
Absolum (Dotemu, Guard Crush Games, Supamonks, Gamirror Games)
BALL x PIT (Kenny Sun, Devolver Digital)
Dawnfolk (Darenn Keller, Astra Logical)
Hades II (Supergiant Games)
Hollow Knight: Silksong (Team Cherry)
Keep Driving (YCJY Games)
Look Outside (Francis Coulombe, Devolver Digital)
Ooo (NamaTakahashi, tiny cactus studio, Tsuyomi)
Pipistrello and the Cursed Yoyo (Pocket Trap, PM Studios) 🇧🇷
The King is Watching (Hypnohead, tinyBuild)
Innovation (Inovação)
Blue Prince (Dogubomb, Raw Fury)
FREERIDE (Flightyfelon Games, Future Friends Games)
Gas Station Story (enzi)
PBJ The Musical (Philipp Stollenmayer)
Ruffy and the Riverside (Zockrates Laboratories, Phiphen Games)
Taria & Como (Poppyseed Studio Inc, JuVee Productions)
Latin American Indie Award (Jogo Indie Latino-Americano)
Adventure of Samsara (Ilex Games, Atari)
despelote (Julian Cordero, Sebastian Valbuena, Panic)
Kulebra and the Souls of Limbo (Galla, Fellow Traveller)
Pipistrello and the Cursed Yoyo (Pocket Trap, PM Studios) 🇧🇷
Taria & Como (Poppyseed Studio Inc, JuVee Productions)
Tormented Souls II (Dual Effect, PQube)
Music (Trilha Sonora)
Everhood 2 (Cazok, KM_EXP, Stewart Keller, Lewmoth, Chris Nordgren, CatGod, Beat Tape, Dancefloor Is Lava, INFX, Jordi Roca, Foreign Gnomes)
Herdling (Joel Schoch, Okomotive, Panic)
Rift of the NecroDancer (Danny Baranowsky, Alex Moukala, Jules Conroy, Josie Brechner, Sam Webster, Nick Nausbaum, Brace Yourself Games, Tic Toc Games, Klei Publishing)
SONOKUNI (DON YASA CREW, Kakehashi Games)
Sword of the Sea (Austin Wintory, Giant Squid)
Wheel World (Johnny Jewel, JOON, Orion, Messhof, Annapurna Interactive)
Narrative (Narrativa)
Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector (Jump Over the Age, Fellow Traveller)
Consume Me (Jenny Jiao Hsia, AP Thomson, Jie En Lee, Violet W-P, Ken “coda” Snyder, Hexecutable)
Promise Mascot Agency (Kaizen Game Works)
The Drifter (Powerhoof, Dave Lloyd)
The Roottrees are Dead (Evil Trout Inc.)
The Seance of Blake Manor (Spooky Doorway, Raw Fury)
Solo Development (Desenvolvimento Solo)
ANTONBLAST (Summitsphere, Joystick Ventures)
Lushfoil Photography Sim (Matt Newell, Annapurna Interactive)
Megabonk (vedinad)
NAIAD (HiWarp)
Spilled! (Lente)
Vile: Exhumed (Cara Cadaver, DreadXP)
South African Indie Game Award (Jogo Indie Sul-Africano)
Bru & Boegie Get Da Milk! (MIKDOG)
Finding Father (Studio Bo)
Flibbius McDoogle and The Mysterious Flying Machine (Unsigned Double Collective)
IKEELYA (ALL DAY ALL NIGHT)
Metavoidal (Yellow Lab Games)
Stick It to the Stickman (Free Lives, Devolver Digital)
Southeast Asian Indie Award (Sudeste Asiático)
Afterlove EP (Pikselnesia, Fellow Traveller)
Artis Impact (Mas, Feuxon)
Glyphica: Typing Survival (aliasBLACK, Squeaky Wheel)
SEDAP! A Culinary Adventure (kopiforge, Isolated Games Publishing, IndieArk)
Urban Jungle (Kylyk Games, Assemble Entertainment)
Whisper Mountain Outbreak (Toge Productions)
Visual Design (Design Visual)
30 Birds (RAM RAM Games, Business Goose Studios, ARTE France)
Artis Impact (Mas, Feuxon)
Cat Detective Albert Wilde (beyondthosehills)
Eclipsium (Housefire, CRITICAL REFLEX)
Mashina (Talha and Jack Co, J. King Spooner, Talha Kaya, Judatone Studios)
Slime Rancher 2 (Monomi Park)
Women-Led Indie Game Award (Estúdios Liderados por Mulheres)
Cabernet (Party for Introverts, Akupara Games)
Duck Detective: The Ghost of Glamping (Happy Broccoli Games)
Gemporium: A Cute Mining Sim (Merge Conflict Studio)
Spilled! (Lente)
Urban Myth Dissolution Center (Hakaba Bunko, Shueisha Games)
White Knuckle (Dark Machine Games, DreadXP)
Game of the Year (Jogo do Ano)
Absolum (Dotemu, Guard Crush Games, Supamonks)
and Roger (TearyHand Studio)
Blue Prince (Dogubomb)
Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector (Jump Over the Age)
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Sandfall Interactive)
Consume Me (Jenny Jiao Hsia, AP Thomson, Jie En Lee, Violet W-P, Ken “coda” Snyder)
Hades II (Supergiant Games)
Hollow Knight: Silksong (Team Cherry)
Keep Driving (YCJY Games)
Pipistrello and the Cursed Yoyo (Pocket Trap) 🇧🇷
