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Best Strategy Game Winner 2024
In SETI: Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, a eurogame for 1–4 players, you lead a scientific institution tasked with searching for traces of life beyond planet Earth. The game draws inspiration from current or emerging technologies and efforts in space exploration.

Players will explore nearby planets and their moons by launching probes from Earth while taking advantage of ever-shifting planetary positions. Decide whether to land on their surface to collect valuable samples, or stay in orbit for a broader survey. Additionally, by directing your telescopes to gaze into distant star systems, you may detect traces of alien signals or undiscovered exoplanets, and collect promising data to examine and study back home.

Back on Earth, you can invest in upgrading your equipment so you can analyze incoming data more efficiently, boost your telescope signal capacity, or increase your supply of resources—all to expand the scope of your search that could lead to a discovery of extraterrestrial life forms.

You will also make use of over 200 cards to aid your efforts or focus your research in a particular direction for additional bonuses and rewards. Each card has unique effects and illustrations and depicts real-life technologies, projects, and discoveries (like the ISS, Large Hadron Collider, Perseverance rover, Voyager probe, and many more).

Finding traces of extraterrestrial life is only a matter of time—utilize the resources you have at your disposal strategically and you may well end up being the one to make the biggest scientific contribution towards advancing our understanding of alien life within our galaxy.

SETI: Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence pays homage to space and planetary exploration, astronomy, the ongoing search for signs of life in the vastness of space, and efforts to understand the nature of life in the universe.

—description from the publisher

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Year Published: 2024
Designers: Tomáš Holek
Publishers: Czech Games Edition
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Best Strategy Game Nominee 2024
Year Published: 2024
Designers: Hisashi Hayashi
Publishers: Cocktail Games
Year Published: 2024
Designers: Matthew O'Malley
Publishers: Road To Infamy Games (R2i Games)
Year Published: 2024
Designers: Keith Piggott
Publishers: Office Dog
Year Published: 2023
Designers: Balaskas
Publishers: Fantasia Games
2024
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Best Game from a Small Publisher 2024
Slay the Spire: The Board Game is a co-operative deck-building adventure. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and finally become strong enough to slay the Spire!

Year Published: 2023
Designers: Gary Dworetsky
Publishers: Contention Games
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Best Game from a Small Publisher Nominee 2024
Year Published: 2024
Designers: Remo Conzadori
Publishers: PlayPunk
Year Published: 2024
Designers: Tomáš Holek
Publishers: Pink Troubadour
Year Published: 2023
Designers: Balaskas
Publishers: Fantasia Games
Year Published: 2024
Designers: Yeom.C.W
Publishers: Bad Comet
2024
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Best Welcoming Game Winner 2024
Welcome to River Valley! The beautiful pieces of glass that can be found along the river here have attracted the most entrepreneurial of woodland creatures to set up shop.

In River Valley Glassworks, you play as one of these pioneers, drafting glass from the market of river tiles. To do so, you have to play a piece from your inventory into the river. Each river tile can take only a specific shape, and you must play into a space adjacent to where you want to draft from. After you pick up your glass, the river shifts forward, revealing new pieces and new opportunities.

Store the glass you pick up strategically in your shop. Depending on how the glass pieces are placed, your score will change drastically. Fill in rows and columns to gain bonus points, but don't draft too many of one type to avoid negative points!

-description from publisher

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Year Published: 2024
Designers: Adam Hill
Publishers: BoardGameTables.com (Allplay)
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Best Welcoming Game Nominee 2024
Year Published: 2024
Designers: Grégory Grard
Publishers: Catch Up Games
Year Published: 2024
Designers: Steve Finn
Publishers: Devir
Year Published: 2024
Designers: John Cooper
Publishers: KOSMOS
Year Published: 2024
Designers: Johan Benvenuto
Publishers: Libellud

Presenting the nominees of the eighteen annual Dice Tower Awards for games released in 2024 in categories including artwork, small publisher, new designer, and the game of the year! Tom Vasel, Mike DiLisio, Zee Garcia and Camilla Cleghorn announced the nominees at the Summer Spectacular on June 2nd, 2025

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