The winners of the Meeples Choice Awards for the 2024 calendar year have been announced.  The voters’ three favorite games from last year are:

BOMB BUSTERS
ENDEAVOR: DEEP SEA
SETI

The votes for all three of the games were clustered closely together.  Finishing 2 votes back of the winning games were Civolution and The Gang, with The Fellowship of the Ring Trick Taking Game one vote behind those two.  Harmonies, Let’s Go! To Japan, Slay the Spire, and Tales of the Arthurian Knights made up the rest of the top 10.

Congratulations to the designers of the winning games:  Hisashi Hayashi, Carl de Visser/Jarratt Gray, and Tomas Holek.  This is the second MCA award for both Hayashi (who won in 2016 for Yokohama) and the de Visser and Gray team (the original Endeavor won all the way back in 2009).  On the other hand, SETI is not only Holek’s first MCA win, it’s more or less his first published game (he released his first three games last year at Essen).  Congratulations go as well to the games’ publishers:  Cocktail Games, the partnership of Burnt Island Games and Grand Gamers Guild, and Czech Games Edition.