Full stream:
https://www.youtube.com/live/kEXe913VjSs

IGF 2025 Winners Roundup:
https://youtu.be/qNQnW7cbYsw

2025 Independent Games Festival Winners

Award Winner
Best Student Game Slot Waste (Vinny Roca)
Excellence in Audio Despelote (Julián Cordero, Sebastián Valbuena, Panic)
Excellence in Design Tactical Breach Wizards (Suspicious Deployment)
Excellence in Narrative Caves of Qud (Freehold Games, Kitfox Games)
Excellence in Visual Art Haunth (Moonloop Games, Firestoke)
Nuovo Award Consume Me (Jenny Jiao Hsia, AP Thomson, Jie En Lee, Violet W-P, Ken “Coda” Snyder)
Seamus McNally Grand Prize Consume Me (Jenny Jiao Hsia, AP Thomson, Jie En Lee, Violet W-P, Ken “Coda” Snyder)

GDCA 2025 Winners Roundup:
https://youtu.be/BLzWLIk0_e8

2025 Game Developers Choice Awards Winners

Award Winner
Best Debut Balatro (LocalThunk, Playstack)
Best Audio Astro Bot (PlayStation Studios Team Asobi, Sony Interactive Entertainment)
Best Design Balatro (LocalThunk, Playstack)
Best Narrative Metaphor: Refantazio (Studio Zero, Atlus)
Best Visual Art Black Myth: Wukong (Game Science)
Innovation Award Balatro (LocalThunk, Playstack)
Social Impact Award Life is Strange: Double Exposure (Deck Nine Games, Square Enix)
Audience Award Final Fantasy VII Rebirth (Square Enix)
Game of the Year Balatro (LocalThunk, Playstack)

Congratulations to the winners and finalists!
(Now with better formatting as I’m not on my phone writing from YouTube videos!)