Welcome to our 10th annual Board Game Grow Board Game Awards. Each year we take some time to honor the best and most creative new tabletop games from the previous years. For those wondering, we usually wait until spring to announce our nominees to give us time to play games that came out late in the winter.

As usual, we have a total of 11 award categories this year, with 5 nominees in each. Our editorial team has spent a ton of time playing games, and has chosen a group of titles from last year that we consider really outstanding. It’s from among these nominations that we will choose a winner. However, since we wouldn’t be doing this without you, our awesome readers, you also get a vote!

Below is a poll for each of the 11 categories for which you can vote. Our readers here will collectively get one vote, and along with each member of our editorial staff, the winner will be chosen. The voting will be open until April 12th, 2022 and the winners will be announced shortly after that.

Congratulations to all of this year’s nominees!

2022 Board Game Award Nominees

Best Cooperative Game

Note: The editorial team wanted to include Paint the Roses as a nominee this year. However, due to a potential conflict of interest, we decided not to nominate it. Yet we would still like to give it a shout-out for being an exceptionally good game.

 

Best Game Expansion

 

Best Production Values

 

Best Thematic Game

 

Best Strategy/Euro Game

 

Best Card Game

 

Best Game from a Small Publisher

 

Best Two Player Game

 

Best Family Game

 

Best Reprint/Reimplementation

 

Game of the Year

Note: Whichever game wins Game of the Year will automatically be removed from any of the above categories except Best Production Values. Our reasoning is if a game wins Game of the Year, chances are it should win any of the other categories by default. That just seemed a bit redundant. If a game wins Game of the Year, you know it is really good.

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