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Into Indie Games announces the Winners of the 2020 Into Indie Games Awards

The time has come to recognise some of the finest indie games that released in 2020. Check out the 2020 Into Indie Games Awards below.

The 2020 Into Indie Games Awards are here. We’ve picked out some of the best games from this year to fill out the nominations, in categories that recognise excellence in writing, visuals, original concept, and individual contribution. Of course, we also have the award for the best studio, and the best game.

Here’s the winners and the the nominees:

Best Writing

Nominees:

• Lair of the Clockwork God
• Necrobarista
• In Other Waters
• Kentucky Route Zero
• Cloudpunk
• Hades

Winner: Kentucky Route Zero (Developed by Cardboard Computer, Published by Cardboard Computer & Annapurna Interactive)

Best Visuals

Nominees:

• Cloudpunk
• Röki
• Mortal Shell
• Necrobarista
• Creaks
• Hades

Winner: Mortal Shell (Developed by Cold Symmetry, Published by Playstack)

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Best Original Concept

Nominees:

• Lair of the Clockwork God
• Spiritfarer
• Necrobarista
• The Longing
• The Pedestrian
• Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout

Winner: Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout (Developed by Mediatonic, Published by Devolver Digital)

Best Studio

Nominees:

• Route 59 (Necrobarista)
• Size Five Games (Lair of the Clockwork God)
• Ion Lands (Cloudpunk)
• Supergiant Games (Hades)
• Mediatonic (Murder by Numbers, Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout)
• Thunder Lotus Games (Spiritfarer)

Winner: Mediatonic

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The Into Indie Games Award for Individual Contribution to Indie Games

Nominees:

• Dan Marshall (Founder of Size Five Games, developer of Lair of the Clockwork God)
• Marko Dieckmann (Founder of Ion Lands, Director of Cloudpunk)
• Matias Schmied (Developer of Evan’s Remains)
• Zhenghua Yang (Founder of Serenity Forge, which developed Half Past Fate, Neversong, and more)
• Gareth Damian Martin (Developer of In Other Waters)
• Beidi Guo (Art Director of LUNA – The Shadow Dust)
• Joe Walsh (Lead designer, Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout)

Winner: Dan Marshall

Best Game

Nominees:

• Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout
• Lair of the Clockwork God
• Kentucky Route Zero
• Spiritfarer
• Hades
• Spelunky 2

Winner: Hades (Developed and Published by Supergiant Games)

Keep reading Into Indie Games for reviews, walkthroughs, features, round-ups, and lots more!

To see which titles we recognised last year, check out the winners of the 2019 Into Indie Games Awards.