Best of March 2025!

[TomFulp]

Your votes are in and the Best of March have been determined!

Top Five Movies ($100 each for top five + $200 for best Original)

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  Trials for Miles

  by PatrikusDroilius

  Their quest was interupted. They must complete the goblin trials to continue.

  Movie

  12,886 Views

  (Everyone)

• 

  HOW TO BE COOL 2

  by Piemations

  Time 2 get tough

  Movie

  10,033 Views

  (Ages 13+)

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  Ape Escape 3 (NTSC)

  by Snackers

  I LOVE NIGHTCORE

  Movie

  22,614 Views

  (Ages 13+)

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  still vincible

  by PringusMcDingus

  wonder how far that optimism's gotten him

  Movie

  13,041 Views

  (Ages 13+)

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  DELTARUNE COLLAB

  by TerminalRepo

  Newgrounds Deltarune Collab Is Here

  Movie

  39,345 Views

  (Everyone)

The top movie based on original material and winner of $300 total is Trials for Miles. Congrats @PatrikusDroilius!

Top Seven Games ($100 each + $200 for best Original)

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  Driven Wild

  by KilledByAPixel

  Retro Arcade Racing

  Game

  22,795 Views

  (Everyone)

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  waxweaver

  by kaiakairos

  sandbox rpg on a small square planet

  Game

  28,455 Views

  (Everyone)

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  Creature Collab 2024

  by Zfert

  Synthesize Some Silly Skrunklies!

  Game

  12,423 Views

  (Ages 13+)

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  VAMPIR NYMPH

  by CheeseBaron

  Gnarly shooter about blood eating and a thick flower nymph

  Game

  7,927 Views

  (Ages 13+)

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  The Children Under the Bed

  by Chris

  The Sequel to Stay Indoors

  Game

  17,906 Views

  (Ages 17+)

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  Rumbleweed

  by crow-seeds

  Tumbleweed that kills people for fun

  Game

  8,033 Views

  (Everyone)

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  Bunny Smoosh (Nokia3310)

  by Sjhillustration

  An endless runner based on the Nokia 3310 platform

  Game

  8,714 Views

  (Everyone)

The top game based on original material and winner of $300 total is Driven Wild. Congrats @KilledByAPixel!

@FuturecopLGF made a Best Games of March post, including a video with game feedback!

We’re giving a $100 prize to Swordius, a phenomenal game and FuturecopLGF’s top pick.

Thank you @MassiveMonster for the $200 sponsorship. Play Cult of the Lamb!

Thank you @PuffballsUnited for the $100 sponsorship. Play Among Us!

Thank you @TeamTrivial for boosting our game prizes this month!

Top Five Music ($100 each + $100 for best Original)

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  Buy

  by ZaneLittle

  Shopping music

  Song

  Video Game

  4,795 Views

  PLAY
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  Crown of Inamorta (Stick War Legacy OST 2016)

  by Waterflame

  Stick War Legacy Soundtrack!

  Song

  Video Game

  5,315 Views

  PLAY
• 

  Garbage Kuta Opening

  by Zalay

  Song

  Drum N Bass

  4,023 Views

  PLAY
• 

  Boom Kitty x Teminite - Heave Ho

  by BoomKitty

  HEAVE! HO! HEAVE! HO!

  Song

  Dubstep

  11,947 Views

  PLAY
• 

  Retro Beat

  by TeffyD

  Something I didn't know how to finish.

  Song

  Synthwave

  3,117 Views

  PLAY

The top song based on original material and winner of $200 total is Buy. Congrats @ZaneLittle!

Thank you @RobTop for the $500 sponsorship. Play Geometry Dash!

Top Five Art ($100 for First Place, $50 each for 2nd-3rd)

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  Faye

  by Speedo

  Illustration

  15,220 Views

  (Ages 13+)

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  DBBQ

  by Ennuikal

  Illustration

  3,424 Views

  (Everyone)

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  One For My Baby

  by DeimosArt

  Illustration

  2,440 Views

  (Everyone)

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  Coast to Coast

  by HernyEd

  Illustration

  2,339 Views

  (Everyone)

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  Necromancer's Room

  by Antchan

  Illustration

  1,880 Views

  (Everyone)

Congrats @Speedo on winning first place!

Thank you @53xy83457 and @River for boosting our art prizes this month!

Runner-Up Movies

6. change the channel

7. THE GASLIGHT DISTRICT PILOT TRAILER

8. Burning Ranger Silikon

9. Tetos with Hats [FINAL VER]

10. The LAST SODA on Earth: Strange Scavenger

11. Detective Echo

12. Super Smash Bros Brawl - The Subspace Emissary [Part 1] in 16 minutes ANIMATED

13. CRAZY

14. GACHIAKUTA FAN OPENING || ガチアクタ ファンの開口部

15. The Looter Takes A Tumble

16. Pico Vs Nene Part 2

17. Draw One Circle PLEASE 🗣️

18. The Phlosh Paradox

19. raw TIME!!!

