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Artisan dragons, the smaller and magically talented versions of their larger (and destructive) cousins, are sought by shopkeepers so that they may delight customers with their flamecraft. You are a Flamekeeper, skilled in the art of conversing with dragons, placing them in their ideal home and using enchantments to entice them to produce wondrous things. Your reputation will grow as you aid the dragons and shopkeepers, and the Flamekeeper with the most reputation will be known as the Master of Flamecraft.

In Flamecraft, 1-5 players take on the role of Flamekeepers, gathering items, placing dragons and casting enchantments to enhance the shops of the town. Dragons are specialized (bread, meat, iron, crystal, plant and potion) and the Flamekeepers know which shops are the best home for each. Visit a shop to gain items and a favor from one of the dragons there. Gathered items can be used to enchant a shop, gaining reputation and the favors of all the dragons in the shop. If you are fortunate enough to attract fancy dragons then you will have opportunities to secure even more reputation.

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Year Published: 2022
Designers: Manny Vega
Publishers: Cardboard Alchemy
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Best Artwork Nominee 2022
Year Published: 2022
Designers: Stan Kordonskiy
Publishers: Fantasia Games
Year Published: 2022
Designers: Brian Suhre
Publishers: Elf Creek Games
Year Published: 2022
Designers: Charlie Bink
Publishers: Underdog Games (I)
Year Published: 2022
Designers: Tim Eisner
Publishers: Druid City Games
2022
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The city-building board game Foundations of Rome puts you into the role of an architect competing to own land and build magnificent structures! Build domūs and insulae, fountains, foundries, and more to increase your renown - gaining glory for yourself and the empire! With 96 wonderfully detailed miniatures in the base game, Foundations of Rome is a testament to the glory of Rome that you can bring to the table.

Foundations of Rome is the next, and biggest game to date, in the Dice Tower Essentials line and is designed by famed designer Emerson Matsuuchi.

On a player's turn they select from purchasing a new lot, building a new building in the shared city of Rome, or collecting income!

Players collect Glory Points at the end of each round based on the population and commerce they have brought to the city as well as gaining glory for civic buildings that score not only based on their own buildings, but those of their opponents!

With a quick setup time and easy to learn to rules you will be on your way to achieving glory within Rome in no time!

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Year Published: 2022
Designers: Emerson Matsuuchi
Publishers: Arcane Wonders
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Best Production Value Nominee 2022
Year Published: 2022
Designers: Stan Kordonskiy
Publishers: Fantasia Games
Year Published: 2022
Designers: Manny Vega
Publishers: Cardboard Alchemy
Year Published: 2022
Designers: Isaac Childres
Publishers: Restoration Games
Year Published: 2022
Designers: Tim Eisner
Publishers: Druid City Games
2022
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The walls were lined with iron shelves, each metal slat overfilled with glass jars containing formaldehyde and grotesque curiosities within. Pristine brass tools and refined metals of a quality I had never before laid eyes upon were strewn across sturdy slabs of rock and wood, their edges sharp with use. However, my eyes were soon drawn to a sturdy writing desk, its mahogany eaves inlaid with thin strips of copper, the center of which contained a well-worn leather-bound book. My father's journal — passed down to me and representing years of knowledge and countless experiments. And inside that weathered tome, atop the pearly parchment oxidized yellow at its frayed edges, were the deliberate quill marks of a crazed genius outlining the ambitious project he could never complete in one lifetime — his masterwork.

Without realizing it, my hands were shaking as I clutched the book to my chest. At once, I felt an ownership and anxiety for the scientific sketches scrawled so eloquently on those frayed sheets. It was at that moment that I began my obsession: I would restore this laboratory to its former brilliance and dedicate my life to completing my father's work!

In My Father's Work, players are competing mad scientists entrusted with a page from their father's journal and a large estate in which to perform their devious experiments. Players earn points by completing experiments, aiding the town in its endeavors, upgrading their macabre estates, and hopefully completing their father's masterwork.

But they have to balance study and active experimentation because at the end of each generation, all of their experiments and resources are lost to time until their child begins again with only the "Journaled Knowledge and Estate" they have willed to them — and since the game is played over the course of three generations, it is inevitable that the players will rouse the townsfolk to form angry mobs or spiral into insanity from the ethically dubious works they have created. The player with the most points at the end of three generations wins and becomes the most revered, feared, ingenious scientist the world has ever known!

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Year Published: 2022
Designers: T. C. Petty III
Publishers: Renegade Game Studios
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Best Theming Nominee 2022
Year Published: 2022
Designers: Asger Harding Granerud
Publishers: Days of Wonder
Year Published: 2021
Designers: Adam Kwapiński
Publishers: Awaken Realms
Year Published: 2022
Designers: Isaac Childres
Publishers: Restoration Games
Year Published: 2022
Designers: Tim Eisner
Publishers: Druid City Games
2022
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The most talented architects in ancient Greece stand ready to achieve this goal. Build housing, temples, markets, gardens and barracks, so you can grow your city and ensure it triumphs over the others. Raise its prestige with harmonious planning that conforms to specific rules, and enhance it by building plazas.

Stone is an essential resource, so make sure you do not neglect it. You’ll need enough quarries so you can build higher up, making your city stretch towards the sky.


Choose a tile from the construction site
Arrange it in your city to unlock each district's full potential
Build on higher levels, increase the value of your districts and win the game


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Year Published: 2022
Designers: Jules Messaud
Publishers: Gigamic
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Best Game from a New Designer Nominee 2022
Year Published: 2022
Designers: Steven Medway
Publishers: The Pandemonium Institute
Year Published: 2022
Designers: Scott Brady
Publishers: Smirk & Laughter Games
Year Published: 2022
Designers: Dan Hughes
Publishers: (Web published)
Year Published: 2022
Designers: Peter B. Hoffgaard
Publishers: Czech Games Edition
2022
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Artisan dragons, the smaller and magically talented versions of their larger (and destructive) cousins, are sought by shopkeepers so that they may delight customers with their flamecraft. You are a Flamekeeper, skilled in the art of conversing with dragons, placing them in their ideal home and using enchantments to entice them to produce wondrous things. Your reputation will grow as you aid the dragons and shopkeepers, and the Flamekeeper with the most reputation will be known as the Master of Flamecraft.

In Flamecraft, 1-5 players take on the role of Flamekeepers, gathering items, placing dragons and casting enchantments to enhance the shops of the town. Dragons are specialized (bread, meat, iron, crystal, plant and potion) and the Flamekeepers know which shops are the best home for each. Visit a shop to gain items and a favor from one of the dragons there. Gathered items can be used to enchant a shop, gaining reputation and the favors of all the dragons in the shop. If you are fortunate enough to attract fancy dragons then you will have opportunities to secure even more reputation.

—description from publisher

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Year Published: 2022
Designers: Manny Vega
Publishers: Cardboard Alchemy
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Best Game from a Small Publisher Nominee 2022
Year Published: 2022
Designers: Steven Medway
Publishers: The Pandemonium Institute
Year Published: 2022
Designers: Dan Hughes
Publishers: (Web published)
Year Published: 2022
Designers: Ryan Lambert
Publishers: Adam's Apple Games, LLC
Year Published: 2022
Designers: Ben Pinchback
Publishers: Motor City Gameworks
2022
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For an age, the tower lay in ruins. Unbeknownst to the people of the realm, a great evil stirred in its bowels. It started with strange sightings: a flock of crows flying in circles until they dropped from the sky, the lake frozen solid in the height of summer. In time, they could not deny that which they most feared.

The evil had not been vanquished. The darkness would soon fall again. The tower will rise.

A "sequel" to the 1981 grail game, Return to Dark Tower is a game for 1-4 players who take the role of heroes. Together, they gather resources, cleanse buildings, defeat monsters, and undertake quests to build up their strength and discern what foe ultimately awaits them. When the heroes face the tower, the game shifts into its dramatic second act, where the players have one chance to defeat the enemy once and for all.

The game features cooperative and competitive play.

The game features traditional game mechanisms, such as engine building and resource management, paired with a technological interface unlike any seen before in games, including the titular tower, which holds more than a few secrets.

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Year Published: 2022
Designers: Isaac Childres
Publishers: Restoration Games
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Best Cooperative Game Nominee 2022
Year Published: 2022
Designers: Dan Hughes
Publishers: (Web published)
Year Published: 2022
Designers: Seppo Kuukasjärvi
Publishers: Snowdale Design
Year Published: 2021
Designers: Adam Kwapiński
Publishers: Awaken Realms
Year Published: 2022
Designers: Alexandar Ortloff
Publishers: Z-Man Games
2022
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Cat in the Box: Deluxe Edition is the quintessential quantum trick-taking card game for 2 - 5 cool cats, where your card’s color isn’t defined until you play it! Hypothesize how many tricks you will win, and record your bid. Place tokens on the community research board as you play your hand, and connect large groups of tokens to score even more points. Plan your tricks carefully as you cannot claim the color of a card with the same number that has already been declared. Doing so would be pawsitively catastrophic as you have just created a paradox!

