The outcomes are in and the Finnish Recreation Awards 2023 simply wrapped.
Regardless of cellular’s reputation and profitability, its key power is accessibility, and as such the platform is commonly ignored at gaming awards worldwide… However how did cellular do at tonight’s Finnish Recreation Awards? In spite of everything, Finland is the religious residence of cellular gaming so absolutely there’s loads of love coming cellular’s manner?
The primary of the so-called “most important awards” was the all-important Small Display screen Recreation of the Yr award, introduced by Suomen Pelikmehittajat board vice chair Joni Lappalainen and chair of the board Jussi Loukianen.
“Small display is for cellular, and as everybody is aware of Finland has an enormous and lengthy historical past with cellular video games,” mentioned Lappalainen. “I feel at present’s nominees additionally share the identical DNA and the identical footprints.”
The six nominees had been:
Phrase Buddies
Badland Social gathering
Offroad Unchained
Nerf: Superblast
Indignant Birds Journey
Pako Freeway…
And…
Tree Males Video games emerged victorious with Pako Freeway, which mixes components of the racing and countless runner genres.
Separate… However equal
Many business awards separate cellular gaming into its personal class, out of competition for a number of the ceremony’s huge prizes. The Finnish video games business, nonetheless, has a higher reverence for cellular gaming, as evidenced by Recreation Music Collective’s efficiency of the Indignant Birds Theme Tune. As such, two of the six nominees for Small Display screen Recreation of the Yr – Indignant Birds Journey and Pako Freeway – had been in competition for the Finnish Recreation of the Yr award, alongside Undead Horde 2: Necropolis, Voltage Excessive Society and Skabma – Snowfall.
And the winner is…
As soon as once more, it was Pako Freeway that emerged victorious, capping off a profitable evening by taking residence the award’s greatest prize. Congrats from all at PG.biz!
What does this imply for the broader business? Whereas it’s unlikely that even cellular’s greatest studios can topple AAA giants in mainstream classes – but – Pako Freeway’s success reveals that it’s doable for cellular to show that it is the actual primary.
Meet the winners of tonight’s awards and extra after we head again to Helsinki for Pocket Gamer Connects in September.
