The Meeples Choice Awards is an annual game award that has been voted on by the members of the Spielfrieks user group since 1995. The purpose of the award is to select the group’s three favorite designs from the previous calendar year. The first stage of the voting for the 2025 awards has been completed and 27 games have been nominated. The group will now vote on their favorites from the nominated games and the three games which receive the most votes will be declared the winners. The winning games will be announced next week.
Here are the nominated games in alphabetical order, together with their designers and publishers. Congratulations to all the nominees!
- Arydia (Cody Miller, Ira Fay) – Far Off Games
- Covenant (German Millan) – Devir
- Eternal Decks (Hiroken) – Tricktakers Games
- Forestry (Michal Peichl) – Pink Troubadour
- Formaggio (Ben Rosset) – Road to Infamy Games
- Galactic Cruise (T.K. King, Dennis Northcott, Koltin Thompson) – Kinson Key Games
- Hot Streak (Jon Perry) – CMYK
- LotR: Fate of the Fellowship (Matt Leacock) – Z-Man Games
- LotR: The Fellowship of the Ring – Trick-Taking Game (Bryan Bornmueller) – Office Dog
- Luthier (Dave Beck, Abe Burson) – Paverson Games
- Magical Athlete (Richard Garfield, Takashi Ishida) – CMYK
- Moon Colony Bloodbath (Donald X. Vaccarino) – Rio Grande Games
- Orloj (Abraham Hermida, Paloma Pascual) – Perro Loko Games
- Railway Boom (Hisashi Hayashi) – Arclight Games
- Recall (Kristian Ostby, Helge Meissner, Anna Wermlund, Kjetil Svendsen) – Alion
- Sanctuary (Mathias Wigge) – Feuerland Spiele
- Skara Brae (Shem Phillips) – Garphill Games
- Speakeasy (Vital Lacerda) – Eagle-Gryphon Games
- Star Trek: Captain’s Chair (David Turczi, Nigel Buckle) – WizKids
- Star Wars: Battle of Hoth (Richard Borg, Adrien Martinot) – Days of Wonder
- Steam Power (Martin Wallace) – Wallace Designs
- Sweet Lands (Totsuca Chuo) – uchibacoya
- Take Time (Alexi Piovesan, Julien Prothiere) – Libellud
- The Druids of Edora (Stefan Feld) – alea
- The Hobbit: There and Back Again (Reiner Knizia) – Office Dog
- Toy Battle (Paolo Mori, Alessandro Zucchini) – Repos Production
- Vantage (Jamey Stegmaier) – Stonemaier Games
