Road to the IGF 2023

Learn about the winners of this year's Independent Games Festival, and hear the stories behind their games.

Butterfly Soup 2 once more hangs with a group of gay Asian-American teens as they play baseball, send 2009-era memes over text, and deal with the complexities of school and life.

Neon White is a parkour-based shootout through heaven, one where you sacrifice guns for powerful movement abilities.

South of the Circle is an exploration of how your past decisions have lead you to where you are now, set against a backdrop of Cold War Antarctica.

We Are OFK is an interactive E.P. that explores a musician's journey to break into the LA music scene (and the many texts and social media posts leading up to that).

Citizen Sleeper sees players trying to survive the complex needs of their mechanical body as a worker on a run-down space station.

Dome Keeper asks players to split their time between mining for ore and defending their fragile planetary base from creatures that don't want them there.

Mind Diver buries a mystery in someone's memories, tasking you with diving into someone's past experiences to get a lead on a missing person.

Gevaudan 1851 takes players to a remote town during the winter in France, seeking to find answers about a dangerous beast from footprints in the snow.

Titanic II: Orchestra for Dying at Sea takes players through a journey into the afterlife and the complicated, snarled feelings that surround death.

He Fucked the Girl Out of Me is an autobiographical visual novel about a trans woman's traumatic experiences with sex work.

Potionomics gets players to run a fantasy potion shop, setting up their sales with a haggling-based card game that'll have them talking up their concoctions.

RPG Time: The Legend of Wright contains a world of hand crafted games inside a child's notebook, capturing the feeling of creating games in your notebook as a kid.

The Case of the Golden Idol trusts the player to solve a complex forty-year old mystery, asking them to piece together the culprits, tools, and locations involved.

Stacklands is a card-based city-builder built on simplicity and clarity, tasking you with stacking cards just right to keep folks fed and housed.