18 August 2022 – The first ever Indie Cup Germany, a digital festival of German independent games, finishes today. The expert jury board evaluated the nominees and chose the best entries. The winners will receive valuable prizes depending on their nominations — from a powerful NVIDIA RTX graphic card, to a $5,000 cash prize, to conference tickets, various services, and more.
Meet the seven best upcoming independent games made in Germany!
Official Selection
- Grand Jury Award for the best overall entry: Chained Echoes (Matthias Linda);
- Rising Star Award for emerging developers: ABRISS (Randwerk);
- Critics’ Choice Award, selected by a panel of game journalists and influencers: PRIM (Common Colors);
- Unreal Engine Award for the best Unreal Engine game: Skuggor (battyRabbit).
Special Competition
- Spotlight Award, selected by Unreal Engine: Rough Justice: '84 (Gamma Minus);
- Prime Choice, selected by Xsolla: Negative Atmosphere (Sunscorched Studios);
- Most Charming Game, selected by Chucklefish: Tiny Bookshop (neoludic games).
Indie Cup Germany’22 gathered 73 local independent games. You can browse all of them on the event’s website – with 30+ public demos available.
Stay tuned for the Indie Cup news on Twitter and Facebook. More events are scheduled for 2022. And Indie Cup Germany will return next year!
Accepted submissions were evaluated by experts from tinyBuild, Handy Games, Focus Entertainment, Fellow Traveller, NVIDIA, Unreal Engine, Chucklefish, Ubisoft, and many others. Game journalists and influencers evaluated all accepted submissions in the Critics’ Choice Award category.
Indie Cup Germany’22 runs in partnership with Unreal Engine, Xsolla, Chucklefish, Ravenage, tinyBuild, and other partners.
About Indie Cup
For the last 6 years, Indie Cup was (and hopefully will be again) the largest indie developers contest in Eastern Europe. More than 450 games participated in the cup annually. The contest gathered 1499 games, 89 of which became winners. The Indie Cup Celebration Steam event ran annually, being the first local event of its kind. Last autumn, over one million Steam users visited the sale page. Indie Cup events were also held on GOG.com and Humble Store.
Our team is based in Ukraine, and we have been working on the Germany’22 season since the beginning of this year — since before Russia’s attack on Ukraine — as we originally planned to announce it during the closing ceremony of the Indie Cup W’22.
We’re thrilled to finally get back to running Indie Cup & expand it beyond its current Eastern European home turf.
10% of all sponsorship proceeds from Germany’22 were donated to Come Back Alive and other organizations supporting Ukraine.
Website: indiecup.net