News 23rd Annual Independent Games Festival Audience Awards Poll

[Virtual Ruminant]

The Independent Games Festival at GDC is about to take place and there are still a few days left to cast your ballot for the audience award this weekend.

Nominees:

• [UWSL]A Monster's Expedition (Through Puzzling Exhibitions) (Draknek & Friends)[/UWSL]

• [UWSL]Across the Grooves (Nova-box)[/UWSL]

• [UWSL]Airplane Mode (Bacronym)[/UWSL]

• [UWSL]Arrog (Hermanos Magia and Leap Game Studios)[/UWSL]

• [UWSL]Blaseball (The Game Band)[/UWSL]

• [UWSL]Blind Drive (Lo-Fi People)[/UWSL]

• [UWSL]Call of the Sea (Out of the Blue)[/UWSL]

• [UWSL]Carto (Sunhead Games)[/UWSL]

• [UWSL]Chasing Light (Vittgen Inc.)[/UWSL]

• [UWSL]Chicory: A Colorful Tale (The Chicory Team)[/UWSL]

• [UWSL]Disc Room (Kitty Calis, Jan Willem Nijman, Terri Vellmann, Doseone)[/UWSL]

• [UWSL]Dorfromantik (Toukana Interactive)[/UWSL]

• [UWSL]Genesis Noir (Feral Cat Den)[/UWSL]

• [UWSL]Hadr (Dominik Konečný of Ateliér Duchů)[/UWSL]

• [UWSL]Haven (The Game Bakers)[/UWSL]

• [UWSL]In Other Waters (Jump Over the Age)[/UWSL]

• [UWSL]Kristallijn (Gaël Bourhis)[/UWSL]

• [UWSL]Lost Words: Beyond the Page (Sketchbook Games)[/UWSL]

• [UWSL]Nightmare Temptation Academy (Lena NW & Costcodreamgurl)[/UWSL]

• [UWSL]Paradise Killer (Kaizen Game Works)[/UWSL]

• [UWSL]Rainy Season (Inasa Fujio)[/UWSL]

• [UWSL]Say No! More (Studio Fizbin)[/UWSL]

• [UWSL]Shady Part of Me (Douze Dixièmes)[/UWSL]

• [UWSL]Signs of the Sojourner (Echodog Games)[/UWSL]

• [UWSL]Some Old Stuff (Hao Fan, Harry (Weizhong) Chen, Haku (Minyan Cai), Emi Schaufeld)[/UWSL]

• [UWSL]Spiritfarer (Thunder Lotus)[/UWSL]

• [UWSL]Sunlight (Krillbite Studio)[/UWSL]

• [UWSL]SYMPHONIA (Guillaume Roux, Nicolas Derio, Pierre Vrel, Guillaume Gille, Alexis Grand, Simon Larguier, Martin Lepretre, Corentin Pauvrasseau, Kilian Dufour, Alexandre Mansois, Quentin Vernet, Hicham Benrhannou, Olivier Esman)[/UWSL]

• [UWSL]Teardown (Tuxedo Labs)[/UWSL]

• [UWSL]THAT NIGHT, STEEPED BY BLOOD RIVER (Taylor Swietanski)[/UWSL]

• [UWSL]There Is No Game: Wrong Dimension (Draw Me A Pixel)[/UWSL]

• [UWSL]Umurangi Generation (Origame Digital)[/UWSL]

• [UWSL]Vessels (Local Space Survey Corps, LLC)[/UWSL]

• [UWSL]Welcome to Elk (Triple Topping)[/UWSL]

 

[Stevey]

I've not played any of those games [UWSL][/UWSL]

 

[beep boop]

I haven't either! But Umarangi Generation is the most appealing of the bunch to me. I'd like to pick it up at some point.

 

[Virtual Ruminant]

I've not played any of those games [UWSL][/UWSL]

I played and posted about a bunch of them:

• Carto (Sunhead / Humble Games, 2020) - (Review)
• Call of the Sea (Out of the Blue / Raw Fury, 2020) - (Review)
• Genesis Noir (Feral Cat Den / Fellow Traveler, 2021) - (Review)
• Haven (The Game Bakers, 2020) - (Review)
• Spiritfarer (Thunder Lotus, 2020) - (Review)
• Symphonia (Team Spear / ISART Digital, 2020) - (Review)

And Arrog I already bought, but is still on my todo-list....

Really tough to pick a favorite, I wish I could do a ranked choice!

Also a quick consultation of the big list tells me that @C-Dub reviewed Paradise Killer, too.

 

[Panda Pedinte]

I voted for Paradise Killer as it was one of the games I've mostly enjoyed. I also played Haven, Umurangi Generation and In Other Waters and they all are good games.

 

[Durante]

I've played just one of them and voting in that situation seems like a bad idea, but I'm curious what the results will be.

 

[Valdien]

I've only played Call of the Sea, but not to sure if it's one I'd vote for. Great art, but some of puzzles were really obtuse. Although, admittedly, I haven't played too many puzzle driven games, so maybe it's just me.