Finalists for 2013 Independent Games Festival announced.

[Comatose]

580 games were submitted to the IGF this past year, and each game underwent careful gameplay and examination by 200 various judges. Only 35 games have made it through to the finals, and those games are listed here.

If you don't want to go on the website, I'll list the finalists here.

Seumas McNally Grand Prize:

Cart Life
FTL: Faster than Light
Hotline Miami
Kentucky Route Zero
Little Inferno


Excellence in Visual Art:

Guacamelee!
Incredipede
Kentucky Route Zero
Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime
Year Walk


Technical Excellence:

Intrusion 2
LiquidSketch
Little Inferno
Perspective
StarForge


Excellence in Design:

FTL: Faster than Light
Samurai Gunn
Starseed Pilgrim
Super Hexagon
Super Space ____


Excellence in Audio:

140
Bad Hotel
Hotline Miami
Kentucky Route Zero
PixelJunk 4am


Excellence in Narrative:

Cart Life
dys4ia
Gone Home
Kentucky Route Zero
Thirty Flights of Loving


Nuovo:

7 Grand Steps
Bientot l'Ete
Cart Life
dys4ia
Little Inferno
MirrorMoon
Spaceteam
VESPER.5

I honestly hope Hotline Miami and FTL win. From what I saw of Little Inferno, it looked very boring.

[Ad Bot]

[Funkadelic]

Little Inferno doesn't look fun on youtube. But once you've played it, you can't stop.

[Extrude]

Kentucky Route Zero and Little Inferno deserve nothing. They are crappy games.

[Daedalus]

hotline miami and little inferno are damn good

[Anybody]

Technical Excellence:

Little Inferno

 

[Shell]

why is little inferno on there at all

it's like the minimum for what is considered a game

minus heavy rain

[Freeze]

I really loved Little Inferno (funny considering my name, haha) as well as FTL. I really need to buy Hotline: Miami at some point to.

[John Freeman]

Thomas was alone
WHERE IS IT

[Sitrus]

FTL was probably one of the greatest indie games I've ever played.
If Minecraft wasn't originally made by one person, FTL might be my favorite.

[Sami2ss]

gta v wins even if it's not independent game

[.:FancyPants:.]

why is little inferno on there at all
it's like the minimum for what is considered a game
minus heavy rain

wtf have you even played either

[RedGajin]

why is hotline miami even on there
its just as fun and has all the aspects of any crappy flash game you can play for free on armor games or something

[Daedalus]

why is hotline miami even on there
its just as fun and has all the aspects of any crappy flash game you can play for free on armor games or something

great story, much more responsive combat than most flash games
also it's fast paced as forget compared to a lot of crappy flash games
also beautiful aesthetics and perfect soundtrack