{"id":3174,"date":"2024-10-15T14:59:31","date_gmt":"2024-10-15T13:59:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/boardgamewire.com\/?p=3174"},"modified":"2024-10-15T15:05:18","modified_gmt":"2024-10-15T14:05:18","slug":"nucleum-wins-portugals-game-of-the-year-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/boardgamewire.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/15\/nucleum-wins-portugals-game-of-the-year-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Nucleum wins Portugal’s game of the year award"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Alternative history industrialisation eurogame Nucleum<\/a> has triumphed in this year’s Jogo Do Ano, the Portuguese game of the year award.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Simone Luciani and D\u00e1vid Turczi design fought off competition from Hegemony: Lead Your Class to Victory, which had previously beaten it to BoardGameGeek’s Heavy Game award in this year’s Golden Geeks in May.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Evacuation, Horseless Carriage and Scholars of the South Tigris were also in the running for this year\u2019s Jogo Do Ano<\/a>, which is voted on by members of SpielPortugal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A statement from Turczi shared by the Jogo do Ano organisers said, “It’s an honour and a thrill to receive such a recognition! Thank you for selecting Nucleum as the Portuguese Game of the Year 2024! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“We hope the game will bring many more hours of joy to everyone around the table, and Board and Dice and us are planning to keep on going with the wonderful possibilities of this game, finding new ways to set your brains on mildly radioactive fire.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Nucleum — Photo Credit: Board & Dice<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Nucleum’s awards cabinet also includes the 2023 Meeple’s Choice Award – although the game finished in a four-way winning tie with Earth, Sky Team and The White Castle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The game, published by Board&Dice, was ‘recommended’ in this year’s American Tabletop Awards in the Complex Games category.<\/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 for renaissance merchant strategy game Tiletum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Previous Jogo do Ano winners:<\/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

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