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Welcome our Annual Firsties Award Show. It is a look back at board gaming in 2024, where we review our reviews, thereby awarding some very special board games with the accolades they most certainly earned.
Best Strategy Game – This Award goes to the game that keeps you up late at night, wondering what strategy you’ll try next!
Nominations: Amun-Re (20th Anniversary), Blueprints of Mad King Ludwig, Foundations of Rome, High Season: Grand Hotel Roll and Write, The Shipwreck Arcana
WINNER: Amun-Re (20th Anniversary)
Best Themed game – This award goes to the game whos theme was best executed throughout it’s art, narrative flavor, components and mechanics.
Nominations: Bristol 1350, Crossbows and Catapults, Flutter, Inori, MLEM: Space Agency, The Fox Experiment
WINNER: The Fox Experiment
Best Archeological Find – This prestigious award goes to an oldie but goodie, a throwback to the 20th century, played by our parents, and still enjoyable today.
Nominations: Billabong, Junior Executive, Metro, Rage
WINNER: Metro
Best Online Game – This award goes to the game that translated best, and was even improved from its physical counterpart.
Nominations: Challengers!, Hydroracers, The Mother Road: Route 66, Time Masters
WINNER: Challengers!
Firstie Worstie – This “award” goes to the game simply has no good reason to keep playing with the best move being to bury deep in the ground.
Nominations: 24 Game, Con Sonar!, Goats Day Out, Junior Executive, The Lunar Dial, Vault
WINNER: Junior Executive
Game of the Year – This is the award for a game that was made widely available in 2024. It is a game that we found the most memorable, engaging, and well reviewed by all of us.
Nominations: Amun-Re (20th Anniverary), Blueprints of Mad King Ludwig, Crossbows and Catapults, Foundations of Rome, The Fox Experiment
WINNER: Foundations of Rome
And that brings us to the end of the Sixth Annual Firsties Awards Podcast. Thank you to all our listeners for another great year of dice rolling and card dealing, board gazing and meeple moving. Onward to 2025, and Happy Gaming Explorers!