All "Deutscher Spielepreis🇩🇪 2025" game award winners & nominees in comparison

In Bomb Busters, you and your team play a squad of bomb-disposal experts. A bomb full of wires is ticking, and only together will you defuse it in time. A cooperative deduction game whose tension climbs across 66 missions.

Castle Combo is a quick, clever card game from the studio behind Faraway. You spend coins to draw nine cards, little by little, from two open markets, then build them into a 3x3 tableau whose residents interact in smart ways.

The board-game adaptation of the popular deck-building video game. Craft a unique deck, discover powerful relics and climb the Spire together.

Welcome to Alula, a mysterious continent whose geography shifts with the seasons. In Faraway, you roam the land, meet its inhabitants and catalogue its wonders to earn more glory than your rivals. A clever card game built around an unusual way to score.

Endeavor: Deep Sea takes you into the modern era, where the ocean is one of the last great frontiers left to explore. As the successor to the hit Endeavor: Age of Sail, you run a research institute and probe an ever-changing sea.

Balance military power with political intrigue while employing new tools to achieve victory. Utilize spies to support your plans, forge important contracts to expand your resources, or learn the ways of the Fremen and ride powerful sandworms into battle. This standalone spinoff introduces a six-player mode where two teams engage in the largest conflict yet, while remaining compatible with previous expansions and the core game's cards. Choose your path; the Empire awaits!

Players lead a scientific institution searching for life beyond Earth in this Eurogame for 1-4 players. They explore nearby planets and moons by launching probes, deciding whether to land for valuable samples or remain in orbit for deeper investigations. Back on Earth, players invest in upgrading equipment to analyze data more efficiently, increasing their telescope's signal capacity, and expanding their resource supply, all to enhance the chances of discovering extraterrestrial life. Over 200 unique cards represent real-life technologies and discoveries, guiding players in their research while offering bonuses and rewards.

In a distant future, humans are no longer present on Earth, leaving a void filled by an evolved species of bees known as Mellifera. Players control one of twenty unique factions, each starting with a hive, resources, and worker bees. The goal is to explore planets, gather resources, develop technologies, and create sculptures to showcase their faction's strengths before winter arrives and actions become limited.

Hello, students! The cosmic faculty of the Technical Academy of Creation welcomes you to your Civolution, the final exam in Civilization Design!