Indie Pearls Awards 2025
Indie Pearls Awards 2025
The third edition of Indie Pearls. The Awards celebrating the independent developers recognizing the best indie games of the last year and awarding them in six categories: Best Art Direction, Best Music, Best Narrative, Best Design, Audience Award and Best Indie Game.
31 featured games
Featured Games(31)
Hope in the City
Lofty Sky Entertainment Inc., NAGA Games
17-year-old Hope Song thought the national exams were her biggest worry... until she got home to a ransacked apartment and two missing parents. Investigate through the eyes of an artist, turn sketches into evidence, and watch her family's mystery grow stranger and darker with every answer.
MIRAI #167
Orangenap Studio
MIRAI #167 is a 2D pixel-art runner where you control two characters at once, rewinding time and jumping through portals. Embark on a frantic adventure to save humanity as AI surpasses human control - upgrade your characters, break records and rewrite history before it’s too late!
K-pop Idol Stories: Road to Debut
Wisageni Studio, PQube
The ultimate crossover between K-pop and Life Simulation! Step into the role of manager and build your dream idol group by scouting talent, managing schedules, choosing outfits, planning social media, and organizing the perfect album. Can you make it to debut?
Anomalistic Revolution
Umigame Studios
You stand before a pit at the city's heart, then your gaze drifts to a deeper void, one you fear even more. Wield your invention to unravel mysteries, reclaim lost memories, strengthen your skills, and battle nightmare-born horrors in this multi-ending RPG.
Fishbowl
imissmyfriends.studio, Wholesome Games Presents
Fishbowl is a slow and tender narrative game about dreams, grief, and hope. Rediscover your memories and find your way into the present in this intimate experience where slice-of-life meets surreal.
Altered Alma
2Awesome Studio, CRITICAL REFLEX
Altered Alma combines the beloved classic Metroidvania formula with RPG elements, dating sim features, a slick pixel-art presentation, and a gripping story. Whether you want to beat up bad guys, find love, or just explore the beautiful cyberpunk cityscape, Neo Barcelona awaits!
Wild City
Monka Studios, Catoptric Games
The deckbuilder where cards are plants, animals, and insects that can synergize and prey on each other. Place your cards on an expanding board to trigger satisfying chain reactions and shape an interconnected ecosystem.
Pieced Together
Glowfrog Games
Pieced Together is a cozy scrapbooking game that takes you on a heartfelt journey about friendship and getting older. Sort items, solve gentle puzzles, and decorate the scrapbook as you uncover the story piece by piece.
Arms of God
Dark Jay Studio, Galaktus, Gamersky Games, infibit games
Gear up for a battle through hell in this next-gen autoshooter with Doom-inspired gore vibes, metal music, roguelite mechanics, and a satisfying combat feel. Wield five weapons at once, upgrade and merge them to forge indestructible builds, and bring divine justice to a world on the brink of chaos.
The Bench
Voxel Studios, Noovola
The retirement home isn’t for you, and your pigeon friends agree! Explore the world going bench to bench, solve puzzles, and keep your mischievous pigeon crew in line in this charming interactive adventure. Enjoy colorful, stylized levels, customize your pigeons, and live your best pensioner life!
GREX
Hamster On Coke Games
Become a swarm. Think as one. Mutate. Multiply. Overwhelm. A roguelite auto-shooter built around hive-mind powers — craft broken builds, survive the chaos, crush enemies with sheer collective force! All to a thumping trance-techno soundtrack and neon-glow visuals.
Pakinpaks
Indiebuild, Catoptric Games
A cozy puzzle game where you go on a journey all around the world packing and organizing all sorts of travel gear. Fulfill your client's request in any way you wish and prepare the neatest bags that you can while making sure everything fits!
Besmirch
Gangru Games, 2 Left Thumbs
The town of Besmirch starves. Stave off the hunger as the latest farmhand in this survival horror farming sim, earning the trust of paranoid townsfolk under the thumb of the corrupt Baron. Tend to both your farm and the town while avoiding unholy terrors that come in the night.
