German Computer Game Award 2023: All nominees at a glance

In 2023 there will again be the German Computer Game Prize, which is endowed with 800,000 euros.

The German Computer Game Award honors the best games of the past year in various categories. Of course, it is also about the best game from Germany. In this category, for example, Signalis or Chained Echoes are nominated. But there are many more nominations and they have all been announced now.

The German Computer Game Award 2023: These are the nominees

What’s the matter? The German Computer Game Prize is awarded. It will be a while before the prize is awarded, which will not take place until May 11, 2023. But the nominees have already been decided and you can see them here in a total of 15 categories.

Here’s what you can win: It depends on the category. For example, the prize for the best German game is endowed with 100,000 euros for first place. The other two nominees will each receive 30,000 euros.

The Young Talent Award Best Debut is endowed with 60,000 euros. In the Best Family Game category, 40,000 euros can be won. For example, there is 50,000 euros in the Best Prototype Young Talent Award.

Jury chairwoman Prof. Mareike Ottrand expresses her thanks in an official statement:

Here you can see all DCP nominees 2023 at a glance:

Best German Game

More about the nominees can be found in these GamePro articles:

Best Family Game

• The magical wooden Budenburg (Meander Books)
• Dungeons of Dreadrock (Christoph Minnameier)
• Horse Tales: Save Emerald Valley (Aesir Interactive / Microids)

Young Talent Award Best Debut

• Chained Echoes (Matthias Linda / Deck13 Spotlight)
• dome keeper (Bippinbits / Raw Fury)
• signalis (Rose Engine / Humble Games)

Young Talent Award Best Prototype

• A Sister’s Journey (Florian Lackner)
• Light of Atlantis (Alina Fasen, Luisa Höhne, Vincent Krenzke, Simone Mayer, Alexander Nham / HAW Hamburg)
• mailtail (Robin Heisterkamp)
• Ova Magica (Claudia Gorsky)
• Thief of Smiles (Lars Hinnerk Grevsmühl, Alina Hies, Felix Kosian, Marcel Zurawka)

Best Audio Design

• holder 3 (Paintbucket Games / Alawar Entertainment)
• signalis (Rose Engine / Humble Games)
• The Cycle: Frontier (Yager Development)

Best Expert Game

• Demolition – Build to Destroy (Randwerk Games)
• Touch Type Tale – Strategic Typing (Pumpernickel Studio / Epic Games)
• Zombie CureLab (Thera Bytes / Aerosoft)

Best game design

• dome keeper (Bippinbits / Raw Fury)
• Dungeons of Dreadrock (Christoph Minnameier)
• signalis (Rose Engine / Humble Games)

Best Graphic Design

• Demolition – Build to Destroy (Randwerk Games)
• Finding Hannah (Fine Games)
• signalis (Rose Engine / Humble Games)

Best innovation and technology

• Beethoven // Opus 360 (agon eV)
• Hologate – Ghostbusters VR Academy (Hologate)
• Polaris Convention Mobile Game (Super Crowd Entertainment)

Best Mobile Game

• Dungeons of Dreadrock (Christoph Minnameier)
• Rise of Cultures (Innogames)
• Warhammer 40,000: Tacticus (Snowprint Studios)

Best Serious Game

• Adventure Hanse (Wayside / European Hansemuseum Lübeck)
• holder 3 (Paintbucket Games / Alawar Entertainment)
• Autumn 89 – On the streets of Leipzig (Playing History / Foundation German Historical Museum)

Best International Game

Player of the Year

• Leon Kirilin (aka Nine)
• Pia Scholz (aka Shurjoka)
• Seniors gambling
• Stephen Bliemel (aka Steinwallen – Games & History)
• Umut Gultekin (aka RBLZ_Umut)

studio of the year

• egosoft (Würselen)
• Paintbucket Games (Berlin)
• World builder software development (Wiesbaden)

Special Jury Prize

No nominations. Winner will be announced on May 11, 2023.

Now it’s your turn, your opinion matters: Which games from the nominations do you know, which ones have you played and which ones have you never heard of? What do you still want to catch up on and which titles would you have nominated in the respective categories? Tell us in the comments!