Independent Games Festival and Game Developers’ Choice awards for 2022 are now handed to their respective owners with a great event. There were many great games in the list, and it was a real tough choice to pick one out of them for every category. If we are to mention one name though, Inscryption had a serious success with multiple awards.

The Independent Games Festival Awards

Best Student Game winner: Live Adventure

Nominees:

• Cai Cai Balao
• Abriss
• Letter Lattice
• Small Life
• Nainai’s Recipe
• Live Adventure

Seumas McNally Grand Prize winner: Inscryption

Nominees:

• Inscryption
• Unpacking
• Loop Hero
• The Eternal Cylinder
• Cruelty Squad
• Unsighted

Excellence in Audio winner: Inscryption

Nominees:

• Toem
• Unpacking
• Jett: The Far Shore
• Mini Motorways
• Sable
• Inscryption

Excellence in Design winner: Inscryption

Nominees:

• Inscryption
• Unpacking
• Overboard!
• Strange Horticulture
• Webbed
• Midnight Protocol

Excellence in Narrative winner: Inscryption

Nominees:

• Last Call
• Neurocracy
• Closed Hands
• Overboard!
• Inscryption
• Unpacking

Excellence in Visual Art winner: Papetura

Nominees:

• The Eternal Cylinder
• Behind the Frame: The Finest Scenery
• Papetura
• Fuzz Dungeon
• The Wild at Heart
• Jett: The Far Shore

Nuovo Award winner: Memory Card

Nominees:

• Memory Card
• Okthryssia and Saturnia’s Bureaucratic Adventures
• Space Hole 2020
• Tux and Fanny
• Cruelty Squad
• Sparkles & Gems
• Fuzz Dungeon
• Cuccchi

Audience Awards winner: Mini Motorways

The Game Developers Choice Awards

Game of the Year winner: Inscryption

Nominees:

• Inscryption
• Forza Horizon 5
• Resident Evil Village
• Deathloop
• It Takes Two

Best Audio winner: Unpacking

Nominees:

• Returnal
• Unpacking
• Deathloop
• Marvel’s Guardians of the Galazy
• Forza Horizon 5

Best Design winner: It Takes Two

Nominees:

• It Takes Two
• Psychonauts 2
• Halo Infinite
• Deathloop
• Inscryption

Best Debut winner: Valheim

Nominees:

• Kena: Bridge of Spirits
• Valheim
• Wildermyth
• The Artful Escape
• Sable

Innovation Award winner: Unpacking

Nominees:

• It Takes Two
• Wildermyth
• Unpacking
• Inscryption
• Deathloop

Best Narrative winner: Psychonauts 2

Nominees:

• Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy
• Deathloop
• It Takes Two
• Psychonauts 2
• Unpacking

Social Impact Award winner: Boyfriend Dungeon

Nominees:

• Before Your Eyes
• It Takes Two
• Life is Strange
• Boyfriend Dungeon
• Chicory: A Colorful Tale

Best Technology winner: Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart

Nominees:

• Halo Infinite
• Forza Horizon 5
• Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart
• Returnal
• Hitman 3

Best Visual Art winner: Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart

Nominees:

• Forza Horizon 5
• Kena: Bridge of Spirits
• Deathloop
• Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart
• Psychonauts 2

Ambassador Award winner: Steven Spohn

Lifetime Achievement winner: Yuji Horii

Audience Award winner: Valheim