Welcome to the 7th annual Board Game Quest Board Game Awards. Each Spring we like to take some time to honor the best and most creative board games that came out the previous year. 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 (except Game of the Year which has 6). Our editorial staff has spent countless hours playing the 2019 game releases and, after much debate, have chosen what we feel are some truly outstanding games to be nominated.

It’s from among these nominations that our editorial staff will choose a winner. However, since we wouldn’t be doing this without you, our awesome readers, you get a vote as well!

Below is a poll for each of the 11 categories to allow you to cast a vote for which games you think should win. 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 10th, 2020 and the winners will be announced shortly thereafter.

Congratulations to all of this year’s nominees!

2019 Board Game Award Nominees

 

Best Cooperative Game

 

Best Tactical/Combat Game

 

Best Digital Board Game

 

Best Production Values

 

Best Thematic Game

 

Best Strategy/Euro Game

 

Best Game from a Small Publisher

 

Best Two Player Game

 

Best Party Game

 

Best Family Game

 

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.