Game of the year 2023
Winner: Dorfromantik: The Board Game
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Kenner game of the year 2023
Winner: Challengers!
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Children’s game of the year 2023
Winner: Mysterium Kids
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I’ve played Akropolis and Planet Unknown.
Akropolis is a competitive city builder where you’re having to make the choice of expanding outward or nullifying previous tiles by building on-top / upward for more points. I really enjoy it, my favorite new one of the year. (I tend to enjoy stylish, colorful, solo puzzley games)
Planet Unknown is a grid-planet that you’re terraforming with tetronimos. There are several tracks of environment types with different bonuses. I enjoyed the gameplay well enough but found it a little slow for my tastes; wife liked it more than I did.
What I did really appreciate is how replayable it seems. There are tons of planet variants, terrain tracks, and challenge cards that seem like you could really build the experience you want