You are invited to vote for the Pearple’s Choice Awards 2024-5!
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You do not need to have nominated in order to vote. Sadly, the poll functions of this board can’t cope with preference voting, so instead please send me a PM. For each category, put the things you want to vote for in descending order, as it might be:
best pear award
game A
game Q
game T
You don’t have to vote in every category, or order every nominee - if you get to a point where you don’t have a preference between what’s left, just stop voting there. No Award means “I don’t want this award to be made at all, rather than see it go to item X” (in which case make sure you don’t list X above “no further preference”).
Probably the easiest option on desktops/laptops is the drag-and-drop voting form.
All the first-place votes are counted first. If there isn’t a clear majority, whatever got least votes is eliminated, and those ballots’ second-choice votes are distributed among the remaining candidates. This continues until there is a clear majority.
Voting ends at 2026-02-01T09:00:00Z.
The list of nominees is below. Items are ordered randomly except for No Award.
Best Game
- The Gang
- Hot Streak
- Flip 7
- Compile: Main 1
- Courtisans
- Bomb Busters
- Artengarten / Sanctuary
- Mistborn: The Deckbuilding Game
- No Award
Best Cooperative Game
- The Gang
- Pandemic: LOTR: The Fate of the Fellowship
- Take Time
- Landmarks
- Ministry of Lost Things
- Bomb Busters
- Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring: The Trick Taking Game
- No Award
Best Heavy Game
- Arydia: The Paths We Dare Tread
- S.T.A.L.K.E.R. The Board Game
- Imperium: Horizons
- Luthier
- Dune War for Arrakis
- SETI: Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
- The Elder Scrolls: Betrayal of the Second Era
- Compile: Main 1
- No Award
Best Light Game
- Landmarks
- Courtisans
- Bomb Busters
- Flip 7
- Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring: The Trick Taking Game
- The Gang
- Mistborn: The Deckbuilding Game
- No Award
Best Soloable Game
- Ministry of Lost Things
- Artengarten / Sanctuary
- French Quarter
- Dorfromantik
- Imperium: Horizons
- Small-Time Heroes: Base Box
- No Award
Best Thematic Game
- Arydia: The Paths We Dare Tread
- Imperium: Horizons
- Dune War for Arrakis
- Twilight Imperium Thunder’s Edge
- Bomb Busters
- Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring: The Trick Taking Game
- No Award
Best Game Artwork
- Arydia: The Paths We Dare Tread
- Small-Time Heroes: Base Box
- Harmonies
- The Old King’s Crown
- Vantage
- KeyForge: Grim Reminders
- Petiquette
- Leviathan Wilds
- No Award
Best Expansion
- Space Empires 4X All Good Things
- Sea Salt and Paper: Extra Pepper
- Akropolis: Athena
- Obsession Characters
- Terraforming Mars Automa
- Compile: Aux 1
- Twilight Imperium Thunder’s Edge
- New Frontiers: Starry Rift
- Compile: Main 2
- No Award
Best New Edition/Reprint/Sequel
- Inis 3rd Edition
- Deckers
- Cyclades Legendary
- Robo Rally 30th Anniversary
- Rebel Princess
- Gloomhaven 2nd Edition
- No Award
Erik Tengblad Award
- Lowlands
- Warhammer Cursed City
- Red Rising
- Earthborne Rangers
- Knarr
- Frosthaven
- Sidereal Confluence Bifurcation
- After the Virus
- Underwater Cities
- Legacy of Yu
- Star Wars Shatterpoint
- No Award
Best Game Review
- Dracula vs Van Helsing - Shut Up & Sit Down
- Vantage - The Dice Tower
- Power Vacuum - Shut Up and Sit Down
- Tokyo Game Market Spring 2025 Haul – 50+ Games! - ThinkerThemese
- Arydia - No Pun Included
- 5 MORE Great Small Games - Shut Up and Sit Down
- The Old King’s Crown - No Pun Included
- Compile Main 1 - Shut Up & Sit Down
- No Award
Minutewalt Award
- Vantage
- Codenames
- Dungeons & Dragons 5.5E
- Ashes: Rise of the Phoenixborn
- Wavelength
- Hadrian’s Wall
- Revive
- No Award
pillbox Award
- Andromeda’s Edge
- Frostpunk: The Board Game
- The Undercity
- Skull King
- Earth Reborn
- A War of Whispers
- Firefly: The Game - 10th Anniversary
- Dune: A Game of Conquest and Diplomacy
- Guards of Atlantis II (again)
- No Award
Mature Pearple
- Beyond the Sun
- Res Arcana
- Sagani
- Pax Pamir 2
- The Crew
- Project L
- No Award
Most Anticipated Game
- Cascadia: Alpine Lakes
- Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers: The Trick Taking Game
- Android: Netrunner: Vantage Point
- KeyForge: Draconian Measures
- Twilight Imperium 5th Edition
- Speakeasy
- Arydia: The Paths We Dare Tread
- Brass: Pittsburgh
- Drawing Dead
- No Award