Dice Tower 2024: winners and nominees

Awards from one of the most-watched board game review shows in the English-speaking world.

Dice Tower labels its awards by the year the games were released, so the 2025 awards (announced in summer 2026) honor 2025 releases.

202520242023

Game of the Year

Winner

SETI: Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence board game cover
Exceptional consensus · 4 organizations

SETI: Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence

Best Strategy Game

Winner

SETI: Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence board game cover
Exceptional consensus · 4 organizations

SETI: Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence

Best Cooperative Game

Winner

Bomb Busters board game cover
Highly awarded

Bomb Busters

Best Party Game

Winner

Flip 7 board game cover
Exceptional consensus · 3 organizations

Flip 7

Best 2-Player Game

Winner

The Lord of the Rings: Duel for Middle-earth

Best Welcoming Game

Winner

River Valley Glassworks

Best Solo Game

Winner

Draft & Write Records

Most Innovative Game

Winner

Bomb Busters board game cover
Highly awarded

Bomb Busters

Best Theme

Winner

Rock Hard: 1977

Best Reprint

Winner

Through the Desert

Source: opinionatedgamers.com/2025/10/28/setis-search-ends-with-two-more-game-awards/