2023 Origins Award winners

2023 Origins Awards
Awarded forOutstanding work in the gaming industry
LocationColumbus, Ohio
Presented byOrigins Game Fair
First award1974
Websitehttps://www.originsgamefair.com/origins-award-winners

The following are the winners of the 2023 annual Origins Awards, held in June 2024 at the Origins Game Fair.[1][2] ICv2 noted that the categories "expanded substantially" to 24 whereas the previous year only had 16 categories; additionally, the "Retail Game of the year category was eliminated".[3]

Events

Fan Favorite

  • Distilled (Paverson Games)[2]

Academy of Adventure Gaming Arts & Design Hall of Fame

In 2023, the Academy of Adventure Gaming Arts & Design inducted three people and two games in their Hall of Fame:

Finalists and winners

Category Finalists[1] Winner[2][3]
Best Cooperative Board Game
  • Sail (Allplay)
  • Kinfire Delve: Vainglory's Grotto (Incredible Dream)
  • Tales from the Red Dragon Inn (SlugFest Games)
  • Tesseract (Smirk & Dagger Games)
 Sky Team (SCORPION MASQUE)
Best Gateway Board Game
  • Junk Drawer (25th Century Games)
  • Prehistories Evolutions (25th Century Games)
  • GAP (Arcane Wonders)
  • Jokkmokk: The Winter Market (WizKids)
 Wandering Towers (Capstone Games)
Best Light Strategy Game
  • Match of the Century (Capstone Games)
  • 3 Ring Circus (DEVIR GAMES)
  • Cosmoctopus (Lucky Duck Games)
  • In the Footsteps of Darwin (Sorry We Are French)
 Leaf (Weird City Games)
Best Thematic Board Game
  • Kinfire Chronicles: Night's Fall (Incredible Dream)
  • Distilled (Paverson Games)
  • Thunder Road: Vendetta (Restoration Games)
  • The Stifling Dark (Sophisticated Cerberus Games)
 Freelancers: A Crossroads Game (Plaid Hat Games)
Best Heavy Strategy Game
  • Age of Innovation (Capstone Games)
  • Ark Nova: Marine Worlds (Capstone Games)
  • Kutna Hora: The City of Silver (Czech Games Edition)
  • The Search for Lost Species (Renegade Game Studios)
 Dune: Imperium - Uprising (Dire Wolf)
Best Party/Social Board Game
  • Fiction (Allplay)
  • Ensemble (Ares Games)
  • CDSK (hachette/Randolph)
  • Inside Job (Kosmos)
 Smug Owls (Runaway Parade Games)
Best Solo Board Game
  • Resist! (25th Century Games)
  • 20 Strong (Chip Theory Games)
 Legacy of Yu (Renegade Game Studios)
Best Children's & Family Board Game
  • CRANIUM Hullabaloo (Funko/R&CPMK)
  • Turbo Kidz (SCORPION MASQUE)
  • One Too Many Rabbits (Three Archers Games)
  • Sushi Boat (Japanime Games)
 Diced Veggies (KTBG)
Best Fixed Constructible Game
  • Ivion: The Rune and the Rime (APE Games & Luminary Games)
  • Mage Noir (Double Combo Games)
  • Flesh and Blood: History Pack 1 Blitz Decks (Legend Story Studios)
  • Magic: The Gathering Universes Beyond - The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-Earth Starter Kit (Wizards of the Coast)
 Magic: The Gathering Universes Beyond - The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-Earth Commander Decks (Wizards of the Coast)
Best Randomized Constructible Game
  • Flesh and Blood: Bright Lights Booster Box (legend Story Studios)
  • Nostalgix Harmonic Surge (Nostalgix TCG)
 Magic: The Gathering Universes Beyond The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-Earth Collector Booster (Wizards of the Coast)
Best Miniatures Game Product
  • Marvel Crisis Protocol: Earth's Mightiest Core Set (Atomic Mass Games)
  • Conquest: City States vs. Nords (Para Bellum Games)
  • Conquest: First Blood Warband (Para Bellum Games)
  • Dungeons & Dragons: Onslaught (WizKids)
