The results of the 2025 International Gamers Awards (IGA) have just been announced.  In the Multiplayer category, the winner is SETI, by first-time designer Tomas Holek.  In the Best 2-Player Experience category, The Lord of the Rings: Duel for Middle-Earth, Antoine Bauza and Bruno Cathala’s redesign of their own 7 Wonders Duel, took the prize.  And the Best Solo Experience category went to Star Trek: Captain’s Chair, which is David Turczi and Nigel Buckle’s Trekified version of their early Imperium games.  Congratulations to the designers, as well as the publishers for these three games:  CGE, Repos, and WizKids.

Here are the winning games, as well as the other nominated games in each category, including those which placed highly in the elections.  The vote count in the final showdown between the two top games in each category is shown in parentheses.

MULTIPLAYER CATEGORY
1. SETI (9-7)
2. Civolution
3. Endeavor: Deep Sea
4. Galactic Cruise
Nom – Bomb Busters
Nom – The Fellowship of the Ring Trick-Taking Game
Nom – The Gang

2-PLAYER CATEGORY
1. The Lord of the Rings: Duel for Middle-Earth (9-4)
2. Civolution
3. Star Trek: Captain’s Chair
Nom – Agent Avenue
Nom – Dune: War for Arrakis
Nom – The Elder Scrolls: Betrayal of the Second Era
Nom – Toy Battle
Nom – Undaunted 2200: Callisto

SOLO CATEGORY
1. Star Trek: Captain’s Chair (3-3, won on tiebreaker)
2. Unstoppable
3. Gloomhaven: Buttons & Bugs
Nom – Arydia
Nom – Conservas
Nom – Kingdom Legacy