The Best "Canadian Game Design Award🇨🇦" winners and nominees 2025

Super Motherload is a strategic board game set on Mars, where players lead a team of elite Pod pilots working for the Solarus Corporation to mine rare minerals from the planet's crust. This tile-laying, deck-building game combines resource management and strategy with dynamic gameplay inspired by video game mechanics.

Players take on the role of octopuses competing to create the most beautiful gardens. They must attract colorful seahorses and clownfish while protecting pearl-producing oysters from hungry starfish. Careful planning is essential to arrange their tiles effectively and avoid scaring delicate feather worms.

Players dig for resources in a foreign world while completing short-term goals like acquiring specific resources. They can upgrade their Universal Mine Vehicles (GMVees) and fulfill long-term contracts to earn "Star-Dollars" and win. The game features significant player interaction, where actions can benefit or influence others, and strategic management of battery power is crucial. Each game is unique due to randomized resource layouts, upgrade options, and special bonuses from discovering alien technologies.

The solstice approaches, bringing swirling darkness in the night sky over a field. As one of five witches, you perform incantations to vie for earthly supremacy and seek the protection of five goddesses. Gather information, forge alliances, and use your wits to secure your dominance, as serving your goddesses well can lead to rewards against those who defy them.