BoardGameGeek’s Golden Geeks is the first of the significant annual awards that honor games from 2024.  The winners, as selected by Geek users, were announced last week.  The Golden Geeks give out three Game of the Year awards, for games of light, medium, and heavy weights.  There are also several additional categories awarded.  Here are the results, together with the designers for the games finishing on top:

Heavy Game of the Year

Winner – SETI (Tomas Holek)
2nd place – Arcs (Cole Wehrle)
3rd place – Civolution (Stefan Feld)
Nominated – Andromeda’s Edge; Black Forest; Ezra and Nehemiah; Inventions; Inventors of the South Tigris; Men-Nefer; Unconscious Mind

Medium Game of the Year

Winner – Harmonies (Johan Benvenuto)
2nd place – LotR: Duel for Middle-Earth (Antoine Bauza, Bruno Cathala)
3rd place – Endeavor: Deep Sea (Carl de Visser, Jarratt Gray)
Nominated – The Fellowship of the Ring; Fromage; Let’s Go! To Japan; River of Gold; Slay the Spire; Windmill Valley; Wyrmspan

Light Game of the Year

Winner – Castle Combo (Gregory Grard, Mathieu Roussel)
2nd place – Flip 7 (Eric Olsen)
3rd place – Captain Flip (Paolo Mori, Remo Conzadori)
Nominated – Bomb Busters; Cities; Fishing; MLEM; Rebirth; River Valley Glassworks; The Gang

Category Winners

2-Player Game – LotR: Duel for Middle-Earth
Artwork Presentation – Unconscious Mind
Cooperative Game – Fellowship of the Ring (Bryan Bornmueller)
Expansion – Arcs: The Blighted Reach (Cole Wehrle)
Innovative – Arcs
Party Game – Flip 7
Print Play – 52 Realms: Adventures (Matthew Dunstan, Rory Muldoon)
Solo Game – Slay the Spire (Gary Dworetsky, Anthony Giovannetti, Casey Yano)
Thematic Game – SETI
Wargame – Arcs
Best Podcast – Beyond Solitaire
Best Board Game App – Dune: Imperium

Congratulations to all the winners!