Outstanding Underappreciated Game of 2025 - an IFDB Poll

This poll is part of the 2025 IFDB Awards. The rules for the competition can be found here, and a list of all categories can be found here.

This award is for the most underappreciated game of 2025. Voting is open to all IFDB members.

Suggested games include those in the following search:
https://ifdb.org/search?searchbar=published%3A2025

If a game published in 2025 does not appear in this search, you may edit the game page to include the correct publication year.

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	Warden: a (bug)folk horror, by Tabitha and baezil 6 votes

	Violent Delight, by Coral Nulla 5 votes

	A Smörgåsbord of Pain, by FLACRabbit 5 votes

	Thrall, by Kanderwund 4 votes

	Diary of a Drowned Girl, by Autumn Chen 4 votes

	Operative Nine, by Arthur DiBianca 3 votes

	A Normal Morning, by Damon L. Wakes 3 votes

	A Garden of Impossible Objects, by SkyShard 3 votes

	INPUT PROCESS, by chyrono (as HY) 3 votes

	Cart, by Brett Witty 3 votes

	Doctor Morben's Asylum, by solipsistgames 2 votes

	NOTHING IN MY VEINS, by Coral Nulla and Naarel 2 votes

	Costumes and Candy, by Leon Lin 2 votes

	Clickbait, by Reilly Olson 2 votes

	Echoes, by Ben Jackson 2 votes

	Not so Happy Easter 2025, by Petr Kain 2 votes

	Go-Strange-Ghost Range, by Andrew Schultz 2 votes

	VALIS II, by wasnotwhynot 1 vote

	And the Tortoise Won, by StudioGuma 1 vote

	Heard it Through the Grapevine, by Amy Davidson 1 vote

	Temptation in the Village, by Anssi Räisänen 1 vote

	greenskeep, by rio 𓆩♡𓆪 1 vote

	Philateloids, by C.E.J. Pacian 1 vote

	The Walking Man, by mathbrush 1 vote

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Poll created on February 1, 2026