Deutscher Spiele Preis

The Deutscher SpielePreis is one of two major German game awards, and is generally considered to be the "gamers' game" award, in contrast to the Spiel des Jahres, which generally leans toward recognizing family games.

The Deutscher SpielePreis is awarded by the magazine Die Pöppel-Revue, which collects votes from many sources, including game clubs, game industry journalists and other professionals, hundreds of game shops, and its own subscriber list.

The results of the vote--the top ten games for the year--are announced each October at the Essen game fair.

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1st place

Dominion AKA: Game X
List: $44.95 $35.99 (20% savings!) Dominion is not a CCG, but the play of the game is similar to the construction and play of a CCG deck. The game comes complete with roughly 500 cards. You select 10 of the 20+ Kingdom card types to include in any given play -- leading to immense variety.

2nd place

Le Havre (Restocking) English language edition
List: $70.00 $55.99 (20% savings!) Le Havre is a game about managing a harbor, building ships and constructing buildings. On each turn, players must decide whether to take good of one type or to carry out a building action. At the end of the game, the player with the largest fortune wins.

3rd place

Pandemic
List: $39.99 $31.99 (20% savings!) Four diseases have broken out in the world and it is up to a team of specialists in various fields to find cures for these diseases before mankind is wiped out.

4th place

Finca English language edition
List: $39.95 $31.99 (20% savings!) Mallorca. Island of the wind. A place of golden beaches and a light-blue sea. The almond harvest is at hand. In addition, juicy oranges, lemons, and figs are ready to be picked and taken to the market. Olive trees bewitch the country with their curled...

5th place

Small World remake of Vinci
List: $50.00 $37.99 (24% savings!) Small world is a civilization game where players vie for conquest and control of a world that is simply too small to accommodate them all!

6th place

Valdora
List: $74.99 $59.99 (20% savings!) Hidden far away from our time lies a valley full of unimaginable riches. Adventurers from all over the world set off to try to make their fortune here.

7th place

Diamonds Club (Currently Unavailable)
$84.00 In England at the tail-end of the 19th century, four experienced gem dealers are competing in the "Diamonds Club" to see who among them is the craftiest. They invest their money in mines, digging rights and the latest inventions, with each trying...

8th place

Through the Ages domestic English language edition third printing
List: $69.99 $48.99 (30% savings!) Through the Ages is an exciting game of strategy and resource management. Players guide their civilizations up from Antiquity, through the Middle Ages, and into Modern Times. What will your civilization be like? Will it be warlike? Technologically...

9th place

Sherwood Forest (Currently Restocking)
List: $49.95 $39.99 (20% savings!) Sherwood Forest is beleaguered by rivaling bands. Everybody wants to be the best, the leader who unifies all bands. But only the most glorious will prevail, the one who gathers the most riches to give to the poor.

10th place

Fauna
List: $44.76 $35.99 (20% savings!) Do you know where the panda lives? Do you know where the babirusa lives? Do you know what a babirusa is? In the game Fauna, you are not expected to know all the answers...