The Game Awards 2025 - December 11th - 7:30pm ET / 4:30pm PT / 12:30am GMT

[mZuzek]

dane007 said:

mZuzek said:

Still annoyed that they not only nominated Clair Obscur for both indie awards, but also gave them the actual thing. Categories supposed to be for small dev teams with small budgets just trying to create something and put it out there... Imagine how that feels for the Blue Prince devs to lose that award, or rather, how it would've felt for them to win it. Instead the show became a huge Clair Obscur circlejerk-fest to the point that it got a little embarrassing, I know Sandfall is technically an independent team and they took a gamble on this game but they had a huge budget compared to other indies. They still deserve most of the awards they got, just wish this event would've given some light to smaller studios - especially on the awards that were supposedly made for them.

The budget was only 10 million according to sandfall

Most indie games (especially debut indies) are made on less than 1% of that.