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This group will archive the Winners, Finalists, and Honorable mentions from past Independent Game Festivals:
Winners > Finalists > Honorable mentions
Seumas McNally Grand Prize > Other Prizes > Best Student Game > Audience Award
Finalist games from previous years are not eligible for re-submission into the Competition. This does not apply to honorable mentions.

Seumas McNally Grand Prize: This Category is open to all Entered Games. Nominations will be based on the overall innovation, quality, impressiveness, and enjoyability of each Entered Game.

Excellence in Visual Art: Nominations will be based on the quality and impressiveness of each Entered Game's appearance and visual effects.

Excellence in Audio: Nominations will be based on the quality and impressiveness of each Entered Game's music, voice acting, and sound effects.

Excellence in Design: Nominations will be based on the quality and execution of each Entered Game's design, including game mechanic design, level design, and difficulty balancing.

Excellence in Narrative: Nominations will be based on quality and impressiveness of storytelling in a game - including, but not limited to, scenario, plot construction, story, dialogue, and other major factors.

Nuovo Award: The Nuovo award is given to the game that most fearlessly executes a challenging, unusual, or idiosyncratic approach to game making, takes substantive risks, and makes jurors think differently about games as a medium.

Best Student Game: Nominations will be based on the overall quality, impressiveness and enjoyability of the Student entries. Non-student entrants are not eligible for the Best Student Game award.

Audience Award: Public voters will vote for their favorite finalist via an online form, the game with the most votes will win the award.

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The list for the games that were not released on Steam is archived as follows:
IGF 2023 IGF 2022 IGF 2021 IGF 2020