We're just a few days away from the 2025 Independent Games Festival Awards and 25th annual Game Developers Choice Awards, happening at GDC 2025 in San Francisco on March 19. Here's how you can join the fun in-person, at home, or hanging with one of our official co-streamer partners!
GDC 2025 will host the IGF Awards and GDCA ceremonies on the GDC Main Stage, located in the West Hall of the Moscone Convention Center, starting at 6:30pm PT. Both events are available for all GDC pass holders.
If you're looking to join us from home, you can watch both awards shows back-to-back live on our Twitch livestream. We've also partnered with several co-streamers, who will be broadcasting the ceremony on their channels:
PlanoPlaysGames
JoeyPrink
S5Flare
AshSlayGG
RareDecember
Ekate (Spanish)
lyksaber (English & Filipino)
The event kicks off with the IGF Awards. Jenny Jiao Hsia's Consume Me leads with five nominations, followed by Panic's Despelote, from creators Julián Cordero and Sebastian Valbuena, with four nods. Consume Me and Despelote are followed by three other titles with three nominations each: INDIKA (Odd Meter / 11 bit studios), Caves of Qud (Freehold Games / Kitfox Games), and Thank Goodness You're Here! (Coal Supper / Panic), which also has an honorable mention for Excellence in Narrative. All of these games have been nominated for the Seumas McNally Grand Prize, alongside Mossmouth's UFO 50.
The 25th annual Game Developers Choice Awards nominations are led by Astro Bot (Team ASOBI / Sony Interactive Entertainment) and Black Myth: Wukong (Game Science), receiving seven nominations each. Both are finalists for the highly coveted Game of the Year Award, alongside Balatro (LocalThunk / Playstack), Helldivers 2 (Arrowhead Game Studios / PlayStation Publishing LLC), Final Fantasy VII Rebirth (Square Enix), and Metaphor: ReFantazio (ATLUS / SEGA / Studio Zero).
Keep an eye on GDC Bluesky—using hashtags #IGF2025 and #GDCA2025—and GDC Twitch for more information on watching the IGF Awards and GDCA ceremony on Wednesday at 6:30pm PT. See you there!
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