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DEUTSCHER
SPIELE PREIS

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SPIELE PREIS

 
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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 2026

Places 1 to 3 in alphabetical order

Artengarten (Verlag: Feuerland, Autor: Mathias Wigge)

Boss Fighters QR (Verlag: Pegasus Spiele, Autoren: Lukas Zach und Michael Palm)

Galactic Cruise (Verlag: PD-Verlag, Autoren: T. K. King, Dennis Northcott und Koltin Thomson)

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

The places 4 to 10

4. place: Herr der Ringe: Das Schicksal der Gemeinschaft (Pandemic) (Verlag: Z-MAN/Asmodee, Autor: Matt Leacock)

5. place: Take Time (Verlag: Libellud/Asmodee, Autoren: Alexi Piovesan und Julien Prothière)

6. place: Rebirth (Verlag: Frosted Games, Autor: Reiner Knizia)

7. place: Cozy Stickerville (Verlag: Unexpected Games/Asmodee, Autor: Corey Konieczka)

8. place: Am Goldenen Fluss (Verlag: Kosmos, Autor: Keith Piggott)

9. place: Star Trek - Captain´s Chair (Verlag: Frosted Games, Autoren: Nigel Buckle und Dávid Turczi)

10. place: Mischwald – Dartmoor (Verlag: Lookout /Asmodee, Autor: Kosch)

Places 1 to 3 of the childrens games in alphabetical order

Die Insel der Mookies (Verlag: Kosmos, Autor: Florian Sirieix)

Paleolino (Verlag: Hans im Glück, Autor: Marco Teubner)

Toriki: Eine Insel voller Abenteuer (Verlag: Mirakulus, Autor: Wojciech Grajkowski)

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

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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.

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 https://spiel-essen.de/de/programm/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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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.