The Independent Games Festival (IGF) announced the nominees of its annual awards yesterday, and [i]Eternal Threads[/i], the narrative-driven puzzle game from Liverpool developer Cosmonaut Studios, received an Honorable Mention in the category of Excellence in Narrative. [i]Eternal Threads[/i] is a single-player, timeline-hopping, first-person story-driven puzzle game about choice and consequence. As an operative, you have been sent back to 2015, where six people died in a house fire. Prohibited from simply stopping the fire, you must instead manipulate the choices made by the housemates in the week leading up to it so that they all survive the event. "We are thrilled to receive this recognition from the IGF," said Paul Johnson, the lead developer of [i]Eternal Threads[/i]. "We put a lot of hard work and passion into this game and it's an honour to have our efforts acknowledged by such a prestigious organization." The Excellence in Narrative category recognizes games that have exceptional storytelling and character development. IGF accepted over 500 individual games for the 2023 competition, making [i]Eternal Threads[/i]' Honorable Mention even more impressive. The IGF, which has been running since 1998, is one of the most respected and well-known awards in the game development industry. The awards showcase the best in independent game development and recognize the efforts of small and indie developers. The Independent Games Festival Awards will take place on Wednesday, 22 March at the 2023 Game Developers Conference, which will be held at the Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco.