The Deutscher Computerspielpreis (DCP, German Video Game Awards) is a prize for the German games industry and has been awarded since 2009. The DCP is awarded by the Federal Republic of Germany, represented by the Ministry of State for Digitalisation and the Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure, and game – the German Games Industry Association.

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The Deutscher Computerspielpreis (The German Video Game Awards) was first awarded in 2009. The venue for the German Video Game Awards ceremony alternates annually between Munich and Berlin. The German Video Game Awards are presented by the

Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure The Federal Ministry for Digital and Transport (german: Bundesministerium für Digitales und Verkehr, ), abbreviated BMDV, is a cabinet-level ministry of the Federal Republic of Germany. Its main office is located in Berlin, while the majority ...

and game – the German Games Industry Association, with the support of the Digital Gaming Culture Foundation. The prize money is donated by those supporters and amounts to a total of €790,000 in 2021. The German Video Game Awards are the most prestigious games award within Germany. Awarded are games of "cultural and pedagogical value", technical or gameplay-related innovations or games of high entertainment value. Prize money is only disbursed to winners in national categories. Basic condition to submit a game in one of the donated categories is a development quota of 80 percent of the game in Germany. In 2015, the award was fundamentally reshaped. Besides the introduction of new and the re-structuring of existing categories, criteria for registration have been reformulated. The award consists of 15 categories including a "Special Jury Award" and the category "Player of the Year" elected by the community. The international award categories and the category "Player of the Year" are exempt from donation. The German Video Game Awards are announced (tendered) jointly by politicians and industry and were created by the German Government following an initiative of the German Bundestag (German Parliament) in cooperation with the former game associations BIU (German Trade Association of Interactive Entertainment Software) and GAME (German Games Industry Association) trade associations. Documents concerning the origin of the award are the Report of BKM to the German Bundestag dated 24. October 2007 (federal printed matter: BT-Drs. 16/7081) and the resolution of the German Bundestag dating 21. February 2008 following a proposal of the grand coalition of the SPD Party and the CDU Party (printed matter: BT-Drs. 16/7116). Background of the initiative was the perceived change of importance within society regardless of age, sex and social background of gamers and the increase of games industry as an economy of scale, as well as the extended application of games and game technology in other sectors of economy. Until 2014 the Kulturstaatsministerium (State Ministry of Culture) was the political Partner complementary to BIU and GAME as the economical partners of the German Video Game Awards. In 2014 the Ministry of Transport and digital Infrastructure adopted the role of the political partner. Primary purpose is the promotion of the German games industry. Especially the development of innovative cultural and pedagogical valuable games is emphasized. Complementing its role as an advancement award, the German Video Game Awards also award donated prizes to game concepts from students within a particular category “Best debut” and “Best prototype” therefore support non-professionals financially to realize their ideas for video games.

Awarded games

2009

* Best German Game and Best Youth Game: '' Drakensang: The Dark Eye'' * Best Children's Game: ''

Fritz and Chesster ''Fritz and Chesster'' (german: Fritz und Fertig) is a series of educational programs about chess for children. In each of the four PC games, Fritz White and his cousin Bianca learn chess with the help of the anthropomorphic rat Chesster. In the f ...

'' * Best Browser game: ''

Ikariam ''Ikariam'' is a browser-based massively multiplayer online game of the strategy genre produced and maintained by German-based Gameforge AG. The game is set in the era of classical Greece in an archipelago, with players being made ruler of a smal ...

'' * Best mobile Game: ''

Crazy Machines ''Crazy Machines'' is a puzzle computer game created by German studio FAKT Software GmbH. Crazy Machines based many of its ideas on '' The Incredible Machine'' series of games. The player is given a set of mechanical components to construct a ...

'' * Best

Serious game A serious game or applied game is a game designed for a primary purpose other than pure entertainment. The "serious" adjective is generally prepended to refer to video games used by industries like defense, education, scientific exploration, he ...

: ''TechForce'' * Best international Game: ** ''

Wii Fit is an exergaming video game designed by Nintendo's Hiroshi Matsunaga for the Wii home video game console, featuring a variety of yoga, strength training, aerobics, and balance (ability), balance mini-games for use with the Wii Balance Board pe ...

'' ** ''

LittleBigPlanet ''LittleBigPlanet'' (stylized as ''LittleBIGPlanet''; abbreviated ''LBP'') is a puzzle platform video game series created and produced by British developer Media Molecule and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment. Most games in the series ...

'' * Best pupil's Game: ''Monkey´s World Wide Jungle'' (Elsa-Brändström-Gymnasium,

Oberhausen Oberhausen (, ) is a city on the river Emscher in the Ruhr Area, Germany, located between Duisburg and Essen ( ). The city hosts the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen and its Gasometer Oberhausen is an anchor point of the European Rout ...

) * Best student's Game: ''Snatch'em'' (

Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Berlin Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft (''University of Applied Sciences for Engineering and Economics'') or HTW Berlin in Berlin, Germany is the largest public University of Applied Sciences in Berlin and Eastern Germany. It has over 13,000 stud ...

)

2010

* Best German Game and Best International Game: '' Anno 1404'' * Best Children's Game: ''Lernerfolg Vorschule – Capt´n Sharky'' * Best Youth Game: ''

The Whispered World ''The Whispered World'' is a point-and-click adventure game for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. It is designed by Marco Hüllen, developed by Daedalic Entertainment, and published by Deep Silver in Europe and by Viva Media in the United States ...

'' * Best Browser Game: ''Wewaii'' * Best Mobile Game: ''

Giana Sisters DS ''Giana Sisters DS'', also known on other handheld platforms as ''Giana Sisters'', is a platform game developed by Spellbound Entertainment in cooperation with Bitfield GmbH for the Nintendo DS, iPad, iPhone, and Android. It was published by D ...

'' * Best Serious Game: ''ExperiMINTe'' * Best Pupil's Game: ''GooseGogs'' (Frederic Schimmelpfennig, Nikolaus-August-Otto-Schule,

Bad Schwalbach Bad Schwalbach (called Langenschwalbach until 1927) is the district seat of Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis, in Hesse, Germany. Geography Geographic location Bad Schwalbach is a spa town some 20 km northwest of Wiesbaden. It lies at 289 to 465&nbs ...

) * Best Student's Game: ''Night of Joeanne'' (Mediadesign Hochschule, Düsseldorf)

2011

* Best German Game and Best Youth Game: ''A New Beginning'' * Best Children's Game: ''

The Kore Gang ''The Kore Gang: Outvasion from Inner Earth'' is an action-adventure game for the Wii. The game is notable for its very prolonged development cycle over the course of ten years, during which many different companies became involved and the game m ...

'' * Best Browser Game: '' The Settlers Online'' * Best mobile Game: ''

Galaxy on Fire 2 ''Galaxy On Fire 2'' is a spaceflight simulation video game created and distributed by Fishlabs in 2009. Overview The game revolves around spaceflight and space combat, set in a universe with multiple star systems. Players can fight enemies/frien ...

'' * Best "Serious Game": ''Energetika'' * Best concept of the young talents competition: '' Tiny & Big in Grandpa's Leftovers''

2012

* Best German Game ''

Crysis 2 ''Crysis 2'' is a first-person shooter video game developed by Crytek, published by Electronic Arts and released in North America, Australia and Europe in March 2011 for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360. Officially announced on Jun ...

'' * Best Youth Game: '' Edna & Harvey: Harvey’s New Eyes'' * Best Children's Game: '' The Great Jitters: Pudding Panic'' * Best Browser Game: '' Drakensang Online'' * Best mobile Game: ''Das verrückte Labyrinth HD'' * Best "Serious Game": ''Vom Fehlenden Fisch – Die Geheimnisvolle Welt der Gemälde'' * Best Concept of the Young Talents Competition: ''About Love, Hate and Other Ones'' * Special Award Browser Game: ''

Trauma Trauma most often refers to: * Major trauma, in physical medicine, severe physical injury caused by an external source * Psychological trauma, a type of damage to the psyche that occurs as a result of a severely distressing event *Traumatic i ...

'' * Special Award of the Young Talents Competition: ''Pan it!''

2013

* Best German Game '' Chaos on Deponia'' * Best Youth Game: '' Tiny & Big in Grandpa's Leftovers'' * Best Children's Game: ''Meine 1. App – Band 1 Fahrzeuge'' * Best Browser Game: ''

Forge of Empires ''Forge of Empires'' is a browser-based strategy game developed by InnoGames. It was first launched on closed beta on 29 March 2012. The game was initially released on 17 April 2012 (open beta phase). In 2013, a television advertising campaign ...

'' * Best Mobile Game: ''Word Wonders: The Tower of Babel'' * Best "Serious Game": ''Menschen auf der Flucht'' * Best Concept of the Young Talents Competition: ''GroundPlay''

2014

* Best German Game ''The Inner World'' * Best Youth Game: ''Beatbuddy: Tale of the Guardians'' * Best Children's Game: ''Malduell'' * Best Browser Game: ''

Anno Online ''Anno Online'' was a free-to-play strategy browser game A browser game or a "flash game" is a video game that is played via the internet using a web browser. They are mostly free-to-play and can be single-player or multiplayer. Some browse ...

'' * Best Mobile Game: ''CLARC'' * Best Concept of the Young Talents Competition: ''Scherbenwerk – Bruchteil einer Ewigkeit'' * Special award: ''The Day the Laughter Stopped''

2015

The awards were announced on April 21, 2015 in Berlin. * Best German Game: ''

Lords of the Fallen ''Lords of the Fallen'' is an action role-playing video game developed by Deck13 and CI Games. It was released in October 2014 for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Microsoft Windows. A mobile version of the game, which features one-to-one swipe ...

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Deck13 Deck13 Interactive GmbH (formerly TriggerLab GmbH) is a German video game developer and publisher based in Frankfurt. The company was founded in July 2001 by the team behind Artex Software, a studio that primarily developed video games for RISC ...

CI Games CI Games S.A. (formerly City Interactive S.A.) is a Polish video game developer and publisher based in Warsaw. Founded in 2002, originally as a budget-range game company, CI Games is best known for the '' Sniper: Ghost Warrior'' and '' Lords ...

) * Best Children's Game: ''

Fire Fire is the rapid oxidation of a material (the fuel) in the exothermic chemical process of combustion, releasing heat, light, and various reaction Product (chemistry), products. At a certain point in the combustion reaction, called the ignition ...

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Daedalic Entertainment Daedalic Entertainment GmbH is a German video game developer and publisher based in Hamburg. They are best known for developing point-and-click adventure games. History Daedalic Entertainment was founded on 1 March 2007 in a small Hamburg of ...

) * Best Youth Game: ''TRI: Of Friendship and Madness'' (Rat King Entertainment, Rising Star Games) * Best Concept of the Young Talents Competition: ''In Between'' * Best Innovation: ''Spiel des Friedens'' (Studio Fizbin, Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kultur Münster) * Best Staging: ''

'' (

) * Best Serious Game: ''Utopolis – Aufbruch der Tiere'' (Reality Twist, Nemetschek Stiftung) * Best Mobile Game: ''

Rules! ''Rules!'' is an iOS game by German indie developer Marcel-André Casasola Merkle and published by TheCodingMonkeys. It was released on August 6, 2014. Gameplay Players are given a board of creatures with various features (colour, accessories ...

'' (The Coding Monkeys) * Best Game Design: '' The Last Tinker: City of Colors'' ( Mimimi Productions) * Best International Game: ''

This War of Mine ''This War of Mine'' is a war survival video game developed and published by the Polish game development company 11 Bit Studios. The game differs from most war-themed video games by focusing on the civilian experience of war rather than front ...

'' ( 11 bit studios) * Best International Multiplayer Game: '' Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft'' (

Blizzard Entertainment Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. is an American video game developer and publisher based in Irvine, California. A subsidiary of Activision Blizzard, the company was founded on February 8, 1991, under the name Silicon & Synapse, Inc. by three graduat ...

) * Best International New Game World: ''

'' ( 11 bit studios) * Audience Award: ''

Dark Souls II is a 2014 action role-playing game developed by FromSoftware and published by Bandai Namco Games. An entry in the ''Dark Souls'' series, it was released for Windows, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360. Taking place in the kingdom of Drangleic, the gam ...

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From Software FromSoftware, Inc. is a Japanese video game development and publishing company based in Tokyo. Founded by Naotoshi Zin in November 1986, the company developed business software before releasing their first video game, ''King's Field'', for the P ...

Bandai Namco also known as the Bandai Namco Group and generally Bandai Namco, is a Japanese multinational holding company, production enterprise and entertainment conglomerate headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, formed from the merger of Bandai and Namco on S ...

)

2016

The awards were announced on April 7, 2016 in Munich. * Best German game: ''

Anno 2205 ''Anno 2205'' is a city-building and economic simulation game, with real-time strategy elements, developed by Blue Byte and published by Ubisoft. ''Anno'' ''2205'' is the sixth game of the ''Anno'' series, and was released worldwide on 3 Nove ...

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Blue Byte Ubisoft Blue Byte GmbH (Blue Byte until 2017) is a German video game holding company owned by Ubisoft. It was founded in October 1988 by Thomas Hertzler and Lothar Schmitt as a developer and was best known for developing the '' Anno'' and ''The ...

Ubisoft Ubisoft Entertainment SA (; ; formerly Ubi Soft Entertainment SA) is a French video game publisher headquartered in Saint-Mandé with development studios across the world. Its video game franchises include '' Assassin's Creed'', ''Far Cry'', '' ...

) * Best Concept of the Young Talents Competition: 1. ''Cubiverse'' (Mediadesign Hochschule Munich), 2. '' Lost Ember'' ( HAW Hamburg, Mooneye Studios), 3. ''Leaves'' ( TU Cologne) * Best Children's Game: 1. ''Fiete Choice'' (Ahoiii Entertainment); 2. ''Shift Happens'' (Klonk) * Best Youth Game: ''One Button Travel'' (The Coding Monkeys) * Best Innovation: ''The Climb'' (

Crytek Crytek GmbH is a German video game developer and software developer based in Frankfurt. Founded by the Yerli brothers in Coburg in 1999 and moved to Frankfurt in 2006, Crytek also operates further studios in Kyiv, Ukraine and Istanbul, Turkey. ...

) * Best Staging: ''

Typoman ''Typoman'' is an independent video game developed by German indie studio Brainseed Factory for Nintendo Switch, Wii U, Xbox One, PlayStation 4 and PC, and mobile. The game follows a hero named HERO who crafts words to alter the environment a ...

'' ( Brainseed Factory, Headup Games) * Best Serious Game: ''Professor S.'' (LudInc,

Berlin Berlin ( , ) is the capital and largest city of Germany by both area and population. Its 3.7 million inhabitants make it the European Union's most populous city, according to population within city limits. One of Germany's sixteen constitue ...

) * Best Mobile Game: ''Path of War'' (Envision Entertainment,

Nexon Nexon Co., Ltd. is a global video game publisher, listed in Japan, that specializes in online Virtual World games for PCs, consoles and mobile. Nexon is one of the world’s ten largest interactive game companies based on market capitalization a ...

) * Best Game Design: ''Shift Happens'' (Klonk) * Best International Game: '' The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt'' (

CD Projekt CD Projekt S.A. () is a Polish video game developer, publisher and distributor based in Warsaw, founded in May 1994 by Marcin Iwiński and Michał Kiciński. Iwiński and Kiciński were video game retailers before they founded the company, whi ...

RED,

) * Best International Multiplayer Game: ''

Splatoon is a third-person shooter video game franchise created by Hisashi Nogami, and developed and owned by Nintendo. Set in a post-apocalyptic Earth inhabited by anthropomorphic marine animals, the series centers around fictional cephalopods known a ...

'' (

Nintendo is a Japanese Multinational corporation, multinational video game company headquartered in Kyoto, Japan. It develops video games and video game consoles. Nintendo was founded in 1889 as by craftsman Fusajiro Yamauchi and originally produce ...

) * Best International New Game World: '' The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt'' (CD Projekt Red, Bandai Namco) * Special Jury Award: ''Indie Arena Booth'' * Audience Award: '' The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt'' (CD Projekt Red, Bandai Namco)

2017

The awards were announced on April 26, 2017 in Berlin. * Best German game: ''

Portal Knights ''Portal Knights'' is an independent survival action role-playing video game developed by Keen Games and published by 505 Games. It was first released on Steam on 18 May 2017 and subsequently released for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Sw ...

'' (Keen Games/505 Games) * Best Concept of the Young Talents Competition: 1. ''DYO'' (

HTW Berlin Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft (''University of Applied Sciences for Engineering and Economics'') or HTW Berlin in Berlin, Germany is the largest public Fachhochschule, University of Applied Sciences in Berlin and Eastern Germany. It has ...

), 2. ''Isometric Epilepsy'' (

Technical University of Cologne Cologne University of Applied Sciences, officially called TH Köln – University of Applied Sciences (''german: Technische Hochschule Köln'', abbreviated TH Köln) is an institute of higher education located in Cologne, Germany, established in ...

North Rhine-Westphalia North Rhine-Westphalia (german: Nordrhein-Westfalen, ; li, Noordrien-Wesfale ; nds, Noordrhien-Westfalen; ksh, Noodrhing-Wäßßfaale), commonly shortened to NRW (), is a States of Germany, state (''Land'') in Western Germany. With more tha ...

), 3. ''ViSP – Virtual Space Port'' (

) * Best Children's Game: ''She Remembered Caterpillars'' (Jumpsuit Entertainment,

Kassel Kassel (; in Germany, spelled Cassel until 1926) is a city on the Fulda River in northern Hesse, Germany. It is the administrative seat of the Regierungsbezirk Kassel and the district of the same name and had 201,048 inhabitants in December 2020 ...

/Ysbyrd Games,

Brighton Brighton () is a seaside resort and one of the two main areas of the City of Brighton and Hove in the county of East Sussex, England. It is located south of London. Archaeological evidence of settlement in the area dates back to the Bronze A ...

) * Best Youth Game: ''Code 7 – Episode 0: Allocation'' (Goodwolf Studio,

Bonn The federal city of Bonn ( lat, Bonna) is a city on the banks of the Rhine in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, with a population of over 300,000. About south-southeast of Cologne, Bonn is in the southernmost part of the Rhine-Ruhr r ...

) * Best Innovation: ''VR Coaster Rides and Coastiality App'' (VR Coaster,

Kaiserslautern Kaiserslautern (; Palatinate German: ''Lautre'') is a city in southwest Germany, located in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate at the edge of the Palatinate Forest. The historic centre dates to the 9th century. It is from Paris, from Frankfur ...

) * Best Staging: '' Robinson: The Journey'' (

Frankfurt Frankfurt, officially Frankfurt am Main (; Hessian: , "Frank ford on the Main"), is the most populous city in the German state of Hesse. Its 791,000 inhabitants as of 2022 make it the fifth-most populous city in Germany. Located on its na ...

) * Best Serious Game (two winners): ''Debugger 3.16: Hack’n’Run'' (Spiderwork Games,

Vechta Vechta (; Northern Low Saxon: ''Vechte'') is the capital and largest city of the Vechta (district), Vechta district in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is home to the University of Vechta. It is known for the 'Stoppelmarkt' fair, which takes place every ...

), ''Orwell'' (Osmotic Studios,

Hamburg (male), (female) en, Hamburger(s), Hamburgian(s) , timezone1 = Central (CET) , utc_offset1 = +1 , timezone1_DST = Central (CEST) , utc_offset1_DST = +2 , postal ...

/Surprise Attack,

Melbourne Melbourne ( ; Boonwurrung/Woiwurrung: ''Narrm'' or ''Naarm'') is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Its name generally refers to a met ...

) * Best Mobile Game: ''Glitchskier'' (Shelly Alon,

Hamburg (male), (female) en, Hamburger(s), Hamburgian(s) , timezone1 = Central (CET) , utc_offset1 = +1 , timezone1_DST = Central (CEST) , utc_offset1_DST = +2 , postal ...

) * Best Game Design: '' Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun'' (Mimimi Productions ,

Munich Munich ( ; german: München ; bar, Minga ) is the capital and most populous city of the States of Germany, German state of Bavaria. With a population of 1,558,395 inhabitants as of 31 July 2020, it is the List of cities in Germany by popu ...

Hamburg (male), (female) en, Hamburger(s), Hamburgian(s) , timezone1 = Central (CET) , utc_offset1 = +1 , timezone1_DST = Central (CEST) , utc_offset1_DST = +2 , postal ...

) * Best International Game: '' The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild'' (

Kyoto Kyoto (; Japanese: , ''Kyōto'' ), officially , is the capital city of Kyoto Prefecture in Japan. Located in the Kansai region on the island of Honshu, Kyoto forms a part of the Keihanshin metropolitan area along with Osaka and Kobe. , the ci ...

Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...

) * Best International Multiplayer Game: ''

Overwatch (video game) ''Overwatch'' was a 2016 team-based multiplayer first-person shooter game by Blizzard Entertainment. The game was first released for PlayStation 4, Windows, and Xbox One in May 2016 and Nintendo Switch in October 2019. Cross-platform play was ...

'' (

Activision Blizzard Activision Blizzard, Inc. is an American video game holding company based in Santa Monica, California. It was founded in July 2008 through the merger of Activision, Inc. (the publicly traded parent company of Activision Publishing) and Vivendi ...

