The Independent Games Festival announced the nominees for the awards they hand out to the best of the best annually, from the indie game offerings of 2013 yesterday. In the running are various stand-out titles such as Papers Please, Don’t Starve and DEVICE 6, as well as other titles that haven’t had such a wide audience.

The awards include categories such as Excellence in Visual Art, Narrative and the Seumas McNally Grand Prize all which list 6 nominees and a handful of honourable mentions in each category, with finalists having the opportunity offered to them of a distribution deal with Steam for their game (if they don’t have one already). The awards themselves will be taking place on the evening of March 19th at the San Francisco Moscone Convention Centre, preceding the Game Developers Choice Awards which recognise excellence across all gaming development.