The Game Manufacturers Association has announced the finalists for the 48th Annual Origins Awards.
During the Origins Game Fair, there will be a chance to play the games and vote. Those votes select which games take the Fan Favourite trophy. The Fan Favourites are announced alongside the Jury-selected winners at the Origins Awards Ceremony.
The Origins Game Fair is at the Greater Columbus Convention Center from June 18th to 22nd.
Co-op/Solo
- Bomb Busters Pegasus Spiele NA
- The Fellowship of the Ring: Trick-Taking Game Office Dog Games
- Slay the Spire: The Board Game Contention Games
- Ultimatch Fireside Games
- The Wolves Coyote & Crow
- A Gentle Rain Kinfire Chronicles
- Wilmot’s Warehouse CMYK
- The Gang Thames & Kosmos
- Marvel United: Multiverse CMON
- Daybreak CMYK
Gateway
- Captain Flip Play Punk
- Castle Combo Pandasaurus
- River Valley Glassworks Allplay
- Seaside Hachette
- YRO Play to Z
- Gnome Hollow Levity Games & The Op
- Explorers of Navoria Dranda Games
- Trio Happy Camper
- MLEM Rebel Studio
- River of Gold Office Dog
Party
- Caution Signs Wise Wizard
- Change My Mind Change My Mind
- Flip 7 The Op
- Hurt Party Pink Tiger
- Ito Arcane Wonders
- This Game is Killer Smirk & Dagger
- Tiger Banana Pancake Right Wrong Games
- Cloud Nine: A Game of Wonderful Things Pink Tiger
- Ghosts Can’t Draw Big Potato Games
- Things in Rings Allplay
Heavy Strategy
- Arcs: Conflict and Collapse in the Reach Leder Games
- Dune: War for Arrakis CMON
- Endeavor: Deep Sea Burnt Island Games
- SETI: Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence Czech Games
- Andromeda’s Edge Lucky Duck
- Rock Hard 1977 Devir
- Ascending Empires: Zenith Edition Play to Z
- Prime Minister GMT Games
- Unconscious Mind Lucky Duck
- Lord of the Rings: Duel for Middle-earth Asmodee
Light strategy
- boop the Halls! Smirk & Dagger
- Confusing Lands Envy Born
- Creature Caravan Red Raven
- Faraway Pandasaurus
- Fromage Allplay
- Lure Allplay
- Lynx Play to Z
- Zoomies Fireside Games
- Star Realms Academy Wacky Wizard Games
- Wonderous Creatures Bad Comet
Constructible (including TCG, CCG, and deckbuilding among other games)
Fixed
- Compile: Main 1 Greater Than Games
- Magic: The Gathering Foundations Starter Collection WOTC
- Pagan: Fate of Roanoke Capstone Games
- Star Wars Unlimited – Spark of Rebellion Two-Player Starter Set Fantasy Flight
- Magic: The Gathering – Fallout Commander Deck Bundle WOTC
- Disney Lorcana Gateway Shimmering Skies Ravensburger
- Altered TCG Beyond the Gates Starter Deck Set of 6 Altered
- Flesh & Blood – Part the Mistveil Blitz Deck Collection Legend Story Studios
- Marvel Heroclix: Starter Set 2025 WizKids
- Final Fantasy Trading Card Game Anniversary Collection Set 2024 Square Enix
Randomized
- Neopets Battledome Trading Card Game: Defenders of Neopia Booster Box Upper Deck
- Round Table Trading Card Game Starter Decks Nimue Innovation Studio
- Star Wars: Unlimited – Spark of Rebellion Booster Box Fantasy Flight
- Altered – Beyond the Gate Booster Display Altered
- Sorcery: Contested Realm – Arthurian Legends Booster Box Erik’s Curiosa Limited
- Pokémon Trading Card Game: Scarlet & Violet-Surging Sparks Booster Box Pokemon
- Disney Lorcana – Into the Inklands Booster Pack Display Ravensburger
