{"id":1172442,"date":"2026-02-13T08:02:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T08:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/?p=557285"},"modified":"2026-02-13T08:02:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T08:02:07","slug":"blue-prince-is-the-major-indie-contender-for-game-of-the-year-for-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/blue-prince-is-the-major-indie-contender-for-game-of-the-year-for-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Prince is the major indie contender for Game of the Year \u2014 for now"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-caption=\"\" data-portal-copyright=\"\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/blue-prince-is-the-major-indie-contender-for-game-of-the-year-for-now.png\" \/><figcaption><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/review\/553730\/blue-prince-review-pc\"><em>Blue Prince<\/em><\/a>, an engrossing puzzle game about exploring a mysterious mansion that is never the same from one day to the next, is the first breakout indie game of 2025. It\u2019s also currently the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.metacritic.com\/browse\/game\/all\/all\/current-year\/\">best-reviewed game of 2025<\/a> outright. You would think that would put it in contention for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/awards\/450195\/game-of-the-year-game-awards-frontrunners\">Game of the Year at The Game Awards<\/a>, and you would probably be right, if it were November and not April. But <em>Blue Prince<\/em>\u2019s place among the front-runners isn\u2019t as secure as those of other games, like <em>Split Fiction<\/em> and <em>Monster Hunter Wilds<\/em>. Because at The Game Awards, all video games are equal, but some are more equal than others.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">The main <a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/awards\/450688\/what-makes-game-of-the-year-tgas\">predictor of success in the gaming awards race<\/a> is broad critical consensus, as reflected in a game\u2019s rating on review aggregator sites Metacritic and OpenCritic. (With a 92 Metascore, <em>Blue Prince<\/em> has this sewn up.) But some genres of game, like racing or strategy, are never nominated for Game of the Year, no matter how well reviewed they are \u2014 while others, like role-playing and action-adventure, tend to dominate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">In between these sit indie games, a class of game defined not by its genre but (more or less) by the number of people it took to make it, and how much it cost to make. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/awards\/466135\/game-awards-goty-best-indie-game-predictions\">How indie games are defined by The Game Awards<\/a> is its own can of worms, but suffice to say that nobody will be arguing over <em>Blue Prince<\/em>\u2019s indie credentials.) Indie games are often well represented among the best-reviewed games in any given year, but in the 11-year history of The Game Awards, only five indie games have ever been nominated for Game of the Year \u2014 and never more than one at a time. No indie game has won the coveted title yet. For indie games, the barrier for entry to gaming\u2019s top prize is just that bit higher. And once one has been anointed, the rest often seem out of luck.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/blue-prince-is-the-major-indie-contender-for-game-of-the-year-for-now.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" data-caption=\"&lt;em&gt;Blue Prince&lt;\/em&gt;.\" data-portal-copyright=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Take last year\u2019s awards as an example. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/reviews\/24084564\/balatro-review-poker-game-deck-building-roguelite\"><em>Balatro<\/em><\/a>, the hugely popular card game by solo developer LocalThunk, secured a GOTY nomination as well as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/awards\/495868\/2024-award-winners-game-year\">winning three other awards<\/a> on the night. But other brilliant indie games like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/review\/452079\/ufo-50-review-pc\"><em>UFO 50<\/em><\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/reviews\/24151337\/animal-well-review-pc-ps5-switch\"><em>Animal Well<\/em><\/a> were passed over in the main category, despite critical reputations that were just as strong as <em>Balatro<\/em>\u2019s and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/game-awards-tga\/480950\/black-myth-wukong-game-awards-goty-nominee-lowest-rated\">much stronger than one of the other nominees, <em>Black Myth: Wukong<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">For an indie game to be nominated for Game of the Year, high review scores and universal acclaim are even more important than for more mainstream titles. But profile is important, too. What separated <em>Balatro<\/em> from <em>UFO 50<\/em> and <em>Animal Well<\/em> was the scale of its