The 2018 Independent Games Festival finalists are a handsome bunch

Decisions, decisions

Leave it to the IGF to remind me just how jam-packed my bac👍klog is these🥀 days.

The finalists are here for the , including nods to recent favorites like Cuphead, Tacoma, Tooth and Tail, Night in the Woods, Heat Signature, West of Loathing, and A Mortician’s Tale. There’s also a lot of love for the blood-boiling Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy.

We’ll find out the winners on March 21 during the annual Game Developers Conference. This year, League of Geeks (Armello) co-founder Trent Kusters is hosting 🍃the IGF award cer𒊎emony.

Even the honorable mentions are good as hell!

Seumas McNally Grand Prize

• (Bennett Foddy)
• (Infinite Fall)
• (Asymmetric Publications)
• (Subset Games)
• (Suspicious Developments)
• (Hempuli)

Honorable Mentions: (Fullbright); (VIDEOCULT); (Game Grumps🐬); (klassefilm); (Team Cherry); ܫ (StudioMDHR); (Nathalie Lawhead)

Excellence in Visual Art

• (Infinite Fall)
• (StudioMDHR)
• (ULTRA ULTRA)
• (Funomena)
• (The Voxel Agents)
• (Amanita Design)

Honorable Mentions:  (Ghost 🍷Time Games); (Motion Twin); (Forgotten Key); (Pocketwatch Games); (VIDEOCULT); (Hollow Tree Games🌺); (Team Cherry)

Excellence in Audio

• (e-studio)
• (StudioMDHR)
• (Skeleton Business)
• (VIDEOCULT)
• (Nifflas Games)
• (Matt Makes Games)

Honorable Mentions: (Benedict Fritz, Greg Wohlwend, Joeꦕl Corelitz, David Laskey and Jenna Blazevich); (Team Cherry); (Fullbright); (Pocketwatch Games);🔴 (Onion Games); (Infinite Fall)

Excellence in Design

• (Subset Games)
• (Zachtronics)
• (Richard Hogg, Ricky Haggett, Eli Rainsberry)
• (Hempuli)
• (Nifflas Games)
• (Bennett Foddy)

Honorable Mentions: (Suspicious Developments); (Motion Twin); (Wube Software); (I-Illu⛄s൩ions); (Trinket Studios)

Excellence in Narrative

• (Fullbright)
• (Charles University and Czech Academy of Sciences)
• (Dim Bulb Games)
• (Infinite Fall)
• (Brianna Lei)
• (Pocketwatch Games)

Honorable Mentions: (Laundry Bear Games); (Star Maid Games); (Game Grumps); (The Pixel Hunt, Figs and ARTE France); (klassefilm); (Asymmetric Publications💧); (Laura Shigihara)

Nuovo Award

• (Bennett Foddy)
• ( SOFT WORKS)
• (Karina Popp)
• (Laundry Bear Games)
• (klassefilm)
• (Nathalie Lawhead)
• (Hempuli)
• (Playables)

Honorable Mentions: (Dim Bulb Games); (DANG!); (Cosmo D Studios); (Pixeljam); (S.L.Clark); (Onion Gameꦦs)

Best Student Game

• (DANG!)
• (Maggese)
• (DigiPen Team Cactus Curse)
• (Total Mayhem Games)
• (Hempuli)
• (DigiPen Team Studio 76)

Honorable Mentions: (Titan Squad); (Hugo Lefevre, Joseph Reichenbach, Romain Jaohar-Gaillard, Garance Royere Lebigre, Nicolas Tham, Marion Speiser, Delphine Migeot de Baran, Song Huang); (Seemingly Pointless); (Cube 📖Factory); (Perfect Hat / Seth S. Scott); (The Tots Tꦏeam); (Pesky Bees)