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.

Entre os concorrentes de peso que Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 superou na categoria principal estavam Blue Prince, Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector, Hades 2 e Hollow Knight: Silksong, confirmando 2025 como um ano extraordinário para o segmento indie. Além de Game of the Year, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 também levou o prêmio de Debut Game, reforçando o impacto deste título de estreia da Sandfall Interactive no mercado.

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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:

• Maddy Thorson – Extremely OK Games, Ltd.

 

Industry Impact Award:

• Game Devs of Color – represented by Catt Small, Brian S. Chung, and Josh Boykin

 

Fonte: Multiplayer.it

 

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