 Star Wars: Shatterpoint (Atomic Mass Games)
Best Puzzle Game
  • Mother of Frankenstein (Arcane Wonders)
  • EXIT: The Professor's Last Riddle (Kosmos)
 Threads of Fate (Post Curious)
Best Role-playing Game Adventure
  • Doctors and Daleks: The Keys of Scaravore (Cubicle 7 Entertainment)
  • The One Ring: Tales from the Lone Lands (Free League Publishing)
  • Vaesen - Lost Mountain Saga (Free League Publishing)
  • Fallout The Role Playing Game: Winter of Atom (Modiphius Entertainment)
 Heckna! Deluxe Box Set (Hit Point Press)
Best Role-playing Game Core Product
DIE: The Roleplaying Game (Rowan, Rook and Decard)
Best Role-playing Game Starter Product
  • Critical - Sanctuary Season 1 (Gigamic)
  • Avatar Legends: The Roleplaying Game Starter Set (Magpie Games)
 Dreams and Machines: Starter Set (Modiphius Entertainment)
Best Role-playing Game Supplement
  • Uncharted Journeys (Cubicle 7 Entertainment)
  • The Griffon's Saddlebag Book 2 (Hit Point Press)
  • Avatar Legends: Wan Shi Tong's Adventure Guide (Magpie Games)
  • The Weird (Monte Cook Games)
 Dune: Power and Pawns (Modiphius Entertainment)
Best Dice/Dice Related Accessory
  • Gemini Purple-Teal/Gold Mini Polyhedral 7-Die Set (Chessex Manufacturing)
  • Puzzle Cube Dice (Foam Brain Games)
  • Hecknal Popcorn Dice & Bag (Hit Point Press)
  • If I Were a Lich, Man - Dreidel Set (Hit Point Press)
 Glyphic Blind Dice Bags Series 3.5 (Level Up Dice)
Best Game Accessory
  • Pollen: Glass Insect Beads (Allplay)
  • Inkwell Trackers (Foam Brain Games)
 Frameamajigs (Hit Point Press)
Best Role-playing Game Related Accessory
  • ENHANCE Potion Light (AP Global)
  • Traveler's Trinkets (Foam Brain Games)
  • Calendar of Many Adventures 2024 (Loke Battle Mats)
  • Dreams and Machines RPG: GM's Toolkit (Modiphius Entertainment)
 D&D Icons of the Realms: Adventure in a Box - Mind Flayer Voyage (WizKids)
Best 2D Artwork
  • Empire's End (Brotherwise Games)
  • The Weird (Monte Cook Games)
  • Necrobiotic (Penny for a Tale)
  • Lost Ruins of Arnak: The Missing Expedition (Czech Games Edition)
  • Holler RPG (Pinnacle Entertainment Group)
 Kwanchai Moriya, Empire's End (Brotherwise Games)
Best 3D Component
  • Omicron Protocol - Lady Rose 75mm Model (Dead Alive Games)
  • Pericle, the Gathering Darkness - standees (Long Dog Games)
 Threads of Fate - Puzzle Box (Post Curious)
Best Game Related Writing
  • Luke Stratton, Pirate Borg (Limithron)
  • Donald Shults and Mr. Bistro, Freelancers: A Crossroads Game (Plaid Hat Games)
 Grace Collins, Shadow in the Night Part 2, Cozy Companion Magazine (Snowbright Studio)
Best Media Production
  • Oxventure One-Shot of Teatime Adventures: The COSIEST RPG by Snowbright Studio
  • Moe Tousignant with The Tabletop Bellhop Gaming Podcast
  • TheRathole.ca Review of Doctor Who the Roleplaying Game - Sixty Years of Adventure by Cubicle Seven
  • Board Game Quest for Frosthaven Review by Brandon Bryson
 Eleni Papadopoulou, Making Board Games - The CGE Documentary (8-Part Series)

References

  1. ^ a b "2023 Origins Awards finalists". Origins Game Fair. Archived from the original on June 22, 2024. Retrieved June 22, 2024.
  2. ^ a b c "2023 ORIGINS AWARD Winners" (PDF) (Press release). Origins Game Fair. June 22, 2024. Retrieved June 22, 2024.
  3. ^ a b "Origins Award Winners Announced". ICv2. June 24, 2024. Retrieved June 24, 2024.
  4. ^ a b c d e "Hall of Fame". The Academy of Adventure Gaming Arts & Design. Retrieved June 22, 2024.
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