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The Seumas McNally Grand Prize is the main award given at the Independent Games Festival (IGF), an annual event that takes place during the Game Developers Conference, one of the largest gatherings of the indie video game industry.^[1] It was first awarded as the Independent Games Festival Grand Prize to Fire and Darkness in the 1999 edition of the festival.^[2] The next year, it was awarded to Seumas McNally for his game Tread Marks; following McNally's passing from Hodgkin's lymphoma shortly after, the award was renamed in his honor in 2001.

Twenty-six video games have received the award, and more than 50 have been selected as finalists. The award is given alongside a prize of US$10,000.^[3] For the 2004 and 2005 years, it was divided into two categories, "Open Category" and "Web/Downloadable", although they were merged back into a single prize in 2006.^[4]^[5]^[6] From 2011 onwards, a list of "Honorable Mentions" was introduced, composed of games that had been considered for the prize but had not become finalists.^[7]

Gish and Seed are the only games to become finalists in multiple editions of the event. Additionally, Gish is the only finalist to win the prize in a subsequent edition of the festival.^[2]^[4]^[5]^[8] FTL: Faster Than Light was the first game to have been both an honorable mention and a finalist, achieving the former in 2012 and the latter in 2013. The Stanley Parable achieved the same feat, becoming an honorable mention in 2013 and a finalist in 2014.^[9]^[10]^[11] Games do not have to be published in order to qualify for the prize; when Fez won the award in 2012, it was still undergoing pre-release certification.^[12] Some developers have won the prize twice, either solo or as part of a larger team: Alec Holowka for Aquaria and Night in the Woods, and Lucas Pope for Papers, Please and Return of the Obra Dinn.

