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Independent Games Festival (IGF) Awards 2023: All Winning Games
On the night of Wednesday, March 22, 2023, in the middle of the Game Developers Conference or GDC, the Independent Games Festival or IGF Awards were given to the best indie games of the year, let’s meet the winners.
Independent Games Festival (IGF) Awards Winners 2023
best student game
- gevaudan (Nicholas Bernard)
- Mind Diver (Indoor Sunglasses)
- Presenter Slides (Mathias Schifter & BrinŽvan)
- shutter (ARTFX 2022)
- Skala (Gustav Almstrom)
- Slider (randomerz) *Winner*
audio excellence
- Dome Keeper (Bippin bits)
- Paradise Marsh (LazyEti)
- South of the Circle (State of Play)
- The Forest Quartet (Mads & Friends) *Winner*
- TUNIC (TUNIC Team)
- We are OFK (Team OFK)
desEsports Extrasexcellence
- Against the Storm (Ermit Games)
- Betrayal at Club Low (Cosmo D Studios)
- Mr Sun’s Hatbox (Kenny Sun)
- Neon White (Angel Matrix)
- stacklands (Sokpop Collective)
- The Case of the Golden Idol (Color Gray Games) *Winner*
excellence in narrative
- Butterfly Soup 2 (Brianna Lee)
- Citizen Sleeper (Jump Over the Age)
- I Was a Teenage Exocolonist (Northway Games)
- IMMORTALITY (Sam Barlow, Half Mermaid) *Winner*
- NORCO (Geography of Robots)
- South of the Circle (State of Play)
Excellence in Visual Arts
- afterglitch (Vladimir Kudelka)
- How Deep Is the Dark Water? (Rhett Tsai)
- potionomics (Voracious Games)
- RPG Time: The Legend of Wright (DeskWorks Inc.) *Winner*
- To Hell With the Ugly (La Poule Noire, ARTE France)
- TUNIC (TUNIC Team)
new prize
- afterglitch (Vladimir Kudelka)
- An Outcry (Quinn K.)
- Betrayal at Club Low (Cosmo D Studios) *Winner*
- He Fucked The Girl Out Of Me (Taylor McCue)
- Queer Man Peering Into a Rock Pool.jpg (Fuzzy Ghost)
- sylvie lime (Love♥️Game)
- Time Bandit (Joel Jordan)
- Titanic II: Orchestra for Dying At Sea (Flan Falacci)
Seumas McNally Grand Prix
- Betrayal at Club Low (Cosmo D Studios) *Winner*
- TUNIC (TUNIC Team)
- The Case of the Golden Idol (Color Gray Games)
- IMMORTALITY (Sam Barlow, Half Mermaid)
- Neon White (Angel Matrix)
- Not For Broadcast (NotGames)
Those were the winners of the Independent Games Festival or IGF Awards 2023. Now, let’s continue with the GDCA awards.
Source: GDC official channel on Twitch
