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Canadian Indie Game Awards

Let's go over the winners list of this year's first ever Canadian Indie Games Awards.

INDIE GAME OF THE YEAR
Best Score/Soundtrack & Best Narrative
Echo Generation (Cococucumber)
Genres: Adventure game, Role-playing video game, Strategy video game
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Echo Generation is a turn-based adventure game about a gang of kids investigating supernatural occurrences while battling monsters and mechs to save their small town.

Echo Generation is available on Microsoft Windows, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S.


Best Debut Indie Game
Moonglow Bay (Bunnyhug)
Genres: Indie game, Adventure game, Action game, Adventure
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In Moonglow Bay, you play as a rookie angler, working together with friends, family, and neighbours to hone your fishing skills, nourish relationships, and restore a remote town’s fractured community.

Moonglow Bay is available on Microsoft Windows, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S.


Best PC Game & Best Game Design
Inscryption (Daniel Mullins Games)
Genres: Adventure, Indie, Strategy
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Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...

Inscryption is available on Microsoft Windows, MacOS, and Linux.


Best Console Game
Chivalry 2 (Torn Banner Studios)
Genres: Action, First-person, Hack and slash
Chivalry 2 image

Chivalry 2 is a multiplayer first person slasher inspired by epic medieval movie battles. Players are thrust into the action of every iconic moment of the era - from clashing swords, to storms of flaming arrows, to sprawling castle sieges and more.

Chivalry 2 is available on Microsoft Windows, PS4, PS5, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S.


Best Mobile Game
Grindstone (Capybara Games)
Genres: Adventure game, Indie game, Puzzle
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Smash creeps to get huge combos and earn precious Grindstones in CAPY’s hit puzzle-battler. Craft new gear and overcome devious enemies, obstacles, and boss encounters as you conquer Grindstone Mountain, and prove yourself on the daily mode leaderboards.

Grindstone is available on iOS, Microsoft Windows, MacOS, and Nintendo Switch.

Best Art Direction & Best Animation
Wytchwood (Alientrap Games)
Genres: Adventure game, Indie game, Puzzle
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Wytchwood is a crafting adventure game set in a land of gothic fables and fairytales. As the old witch of the woods, explore a strange countryside, collect magic ingredients, brew sorcerous spells, and pass judgement upon a capricious cast of characters.

Wytchwood is available on Microsoft Windows, MacOS, Linux, Nintendo Switch, PS4, PS5, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S.

Best Audio Design & Best Technology/Innovation
The Vale: Shadow of the Crown (Falling Squirrel and Creative Bytes Studios)
Genres: Role-playing game, Action game, Indie game, Adventure
The Vale image

CLOSE YOUR EYES. BECOME A WARRIOR: Feel your enemy’s rasping breath; a foot shifts on swampy ground; the crack of steel on wooden shield. The Vale is an audio based action adventure that sets out to breathe new life into medieval combat and fantasy narrative

The Vale: Shadow of the Crown is available on Microsoft Windows.

Best Social/Casual Game
Knight Squad 2 (Chainsawesome Games)
Genres: Action game, Fighting game, Shooter game
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Knight Squad 2 is a chaotic arcade multiplayer game for up to 8 players. Pick an eccentric knight and fight for glory with wacky weaponry. Triumph over your friends in a ridiculous amount of game modes, both offline and online.

Knight Squad 2 is available on Microsoft Windows, Nintendo Switch, PS4, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S.
For the full winners and nominees list check out the full article on the Canadian Game Awards website.

Upcoming Recommended Games

Dordogne Mimi

Dordogne is a narrative adventure game in which you play as Mimi, a young woman visiting the house of her recently deceased grandmother who left her letters and puzzles to solve. To do so, Mimi will revisit her childhood memories and reconnect with the little girl who marveled at everything.

Dordogne is a game developed by Umanimation based in Pessac, France. Consider checking out Umanimation's other works; Shagri-La, Globozone, and Bordeaux Vibes. Dordogne will be available on Microsoft Windows, MacOS, and Nintendo Switch.
Venba mother cooking

Venba is a narrative cooking game, where you play as an Indian mom, who immigrates to Canada with her family in the 1980s. Players will cook various dishes and restore lost recipes, hold branching conversations and explore in this story about family, love, loss and more.

Venba was developed by Visai Studios based in Toronto, Canada. Venba will be available on Microsoft Windows.
Terra Nil sample layout

Terra Nil is a reverse city builder about ecosystem reconstruction. Turn a barren wasteland into an ecological paradise complete with different flora and fauna. Then clean up, leaving the environment pristine. Subverting the builder genre, Terra Nil is about the restoration of a ravaged environment.

Terra Nil was developed by Free Lives based in Cape Town, South Africa. Consider trying out the demo that is currently available on steam.
The Garden Path sample scene

The Garden Path is a slice-of-life sim about the joy of gardening, and the small pleasures that follow. Whether you're fishing, growing, trading or just hanging with new friends, a wonderful and wistful adventure awaits when wandering The Garden Path.

The Garden Path was developed by carrotcake based in Bristol, UK. Louis Durrant in carrotcake is a one-person development team. The Garden Path will be available on Microsoft Windows, MacOS, and Linux. Consider trying out this developer's previous games Kingdomka and Crossing to the Cold Valley.
The Stanley Parable Ultra Deluxe

The Stanley Parable is a first person exploration game. You will play as Stanley, and you will not play as Stanley. You will follow a story, you will not follow a story. You will have a choice, you will have no choice.

The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe is the expanded re-imagining of the critically acclaimed, award winning indie game The Stanley Parable comes to Steam, Nintendo Switch, PS4, PS5, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S on April 27, 2022!


Indie Boards & Cards

After another addition to The Sherlock Files board games last year, The Sherlock Files Vol. III Puzzling Plots, we are expecting another Indie Boards & Cards game to be released in October 2022; Astro Knights.

Astro Knights board game

Astro Knights is a cooperative deck-building game where your deck is never shuffled. Your goal is to defeat the Boss before it destroys your team or the Homeworld you’re defending. Each round, the players and the Boss will take turns in random order. During a player’s turn, they will be able to acquire Fuel, Tech, and Weapons from the supply, equip and attack with those Weapons based on the number of slots they have, gain new slots, power up, and use their special ability. All four of the Bosses in this game have their own decks and abilities and will require a different strategy to be defeated.

Remember! If you live in the Greater Toronto Area be sure to go to your local Snakes & Lattes to try out new games at the board game bar with your friends. Take your pick in a library of over 3000 board games!
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Coded by Alexandra Daphni