{"id":4160,"date":"2025-04-09T15:35:14","date_gmt":"2025-04-09T14:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/boardgamewire.com\/?p=4160"},"modified":"2025-04-09T16:30:02","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T15:30:02","slug":"americas-answer-to-the-spiel-des-jahres-the-american-tabletop-awards-unveils-2025-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/boardgamewire.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/09\/americas-answer-to-the-spiel-des-jahres-the-american-tabletop-awards-unveils-2025-winners\/","title":{"rendered":"America’s answer to the Spiel des Jahres, the American Tabletop Awards, unveils 2025 winners"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The American Tabletop Awards, an awards scheme launched six years ago with the aim of being the US equivalent of Germany’s Spiel des Jahres<\/a>, has revealed its 2025 winners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Captain Flip<\/a>, which was nominated for last year’s Spiel des Jahres award, triumphed in ATTA’s Early Gamers award category this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The game, designed by Paolo Mori and Remo Conzadori, was also a nominee in this year’s French game of the year award<\/a>, the As d’Or, won the family category of the 2024 Swiss Gamers Award<\/a> and narrowly lost out in this year BoardGameArena awards to Castle Combo in the Casual Game category<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Highly regarded board game designer Kory Heath, who died in November last year, was celebrated in this year’s ATTA’s through his game The Gang<\/a>, a co-design with John Cooper, which won the Casual Games award.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prior to the Gang, Heath was best known for his inductive logic game Zendo, a Mensa Select Award winner from 2005. BoardGameGeek’s Eric Martin published an extended tribute to Heath and his design work here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fromage<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Let\u2019s Go! To Japan<\/a>, designed by Josh Wood and published by Alderac Entertainment Group, won this year’s Strategy Games award at the ATTAs, while Matthew O\u2019Malley and Ben Rosset’s design Fromage<\/a> was victorious in the Complex Games category.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The ATTAs are voted on by members of the US board game media, who each submit up to five games which are then ordered according to ranked-choice vote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ATTA’s committee includes GAMA president and SAHMReviews.com<\/a> founder and owner Nicole Brady, Jessica Fisher, the co-founder of Gameosity and the Tabletop Game Jobs Facebook group, and Good Time Society and Rahdo Runs Through producer Ruel Gaviola, according to its website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year’s ATTA winners were Blob Party, Sea Salt & Paper, Thunder Road: Vendetta and The White Castle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Previous American Tabletop Awards Winners in full:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Early Gamers<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Year<\/th>Winner<\/th>Designer(s)<\/th>Publisher<\/th><\/tr>
2024<\/td>Blob Party<\/td>Pam Walls<\/td>WizKids<\/td><\/tr>
2023<\/td>boop.<\/td>Scott Brady<\/td>Smirk & Laughter Games<\/td><\/tr>
2022<\/td>Happy City<\/td>Toshiki Sato, Airu Sato<\/td>Gamewright<\/td><\/tr>
2021<\/td>Abandon All Artichokes<\/td>Emma Larkins<\/td>Gamewright<\/td><\/tr>
2020<\/td>Draftosaurus<\/td>Antoine Bauza, Corentin Lebrat, Ludovic Maublanc, Th\u00e9o Rivi\u00e8re<\/td>Ankama<\/td><\/tr>
2019<\/td>Catch the Moon<\/td>Fabien Riffaud & Juan Rodriguez<\/td>Studio Bombyx<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Casual Games<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Year<\/th>Winner<\/th>Designer(s)<\/th>Publisher<\/th><\/tr>
2024<\/td>Sea Salt & Paper<\/td>Bruno Cathala, Th\u00e9o Rivi\u00e8re<\/td>Bombyx, Pandasaurus Games<\/td><\/tr>
2023<\/td>Turing Machine<\/td>Fabien Gridel, Yoann Levet<\/td>Le Scorpion Masqu\u00e9<\/td><\/tr>
2022<\/td>Cubitos<\/td>John D Clair<\/td>Alderac Entertainment Group<\/td><\/tr>
2021<\/td>The Crew: The Quest for Planet Nine<\/td>Thomas Sing<\/td>KOSMOS<\/td><\/tr>
2020<\/td>ShipShape<\/td>Rob Daviau<\/td>Calliope Games<\/td><\/tr>
2019<\/td>The Quacks of Quedlinburg<\/td>Wolfgang Warsch<\/td>North Star Games<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Strategy Games<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Year<\/th>Winner<\/th>Designer(s)<\/th>Publisher<\/th><\/tr>
2024<\/td>Thunder Road: Vendetta<\/td>Dave Chalker, Brett Myers, Noah Cohen, Rob Daviau, Justin Jacobson, Jim Keifer, Brian Neff<\/td>Restoration Games<\/td><\/tr>
2023<\/td>Planet Unknown<\/td>Ryan Lambert, Adam Rehberg<\/td>Adam\u2019s Apple Games, LLC<\/td><\/tr>
2022<\/td>Cascadia<\/td>Randy Flynn<\/td>Flatout Games, Alderac Entertainment Group<\/td><\/tr>
2021<\/td>Calico<\/td>Kevin Russ<\/td>Flatout Games<\/td><\/tr>
2020<\/td>Wingspan<\/td>Elizabeth Hargrave<\/td>Stonemaier Games<\/td><\/tr>
2019<\/td>Chronicles of Crime<\/td>David Cicurel<\/td>Lucky Duck Games<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Complex Games<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Year<\/th>Winner<\/th>Designer(s)<\/th>Publisher<\/th><\/tr>
2024<\/td>The White Castle<\/td>Isra C, Shei S<\/td>Devir<\/td><\/tr>
2023<\/td>Carnegie<\/td>Xavier Georges<\/td>Pegasus Spiele<\/td><\/tr>
2022<\/td>Lost Ruins of Arnak<\/td>M\u00edn & Elwen<\/td>Czech Games Edition<\/td><\/tr>
2021<\/td>Dominations: Road to Civilization<\/td>\u00c9ric Dubus, Olivier Melison<\/td>Holy Grail Games<\/td><\/tr>
2020<\/td>The Taverns of Tiefenthal<\/td>Wolfgang Warsch<\/td>North Star Games<\/td><\/tr>
2019<\/td>Root<\/td>Cole Wehrle<\/td>Leder Games<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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