The winners of the 12th Annual Golden Geek Awards for 2017 have been announced over at BoardGameGeek.com. The winners are selected by the nomination and voting of the user community of BoardGameGeek.com website.
Big Winner of the Year
Gloomhaven, the massive Legacy-style dungeon-crawler by Cephalofair Games, swept the awards with an amazing 6 wins across the categories. Honors include Board Game of the Year, Best Strategy Game, Best Cooperative Game, and Best Solo Game, and nods for Theming and Innovation.
This is not a huge surprise, considering the 2017 Kickstarter campaign had a massive 40,642 backers that pledged $3,999,795 to help bring this project to life. Kickstarter is a serious driving force in the content being supplied in the board gaming industry, with Gloomhaven as its 5th most-backed tabletop game in Kickstarter history.
Previous winners of Board Game of the Year include Scythe, Pandemic Legacy: Season 1, Splendor, and Terra Mystica. Scythe was the big winner of 2016 with top honors in 5 categories. Pandemic Legacy: Season 1 was the big winner of 2015 with top honors in 4 categories.
Best Podcast honors went to Rahdo Talks Through, who was runner-up in this category in 2015 and 2016.
2017 BoardGameGeek Winners & Runners-Up
Golden Geek Awards Nominee
Here is the complete list of winners and runners-up in all board game categories. A full list of nominees across all categories (including RPG and video games) can be viewed here.
Board Game of the Year
Winner – Gloomhaven
Runner-Up – Azul
Runner-Up – The 7th Continent
2-Player Game
Winner – Codenames Duet
Runner-Up – Caverna: Cave vs Cave
Runner-Up – The Fox in the Forest
Artwork & Presentation
Winner – Photosynthesis
Runner-Up – Azul
Runner-Up – Sagrada
Card Game
Winner – Century: Spice Road
Runner-Up – Clank! In! Space!
Runner-Up – Ethnos
Cooperative Game
Winner – Gloomhaven
Runner-Up – The 7th Continent
Runner-Up – Pandemic Legacy: Season 2
Expansion
Winner – Scythe: The Wind Gambit
Runner-Up – Terraforming Mars: Hellas & Elysium
Runner-Up – Terraforming Mars: Venus Next
Family Game
Winner – Azul
Runner-Up – Sagrada
Runner-Up – Century: Spice Road
Innovative
Winner – Gloomhaven
Runner-Up – The 7th Continent
Runner-Up – Magic Maze
Party Game
Winner – Werewords
Runner-Up – Spyfall 2
Runner-Up – Tortuga 1667
Print & Play
Winner – My Little Scythe
Runner-Up – A4 Quest
Runner-Up – Doctor Who: Solitaire Story Game (second edition)
Solo Game
Winner – Gloomhaven
Runner-Up – The 7th Continent
Runner-Up – Nemo’s War (second edition)
Strategy Game
Winner – Gloomhaven
Runner-Up – Clans of Caledonia
Runner-Up – Azul
Thematic Game
Winner – Gloomhaven
Runner-Up – The 7th Continent
Runner-Up – This War of Mine: The Board Game
Wargame
Winner – 878: Vikings – Invasions of England
Runner-Up – Time of Crisis
Runner-Up – Pendragon: The Fall of Roman Britain
Best Podcast
Winner – Rahdo Talks Through
Runner-Up – Ludology
Runner-Up – Heavy Cardboard
Best Board Game App
Winner – Through the Ages
Runner-Up – Onirim
Runner-Up – Race for the Galaxy
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