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The 2016 Independent Games Festival has revealed the finalists for its upcoming awards ceremony to take place at this year's Game Developer's Conference.The awards are too numerous to mention, so head on over to the official IGF site for the full rundown, but here are the finalists for the Seumas McNally Grand Prize:
Mini-Metro is a puzzle game about designing subway systems for an expanding city; Darkest Dungeon is a gothic turn-based roguelike; Her Story is an FMV-based crime mystery that made our best of the year list; Keep Talking & Nobody Explodes is a party game about bomb defusal that cleverly integrates multiplayer into VR without requiring multiple headsets; Superhot is a puzzling FPS where time only moves when you do; and Undertale is a retro RPG with an emphasis on talking your way out of conversations. Eurogamer contributor Richard Cobbett called Undertale "easily the best surprise of the year," which is really saying something in a year that brought us Life is Strange.
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