{"id":5307,"date":"2025-10-27T11:30:45","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T11:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/boardgamewire.com\/?p=5307"},"modified":"2025-10-29T11:42:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T11:42:07","slug":"seti-continues-powerful-awards-run-by-beating-endeavor-deep-sea-bomb-busters-to-deutscher-spiele-preis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/boardgamewire.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/27\/seti-continues-powerful-awards-run-by-beating-endeavor-deep-sea-bomb-busters-to-deutscher-spiele-preis\/","title":{"rendered":"SETI continues powerful awards run by beating Endeavor: Deep Sea, Bomb Busters to Deutscher Spiele Preis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Tom\u00e1\u0161 Holek’s space exploration eurogame SETI<\/a> has continued its triumphant tour of the 2025 board game awards scene by securing this year\u2019s Deutscher Spiele Preis<\/a>, the biggest community-voted board game award in Germany.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SETI took top spot at the long-running award above third-placed Bomb Busters<\/a> and second-placed Endeavor: Deep Sea<\/a> – the winners of this year’s hugely high-profile Spiel des Jahres and Kennerspiel des Jahres awards<\/a> respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The win further fills out SETI’s trophy cabinet following a hugely successful 2025 which has seen it scoop the Dice Tower Awards for game of the year, best strategy game and best new designer, the Golden Geek heavy game of the year and thematic game awards<\/a>, and best expert game in the Dutch language Nederlandse Spellenprijs<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SETI publisher Czech Game Edition<\/a> and the game’s German language publisher HeidelB\u00c4R Games scored a double win on the night, having also seen their Mat\u00fa\u0161 Kotry-designed title Little Alchemists<\/a> take home the best children’s game award.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Designers and publishers show off their Deutscher Spiele Preis awards from the 2025 competition<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The publishers had previously triumphed in the 2021 Deutscher Spiel Preis through a win for The Lost Ruins of Arnak, and were runners up in the 2016 contest via HeidelB\u00c4R’s previous incarnation, Heidelberger Spieleverlag, with the more than 16 million selling word game Codenames.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CGE announced in October 2019 that HeidelB\u00c4R would take care of German language localisations of its titles including Through the Ages, Galaxy Trucker, Dungeon Lords and Pictomania.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While nominally a \u2018family games\u2019 award like the SdJ, Deutscher Spiele Preis-winning games have varied heavily in complexity and play time over the last few years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SETI is the most complex game to win the award since Mombasa in 2016 according to the \u2018game weight\u2019 ratings compiled on BoardGameGeek<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Other recent winners have included Ark Nova, The Crew, Planet Unknown, Lost Ruins of Arnak, Wingspan and Terraforming Mars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year’s Deutscher Spiele Preis<\/a> was won by woodland-themed tableau-building card game Forest Shuffle<\/a>, which also saw off Spiel des Jahres-winning competition<\/a> in second-placed Sky Team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The high-profile award has been running since 1990, when Catan designer Klaus Teuber\u2019s Hoity Toity came away with the inaugural prize. The winner is announced annually at the Spiel Essen<\/a> game fair, which took place this year between October 23 and 26.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Votes are only counted from people who live in Germany, Austria and Switzerland for games published between May 1 and April 30 each year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Deutscher Spiele Preis 2025 \u2013 Full Results<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

First place:<\/strong> SETI<\/a> by Tom\u00e1\u0161 Holek, published by CGE \/ HeidelB\u00c4R Games

Second place:<\/strong> Endeavor: Deep Sea<\/a> by Carl de Visser and Jarratt Gray || Frosted Games \/ Board Game Circus

Third place:<\/strong> Bomb Busters<\/a> by Hisashi Hayashi || Pegasus Spiele

Fourth place and below<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n