Past Winners

2022

Warrior Chef

Rare Parrot Games

You play as Mako, a warrior chef in a world of sentient food, slicing-up enemies for ingredients to cook your abilities mid-combat. Travel through 4 Food Kingdoms in a third-person action-adventure where you’re racing to stop the spread of ‘The Rot’.

Runner Up

Undeadly

Irreflex Studios

The premise of Undeadly is that an inexplicable cataclysm has warped reality. Now, the deadrise. You must direct a group of survivors, fighting back against the undead and navigating surreal phenomena.

2021

Rose & Locket

Whistling Wizard

Rose & Locket is an action-adventure journey set in the Wild West. Follow Rose as she ventures into the Underworld to free the trapped spirit of her daughter.

Cinematic moments accompanied by sprawling landscapes and intense action combat.

2020

Battlecruisers

Mecha Weka

Arm and defend your cruiser or be sunk to the watery depths. Grow your arsenal with each victory, accruing frigates, artillery, bombers, lasers, stealth generators, and more. Reinforce your defense with shields and boosters, and enhance your production speed with an army of builder drones.

Wreak havoc with ballistics, nuke launchers, and experimental ultra-weapons, including the Death Star Satellite, the Ultralisk Rapid Fabrication Facility, and the Kamikaze Signal. Strike early or weather the storm, build up your strength, then counter-attack with overwhelming force.

2019

Before We Leave

Balancing Monkey Games

Before We Leave is a city building game set in a cozy corner of the universe. Nurture your Peeps and their surroundings while rebuilding and rediscovering civilization. Settle new lands and planets while avoiding hungry Space Whales.

2018

Ten Thousand Coins

Thousand Tonic

Faced with an impossible task, a stray merchant fox girl must trade and pay back a mysterious debt of 10,000 gold coins in order to reach her homeland.

2017

Caves

Matthew Gatland

Forced underground by a devastating attack, you must explore a hidden world and build to survive. But these caves are not empty – the more you expand, the more you’ll come into conflict with the strange creatures and communities around you.