Specific eligibility:
- Participating games must be submitted by the development studio or a delegated representative.
- Participating games must have released during the Eligible Time Period (full release, excluding Early Access or public Beta).
- Development studio must be an “Indie Studio”, as defined above.
When evaluating this category, judges will consider the game’s quality, notoriety, commercial performance and critical performance, based on the game build and information such as user reviews, critical reviews, download figures or other publicly available commercial information, notable media or press materials about the game, marketing campaigns for the game, or any other information provided in the submission form and publicly available materials.
During the judging process, each jury member will decide on their own a shortlist of three titles for this category. Then, all jury members will meet and decide together on a winner. In certain situations (such as a very close call between two titles), the jury may decide to appoint a Runner-Up for the category.