Megabonk dev dropped out of The Game Awards on a technicality, but now the roguelike is back with a Player's Voice nomination: "We're more back than ever"

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Megabonk dev dropped out of The Game Awards on a technicality, but now the roguelike is back with a Player's Voice nomination: "We're more back than ever" News By Ashley Bardhan published 1 December 2025

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The roguelike megahit Megabonk is once again up for nomination at The Game Awards this year after its anonymous solo developer humbly, but still sadly, withdrew from the Debut Indie Game category. Fans don't need to let that happen – not completely.

Megabonk is officially out of the running for Debut Indie Game after its developer Vedinad confessed that they had released other games in the past, though some argued that if bigger budget titles like Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 also qualified as "indie," Megabonk should count as a "debut." But now, in the safe embrace of the egalitarian Player's Voice category, none of that matters.

"WE'RE SO BACK," the Megabonk developer writes on Twitter alongside what must be one of the most profound artistic depictions of joy on planet Earth: a shirtless Megabonk wizard getting injected with 3,000 milliliters of liquid hope.

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WE'RE SO BACKMegabonk is nominated for The Game Awards - Player's Voice!! I withdrew my other nomination due to Megabonk not fitting the category, but with this new nomination we're more back than ever. go vote pls pic.twitter.com/kUNDYN5y5hDecember 1, 2025

"Megabonk is nominated for The Game Awards - Player's Voice!!," the developer continues. "I withdrew my other nomination due to Megabonk not fitting the category, but with this new nomination we're more back than ever. go vote pls."

Round one voting for the bracketed Player's Voice category is open now on The Game Awards website. Other games up for nomination include some perennial favorites like Genshin Impact, more bottled lightning like R.E.P.O, and The Game Awards royalty Clair Obscur: Expedition 33.

Silksong devs "maybe" aren't going to The Game Awards and think they're "safe" from a GOTY win because of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, which is "exceptional and broadly palatable."

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Ashley is a Senior Writer at GamesRadar+. She's been a staff writer at Kotaku and Inverse, too, and she's written freelance pieces about horror and women in games for sites like Rolling Stone, Vulture, IGN, and Polygon. When she's not covering gaming news, she's usually working on expanding her doll collection while watching Saw movies one through 11.

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