GDC reveals finalists for the 27th Independent Games Festival

The Game Developers Conference (GDC) this week announced the finalists for the Independent Games Festival’s awards event, which is part of the former’s conference. The IGF’s awards event, where it reveals the winners of each award, will take place on March 26 alongside the Game Developers Choice Awards. The previous winner of the Seumas McNally Grand Prize in 2024 was Venba by Visai Games.

The games with the most nominations are Jenny Jiao Hsia’s Consume Me, a dark comedy life sim inspired by the creator’s experience with disordered eating; and Despelote, a slice-of-life game about playing soccer and meeting people on the streets of Quito, Ecuador.