Economic class warfare simulator Hegemony: Lead Your Class to Victory is looking to add Portugal’s game of the year award to its resume in the wake of a powerful showing in the Golden Geek Awards last month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The game is up against Evacuation, Nucleum, Horseless Carriage and Scholars of the South Tigris in this year’s Jogo Do Ano, which is voted on by members of SpielPortugal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Evacuation, Nucleum and Scholars of the South Tigris were all beaten by Hegemony in the Heavy Game category in this year’s Golden Geeks<\/a>, voted on by BoardGameGeek users.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Jogo Do Ano, which has been presented since 2006, tends to skew towards the heavier end of board gaming, with recent winners including Imperial Steam, Barrage and Imperial Struggle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Economic strategy game Carnegie won the 2023 Jogo Do Award, having also picked up the Golden Geek Heavy Game award that year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Nucleum co-designer Simone Luciani was triumphant in the Jogo Do Ano alongside Tommaso Battista with Barrage in 2020, and was nominated last year<\/a> for renaissance merchant strategy game Tiletum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 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.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n Evacuation was designed by Vladim\u00edr Such\u00fd, Nucleum by Luciani and D\u00e1vid Turczi, Horseless Carriage by Splotter Spellen’s Jeroen Doumen and Joris Wiersinga, and Scholars of the South Tigris by Garphill Games’ Shem Phillips and SJ Macdonald.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Winners of the award are likely to be announced in September or October of this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Previous Jogo do Ano winners:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n 2022 \u2013 Imperial Steam<\/a> by Alexander Huemer
2021 \u2013 Imperial Struggle<\/a> by Ananda Gupta and Jason Matthews
2020 \u2013 Barrage<\/a> by Tommaso Battista and Simone Luciani
2019 \u2013 Root<\/a> by Cole Wehrle
2018 \u2013 Lisboa<\/a> \u2013 Vital Lacerda
2017 \u2013 Great Western Trail<\/a> by Alexander Pfister
2016 \u2013 Mombasa<\/a> by Alexander Pfister
2015 \u2013 La Granja<\/a> by Michael Keller and Andreas \u201code.\u201d Odendahl
2014 \u2013 Nations<\/a> by Rustan H\u00e5kansson, Nina H\u00e5kansson, Einar Ros\u00e9n and Robert Ros\u00e9n
2013 \u2013 Keyflower<\/a> by Richard Breese and Sebastian Bleasdale
2012 \u2013 Ora et Labora<\/a> by Uwe Rosenberg
2011 \u2013 Troyes<\/a> by S\u00e9bastien Dujardin, Xavier Georges and Alain Orban
2010 \u2013 Maria<\/a> by Richard Siv\u00e9l
2009 \u2013 Agricola<\/a> by Uwe Rosenberg
2008 \u2013 Brass<\/a> by Martin Wallace
2007 \u2013 Imperial<\/a> by Mac Gerdts<\/p>\n\n\n\n