Indie Pearls Awards 2025

Altered Alma combines the beloved classic Metroidvania formula with RPG elements, dating sim features, a slick pixel-art presentation, and a gripping story. Whether you want to beat up bad guys, find love, or just explore the beautiful cityscape, Neo-Barcelona awaits!

Anemorie is a visually rich, story-driven adventure game that invites players to step into the life of Anna, a young woman on a journey of self-discovery, love, and resilience.

You stand before a pit at the city's heart, then your gaze drifts to a deeper void, one you fear even more. Wield your invention to unravel mysteries, reclaim lost memories, strengthen your skills, and battle nightmare-born horrors in this multi-ending RPG.

Gear up for a battle through hell in this next-gen autoshooter with Doom-inspired gore vibes, metal music, roguelite mechanics, and a satisfying combat feel. Wield five weapons at once, upgrade and merge them to forge indestructible builds, and bring divine justice to a world on the brink of chaos.

The town of Besmirch starves. Stave off the hunger as the latest farmhand in this survival horror farming sim, earning the trust of paranoid townsfolk under the thumb of the corrupt Baron. Tend to both your farm and the town while avoiding unholy terrors that come in the night.

A visual narrative experience about a Bangkok millennial, Blue, balancing authenticity and social media pressures in a digital age. Engage in mindful activities, engaging conversations, as well as navigate the tension between authenticity and the need to impress.

Box or Void is a puzzle game about reversing positive and negative space. The obstacles in one space become pathways for the other. Move the characters and push boxes to change the layout of the levels. Master this duality and explore worlds with new mechanics that build on this core idea.

A cozy noir puzzle game where you must investigate the dark underbelly of London. Murders have taken place, witness statements conflict and alibis aren’t adding up. Everyone has a motive, only logic reveals the truth.

Cat Isle is a cozy pixel art management game inspired by Japan’s famous Cat Islands. It blends light management elements with a strong focus on atmosphere and player expression. While managing different types of shop supplies and understanding cat preferences is part of the experience, the game centers more on relaxing gameplay, fishing, interacting with cats, decorating buildings, and simply observing the world you create. Players can unlock decorations through a Gashapon machine and customize shops and surroundings to shape the island’s look and feel. As you build and decorate, the island slowly transforms into a cozy space full of cute cats.

Equip weapons against physics-based enemies, swing through chaos with grappling hook and destroy everything in your path to avenge the little chick!

Cute but chaotic restaurant simulator where you play as a dragon waiter in a fast-paced dining rush. Set tables, serve hungry dragons, deliver the right dishes, and keep the place clean! After each day, customize the layout of the restaurant and learn new abilities to improve.

Fishbowl is a slice of life, coming of age story told over a month. Video call loved ones, work from home, sort through puzzles to rediscover childhood memories, do care tasks and get to know yourself better, one day at a time.

In this rogue-like restaurant-action-sim, you play as a goblin that has the dream of becoming a sushi chef. Upgrade the restaurant, the menu and your ingredients to feed your fellow goblins the best and most expensive sushi any goblin can find in the cave!

Play as a Swarm in GREX, a fast-paced incremental auto-shooter. Our body is our weapon. We die to evolve. We evolve to become The Monolith. WE ARE ONE. WE INVADE. THEY DIE.

17-year-old Hope Song returns home from school to find her parents missing. Use Hope’s observant eye as an artist to investigate, piece together clues, and uncover a dark world beneath the surface of her peaceful life in this non-linear narrative mystery game.

Program traffic lights, barriers, and more to solve your city’s traffic problems! Improve your coding skills by learning to control time-dependent processes with realistic state machines.

Stick together, bounce apart. Grab soap, mess with your friends.A cute but chaotic multiplayer party game where jelly creatures compete, collide, and betray each other. Play with up to 6 players online or 4 players locally, and jump into wild matches—or build your own with the map editor.

A love letter to the thrilling world of K-pop! In this life simulator, you're the manager responsible for scouting talent, organising schedules, creating budgets, planning social media, choosing music, and styling your idols. Your goal? To debut the next big K-pop idol group!

Manipulate gravity, space and time, and survive terrifying nightmares in a deeply atmospheric lucid dream. Facing terrifying creatures, and solving challenges that bend reality, every moment reveals more of the dark truth behind Lucid Falls.