Truth Scrapper
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You have a case to solve, your memories reset each day, and two mysterious guides are vying for your attention– who will you decide to remember, and who will you decide to push aside…?
Anemorie
InnGamez Studio, Catoptric Games
A girl with a fragile heart. A gift to see forgotten memories. Dive into Anna’s world where every object holds a story—and one memory may change her life forever.
Jelly Bubble
BINGOBELL
Stick with the same color, bounce off the rest! Snatch the soap, sabotage your friends! Adorable jelly critters are here for chaotic, hilarious showdowns! Supports 4-player local and up to 6-player online battles, plus a map editor so you can jump into laugh-out-loud matches anytime!
Goblin Sushi
Old Cake Factory, Metaroot
A goblin as a sushi chef? Why not! But hurry up rent is due in minutes! Upgrade the restaurant, the menu and your ingredients to feed your fellow goblins the best and most expensive sushi any goblin can find in the cave!
You Know The Drill
ludokai, Catoptric Games
You Know The Drill is a relaxing incremental mining game about digging underground to harvest ores. Collect resources and use them to upgrade your drill and go even deeper!
Quiet Express: Cabin 909
Kazuhide Oka, STUDIO 909
“Do you know anything about Cabin 909?” You're a passenger on a transcontinental train. Looking for a room that's nowhere to find: Cabin 909.
Deadliest Pigeon
Rusty Rex, Catoptric Games
Unleash total destruction to avenge the little chick! Soar through chaos, weaponize yourself to obliterate physics-based enemies and everything in your path.
BlueLine
The BlueLine Team
A visual interactive story about Blue, who is expected to be successful at work, be a good boyfriend, and at the same time... be happy.
The Whisker Watch
Catch the Void
PLAY AS YOUR CAT(s) in a co-op roguelike of night prowls, day naps, and endless mischief! claw at haunted appliances, fight chthonic horrors, and upgrade your cozy mansion! Customize your meow, accessories, and fur; Pet your human for perks!
Cat Isle
domkegames, pixelduckoo
Catch a train to Cat Isle! In this cozy pixel art management game, build restaurants, expand and decorate the town. Figure out your cats needs as they dine, shop, explore and turn the island into their purfect home.
Mayak
Nikita Nplus1
Hard-sci-fi side-scrolling VN about first contact, love, and a prime-number countdown. You are a young astronomer researching a newly received signal from a distant star. Unravel an alien mystery — and fight to save the one you love.
GARDEN GNOME BEATMAKER
pataya
GNOME SURVIVOR x MUSICAL ROGUELIKE. COMPOSE YOUR KILLER TRACK. HIT PLAY AND WATCH THE FROGS BURN. BUY SAMPLES AND TRINKETS FROM THE SHOP & REPEAT.
Lucid Falls
Eldamar Studio
Manipulate gravity, space and time, and survive terrifying nightmares in a deeply atmospheric lucid dream. Facing terrifying creatures, and solving challenges that bend reality, every moment reveals more of the dark truth behind Lucid Falls.
Dragon Dinner
Menut Studios, Parallel 45 Games
Cute but chaotic restaurant simulator where you play as a dragon waiter in a fast-paced dining rush. Set tables, serve hungry dragons, deliver the right dishes, and keep the place clean! After each day, customize the layout of the restaurant and learn new abilities to improve.
If Red Then Stop
Kerzoven, Metaroot
Program traffic lights, barriers, and more to solve your city’s traffic problems! Improve your coding skills by learning to control time-dependent processes with realistic state machines.
Box or Void
Dumen Games
Walls become empty space. Empty space becomes walls. Box or Void is a puzzle game about reversing positive and negative space. Obstacles in one space become pathways in the other.
Zero Stress King: Idle Defense
Pauloondra
A short relaxing incremental game disguised as a tower defense, but enemies can’t reach your walls. Thanks to lava.
Case Solved: The London Files
Minimol Games, SpecNext Ltd
Solve logic puzzles and crack multiple cases in a cosy noir London using reason, not guesswork. Murders have taken place, witness statements conflict and the alibis don't add up. Everyone has a motive, and only clear logic reveals the truth.