To no one’s surprise, Indie phenomenon Balatrosecured another of its five nominations for the evening at The Game Awards: Best Indie Game. The evening started with the winner of the award for Best Indie Debut Game, with Wout Vanhalderen, Playstack’s PR manager, accepting the award on behalf of LocalThunk as he remained in the audience. Unfortunately, the Best Indie Game award receives less attention, so developers don’t get a chance to accept their award, but that doesn’t take away from the award.

Balatro Tonight’s nominations are currently three to fourwith many assuming that the best indie game is in the bag. The rouge-like deck-building game has had astronomical success, surpassing 3.5 million units sold last week Balatro Side quest in Cyberpunk 2077.

Criteria for the best independent game at TGA:

For outstanding creative and technical achievement in a game created outside the traditional publishing system.

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All 2024 nominees for the Best Independent Game Award at TGA:

• Animal welfare
• Balatro
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• Neva
• UFO 50

Balatro started as a game for LocalThunk and friends and is now the Best Indie Game of the Game Awards 2024

What started as a small passion project has taken LocalThunk to the Game Awards, and he won’t be going home empty-handed

LocalThunk has spoken about how designing games has always been a comforting pastime for him, and Balatro That’s exactly how it started. After showing it to some friends, he was encouraged to go public and the rest is history. Balatro is the third indie game ever nominated for Game of the Year at the Game Awardswith his two predecessors – InsideAnd Celeste – also named best indie game.

Last year the best indie game was awarded sea ​​of ​​starsan RPG heavily inspired by the classics and completely different from what exists Balatro Offers. Indie games continue to prove that they can create phenomenal creations across all genres Balatro is no different. Over the past year, players have played impossible combos that would make real poker players cry, been mercilessly taunted by a joker named Jimbo, and been completely mesmerized BalatroMusic and art design. While LocalThunk may not be a fan of the spotlight, Millions of players – 3.5 million to be exact – are grateful for sharing Balatro with you. It deserves this latest award.

What won best indie game last year?

Sea of ​​Stars took the title in 2023

The retro role-playing game from Sabotage Studio sea ​​of ​​stars won the title of “Best Indie Game” at last year’s Game Awards, beating strong competition Cocoon, Dave the Diver, Dredge, And Viewfinder. As one of the most popular games of the year sea ​​of ​​stars further cemented Chrono trigger-inspired role-playing in the gaming industry – graphics become more realistic every year and new game genres are invented every year, but this is a niche that the industry will always hold on to.

Source: The Game Awards

Balatro

strategy

Digital card game

Roguelike

systems

Platform(s)

PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One, Xbox Series X, Xbox Series S

Released

February 20, 2024

developer

LocalThunk

Publisher)

Playstack

Motor

LOVE

ESRB

E For everyone

OpenCritic review

Powerful

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