All "À la carte🇩🇪 1991" game award winners & nominees in comparison 2025

Players take on the role of musketeers trying to acquire three valuable gems while facing sabotage from the Cardinal and his feared guard. After battling through several skirmishes, the most successful musketeers earn gems, while failures end up in prison with nothing to show. The game concludes after a set number of fights or when a player reaches a specified score, with the winner determined by the most coins or points collected.

Halli Galli is a frantic speed game perfect for those who love quick thinking and fast action. Players need to stay alert and ready to strike the bell as soon as they spot exactly five of the same fruit on the table. With 56 cards featuring bananas, strawberries, limes, and plums in varying quantities, the game is a test of observation and reaction speed. The bell, reminiscent of those at hotel reception desks, adds a fun and physical element to the gameplay.

Players purchase companies with sets of resource cards that have different monetary values. Submitting a set of matching symbols earns more than their face value, making set collection a key strategy. Purchased companies are arranged based on matching letters, and the top company in each stack is vulnerable to takeover attempts by other players. Scoring occurs whenever a player draws a victory card, and the game ends when the company stack is depleted.

Players embody the will of the people, guiding five ancient civilizations to greater heights of power and technology. Each turn, an active player makes a trade offer, and others respond in kind. Using cards and information gained through trade, players can acquire identical citizen cards to build a city or identical technology cards to erect a monument, with the ultimate goal of accumulating the most victory points by game’s end.