The International Gamers Awards (IGA) just announced their nominated games for 2022.  The IGA jury gives awards for the following three categories:  Best Multiplayer Experience, Best 2-Player Experience, and Best Solo Experience.  Here are this year’s nominees, together with each game’s designer and publisher.

Best Multiplayer Experience

• Ark Nova  (Feuerland Spiele) – Mathias Wigge
• Boonlake  (dlp games) – Alexander Pfister
• Carnegie  (Quined Games) – Xavier Georges
• Dice Realms  (Rio Grande Games) – Tom Lehmann
• Golem  (Cranio Creations) – Simone Luciani, Flaminia Brasini, Virginio Gigli

Best 2-Player Experience

• Ark Nova  (Feuerland Spiele) – Mathias Wigge
• Boonlake  (dlp games) – Alexander Pfister
• Golem  (Cranio Creations) – Simone Luciani, Flaminia Brasini, Virginio Gigli
• It’s a Wonderful Kingdom  (La Boite de Jeu) – Frederic Guerard
• MicroMacro: Crime City – Full House  (Edition Spielwiese) – Johannes Sich

Best Solo Experience

• Ark Nova  (Feuerland Spiele) – Mathias Wigge
• Batman: The Dark Knight Returns  (Cryptozoic Entertainment) – Daryl Andrews, Morgan Dontanville
• Cascadia  (Flatout Games) – Randy Flynn
• Eila and Something Shiny  (ICE Makes) – Jeffrey CCH
• Final Girl  (Van Ryder Games) – Evan Derrick, A.J. Porfirio
• MicroMacro: Crime City – Full House  (Edition Spielwiese) – Johannes Sich
• Soldiers in Postmen’s Uniforms  (Dan Verssen Games) – David Thompson

Finally, the jury recommends the following games, which just missed being nominated in one of the categories:

• Ankh: Gods of Egypt [Multiplayer, 2-player]  (CMON) – Eric Lang
• Dinosaur Island Rawr ‘n Write [Solo]  (Pandasaurus Games) – Brian Lewis, David McGregor, Marissa Misura
• Imperial Steam [Multiplayer]  (Capstone Games) – Alexander Huemer
• Scout [Multiplayer]  (One More Game!/Oink Games) – Kel Kajino
• The Crew: Mission Deep Sea [Multiplayer]  (Kosmos) – Thomas Sing