2023 Board Game Award Winners
boardgamequest.comA couple of weeks ago we announced our nominees for our 11th Annual Board Game Awards. As always, it was rough even choosing which games to nominate. Since then, we’ve put our heads together, tested the games, and come up with a consensus.
Today we are excited to announce the winners of our 2023 Board Game Awards. As usual, the voting was difficult, and some categories were extremely tight. But our editorial staff (with input from our readers) have made their selections. So, without further ado, here are the winners of our 11th Annual Board Game Quest Awards. Congratulations to all the winners and nominees.
Sky Team
Designers: Luc Rémond
Hachette, Scorpion Masqué
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One of our Best of Gen Con 2023 picks makes its return, winning our award for Best Cooperative board game. Sky Team tasks 2 players with landing an airplane successfully in a variety of scenarios. Using a dice-placement mechanism, players need to work together to control the different aspects of the plane. You’ll assign dice to spaces in your cockpit to balance the axis of your plane, control its speed, deploy the flaps, extend the landing gear, and contact the control tower to clear your path. It’s definitely a unique game and a great play experience.
Runner Up: Unmatched Adventures: Tales to Amaze
Lost Ruins of Arnak:
The Missing Expedition
Designers: Elwen & Mín
Czech Games Edition
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Our 2020 Game of the Year stormed back last year with its second expansion, and it was a great one. The Missing Expedition not only adds more content for your games of Lost Ruins of Arnak, but adds in a solo/cooperative campaign. We were skeptical of how well this new gameplay mode would work, but it’s surprisingly solid. The gameplay fits right in with the core loop of Lost Ruins of Arnak, letting you experience the game through much better solo mode than originally came with the game.
Runner Up: Ark Nova: Marine Worlds
Snap Ships Tactics
Designers: Josh Derksen
Snap Ships
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