Cosmo’s surreal nightclub RPG Betrayal at Club Low was the big winner at tonight’s IGF Awards, receiving both the Seumus McNally Grand Prize and the Nuovo Award. It’s one of this year’s top contenders for nominations, won all but one of the awards it has given out this year. The other nomination is Outstanding Design, which also belongs to the category of excellence. Case Of Golden Idolprove that, yes, again RPS Advent Calendar at the forefront of creating great indie flavors. Here is the full list of winners from tonight’s event.
Seumas McNally Grand Prize
- WINNER: Betrayal at Club Low (Cosmo D Studios)
- Ao Dai (Ao Dai)
- Case of Golden Idol (Gray Game)
- Immortality (Sam Barlow, Half Mermaid)
- White Neon (Matrix of Angels)
- Not for broadcasting (NotGames)
The best student game
- WINNER: Slider (ranomerz)
- Gevaudan (Nicolas Bernard)
- Mind Diver (Indoor Sunglasses)
- Presenter Slides (Mathias Schifter & Brin Žvan)
- Shutter (ARTFX 2022)
- Skala (Gustav Almström)
Excellence in sound
- WINNER: The Jungle Quartet (Mads & Friends)
- Dome Keepers (Bippinbits)
- Paradise Swamp (LazyEti)
- South of the circle (Play state)
- Ao Dai (Ao Dai)
- We are OFK (OFK Team)
Excellence in design
- WINNER: The Case of the Golden Idol (Gray Game)
- Against the Storm (Eremite Game)
- Betrayal at Club Low (Cosmo D Studios)
- Mr. Sun’s Hatbox (Kenny Sun)
- White Neon (Matrix of Angels)
- Stacklands (Sokpop Collective)
Excellence in narration
- WINNER: Immortality (Sam Barlow, Half Mermaid)
- Butterfly Soup 2 (Brianna Lei)
- Citizen Sleeper (Step Through The Times)
- I’m a Teen Exocolonist (Northway Games)
- NORCO (Geography of Robots)
- South of the circle (Play state)
Excellence in the visual arts
- WINNER: RPG Time: The Legend of Wright (DeskWorks Inc.)
- Consequences (Vladimir Kudelka)
- How deep is dark water? (Rhett Thai)
- Potions (The Gluttony Game)
- To Hell with the Ugly (La Poule Noire, ARTE France)
- Ao Dai (Ao Dai)
Nuovo Award
- WINNER: Betrayal at Club Low (Cosmo D Studios)
- Consequences (Vladimir Kudelka)
- A cry (Quinn K.)
- He fucked the girl away from me (Taylor McCue)
- Queer Man Looking At The Rock Lake.jpg (Fuzzy Ghost)
- Sylvie Lime (Love Game ♥️)
- Time Thief (Joel Jordan)
- Titanic II: Orchestra for Dying At Sea (Flan Falacci)
Finally, in addition to all these accolades, Pharmacy won the Audience Choice Award this year. This is open to every nominated game tonight, meaning it beat all of the other 33 finalists. Quite an achievement!
I’m also pleased to see a few winners here that we haven’t had a chance to write about in RPS, such as Slider, The Forest Quartet, and RPG Time: Legend Of Wright. Admittedly, Slider isn’t quite out yet, but you can bet it’ll be straight to my Steam wish list later tonight. Meanwhile, the Forest Quartet cried out right at the end of December last year, and I really had an eye on RPG Time for years and then was never quite able to revisit it (though I certainly still play the stakes, I swear). In any case, I’ll be scouring the GDC show floor to try them out this weekend, so keep an eye out for more thoughts on them then.
