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VOTES CAST—/29

Best Independent Game

For outstanding creative and technical achievement in a game made outside the traditional publisher system.

  • Absolum

    Guard Crush Games/Supamonks/Dotemu

  • Ball x Pit

    Kenny Sun/Devolver Digital

  • Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

    Sandfall Interactive/Kepler Interactive

  • Hades II

    Supergiant Games

  • Blue Prince

    Dogubomb/Raw Fury

  • Hollow Knight: Silksong

    Team Cherry