Winner List of Indie Game Award 2022

Online Ceremony


Winner List

Prize Country Area Developer/Team Game Title
Best Narrative Taiwan Creative Games & Computer Graphics Corporation The Legend of Tianding
Best Audio France Glee-Cheese Studio A Musical Story
Best Visual Art United States Ember Lab Kena: Bridge of Spirits
Best Design Canada Red Nexus Games Peglin
Best Innovation Germany Toukana Interactive Dorfromantik
Best Mobile Game Israel Lo-Fi People Blind Drive
Grand Prix United States Ember Lab Kena: Bridge of Spirits
Grand Prix / Best Visual Art
Game Title: Kena: Bridge of Spirits
Developer/Team: Ember Lab (United States)
Website: https://www.emberlab.com/
Game Intro:
Immerse yourself in a story-driven action-adventure set in a charming world rich with exploration and fast-paced combat. Play as Kena, a young Spirit Guide travelling to an abandoned village in search of the sacred mountain shrine. Find and grow a team of tiny spirits known as the Rot who maintain balance by decomposing dead and rotting elements. Enhance your companions’ abilities, create new ways to manipulate the environment and uncover the secrets of a forgotten community hidden in an overgrown forest where wandering spirits are trapped.
Best Narrative
Game Title: The Legend of Tianding
Developer/Team: Creative Games & Computer Graphics Corporation (Taiwan)
Website: https://www.cgcg.games/
Game Intro:
Play as Liao Tianding, vigilante of Taipei city and wanted by the Colonial Japanese authorities. Rob the rich, feed the poor, and fight for justice in the streets of early 20th century Taipei as Taiwan’s legendary outlaw. Based on real events, real people and real situations, The Legend of Tianding is an exploration of a place and time often overlooked and presented in the style of Traditional Chinese Manga.
Best Audio
Game Title: A Musical Story
Developer/Team: Glee-Cheese Studio (France)
Website: https://www.glee-cheese.com/
Game Intro:
‘A Musical Story’ is a rhythm game set against a 70s backdrop. Explore the memories of Gabriel, a young man trying to come to terms with his situation through the connections to his musical memory.
Best Design
Game Title: Peglin
Developer/Team: Red Nexus Games (Canada)
Website: https://rednexus.games/
Game Intro:
Peglin is a Pachinko Roguelike - Fight enemies by collecting special orbs and popping pegs to deal damage. Acquire special relics that radically change the game and ensure no two runs are the same. Aim carefully to survive in this unique turn-based RPG!
Best Innovation
Game Title: Dorfromantik
Developer/Team: Toukana Interactive (Germany)
Website: https://toukana.com/
Game Intro:
Dorfromantik is a peaceful building strategy and puzzle game where you create a beautiful and ever-growing village landscape by placing tiles. Explore a variety of colorful biomes, discover and unlock new tiles and complete quests to fill your world with life!
Best Mobile Game
Game Title: Blind Drive
Developer/Team: Lo-Fi People (Israel)
Website: https://www.lofipeople.com
Game Intro:
An audio-based, black comedy action arcade game. Blind Drive is a video game you can play with your eyes closed! 1st person hyper-realistic audio meets fast paced arcade gameplay, driven by an insane B-movie plot. Play as Donnie, trying to make a quick buck in a scientific study but quickly finding himself in over his head, cuffed to the wheel and driving blindfolded. Plus he’s late for dinner with Grandma.

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