Recipients

Year	Winner	Developer	Finalists^[a]	Honorable mentions^[b]	Ref.
1999	Fire and Darkness	Singularity Software	Acidia Bulbous II BFRIS Zero-Gravity Fighter Combat Crime Cities EverNight Flagship: Champion Food Chain Journey Into The Brain Mind Rover Resurrection Seed Sleights Terminus V.D.	—	^[2]
2000	Tread Marks	Longbow Games	Blix Hardwood Hearts King of Dragon Pass Moonshine Runners Quaternion The Rift (Far Gate) Rogue Wars Seed	—	^[8]
2001	Shattered Galaxy	Nexon	Archmage: Stabat Mater Chase Ace 2 Hardwood Spades Hostile Space IronSquad SabreWing Strifeshadow Takeda Virtual U	—	^[13]
2002	Bad Milk	Dreaming Media	Ace of Angels Banja Taiyo Championship Euchre The Egg Files Insaniquarium Kung-Fu Chess Pencil Whipped Static World Dance	—	^[14]
2003	Wild Earth	Super X Studios	BaseGolf Furcadia Mr. Bigshot Pontifex II Reiner Knizia's Samurai Strange Adventures In Infinite Space Teenage Lawnmower Terraformers Word Ninja	—	^[15]
2004^[c]	Savage: The Battle for Newerth	S2 Games	acmi {{park}} Anito: Defend a Land Enraged Bontago Facade Fashion Cents Fuzzee Teevee Spartan Starshatter Take Command: 1861 The Civil War	—	^[4]
2004^[c]	Oasis	Mind Control Software	AlphaQUEUE Beesly's Buzzwords Billiard Boxing Chomp! Chomp! Safari Dr. Blob's Organism Dungeon Scroll Gish Space Station Manager Yohoho! Puzzle Pirates	—	^[4]
2005^[c]	Gish	Chronic Logic	Alien Hominid Dark Horizons Lore Hyperbol Kisses Legion Arena Protöthea Steer Madness Supremacy: Four Paths To Power War! Age of Imperialism	—	^[5]
2005^[c]	Wik and the Fable of Souls	Reflexive Entertainment	Creatrix Detective Brand Golf Global Defense Network Lux N Revolved RocketBowl Star Chamber Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space	—	^[5]
2006	Darwinia	Introversion Software	Dofus Professor Fizzwizzle Weird Worlds: Return To Infinite Space Wildlife Tycoon: Venture Africa	—	^[6]
2007	Aquaria	Bit Blot	Armadillo Run Bang! Howdy Everyday Shooter Roboblitz	—	^[16]
2008	Crayon Physics Deluxe	Kloonigames	Audiosurf Hammerfall Noitu Love 2: Devolution World of Goo	—	^[17]
2009	Blueberry Garden	Erik Svedang	CarneyVale: Showtime Dyson Night Game Osmos	—	^[18]
2010	Monaco	Pocketwatch Games	Joe Danger Rocketbirds: Hardboiled Chicken Super Meat Boy Trauma	—	^[19]
2011	Minecraft	Mojang	Amnesia: The Dark Descent Desktop Dungeons Nidhogg SpyParty	Neptune's Pride Super Crate Box Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale Bit.Trip Runner Retro City Rampage	^[7]
2012	Fez	Polytron	Dear Esther Frozen Synapse Johann Sebastian Joust Spelunky	Antichamber FTL: Faster Than Light Proteus SpaceChem Where is my Heart?	^[9]
2013	Cart Life	Richard Hofmeier	FTL: Faster Than Light Hotline Miami Kentucky Route Zero Little Inferno	Gone Home Starseed Pilgrim Super Hexagon The Stanley Parable Thirty Flights of Loving	^[10]
2014	Papers, Please	Lucas Pope	Device 6 Dominique Pamplemousse in "It's All Over Once the Fat Lady Sings!" Don't Starve Jazzpunk The Stanley Parable	868-HACK Crypt of the NecroDancer Kerbal Space Program The Yawhg TowerFall Ascension	^[11]^[20]
2015	Outer Wilds	Team Outer Wilds	80 Days Invisible, Inc. Metamorphabet The Talos Principle This War of Mine	Donut County Endless Legend Killer Queen Shovel Knight The Sailor's Dream The Vanishing of Ethan Carter	^[21]
2016	Her Story	Sam Barlow	Darkest Dungeon Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes Mini Metro Superhot Undertale	Affordable Space Adventures Cibele Oxenfree Panoramical Soft Body That Dragon, Cancer The Beginner's Guide Twelve Minutes	^[22]
2017	Quadrilateral Cowboy	Blendo Games	Inside Stardew Valley Event[0] Hyper Light Drifter Overcooked	1979 Revolution: Black Friday Orwell Imbroglio Virginia Duskers Oiκοςpiel, Book I	^[23]^[24]
2018	Night in the Woods	Infinite Fall	Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy West of Loathing Into the Breach Heat Signature Baba Is You	Tacoma Rain World Dream Daddy: A Dad Dating Simulator Cosmic Top Secret Hollow Knight Cuphead Everything is Going to Be OK	^[25]^[26]
2019	Return of the Obra Dinn	Lucas Pope	Minit Opus Magnum Noita Hypnospace Outlaw Do Not Feed the Monkeys	Beat Saber Iconoclasts Mirror Drop Moss Subnautica Wandersong Virtual Virtual Reality Unavowed	^[27]^[28]
2020	A Short Hike	adamgryu	Eliza Untitled Goose Game Mutazione Slay the Spire Anodyne 2: Return to Dust	Katana Zero Lonely Mountains: Downhill Song of Bloom Wide Ocean, Big Jacket Astrologaster Heaven's Vault	^[29]^[30]
2021	Umurangi Generation	Origame Digital	Chicory: A Colorful Tale Genesis Noir Paradise Killer Spiritfarer Teardown	A Monster's Expedition (Through Puzzling Exhibitions) Blaseball Bugsnax Carto Disc Room Nuts Omori Spelunky 2 There Is No Game: Wrong Dimension	^[31]
2022	Inscryption	Daniel Mullins Games	Cruelty Squad The Eternal Cylinder Loop Hero Unpacking Unsighted	Dodgeball Academia Fuzz Dungeon Norco Overboard Saturnalia Toem Webbed	^[32]
2023	Betrayal at Club Low	Cosmo D Studios	The Case of the Golden Idol Immortality Neon White Not For Broadcast Tunic	Citizen Sleeper Hardspace: Shipbreaker Roadwarden RPG Time: The Legend of Wright Terra Nil Tinykin	^[33]
2024	Venba	Visai Games	1000xRESIST A Highland Song Anthology of the Killer Cocoon Mediterranea Inferno	Chants of Sennaar Final Profit: A Shop RPG Goodbye Volcano High In Stars and Time Rhythm Doctor Tchia The Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood	^[34]

Notes

^ From 1999 and until 2005, a list of award-specific finalists was not given. Instead, overall finalists were revealed alongside specific award winners.
^ Honorable mentions were introduced in 2011.^[7]
^ ^a ^b The Seumas McNally Grand Prize was split into two categories in 2004 and 2005: "Open Category" and "Web/Downloadable".^[4]^[5] A single award was given again from 2006 onwards.^[6]

References

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v t e Seumas McNally Grand Prize
1990s	Fire and Darkness (1999)
2000s	Tread Marks (2000) Shattered Galaxy (2001) Bad Milk (2002) Wild Earth (2003) Savage: The Battle for Newerth (2004) Oasis (2004) Gish (2005) Wik and the Fable of Souls (2005) Darwinia (2006) Aquaria (2007) Crayon Physics Deluxe (2008) Blueberry Garden (2009)
2010s	Monaco (2010) Minecraft (2011) Fez (2012) Cart Life (2013) Papers, Please (2014) Outer Wilds (2015) Her Story (2016) Quadrilateral Cowboy (2017) Night in the Woods (2018) Return of the Obra Dinn (2019)
2020s	A Short Hike (2020) Umurangi Generation (2021) Inscryption (2022) Betrayal at Club Low (2023) Venba (2024)

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