DEUTSCHER
SPIELE PREIS

The DEUTSCHE SPIELE PREIS (DSP) is an award by gamers for gamers and the largest community award in Germany. In two categories - family and adult games as well as children's games - the entire German speaking games community chooses their most popular games from the multitude of titles published in one year’s issues, one of which wins the DSP and one the DSP Best Children's Game. The award is presented at SPIEL Essen.

Top 10 of the DSP 2025

Places 1 to 3 in alphabetical order

Bomb Busters (Pegasus Spiele by Hisashi Hayashi)

Endeavor: Die Tiefsee (Frosted Games / Board Game Circus by Carl de Visser and Jarratt Gray)

SETI: Auf der Suche nach außerirdischen Leben (CGE / HeidelBär Games by Tomáš Holek)

The winners will be announced at the press conference at SPIEL Essen.

The places 4 to 10

4. place: Castle Combo (Kosmos by Grégory Grard and Mathieu Roussel)

5. place: Faraway (Kosmos by Johannes Goupy and Corentin Lebrat)

6. place: Civolution (Deep Print / Pegasus Spiele by Stefan Feld)

7. place: Blood on the Clocktower (Funtails by Steven Medway)

8. place: Slay the Spire: Das Brettspiel (Nice Game by Gary Dworetsky, Anthony Giovannetti and Casey Yano)

9. place: Astrobienen (Feuerland by Connie Vogelmann)

10. place: Dune: Imperium Uprising (Dire Wolf Digital / Asmodee by Paul Dennen)

Places 1 to 3 of the childrens games in alphabetical order

Cascadia Junior (AEG / Kosmos by Fertessa Allyse and Randy Flynn)

Die kleinen Alchemisten (CGE / HeidelBär Games by Matúš Kotry)

Die Sandburgen von Burgund (Ravensburger by Susanne Feld and Stefan Feld)

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VOTING

As voting is only possible for people living in Germany, Austria, or Switzerland, you can find the voting form only on the German version of this site.

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VOTING PROCEDURE AND RULES

Everyone who is interested in games in the German language and lives in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland can vote for the DEUTSCHE SPIELE PREIS. It doesn't matter if you simply want to vote for your favorite game, or if you're a critic or journalist contributing your professional opinion on games, or if you work in a game store: This award is voted for by all of you.

Games published in German between May 1st and April 30th of the following year are eligible.

VOTING FOR THE DEUTSCHE SPIELE PREIS TAKES PLACE FROM MAY 15TH TO AUGUST 15TH, 2023.

THE VOTED GAMES ARE CONVERTED INTO POINTS:

1st place = 5 points
2nd place = 4 points
3rd place = 3 points
4th place = 2 points
5th place = 1 point

The best children's game = 1 point

Voting takes place online at www.spiel-essen.de/dsp

Each person can vote once for up to five best and the one best children's game.

Only votes with full name and address are valid.

Only votes from persons who have confirmed their e-mail address will be counted.

Only votes from people living in Germany, Austria or Switzerland will be counted.

Duplicate votes will be sorted out and will not be counted.

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ANNOUNCEMENT AND
AWARD CEREMONY

The DEUTSCHE SPIELE PREIS is closely followed by the entire gaming world. As a community award, the prize reflects the opinion of the gaming community. For this reason, the prize is also accompanied by the media and presented at SPIEL.

Merz Verlag first publishes a list of the ten family and adult games with the most points, as well as the three best-placed children's games, both on its website and for the media in August.
Places 4 to 10 are sorted by points.
From this top ten list, Merz Verlag names the three top-ranked family and adult games and the three top-ranked children's games in alphabetical order.
At the SPIEL press conference, the 3rd through 1st place of the family and adult games and the 1st place of the children's game will be announced and presented.
Afterwards, the results will be published on the website as well as for the media.