All Spiel of the year🇩🇪 2025 Gewinner & Nominierte in comparison 2026
The Spiel des Jahres jury announced the nominations and recommendation lists for Spiel des Jahres 2025, Kennerspiel des Jahres 2025 and Kinderspiel des Jahres 2025 on June 11, 2025 at 4:00 p.m., including both a shortlist and a longlist. On July 24, 2025, the titles “Spiel des Jahres 2025”, “Kennerspiel des Jahres 2025” and “Kinderspiel des Jahres 2025” were then awarded.
In the list below you’ll find what we consider to be the hottest contenders for this coveted games award. The games must be submitted to the jury by the end of March 2025. This means that only games published in Germany between April 2023 and March 2025 can be considered for Spiel des Jahres 2025.
Winners of Spiel des Jahres 🇩🇪 2025
- Spiel des Jahres 2025:
Bomb Busters (Our prediction was: Flip 7) - Kennerspiel des Jahres 2025:
Endeavor: Deep Sea (Our prediction was: Faraway) - Kinderspiel des Jahres 2025:
Topp die Torte (Our prediction was: Cascadia Junior)
All “Spiel des Jahres” years listed individually
The Spiel des Jahres award has been presented since 1979. For you, we’ve created separate lists for every year, every award type (Spiel des Jahres, Kennerspiel, Kinderspiel) and all nominees:
- all Spiel des Jahres years individually
- the best "Spiel des Jahres" award winners of all years together
- the best of all "Spiel des Jahres" nominations
- all "Kennerspiel des Jahres" winners
- all "Kinderspiel des Jahres" winners
Spiel des Jahres nominations and recommendations are also excellent
In our “Spiel des Jahres” 2025 list you’ll not only find the expected winners, but also all games from the recommendation list (longlist) and the nomination list (shortlist) for Spiel des Jahres 2025, Kennerspiel des Jahres 2025 and Kinderspiel des Jahres 2025.
Which game do you think will be nominated, and which ones will win in the different Spiel des Jahres 2025 categories? Write to us at tibi+brettspiele@cephea.de.
List of our favorites for “Spiel des Jahres 2025”
Here are all our favorites for the “Spiel des Jahres 2025” award compared side by side:
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Flip 7
All details & ratingFlip 7 is a brisk push-your-luck card game: flip the deck one card at a time, but never turn up the same number twice. It sounds simple, yet it has real bite. A great fit for families and party groups after a fast thrill.
3–18 20 min 8+ Immediately playable -
Bomb Busters
All details & ratingIn 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.
2–5 30 min 10+ Easy to learn -
Castle Combo
All details & ratingCastle 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.
2–5 10–25 min 10+ Easy to learn -
Agent Avenue
All details & ratingAgent Avenue is a competitive card game about retired spies in a suburban neighborhood. Players bluff, collect sets, and use an I-split-you-choose mechanism to outmaneuver rivals and reveal their identities first.
2–4 10–20 min 8+ Immediately playable+ 4 € above the best price18 € at Amazon* -
Faraway
All details & ratingWelcome 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.
2–6 15–30 min 10+ Easy to learn -
Endeavor: Deep Sea
All details & ratingEndeavor: 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.
1–4 60–120 min 10+ Medium complexity+ 8 € above the best price62 € at Amazon* - + 3 € above the best price27 € at Amazon*
- + 4 € above the best price22 € at Amazon*
- 1 € below the next retailer23 € at Amazon*
- 1 € below the next retailer16 € at Amazon*
Frequently asked questions
Which game ranks first on this list?
Flip 7 currently tops our list. The ranking is derived from player community ratings and is recalculated continuously.
How many players do the games on this list support?
Most games on this list support 2 to 4 players. The exact player count is listed with each game.
What age are these games suitable for?
Publisher age recommendations on this list start at 4 years. Each game carries its own age rating.
How long does a game take?
A typical game takes about 20 to 30 minutes. Each game's playing time is listed individually.
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