Santa Monica, California Santa Monica (; Spanish language, Spanish: ''Santa Mónica'') is a city in Los Angeles County, California, Los Angeles County, situated along Santa Monica Bay on California's South Coast (California), South Coast. Santa Monica's 2020 United Sta ...

United States The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 states, a federal district, five major unincorporated territorie ...

) * Best International New Game World: '' Uncharted 4: A Thief's End'' (

Naughty Dog Naughty Dog, LLC (formerly JAM Software, Inc.) is an American first-party video game developer based in Santa Monica, California. Founded by Andy Gavin and Jason Rubin in 1984, the studio was acquired by Sony Computer Entertainment in 2001. Gav ...

Sony Interactive Entertainment Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE), formerly known as Sony Computer Entertainment (SCE), is a multinational video game industry, video game and digital entertainment company wholly owned by multinational conglomerate Sony. The SIE Group is ma ...

, Santa Monica, California) * Special Jury Award: ''

Computerspielemuseum Berlin The Computerspielemuseum () is a video game museum founded in 1997. From 1997 to 2000, it had a permanent exhibition in Berlin. Afterwards, it became an online only museum. In 2011 the museum reopened its permanent exhibition in Berlin's neighbor ...

'' (

) * Audience Award: '' The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Blood and Wine'' (

Warsaw Warsaw ( pl, Warszawa, ), officially the Capital City of Warsaw,, abbreviation: ''m.st. Warszawa'' is the capital and largest city of Poland. The metropolis stands on the River Vistula in east-central Poland, and its population is officia ...

Poland Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It is divided into 16 administrative provinces called voivodeships, covering an area of . Poland has a population of over 38 million and is the fifth-most populous ...

)

2018

The awards were announced on April 10, 2018 in Munich. * Best German game: ''Witch It'' (Barrel Roll Games,

Hamburg (male), (female) en, Hamburger(s), Hamburgian(s) , timezone1 = Central (CET) , utc_offset1 = +1 , timezone1_DST = Central (CEST) , utc_offset1_DST = +2 , postal ...

) * Best Children's Game: ''Monkey Swag'' (Tiny Crocodile Studios/kunst-stoff,

) * Best Youth Game: ''Witch It'' (Barrel Roll Games, Hamburg) * Best Innovation: ''HUXLEY'' (Exit Adventures,

) * Best Staging: '' The Long Journey Home'' (

Düsseldorf Düsseldorf ( , , ; often in English sources; Low Franconian and Ripuarian: ''Düsseldörp'' ; archaic nl, Dusseldorp ) is the capital city of North Rhine-Westphalia, the most populous state of Germany. It is the second-largest city in th ...

) * Best Serious Game: ''Vocabicar'' (Quantum Frog,

Oldenburg Oldenburg may also refer to: Places *Mount Oldenburg, Ellsworth Land, Antarctica *Oldenburg (city), an independent city in Lower Saxony, Germany **Oldenburg (district), a district historically in Oldenburg Free State and now in Lower Saxony *Olde ...

) * Best Mobile Game: ''Card Thief'' (Arnold Rauers, Berlin) * Best Game Design: ''TownsmenVR'' (

HandyGames www.handy-games.com GmbH, doing business as HandyGames, is a German video game developer and publisher based in Giebelstadt. In July 2018, the company was acquired by THQ Nordic. History The company was founded in 2000 by brothers Christopher a ...

Giebelstadt Giebelstadt is a municipality in the district of Würzburg in Bavaria in Germany. History The town is the birthplace of Florian Geyer (1490–1525), also known as "Florian Geier from Giebelstadt", a Franconian nobleman who led the Black Compa ...

) * Best International Game: ''

Assassin's Creed Origins ''Assassin's Creed Origins'' is a 2017 action role-playing video game developed by Ubisoft Montreal and published by Ubisoft. It is the tenth major installment in the ''Assassin's Creed'' series, following 2015's ''Assassin's Creed Syndicate''. ...

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) * Best International Multiplayer Game: ''Witch It'' (Barrel Roll Games, Hamburg) * Best International Game World: ''

Horizon Zero Dawn ''Horizon Zero Dawn'' is a 2017 action role-playing game developed by Guerrilla Games and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment. The plot follows Aloy, a young hunter in a world overrun by machines, who sets out to uncover her past. The ...

