Pearple's Choice Awards 2024-2025: Voting

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

I have my usual challenge here in that I’ve only actually played a fraction of the new games. The pillbox and mature categories are about all I have good opinions on!

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I note that the BGA awards require you to have played every game in a category (on BGA) before you can vote in that category. The Pearple’s Choice doesn’t, but of course there’s always a risk of it being a popularity contest. With this few voters, it’s pretty much that anyway.

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