- Magic: The Gathering – Bloomburrow Collector Booster Box WOTC
- Konami Yu-Gi-Oh Collectible Card Game: 25th Anniversary: Rarity Collection 2 Booster Box Konami
- Flesh & Blood – Rosetta Booster Box Legend Story Studios
Miniature games
Miniature Core Product
- Car Wars Sixth Edition: Two-Player Starter Set: Orange/Purple Steve Jackson Games
- Field of Screams with Seven Sleeping Kings The WitchBorn Corporation
- Halo: Flashpoint Starter Spartan Edition Mantic Games
- Heroscape: Age of Annihilation Master Set Renegade Game Studios
- Mutant Year Zero: Zone Wars Free League
- Mythic Earth Core Rule Book 2.0 Mythicos Studios
- Warhammer Underworld: Embergard Games Workshop
- Warhammer: The Old World Core Set – Tomb Kings of Khemri Edition Games Workshop
- Battletech: A Game of Armored Combat 40th Anniversary Catalyst Game Labs
- Star Trek: Into the Unknown – Federation vs. Dominion Core Set WizKids
Miniature
- Game Workshop’s Abraxia, Spear of the Everchosen Games Workshop
- Marvel: Crisis Protocol – Electro & Sandman & Shocker & Vulture Atomic Mass
- Cyber Pet Quest Diorama (75 mm) Dead Alive GamesFool’s Gold: Tarrasque (Gray) Hit Point Press
- Marvel: Crisis Protocol – Apocalypse Atomic Mass
- Star Wars: Shatterpoint This Is Some Rescue! Squad Pack Atomic Mass
- The Stormlight Archive Premium Miniatures Brotherwise Games
- Conquest – Sorcerer Kings: Efreet Flamecasters/Sword Dancers (Dual Kit) Para Bellum Games
- Warhammer 40,000: Kill Team – Night Lords Nemesis Claw Games Workshop
- GodTear: Durthax, Branchlord of the Weald & Treekin Steamforged Games
Miniature Paint/Hobby Accessory
- One Page Rules Brush Set Chronicle RPGs
- Paint Weaver Full Airbrush Kit Lethal Shadows
- Pro Acryl Signature Series Set 6 – Rogue Hobbies Rogue Hobby
- Turbo Dork Thinning Medium Turbo Dork
- Two Thin Coats: Omega Blue Duncan Rhodes Painting Academy
- AK Interactive Real Colors Markers Set AK Interactive
- Vallejo Model Colour – Light Violet Vallejo Acrylics
- Gamers Grass Alien Grass Tuft Starter Set GamersGrass
- Artis Opus Series D Medium Drybrush Artis Opus
- AK Interactive Rubble Dust – Enamel Liquid Pigment AK Interactive
Role-playing games
RPG Core
- Arzium Roleplaying Game Red Raven
- Cowboy Bebop Roleplaying Game – Corebook Mana Project Studio
- PARA: The Role-playing Game Eerie Games
- Yazeba’s Bed & Breakfast Possum Creek/SJG
- Arkham Horror: The Roleplaying Game – Core Rulebook Asmodee
- Mothership Deluxe Set Tuesday Knight
- Pathfinder Player Core 2 Paizo
- Dungeons & Dragons Players Handbook (2024) WOTC
- Eat the Reich Rowan, Rook & Decard
- Star Trek Adventures: The Roleplaying Game Second Edition Core Rulebook Modiphius
RPG Supplement
- The One Ring: Moria – Through the Doors of Durin Free League
- The Making of Original Dungeons and Dragons: 1970-1977 WOTC
- Call of Cthulhu: No Time to Scream Chaoisum
- Heroes of Mythic Americas Mythicos Studios
- Through the Hedgerow: A Roleplaying Game of Rustic Fantasy Osprey Publishing
- The Wildsea: Storm and Root Mythoworks
- Sentinel Comics: The Roleplaying Game – Starter Kit (2nd Edition) Greater Than Games
- Blades in the Dark: Deep Cuts JohnHarper.itch.io
- Mothership: Warden’s Operations Manual Tuesday Knight
- Star Crossed: Love Letters Bully Pulpit Games