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Guerrilla Games Guerrilla B.V. (trade name: Guerrilla Games) is a Dutch First-party developer, first-party video game developer based in Amsterdam and part of PlayStation Studios. The company was founded as Lost Boys Games in January 2000 through the merger of ...

) * Young Talent with Concept: 1. ''Ernas Unheil'' (

), 2. ''Sunset Devils'' (Carl-Hofer-Schule,

Karlsruhe Karlsruhe ( , , ; South Franconian: ''Kallsruh'') is the third-largest city of the German state (''Land'') of Baden-Württemberg after its capital of Stuttgart and Mannheim, and the 22nd-largest city in the nation, with 308,436 inhabitants. ...

) * Young Talent with Prototype: 1. ''Fading Skies'' ( HAW Hamburg), 2. ''Realm of the Machines'' (Mediadesign Hochschule,

München Munich ( ; german: München ; bar, Minga ) is the capital and most populous city of the German state of Bavaria. With a population of 1,558,395 inhabitants as of 31 July 2020, it is the third-largest city in Germany, after Berlin and Ha ...

) * Special Jury Award:

Friendly Fire In military terminology, friendly fire or fratricide is an attack by belligerent or neutral forces on friendly troops while attempting to attack enemy/hostile targets. Examples include misidentifying the target as hostile, cross-fire while eng ...

(charity campaign) * Audience Award: ''

ELEX ''ELEX'' (''Eclectic, Lavish, Exhilarating, Xenial'') is a science fantasy-themed action role-playing video game developed by Piranha Bytes and published by THQ Nordic. It was released worldwide on 17 October 2017, for PlayStation 4, Xbox On ...

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Piranha Bytes Piranha Bytes GmbH is a German video game developer based in Essen. Founded in 1997, it is best known for their ''Gothic'' and '' Risen'' series of role-playing video games. The studio is a subsidiary of THQ Nordic and, as of August 2021, empl ...

Essen Essen (; Latin: ''Assindia'') is the central and, after Dortmund, second-largest city of the Ruhr, the largest urban area in Germany. Its population of makes it the fourth-largest city of North Rhine-Westphalia after Cologne, Düsseldorf and D ...

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2019

The awards were announced on April 9, 2019 in Munich. * Best German game: ''Trüberbrook'' (Headup Games) * Best Children's Game: ''Laika'' (Mad About Pandas) * Best Youth Game: ''

Unforeseen Incidents ''Unforeseen Incidents'' is a 2018 point-and-click adventure game developed by German company Backwoods Entertainment. Players control a local handyman who investigates a mysterious viral outbreak in his town. Gameplay Harper Pendrel, a handyman ...

'' (Application Systems Heidelberg) * Best Innovation: ''Bcon – The Gaming Wearable'' (CapLab) * Best Staging: ''Trüberbrook'' (Headup Games) * Best Serious Game: ''State of Mind'' (Daedalic Entertainment) * Best Mobile Game: ''see/saw'' ( kamibox) * Best Game Design: ''Tower Tag'' (VR Nerds) * Best International Game: ''

God of War A war god in mythology associated with war, combat, or bloodshed. They occur commonly in both monotheistic and polytheistic religions. Unlike most gods and goddesses in polytheistic religions, monotheistic deities have traditionally been po ...

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) * Best International Multiplayer Game: ''

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate ''Super Smash Bros. Ultimate'' is a 2018 crossover fighting video game developed by Bandai Namco Studios and Sora Ltd. and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo Switch. It is the fifth installment in the '' Super Smash Bros.'' series, succeed ...

'' (

) * Best International Game World: ''

Red Dead Redemption 2 ''Red Dead Redemption 2'' is a 2018 action-adventure game developed and published by Rockstar Games. The game is the third entry in the ''Red Dead'' series and a prequel to the 2010 game ''Red Dead Redemption''. The story is set in 1899 and f ...

'' (

Rockstar Games Rockstar Games, Inc. is an American video game publisher based in New York City. The company was established in December 1998 as a subsidiary of Take-Two Interactive, using the assets Take-Two had previously acquired from BMG Interactive. Foun ...

) * Young Talent with Concept: ''Elizabeth'' (

) * Young Talent with Prototype: ''A Juggler’s Tale'' (

Film Academy Baden-Württemberg The Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg (German: ''Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg'') was founded in 1991 as a publicly funded film school in Ludwigsburg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. The Filmakademie is one of the most internationally renowned film sc ...

