The Dice Tower Network is proud to announce the nominees for the best games of 2013. A jury of more than sixty Dice Tower staff, prominent bloggers and reviewers went through all the games released in English in 2013, and chose the five best in each category – with ten games nominated for best game of the year.
The winners of each category will be announced on July 3rd, at the Dice Tower Convention in Orlando Florida. Congratulations to all the publishers and designers who were nominated, and we hope that gamers will have a list of truly excellent games to seek out and play.
– Downfall of Pompeii – Mayfair Games, Klaus-Jurgen Wrede
– Incognito – Ares Games, Leo Colovini and Alex Randolph
– Ogre – Steve Jackson Games, Steve Jackson
– Piñata – Rio Grande Games, Stephen Glenn
– Warhammer: Diskwars – Fantasy Flight Games, Tom Jolly, Lukas Litzsinger, and Christian Petersen
Best Party Game
– Bang: the Dice Game – dv Giochi, Michael Palm and Lukas Zach
– Going, Going, Gone! – Stronghold Games, Scott Nicholson
– One Night Ultimate Werewolf – Bezier Games, Akihisa Okui and Ted Alspach
– Rampage – Asmodee / Repos – Antoine Bauza and Ludovic Maublanc
– Tapple – USAopoly, uncredited
Best Artwork
– Dixit: Origins – Asmodee, Clément Lefevre
– Eldritch Horror – Fantasy Flight Games, Aners Finér, David Griffith, Ed Mattinian, Patrick McEvoy, Emilio Rodriguez, Magali Villeneuve, and Drew Whitmore
– Lewis & Clark – Asmodee, Vincent Dutrait
– Pathfinder: Adventure Card Game: Rise of the Runelords – Paizo Publishing, Noah Bradley
– Rampage – Asmodee / Repos – Pierô
Best Components
– Battlelore, 2nd Edition – Fantasy Flight Games, Richard Borg and Robert A. Kouba
– Forbidden Desert – Gamewright Games, Matt Leacock
– Kemet – Matagot / Asmodee – Jacques Bariot and Guillaume Montiage
– Rampage – Asmodee / Repos – Antoine Bauza and Ludovic Maublanc
– Relic Runners – Days of Wonder, Matthew Dunstan
Best Two-player Game
– The Duke – Catalyst Game Labs, Jeremy Holcomb and Stephen McLaughlin
– Battlelore, 2nd Edition – Fantasy Flight Games, Richard Borg and Robert A. Kouba
– Pixel Tactics 2 – Level 99 Games, D. Brad Talton, Jr.
– Targi – Z-man Games, Andreas Steiger
– Tash Kalar: Arena of Legends – CGE / Z-man Games, Vlaada Chvátil
Best Cooperative Game
– Eldritch Horror – Fantasy Flight Games, Corey Konieczka and Nikki Valens
– Forbidden Desert – Gamewright Games, Matt Leacock
– Freedom: the Underground Railroad – Academy Games, Brian Mayer
– Pathfinder: Adventure Card Game: Rise of the Runelords – Paizo Publishing, Chad Brown, Tanis O’Connor, Paul Peterson, Mike Selinker, and Gaby Weidling
– Police Precinct – Common Man Games, Ole Steiness
Best Strategy Game
– Bruges – Z-man Games, Stefan Feld
– Caverna – Lookout / Mayfair Games, Uwe Rosenberg
– Freedom: the Underground Railroad – Academy Games, Brian Mayer
– Lewis & Clark – Asmodee, Cédrick Chaboussit
– Russian Railroads – Z-man Games, Helmut Ohley, Leonhard “Lonny” Orgler
Best Expansion
– Core Worlds: Galactic Orders – Stronghold Games, Andrew Parks
– Lords of Waterdeep: Scoundrels of Skullport – Wizards of the Coast, Chris Dupuis, Peter Lee, and Rodney Thompson
– Marvel Legendary: Dark City – Upper Deck Entertainment, Devin Low
– Pandemic – In the Lab – Z-man Games, Matt Leacock and Thomas Lehmann
– Suburbia, Inc. – Bezier Games, Ted Alspach
Best New Designer
– Cédrick Chaboussit – Lewis and Clark – Asmodee Games
– Jamey Stegmaier and Alan Stone – Euphoria: Build a Better Dystopia – Stonemaier Games
– Brian Mayer – Freedom: the Underground Railroad – Academy Games
– Rustan and Nina Håkansson, Einar and Rober Rosen – Nations – Asmodee
– Matthew Dunstan – Relic Runners, Days of Wonder
Best Family Game
– Forbidden Desert – Gamewright Games, Matt Leacock
– Going, Going, Gone! – Stronghold Games, Scott Nicholson
– Rampage – Asmodee / Repos – Antoine Bauza and Ludovic Maublanc
– Rise of Augustus – Hurrican / Asmodee, Paolo Mori
– Steam Park – Cranio Creations / IELLO – Aureliano Buonfino, Lorenzo Silva, Lorenzo Tucci Sorrentino
Best Game from Small Publisher
– Red Raven – 8 Minute Empire: Legends – Ryan Laukat
– Stonemayer Games – Euphoria: Build a Better Dystopia, Jamey Stegmaier and Alan Stone
– -Stonemayer Games – Viticulture – Jamey Stegmaier, Alan Stone
– Dice Hate Me Games – The Great Heartland Hauling Co. – Jason Kotarski
– Kayal Games – Francis Drake – Peter Hawes
Most Innovative Game
– Freedom: the Underground Railroad – Academy Games, Brian Mayer
– Going, Going, Gone! – Stronghold Games, Scott Nicholson
– Kemet – Matagot / Asmodee – Jacques Bariot and Guillaume Montiage
– Pathfinder: Adventure Card Game: Rise of the Runelords – Paizo Publishing, Chad Brown, Tanis O’Connor, Paul Peterson, Mike Selinker, and Gaby Weidling
– Rampage – Asmodee / Repos – Antoine Bauza and Ludovic Maublanc
Best Theming
– Eldritch Horror – Fantasy Flight Games, Corey Konieczka, Nikki Valens
– Freedom: the Underground Railroad – Academy Games, Brian Mayer
– Lewis & Clark – Asmodee, Cédrick Chaboussit
– Police Precinct – Common Man Games, Ole Steiness
– Rampage – Asmodee / Repos – Antoine Bauza and Ludovic Maublanc
Game of the Year
– Bruges – Z-man Games, Stefan Feld
– Caverna – Lookout / Mayfair Games, Uwe Rosenberg
– Concordia – Rio Grande Games, Mac Gerdts
– Eldritch Horror – Fantasy Flight Games, Corey Konieczka and Nikki Valens
– Freedom: the Underground Railroad – Academy Games, Brian Mayer
– Forbidden Desert – Gamewright Games, Matt Leacock
– Pathfinder: Adventure Card Game: Rise of the Runelords – Paizo Publishing, Chad Brown, Tanis O’Connor, Paul Peterson, Mike Selinker, and Gaby Weidling
– Rampage – Asmodee / Repos – Antoine Bauza and Ludovic Maublanc
– Russian Railroads – Z-man Games, Helmut Ohley and Leonhard “Lonny” Orgler
– Trains – AEG, Hisashi Hayashi
