Welcome to our twelfth annual Board Recreation Quest Board Recreation Awards. Every year we take a while to honor one of the best and most inventive new tabletop video games from the earlier years. For these questioning, why we wait till the next yr to announce our winners, it’s to provide us an opportunity to take a look at the video games that come out later within the yr (like Essen and PAX Unplugged releases).
This yr we have now a complete of 11 award classes that cowl a broad spectrum of gaming. Our editorial staff has spent a ton of time taking part in video games and has chosen a gaggle of titles from final yr that we take into account actually excellent. It’s from amongst these nominations that we’ll select a winner. Nevertheless, since we wouldn’t be doing this with out you, our superior readers, you additionally get a vote!
Under is a ballot for every of the 11 classes for which you’ll be able to vote. Our readers right here will collectively get one vote, and together with every member of our editorial employees, the winner will likely be chosen. The voting will likely be open till April eleventh, 2025, and the winners will likely be introduced shortly after.
Congratulations to all of this yr’s nominees!
Finest Cooperative Recreation
Slay the Spire: The Board Recreation
Designers: Gary Dworetsky, Anthony Giovannetti, Casey Yano
Competition Video games
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Finest Tactical/Fight Recreation
Heroscape: Grasp Set – Age of Annihilation
Designers: Matt Hyra, Dan Blanchett, Sarah Rowan
Renegade Video games
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6: Siege – The Board Recreation
Designers: Carlos G.Q.
Mythic Video games, Steamforged Video games
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Star Trek: Into The Unknown – Federation vs. Dominion Core Set
Designer: Max Brooke, Michael Gernes
Wizkids Video games
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Finest Recreation Enlargement
Unmatched: Slings and Arrows
Designers: Cohen, Daviau, Guberman, Hager, Jacobson, Neff
Restoration Video games
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Maintain the Heroes Out!: Boss Battles
Designer: Luís Brueh
Brueh Video games
Arkham Horror: The Card Recreation – The Feast of Hemlock Vale
Designer: Michael Boggs, Josiah Harrist, Nicholas Kory
Fantasy Flight Video games
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Crossbows & Catapults: Weapons Cache
Designers: Rob Daviau, Noah Cohen, Brian Neff, Justin Jacobson
Restoration Video games
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Most Revolutionary Recreation
Boxtop Pinball: Haunted Home
Designers: Zachary Connelly, Alex Cutler
Pandasaurus Video games
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Finest Informal Recreation
Within the Footsteps of Darwin
Designers: Grégory Grard, Matthieu Verdier
Sorry We Are French
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Finest Technique/Euro Recreation
SETI: Seek for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
Designer: Tomáš Holek
Czech Video games Version
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The Lord of the Rings: Duel for Center-earth
Designer: Antoine Bauza, Bruno Cathala
Repos Manufacturing
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Finest Card Recreation
Finest Recreation from a Small Writer
Finest Household/Children Recreation
Finest Reprint/Reimplementation
Heroscape: Grasp Set – Age of Annihilation
Designers: Matt Hyra, Dan Blanchett, Sarah Rowan
Renegade Video games
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Crossbows & Catapults: Fortress Conflict
Designer: Rob Daviau, Noah Cohen, Brian Neff, Justin Jacobson
Restoration Video games
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Firefly: The Recreation – tenth Anniversary Collector’s Version
Designer: Aaron Dill, Joe Kepler, George Krubski, Sean Sweigart
Gale Pressure 9
Recreation of the 12 months
Leviathan Wilds
Designers: Rob Daviau, Noah Cohen, Brian Neff, and Justin Jacobson
Restoration Video games
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Slay the Spire: The Board Recreation
Designers: Gary Dworetsky, Anthony Giovannetti, Casey Yano
Competition Video games
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The Lord of the Rings: Duel for Center-earth
Designer: Antoine Bauza, Bruno Cathala
Repos Manufacturing
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SETI: Seek for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
Designers: Tomáš Holek
Czech Video games Version
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Observe: Whichever sport wins Recreation of the 12 months will routinely be faraway from any of the above classes besides Finest Manufacturing Values. Our reasoning is that if a sport wins Recreation of the 12 months, chances are high it ought to win any of the opposite classes by default. That simply appeared a bit redundant. If a sport wins Recreation of the 12 months, you realize it’s actually good.