20. Cathy

21. The Sounds of Luigi

22. Alien GF Gaming 👽🎮

23. [Castle Crashers OVA] Green Knight ni Aimasho

24. Senrio!

25. Natalie Answers Your Questions

Runner-Up Games

8. UpSlash

9. Jane's Pumpkin Patch!

10. Swordius

11. Aestheta

12. Balls, Dice & Stickers

13. Arc Breaker

14. Deep in the Lab - Chapter 1

15. Heroes of the Seven Islands

16. Slimeslinger

17. There's just something about u

18. Five Day Detective: Browser Version

19. Stones of Medusa

20. SymmetryCats DEMO

21. Battle of The Bands: Orientation Day

22. Örnöga: Idle

23. Falling Thingies

24. The Colored Moth

25. Lonely Duck

More runner-ups and other highlights below!

[TomFulp]

Runner-Up Audio

6. ~Skyshine Farlights~

7. Glowsticks (Remix)

8. Cosmic Dreamer 2025

9. Desert Oasis

10. KETAMINE

11. Chess [Purplerized]

12. Dark Paradise

13. FLINT AND STEEL

14. monkey funk

15. 🏳️‍⚧️ PUSH (femtanyl remix)

16. B-boy feat. Maxxjamez - Mahdi's Cool Funkin' Mod OST

17. Big Arm Boss (Rock Cover)

18. Mushroom Reverie | 2025

19. Cutie Doomie

20. Tour pela Praia do Espelho

21. CLOBBERMAX

22. Watcher

23. 踢衣恩 The Inevitable Nostalgia (Full Album) - TPP

24. Xtrullor - Revenge

25. Heritage: A Dragon's Tale OST - Retribution (Fortress Assault)

Runner-Up Art

6. Aquanaut

7. Dorothy

8. LORD SKELETON MOONKILLER

9. Awaria Fanart

10. NG Easter 2025 Wall Art

11. Arachnophobia

12. GREED IS GOOD!!

13. TMNT Character Select: Donnie

14. BLoODy RYukO

15. Station 4

16. amy rose

17. DAY AND NIGHT

18. Come along with me... (Wallpaper/Commission)

19. Brak saying Goodbye

20. Pyro

21. 1733

22. Team Rocket

23. River of Despair (Downpour)

24. tie

25. Cassy2.0

Voter of the Month

The voter of the month and winner of honorary Supporter status is @JBird05!

Collabs and Events Roundup

@TerminalRepo organized the Deltarune Collab.

@Zfert and @MSGhero organized the Creature Collab 2024.

@Joshua organized the Pass the Page Collab.

@P33R23 organized the 2 Friends of Hell Collab.

@NikoN1nja organized the NG Megamix Collab.

@KingCrowned organized the “Too Much” Jam, check out the winners!

Thank you everyone who organized and participated in collabs and events last month!

Closing Thoughts

My overall impression of March was that a ton of really high quality works were shared! Just going through the top 50 movies, it’s impressive the whole way down. I hope people take some time to explore it all.

Feature-wise, PsychoGoldfish announced a Newgrounds.io library for ActionScript 2.0, replacing our old Flash API for the Flash Forward Jam and beyond. It also includes features from our modern API, like Cloud Saves.

Most of the work on NG since last year has been under the hood, with that work continuing throughout March. We did recently announce new keyboard shortcuts for the Audio and Art Portals, though!

Other News

Low Poly Day has been officially announced for June 6th and we’re crowdfunding prize money.

CmFluffles is hosting a Clear Skies Game Jam, with a steampunk / solarpunk theme.

The Art Inspired Music Contest starts on April 18th!

See the calendar for many more events, including a Game Gallery Meetup in Langhorne, PA.

If you’d like to help keep NG and these prizes going, we have a new t-shirt featuring a fresh take on the tank logo by @Zals, as well as a logo hat and a vibrant orange hat variant!

[Simoes1000]

Yes! "Trials for miles" was the best of the month! Thank you tom and congratulations to the other winners.

[TaxiDriverNG]

Congratulations to everyone who won!

[Chris]

Driven Wild was my favourite game of the month so first place for that is well deserved. Thanks everyone for 5th place and congrats to all the other winners.

Extra special congrats to my mate @sjhillustration for his first monthly win!

[KyleRoberts]

At 4/14/25 11:16 AM, TomFulp wrote:

Most of the work on NG since last year has been under the hood, with that work continuing throughout March. We did recently announce new keyboard shortcuts for the Audio and Art Portals, though!

Under the hood news is still good, though. How many sites are as old as NG? Always interesting to see what changes y'all do for looking ahead.

[TheAsterDood02]

Awww man, I forgot to vote. Didn't had time throughout all my working days at my workplace. I'll say at least the ones I liked on the movies.

3 to be exact.