) * Special Jury Award: ''A Maze. / Berlin'' (International Games and Playful Media Festival) * Audience Award: '' Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales'' (

CD Projekt Red CD Projekt S.A. () is a Polish video game developer, publisher and distributor based in Warsaw, founded in May 1994 by Marcin Iwiński and Michał Kiciński. Iwiński and Kiciński were video game retailers before they founded the company, whi ...

)

2020

* Best German Game:

Anno 1800 ''Anno 1800'' is a city-building real-time strategy video game, developed by Blue Byte and published by Ubisoft, and launched on April 16, 2019. It is the seventh game in the '' Anno'' series, and returns to the use of a historical setting fo ...

(Ubisoft Mainz/Ubisoft) * Best Family Game: Tilt Pack (Navel/Super.com) * Young Talent - Best Debut: ''

The Longing ''The Longing'' is a 2020 point-and-click adventure game created by the indie developer Studio Seufz. Set in an underground kingdom, it follows the Shade, a creature tasked with watching over a sleeping king for 400 days. The player explores ca ...

'' (Studio Seufz/Application Systems Heidelberg) * Young Talent - Best Prototype: Couch Monsters (Laurin Grossmann, John Kees, Marie Maslofski, Dennis Oprisa, Luca Storz, Jaqueline Vintonjek – HTW Berlin) * Best Innovation and Technology: Lonely Mountains: Downhill (Megagon Industries/Thunderful Publishing) * Best Games World and Aesthetics: Sea of Solitude (Jo-Mei/Electronic Arts) * Best Game Design: Anno 1800 (Ubisoft Mainz/Ubisoft) * Best Serious Game: '' Through the Darkest of Times'' (Paintbucket Games/HandyGames) * Best Mobile Game: Song of Bloom (Kamibox) * Best Expert Game: Avorion (Boxelware) * Best International Game: Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order (Electronic Arts) * Best International Multiplayer Game:

Apex Legends ''Apex Legends'' is a free-to-play Battle royale game, battle royale-hero shooter game developed by Respawn Entertainment and published by Electronic Arts. It was released for PlayStation 4, Windows, and Xbox One in February 2019, for Nintendo ...

(Electronic Arts) * Player of the Year: gob b (Fatih Dayik) * Best Studio:

Yager Development Yager Development GmbH is a German video game developer based in Berlin. History Yager was founded in 1999 by Uwe Beneke, Roman Golka, Philipp Schellbach, Timo Ullmann and Mathias Wiese. They are best known for developing '' Yager'' (2003) a ...

(Berlin) * Special Jury Award: Foldit * Audience Award: The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt for Nintendo Switch (CD Projekt RED / Bandai Namco)

2021

* Best German Game: Desperados III (Mimimi Games/THQ Nordic) * Best Family Game: El Hijo – A Wild West Tale (Honig Studios, Quantumfrog/HandyGames – a THQ Nordic Division) * Young Talent - Best Debut: Dorfromantik (Toukana Interactive) * Young Talent - Best Prototype: Passing By (Hannah Kümmel, Jan Milosch, Marius Mühleck, Ilona Treml) * Best Innovation and Technology: Holoride (Holoride) * Best Games World and Aesthetics:

Cloudpunk ''Cloudpunk'' is a cyberpunk adventure game developed by German developer Ion Lands and published by Maple Whispering Limited for Microsoft Windows on April 23, 2020. It was released on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One on October 15, ...

(ION Lands) * Best Game Design: Dorfromantik (Toukana Interactive) * Best Serious Game: Welten der Werkstoffe (Cologne Game Lab der TH Köln) * Best Mobile Game: Polarized! (Marcel-André Casasola Merkle/TheCodingMonkeys) * Best Expert Game:

Suzerain Suzerainty () is the rights and obligations of a person, state or other polity who controls the foreign policy and relations of a tributary state, while allowing the tributary state to have internal autonomy. While the subordinate party is calle ...

(Torpor Games/Fellow Traveller) * Best International Game: The Last of Us Part II (Naughty Dog/Sony Interactive Entertainment) * Best International Multiplayer Game: Animal Crossing: New Horizons (Nintendo) * Player of the Year: Gnu (Jasmin K.) * Best Studio: Mimimi Games (Munich) * Special Jury Award: Indie Arena Booth Online 2020 (Super Crowd Entertainment)

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