The Independent Games Festival Awards nominations for 2023 have been announced.
Tunic and Betrayal at Club Low lead the nominations with three each, including nominations in the Grand Prize category. The former also received nods in the Audio and Visual Art categories, while the latter was recognised in Design and for the Nuovo Award.
The Case of the Golden Idol, Immortality, Neon White, and Not for Broadcast are the other Grand Prize nominees.
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Elsewhere, the Narrative category looks incredibly competitive. In addition to Immortality, the nominees are Butterfly Soup 2, Citizen Sleeper, I Was a Teenage Exocolonist, Norco, and South of the Circle.
Several of these IGF Award-nominated games were featured in Digital Spy's best games of 2022 list last month.
Last year's Grand Prize winner was Inscryption, which also won in Audio, Design, and Narrative.
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You can read the full list of the 2023 nominations below:
Seamus McNally Grand Prize
• Betrayal at Club Low
• The Case of the Golden Idol
• Immortality
• Neon White
• Not for Broadcast
• Tunic
Excellence in Audio
• Dome Keeper
• The Forest Quartet
• Paradise Marsh
• South of the Circle
• Tunic
• We Are OFK
Excellence in Design
• Against the Storm
• Betrayal at Club Low
• The Case of the Golden Idol
• Mr. Sun's Hatbox
• Neon White
• Stacklands
Excellence in Narrative
• Butterfly Soup 2
• Citizen Sleeper
• I Was a Teenage Exocolonist
• Immortality
• Norco
• South of the Circle
Excellence in Visual Art
• Afterglitch
• How Deep Is the Dark Water?
• Potionomics
• RPG Time: The Legend of Wright
• To Hell with the Ugly
• Tunic
Nuovo Award
• Afterglitch
• An Outcry
• Betrayal at Club Low
• He F**ked the Girl Out of Me
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• Sylvie Lime
• Time Bandit
• Titanic II: Orchestra for Dying at Sea
Best Student Game
• Gevaudan
• Mind Diver
• Presenter Slides
• Shutter
• Skala
• Slider
The winners will be announced on Wednesday, March 22 in a ceremony hosted by Marina Díez.
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