Winner List of Indie Game Award 2025

Winners of Indie Game Award 2025


Winner List

Award Category Country Area Game Title Developer/Team
Best Narrative Taiwan Minds Beneath Us Bearbone
Best Audio Spain The Midnight Barber Omaet Games
Best Visual Art China Sunset Hills Cotton Game
Best Design Taiwan Bionic Bay Psychoflow Studio
Best Innovation Canada Balatro LocalThunk
Best Mobile Game Canada Balatro LocalThunk
Best Student Game South Korea MONOWAVE BBB
Grand Prix Taiwan Minds Beneath Us Bearbone
Best Narrative
Game Title: Minds Beneath Us
Developer/Team:Bearbone (Taiwan)
Website: https://x.com/BearboneStudio
Game Intro:
Minds Beneath Us is an emotional sci-fi narrative game where humans are exploited as AI computing devices. Experience the story through a humble individual, listen to others' concerns, and offer guidance as you confront an uncertain destiny.
Best Audio
Game Title: The Midnight Barber
Developer/Team: Omaet Games (Spain)
Website: http://www.omaetgames.com
Game Intro:
A narrative ASMR adventure about a supernatural barbershop in a late 70s Barcelona. Trim to the beat to gain the trust of your mystical clientele and discover their darkest secrets.
Best Visual Art
Game Title: Sunset Hills
Developer/Team: Cotton Game (China)
Website: https://www.cottongame.com/en/
Game Intro:
After being discharged from the army and starting to write novels, Nico embarks on a trip to the world with the roar of a train, encountering all kinds of people and events on the way, and experiencing the new world after the war, and the real purpose of Nico's trip gradually emerges.
Best Design
Game Title: Bionic Bay
Developer/Team: Psychoflow Studio (Taiwan)
Website: https://psychoflowstudio.com/zhtw/
Game Intro:
A scientist uses a unique teleportation instrument to escape an ancient biomechanical world filled with imaginative technology, deadly traps, and hidden secrets.
Best Innovation
Game Title: Balatro
Developer/Team: LocalThunk (Canada)
Website: https://www.playbalatro.com/
Game Intro:
The poker roguelike. Balatro is a hypnotically satisfying deckbuilder where you play illegal poker hands, discover game-changing jokers, and trigger adrenaline-pumping, outrageous combos.
Best Mobile Game
Game Title: Balatro
Developer/Team: LocalThunk (Canada)
Website: https://www.playbalatro.com/
Game Intro:
The poker roguelike. Balatro is a hypnotically satisfying deckbuilder where you play illegal poker hands, discover game-changing jokers, and trigger adrenaline-pumping, outrageous combos.
Best Student Game
Game Title: MONOWAVE
Developer/Team: BBB (South Korea)
Website: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2680440/
Game Intro:
MONOWAVE is a whimsical puzzle-adventure platformer about the humane power of emotions. Explore beautiful landscapes and empathize with their quirky denizens to restore harmony in an emotionally turbulent universe.
Grand Prix
Game Title: Minds Beneath Us
Developer/Team: Bearbone (Taiwan)
Website: https://x.com/BearboneStudio
Game Intro:
Minds Beneath Us is an emotional sci-fi narrative game where humans are exploited as AI computing devices. Experience the story through a humble individual, listen to others' concerns, and offer guidance as you confront an uncertain destiny.

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