I loved Trials for Miles the most, lots of references in there and it's funny too. Reminds me of a Cartoon Network show that could air on TV

HOW TO BE COOL 2 is my second favorite. Love the continuation, and it's really funny how Peeb punched his and he's like "That's *oomf* so cool... 10/10"

still vincible is my third one, just because I started getting into a bit of Invincible (too goooory, but that part of the stoooory), DoobusGoobus is funny, though the artstyle gets a bit stale after a while. Still funny and cute sometimes. (I am so lonely <3)

[SkilledFella]

At 4/14/25 11:16 AM, TomFulp wrote:

Thank you @RobTop for the $500 sponsorship. Play Geometry Dash!

I am playing GD, almost Top 500 but need to grind more stars and HOLY SH*T MONTHLY 3RD PLACE? Let's goooo...

[NikoN1nja]

Never thought I would be mentioned by the man himself :)

Also congrats to @CrimsonKero for getting top 15 of the month with her submission, one of my favs off the collab

[SkilledFella]

BoiledyMilkszy you are soooo close. ;w;

[BoiledMilkz]

Wow, thanks so much for voting my game to be 9th place, on behalf of the whole team that worked on it, I want to say thanks!

[MagentaNova]

Really glad I could participate in both the Too Much jam and Pass the Page! They've given me more opportunities to stretch my creativity and make me appreciate this place even more. I can't wait to join more stuff in the future.

[Sjhillustration]

At 4/14/25 11:27 AM, Chris wrote:Driven Wild was my favourite game of the month so first place for that is well deserved. Thanks everyone for 5th place and congrats to all the other winners.

Extra special congrats to my mate @sjhillustration for his first monthly win!

I enjoyed that one too! I managed to get past the rocks in the road lol

[CrimsonKero]

At 4/14/25 11:46 AM, NikoN1nja wrote:Never thought I would be mentioned by the man himself :)
Also congrats to @CrimsonKero for getting top 15 of the month with her submission, one of my favs off the collab

I'm surprised it not only got on the runner-ups list, but surpassed the original collab in views.

Thank you Femtanyl!

[poptaffy]

ap e escape

[ZaneLittle]

Woah!!!!

[FutureCopLGF]

Congratulations to the winners and thanks to all the game devs for delivering more great games this month! I'm very surprised but pleased to see Driven Wild at the top: it's nice to see that simple arcade games are still appreciated! I'm glad that my top pick of Swordius will be getting a prize too! @Yword has really got a knack for making these stylish sword games and I'm looking forward to the next in the series. Waxweaver was also a very ambitious undertaking and it's nice to see it on Steam now, so add it to your library pronto.

As usual, I've got the rest of my picks on my news post. Here are a few promising games to check out that haven't been mentioned yet, give 'em some feedback so that they grow big and strong:

[Chris]

At 4/14/25 12:35 PM, Sjhillustration wrote:

At 4/14/25 11:27 AM, Chris wrote:Driven Wild was my favourite game of the month so first place for that is well deserved. Thanks everyone for 5th place and congrats to all the other winners.

Extra special congrats to my mate @sjhillustration for his first monthly win!

I enjoyed that one too! I managed to get past the rocks in the road lol

I finally did in the end lol

[Dungeonation]

At 4/14/25 01:04 PM, ZaneLittle wrote:Woah!!!!

Congrats duuuude!! Well deserved!

[Sjhillustration]

Also big shout out to Driven Wild, not sure if people read the description but when I went back for a second play I realised the game was developed for a challange where the entire game needs to fit into a 13kb zip file. Very impressive! :D

@KilledByAPixel

[StitchMiss]

Another busy month of epic collabs, games, movies, arties and musics ^o^ I swear, it gets more difficult voting each month with how many fantastic entries there are XD

A huge congratulations to all the winners! :D Very well deserved, especially to all the new pilots and showcases! Cannot wait to see what April will bring!

[Anamonator]

Another great month for the grounds of new.

Glad to see How to be cool make a comeback and Trials for miles make its debut.

[BlueMonday1984]

The rest of the world may be rapidly falling apart, but at least we got a banger month here on Newgrounds!

Congrats, everyone!

[RavioliBox]

Congrats to all the winners and honorable mentions 💯😎🍻

[GlitchingGhost]

Congrats to all of the winners of March 2025!

[Placeholder456]

congratz to mah m8os watuflaem, teminyte n boom kitteh!!1! :V

[Sonucais]

I'd love more Trials for Miles content.

[TeffyD]

WHAT THE IT GOT 5TH? HELL YEAH! CONGRATS TO ALL THE WINNERS

[nicolistheguy]

I forgot stuff like Ape escape 3 came out last month lol, one of my favorites from March along with all the other videos and pieces of art I came across. A quality month for sure,

[Mix-Cat-Tape]

Trails for Miles, definitely earned it’s first place! That bridge took them both, straight to the winner’s circle, no wonder that troll was guarding it.

It’s a masterpiece for sure; fun characters, scenes, scenario, and style. Amazing all-around!

All the other entries were fantastic, too. Especially in the Art and Movie Portals! Lots of great content!

Big congratulations and applause to all the winners, and to those that made it happen.

You guys rock!