This year’s indie award candidates are pretty stacked
It’s a new year, and the 2022 Game Developers Conference is right around the corner. Which means there’s also a new batch of nominees to compete in the 2022 Independent Games Festival, or IGF, Awards.
The competition this year is strong, as we were not left wanting for good indies to play throughout the last year. And I always enjoy reading over the IGF nominees, because they tend to highlight some cool picks that often go overlooked.HadesandUmurangi Generationwere thebig winners of last year’s awards, for example, and the2020 winnersincludedA Short HikeandHeaven’s Vault.
As for the2022 IGF Awards nominees, there are two games leading the pack in nominations:InscryptionandUnpackingboth accrued four category nominations. They’ll be competing with each other in the Audio, Design, and Narrative categories as well as the Grand Prize.
Don’t rule out the competition, though. Some of these, likeCruelty SquadandUnsighted, could be fierce competition. Really, reading down the nominations, it was like a list of games I need to get around to playing, alongside the ones I’ve already been playing.
Here’s the full lineup of nominees for the 2022 IGF Awards:
Excellence in Design
Excellence in Audio
You can find the full list of games and developer bios, as well as honorable mentions for each of the categories, at the2022 IGF Awards site here.