popularity among players and, particularly, among the critical community. It sold very well on its debut in February 2024 and got a handy bump from a well-timed mobile release in late September, just weeks before The Game Awards\u2019 voting window. To put it simply, everyone was playing it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">The same is true, to a greater or lesser extent, of the four other indie games that have succeeded in breaking through into Game of the Year: <em>Stray <\/em>in 2022, <em>Hades<\/em> in 2020, <em>Celeste<\/em> in 2018, and <em>Inside<\/em> in 2016. All these games had a kind of virality, a moment when they dominated the gaming conversation. Cat adventure <em>Stray<\/em>\u2019s moment was so significant that it overcame a lukewarm Metascore of 83 to secure a nomination. (It helped that <em>Stray<\/em> also has lush production values, something that the Game Awards jury is very drawn to, but that most indie games understandably lack.)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/blue-prince-is-the-major-indie-contender-for-game-of-the-year-for-now-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" data-caption=\"&lt;em&gt;Hades 2&lt;\/em&gt;.\" data-portal-copyright=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">It is a little early to say, but <em>Blue Prince<\/em> certainly seems destined for such a moment. Anecdotally, I know more people in the games media community playing this game than any other release this year \u2014 even <em>Assassin\u2019s Creed Shadows<\/em>. <em>Blue Prince<\/em>\u2019s mysterious narrative and complex puzzles will sustain a long conversation about it, too. Like the other indie GOTY nominees, it feels very authored; you sense a strong voice behind it, in this case designer, writer, and director Tonda Ros. And while its <a href=\"https:\/\/steamdb.info\/app\/1569580\/charts\/#1w\">initial Steam numbers<\/a> indicate a modest hit, its ready availability on both Game Pass and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/news\/556017\/blue-prince-playstation-plus-xbox-game-pass-launch-date\">PlayStation Plus Game Catalog<\/a> will help boost its profile.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">There\u2019s a big caveat, however. If another indie game comes along that is just as well reviewed and even more popular, <em>Blue Prince<\/em>\u2019s nomination is toast, even if it\u2019s more deserving than some of its more mainstream competition. <em>Hades 2<\/em> is the obvious candidate. Supergiant\u2019s sequel to its 2020 GOTY nominee has already found a huge audience in its early access version. It has the sheen and confidence of a sequel made on the back of a huge critical and commercial hit. It\u2019s also a more approachable game than the enigmatic <em>Blue Prince<\/em>. If it leaves early access and launches in full on both PC and Nintendo Switch 2 this year, <em>Hades 2<\/em> will surely steal <em>Blue Prince<\/em>\u2019s nomination \u2014 if another indie sensation doesn\u2019t come out of nowhere to do it first.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Maybe both <em>Blue Prince<\/em> and <em>Hades 2<\/em> will appear among the final six come the end of the year, but that would be unprecedented. We should live in a world where two strikingly creative and well-executed indie games can be recognized as among the year\u2019s best, especially considering how different these two are. We should also live in a world where one of them might actually win. But, for now, we don\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/awards\/557285\/blue-prince-game-of-the-year-2025-goty-game-awards\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blue Prince, an engrossing puzzle game about exploring a mysterious mansion that is never the same from one day to the next, is the first breakout indie game of 2025. It\u2019s also currently the best-reviewed game of 2025 outright. You would think that would put it in contention for Game of the Year at The Game Awards, and you would probably be right, if it were November and not April. But Blue Prince\u2019s place among the front-runners isn\u2019t as secure as those of other games, like Split Fiction and Monster Hunter Wilds. Because at The Game Awards, all video games are equal, but some are more equal than others. The main predictor of success in the gaming awards race is broad critical consensus, as reflected&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/blue-prince-is-the-major-indie-contender-for-game-of-the-year-for-now\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1172443,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1172442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-polygon"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Blue Prince is the major indie contender for Game of the Year \u2014 for now | Arcader News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Blue Prince, an engrossing puzzle game about exploring a mysterious 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