Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 continues adding to its trophy case. After bringing home nine awards at The Game Awards 2025, it has added another Game of the Year win from The Indie Game Awards 2025, along with the Debut Game award. There was a greater variety of winners at The Indie Game Awards 2025, and it was great to see some of our favorite games of the year take home wins, such as Ball x Pit and Blue Prince. Meanwhile, Hades II, Hollow Knight: Silksong, and Schedule I were among the winners for Community Picks.
See the full list of winners below.
Achievement in Accessibility
- Winner: Peak
- Abiotic Factor
- Barista
- Calm the Storm
- Spray Paint Simulator
- Squeakross: Home Squeak Home
African Indie Game Award
- Winner: Stick It To The Stickman
- Bru & Boegie Get Da Milk!
- Finding Father
- Flibbius McDoogle and The Mysterious Flying Machine
- IKEELYA
- Metavoidal
ANZ Indie Game Award
- Winner: The Drifter
- Abiotic Factor
- Hollow Knight: Silksong
- Mars First Logistics
- PROXIMATE
- Tempopo
Bite-Sized Game
- Winner: Time Flies
- CARIMARA – Beneath the Forlorn Limbs
- FlyKnight
- Many Nights a Whisper
- The Dark Queen of Mortholme
- this game will end in 205 clicks.
Black Voices in Gaming Award
- Winner: Altheia: The Wrath of Aferi
- Advent Neon
- Sorry We’re Closed
- Spirit Swap: Lofi Beats to Match-3 To
- Sunken Stones
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tactical Takedown
Community Management
- Winner: Peak
- Consume Me
- Date Everything!
- IKEELYA
- Soulstone Survivors
- Strange Scaffold
Community Picks
- Action Game: Hades II
- Adventure Game: Hollow Knight: Silksong
- Horror Game: R.E.P.O.
- Interactive Fiction: Date Everything!
- Multiplayer Game: Peak
- Puzzle Game: Blue Prince
- Role Playing Game (RPG): Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
- Simulation Game: Schedule I
- Strategy Game: The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy
- Survival Game: Abiotic Factor
- Community Game of the Year: Hollow Knight: Silksong
Debut 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
- Winner: and Roger
- Afterlove EP
- Don’t Get Your Hopes Up
- Henry Halfhead
- Wanderstop
- Wednesdays
Gameplay Design
- Winner: Ball x Pit
- Absolum
- Dawnfolk
- Hades II
- Hollow Knight: Silksong
- Keep Driving
- Look Outside
- Öoo
- 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 Game Award
- Winner: Pipistrello and the Cursed Yoyo
- Adventure of Samsara
- despelote
- Kulebra and the Souls of Limbo
- Taria & Como
- Tormented Souls 2
Music
- Winner: Rift of the NecroDancer
- Everhood 2
- Herdling
- SONOKUNI
- Sword of the Sea
- Wheel World
Narrative
- Winner: Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector
- Consume Me
- Promise Mascot Agency
- The Drifter
- The Roottrees are Dead
- The Séance of Blake Manor
Solo Development
- Winner: Tall Trails
- Lushfoil Photography Sim
- Megabonk
- NAIAD
- Spilled!
- Vile: Exhumed
Southeast Asian Indie Game Award
- Winner: Artis Impact
- Afterlove EP
- Glyphica: Typing Survival
- SEDAP! A Culinary Adventure
- Urban Jungle
- Whisper Mountain Outbreak
Visual Design
- Winner: 30 Birds
- Artis Impact
- Cat Detective Albert Wilde
- Eclipsium
- Mashina
- Slime Rancher 2
Women-Led Indie Game Award
- Winner: Urban Myth Dissolution Center
- Cabernet
- Duck Detective: The Ghost of Glamping
- Gemporium: A Cute Mining Sim
- Spilled!
- White Knuckle
Game of the Year
- Winner: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
- Absolum
- and Roger
- Blue Prince
- Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector
- Consume Me
- Hades II
- Hollow Knight: Silksong
- Keep Driving
- Pipistrello and the Cursed Yoyo
The Indie Game Awards 2025
