2023 ORIGINS AWARD Winners

Best cooperative board game

  • Sky Team (SCORPION MASQUE)

Best Gateway board game

  • Wandering Towers (Capstone Games)

Best light strategy game

  • Leaf (Weird City Games)

Best thematic board game

  • Freelancers: A Crossroads Game (Plaid Hat Games)

Best heavy strategy game

  • Dune: Imperium - Uprising (Dire Wolf)

Best party/social board game

  • Smug Owls (Runaway Parade Games)

Best solo board game

  • Legacy of Yu (Renegade Game Studios)

Best children’s & family board game

  • Diced Veggies (KTBG)

Best fixed constructible game

  • Magic: The Gathering Universes Beyond - The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-Earth Commander Decks (Wizards of the Coast)

Best randomized constructible game game

  • Magic: The Gathering Universes Beyond The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-Earth Collector Booster (Wizards of the Coast)

Best miniatures game product

  • Star Wars: Shatterpoint (Atomic Mass Games)

Best puzzle game

  • Threads of Fate (Post Curious)

Best role-playing game adventure)

  • Heckna! Deluxe Box Set (Hit Point Press)

Best role-playing game core product

  • DIE: The Roleplaying Game (Rowan, Rook and Decard)

Best role-playing game starter product

  • Dreams and Machines: Starter Set (Modiphius Entertainment)

Best role-playing game supplement

  • Dune: Power and Pawns (Modiphius Entertainment)

Best dice/dice related accessory

  • Glyphic Blind Dice Bags Series 3.5 (Level Up Dice)

Best game accessory

  • Frameamajigs (Hit Point Press)

Best role-playing game related accessory

  • D&D Icons of the Realms: Adventure in a Box - Mind Flayer Voyage (WizKids)

Best 2D Artwork

  • Kwanchai Moriya, Empire's End (Brotherwise Games)

Best 3D Component

  • Threads of Fate - Puzzle Box (Post Curious)

Best Game Related Writing

  • Grace Collins, Shadow in the Night Part 2, Cozy Companion Magazine (Snowbright Studio)

Best Media Production

  • Eleni Papadopoulou for Making Board Games - The CGE Documentary (8-Part Series)

Fan Favorite

  • Distilled (Paverson Games)

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