The nominations for the Debug Indie Games Awards 2025 sponsered by GameMaker have been announced!
DEBUG INDIE GAMES AWARDS 2025
This year’s ceremony takes place on Friday 21 Feb 2025 in Nottingham (UK) with tickets still available. Check out the six nominated games for all 18 categories! We have interviews with some of the developers, trailers and information of where to play some incredible video games! If a game has been nominated, consider it a huge hint that this is a very good video game…
AWARD FOR MENTAL HEALTH
AWARD FOR ACCESSIBILITY
Check out the trailer for the brilliant Another Crab’s Treasure here, now available on all platforms:
BEST SOUNDTRACK
BEST SOUND DESIGN
You can hear some of the fantastic sound design in Still Wakes The Deep in this following trailer:
BEST VOICE ACTING
Again, Still Wakes The Deep is earns a nomination:
BEST ART DIRECTION
Discover wonderful artistic stylings of the platformer SCHiM for yourself, right here:
BEST GAMEPLAY
BEST NARRATIVE
Copycat (available on Steam) has earned a nomination here, get a feel for the tone in this evoking trailer:
BEST VR GAME
BEST UK INDIE
A new category for 2025!
From the creator of the legendary Sensible Soccer, Jon Hare, check out Sociable Soccer 25, available for all consoles:
INNOVATION & CREATIVITY
SCHiM earns a 2nd nomination here:
PHYSICAL RELEASE OF THE YEAR
The hugely popular Cassette Beasts earns a nomination here, check it out:
FREE PLAY AWARD
See what the fantastically titled Please, Touch The Artwork 2 entails with this trailer, but go one further – all of these six are free to download and play right now!
RETRO WORLD AWARD
It will come as no surprise that this is our favourite category, with some fantastic indie games up for the award this year. Interestingly the sequel Flea! 2 from Lowtek Games is included, and Alistair Low shared the win in this category last year with our friend John Riggs… But can he reclaim the title this year?
A special mention should also go to our friends at Badger Punch Games, with their Amiga title Roguecraft, a quite brilliantly atmospheric video game:
And we should also point you in the direction of Kudzu – we spoke to developer Chris Totten all about his story and getting the game published on systems from the Nintendo Game Boy to the Switch!
BEST NEW STUDIO
SUBSCRIBERS CHOICE
These have all been submitted by subscribers to the Debug Magazine – scroll to the bottom of this page to learn more!
MOST ANTICIPATED
These games have not yet been released… Do you believe the hype?
ICYMI AWARD
WHAT IS DEBUG?
Debug is a well established quarterly magazine designed to help independent game developers and publishers get their titles seen by a large, focused audience. With in-depth developer features, previews, reviews, features and interviews covering the entire spectrum of indie games.