Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 é o GOTY no Indie Game Awards 2025

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 conquistou mais um importante reconhecimento ao ser eleito o Game of the Year nos Indie Game Awards 2025. O título desenvolvido pela Sandfall Interactive superou uma forte concorrência que incluía jogos como Hollow Knight: Silksong e Hades 2.

A premiação, organizada pelo coletivo Six One Indie, é um dos reconhecimentos mais prestigiados do cenário independente. O evento deste ano contou com a apresentação de três nomes respeitados da indústria: a compositora de Celeste, Lena Raine, a co-fundadora da Outerloop, Chandana Ekanayake, e o músico Chipzel.

A vitória de Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 intensificou o debate sobre sua classificação como indie. Apesar de ter sido publicado por um publisher de grande porte (Tripwire) e contar com um orçamento considerável, o jogo foi desenvolvido com recursos significativamente menores comparados aos resultados obtidos. Esta questão ganhou ainda mais relevância após o título levar o prêmio principal em uma cerimônia dedicada a jogos independentes.

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Game of the Year:

Absolum – Dotemu, Guard Crush Games, and 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, and Ken “coda” Snyder
Hades 2 – Supergiant Games
Hollow Knight: Silksong – Team Cherry
Keep Driving – YCJY Games
Pipistrello and the Cursed Yoyo – Pocket Trap

Achievement in Accessibility:

Abiotic Factor – Deep Field Games
Barista – YofiAsi
Calm the Storm – Ludic Lemur
Peak – Team PEAK
Spray Paint Simulator – North Star Video Games
Squeakross: Home Squeak Home – Alblune

ANZ Indie Game Award:

Abiotic Factor – Deep Field Games
Hollow Knight: Silksong – Team Cherry
Mars First Logistics – Shape Shop
Proximate – Cain Maddox
Tempopo – Witchbeam
The Drifter – Powerhoof

Bite-Sized Game:

Carimara – Beneath the Forlorn Limbs – Bastinus Rex
FlyKnight – Wabbaboy
Many Nights a Whisper – Deconstructeam, Selkie Harbour
The Dark Queen of Mortholme – Mosu
this game will end in 205 clicks. – insertdisc5
Time Flies – Playables

Black Voice in Gaming:

Advent Neon – CryoGX
Altheia: The Wrath of Aferi – MarsLit Games
Sorry We’re Closed – à la mode games
Spirit Swap: Lofi Beats to Match-3 To – Soft Not Weak, LLC
Sunken Stones – Spritewrench
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tactical Takedown – Strange Scaffold

Community Management:

Consume Me – Jenny Jiao Hsia, AP Thomson, Jie En Lee, Violet W-P, Ken “coda” Snyder
Date Everything! – Sassy Chap Games
Ikeelya – ALL DAY ALL NIGHT
Peak – Team PEAK
Soulstone Survivors – Game Smithing Limited
Strange Scaffold – Strange Scaffold

Debut Game:

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 – Sandfall Interactive
Discounty – Crinkle Cut Games
Fretless – The Wrath of Riffson – Ritual Studios
ILA: A Frosty Glide – Magic Rain Studios
Sorry We’re Closed – a la mode Games
Tyrant’s Realm – Team Tyrant

Emotional Impact:

Afterlove EP – Pikselnesia
and Roger – TearyHand Studio
Don’t Get Your Hopes Up – Krish Raghav
Henry Halfhead – Lululu Entertainment
Wanderstop – Ivy Road
Wednesdays – Pierre Corbinais, The Pixel Hunt, exaheva

Gameplay Design:

Absolum – Dotemu, Guard Crush Games, Supamonks
BallxPit – Kenny Sun
Dawnfolk – Darenn Keller
Hades 2 – Supergiant Games
Hollow Knight: Silksong – Team Cherry
Keep Driving – YCJY Games
Look Outside – Francis Coulombe
Öoo – NamaTakahashi, tiny cactus studio, Tsuyomi
Pipistrello and the Cursed Yoyo – Pocket Trap
The King is Watching – Hypnohead

Innovation:

Blue Prince – Dogubomb
FreeRide – Flightyfelon Games Inc.
Gas Station Story – enzi
PBJ The Musical – Philipp Stollenmayer
Ruffy and the Riverside – Zockrates Laboratories UG
Taria & Como – Poppyseed Studio Inc, JuVee Productions

Latin American Indie Award:

Adventure of Samsara – Ilex Games
Despelote – Julian Cordero, Sebastian Valbuena
Kulebra and the Souls of Limbo – Galla
Pipistrello and the Cursed Yoyo – Pocket Trap
Taria & Como – Poppyseed Studio Inc, JuVee Productions
Tormented Souls 2 – Dual Effect

Music:

Everhood 2 – Cazok, KM_EXP, Stewart Keller, Lewmoth, Chris Nordgren, CatGod, Beat Tape, Dancefloor Is Lava, INFX
Herdling – Joel Schoch
Rift of the NecroDancer – Danny Baranowsky, Alex Moukala, Jules Conroy, Josie Brechner, Sam Webster, and Nick Nausbaum
Sonokuni – Don Yasa Crew
Sword of the Sea – Austin Wintory
Wheel World – Johnny Jewel, JOON, Orion

Narrative:

Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector – Jump Over the Age
Consume Me – Jenny Jiao Hsia, AP Thomson, Jie En Lee, Violet W-P, Ken “coda” Snyder
Promise Mascot Agency – Kaizen Game Works
The Drifter – Powerhoof, Dave Lloyd
The Roottrees are Dead – Evil Trout Inc.
The Séance of Blake Manor – Spooky Doorway

Solo Development:

Lushfoil Photography Sim – Matt Newell
Megabonk – vedinad
Naiad – HiWarp
Spilled! – Lente
Tall Trails – Brady Soglin
Vile: Exhumed – Cara Cadaver

South African Indie Game Award:

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

Southeast Asian Indie Game Award:

Afterlove EP – Pikselnesia
Artis Impact – Mas
Glyphica: Typing Survival – aliasBLACK
Sedap! A Culinary Adventure – kopiforge
Urban Jungle – Kylyk Games
Whisper Mountain Outbreak – Toge Productions

Visual Design:

30 Birds – RAM RAM Games, Business Goose Studios
Artis Impact – Mas
Cat Detective Albert Wilde – beyondthosehills
Eclipsium – Housefire
Mashina – Talha and Jack Co, J. King Spooner, Talha Kaya
Slime Rancher 2 – Monomi Park

Women-Led Indie Game Award:

Cabernet – Party for Introverts
Duck Detective: The Ghost of Glamping – Happy Broccoli Games
Gemporium: A Cute Mining Sim – Merge Conflict Studio
Spilled! – Lente
Urban Myth Dissolution Center – Hakababunko
White Knuckle – Dark Machine Games

Indie Vanguard Class Selections:

Chantey – Gortyn Code
Neon Knives – Cookiecrayon
Seasonala Cemetry – Gabby DaRienzo, Kait Tremblay, Jen Costa, Nina Wong, Halina Heron, Mobeen Fiktree, Jacqueline de Leon
HYPERBEAT – Alice Bottino, Chancellor Wallin
Wildwood Down – Crashable Studios

The Mohammad Fahmi Storyteller Award: