Board Game Revolution’s huge Facebook community names Hegemony as its latest Game of the Year
Economic class warfare simulator Hegemony: Lead Your Class to Victory has triumphed in this year’s Meeple’s Choice awards, which are voted on by members of Board Game Revolution’s hefty Facebook groups.
Voters from BGR’s 30,000-member promotions-focused Facebook page and separate 82,000 member ‘community’ page ensured Hegemony added to its BoardGameGeek Golden Geek Awards wins in May, beating out competition from second-placed Voidfall and third-placed Earth.
Hegemony was created by veteran Among the Stars designer Vangelis Bagiartakis and board game design newcomer Varnavas Timotheou to model the tensions between the working class, middle class, capitalists and the state.
The success of the debut game from Cyprus-based publisher Hegemonic Project Games has allowed the company to launch follow-up game World Order, which aims to simulates modern international relations in a tussle between the US, China, Russia and the EU.
Second-placed Voidfall scored its own wins in this year’s BGR Meeple’s Choice awards in the Brain Burner category, ahead of Europa Universalis: The Price of Power and Nucleum, and in Best Solo Game.
Earth, meanwhile, won the Sweet Spot category aimed at more mid-weight games, with The White Castle coming second and Distilled third, and was also named the game with the best box art.
Forest Shuffle took top spot in the Easy Going category ahead of the Star Wars Deckbuilding Game and World Wonders, while new Spiel des Jahres champion Sky Team picked up the Thematic Game award ahead of The Witcher: Old World and Thunder Road: Vendetta.
The Hidden Gem category was won by Nova Roma, with Dutch Resistance: Orange Shall Overcome finishing second and Divinity Original Sin coming third.
Castles of Burgundy: Special Edition beat Dune: Imperium – Uprising in the Best Remake category, while Ark Nova’s Marine Worlds add-on won out against Lost Ruins of Arnak: The Missing Expedition to take the Best Expansion prize.
Board Game Revolution’s Meeple’s Choice Awards is now in its fifth year. Endless Winter: Paleoamericans triumphed in last year’s awards, with Ark Nova having taken the top spot the year before.
Earlier this month scammers impersonating Board Game Revolution creator Thomas Covert managed to con multiple tabletop publishers into sending them review copies of their latest games.
Renegade Games Studios and CrowD Games were both fooled into posting games to the fraudsters, who used a fake email address to contact a string of publishers to claim BGR was experiment with branching out into reviews.
Covert told BoardGameWire he had hired a private investigator to track some of the packages, which were sent to multiple addresses in California, Louisiana and Florida.