New Deluxe Edition features:

Supports 2-5 players
High quality geekbits-style plastic tokens
Recessed player boards
Recessed Center Research board
Score pad
And a custom plastic insert to keep Cat in the Box: Deluxe Edition tidy!


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Year Published: 2022
Designers: Muneyuki Yokouchi (横内宗幸)
Publishers: Hobby Japan
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Best Reprint Nominee 2022
Year Published: 2022
Designers: Ted Alspach
Publishers: Bézier Games
Year Published: 2022
Designers: Saashi
Publishers: IELLO
Year Published: 2022
Designers: Paolo Mori
Publishers: Stonemaier Games
Year Published: 2022
Designers: Isaac Childres
Publishers: Restoration Games
2022
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Confront your rival guild in a race for victory. Take Gem and Pearl tokens from the common board, then purchase cards, gather bonuses, royal favours, and prestige.

Discover new twists and strategic opportunities derived from Splendor, the original best-selling game. Acquire cards with impressive powers, take advantage of special Privileges, and fight over scarce access to Pearls.

Splendor Duel is a two-player only standalone game based on Splendor that retains some of the main gameplay mechanisms of that design, while being a bit more complex, dynamic, interactive, rich, tense, and mean.

The game features a main board shared by both opponents, card powers, and three victory conditions.

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Year Published: 2022
Designers: Marc André
Publishers: Space Cowboys
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Best Two-Player Game Nominee 2022
Year Published: 2022
Designers: Scott Almes
Publishers: Deep Print Games
Year Published: 2022
Designers: Scott Brady
Publishers: Smirk & Laughter Games
Year Published: 2022
Designers: Paolo Mori
Publishers: PSC Games
Year Published: 2022
Designers: Ian Brody
Publishers: Ares Games
2022
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For an age, the tower lay in ruins. Unbeknownst to the people of the realm, a great evil stirred in its bowels. It started with strange sightings: a flock of crows flying in circles until they dropped from the sky, the lake frozen solid in the height of summer. In time, they could not deny that which they most feared.

The evil had not been vanquished. The darkness would soon fall again. The tower will rise.

A "sequel" to the 1981 grail game, Return to Dark Tower is a game for 1-4 players who take the role of heroes. Together, they gather resources, cleanse buildings, defeat monsters, and undertake quests to build up their strength and discern what foe ultimately awaits them. When the heroes face the tower, the game shifts into its dramatic second act, where the players have one chance to defeat the enemy once and for all.

The game features cooperative and competitive play.

The game features traditional game mechanisms, such as engine building and resource management, paired with a technological interface unlike any seen before in games, including the titular tower, which holds more than a few secrets.

—description from the publisher

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Year Published: 2022
Designers: Isaac Childres
Publishers: Restoration Games
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Best Solo Game Nominee 2022
Year Published: 2022
Designers: Daryl Andrews
Publishers: Cryptozoic Entertainment
Year Published: 2022
Designers: Adam Kwapiński
Publishers: Glass Cannon Unplugged
Year Published: 2022
Designers: Asger Harding Granerud
Publishers: Days of Wonder
Year Published: 2022
Designers: S J Macdonald
Publishers: Garphill Games
2022
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In Ready Set Bet, you and your friends head to the races for a day of cheering, jeering, and betting on your favorite horses, whose fates hang on every roll of the dice.

Ready Set Bet is played over four rounds. Each round consists of a race followed by bet resolution. During each race, players freely place their bet tokens on the board while the race is going on. After each race, players win or lose money for each of their placed bet tokens, then receive a VIP Club Card to help them win more money in the following races. After four rounds, the player with the most money wins!

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Year Published: 2022
Designers: John D. Clair
Publishers: Alderac Entertainment Group
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Best Party Game Nominee 2022
Year Published: 2022
Designers: Steven Medway
Publishers: The Pandemonium Institute
Year Published: 2022
Designers: Maikel Cheney
Publishers: Funtails
Year Published: 2022
Designers: Nathan Thornton
Publishers: 25th Century Games
Year Published: 2022
Designers: Mary Flanagan
Publishers: Resonym
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