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This page lists board and card games, wargames, miniatures games, and tabletop role-playing games published in 2023. For video games, see 2023 in video gaming.

## Games released or invented in 2023

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* Apiary
* Apocalypse Keys
* Candela Obscura
* Blade Runner: The Roleplaying Game
* Daybreak
* Disney Lorcana
* Earth
* Eat the Reich
* Fabula Ultima
* If I Were a Lich, Man
* Koriko: A Magical Year
* Liminal Horror
* Marvel Multiverse Role-Playing Game
* Ma Nishtana
* Nekojima
* Shadowdark
* Sky Team
* Star Wars: The Deckbuilding Game
* Village: Big Box
* Zin Never Dies

## Game awards given in 2023

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Award  | Category  | Winner  | Ref.

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Spiel des Jahres | Spiel des Jahres  | Dorfromantik: The Board Game | [1]
Kinderspiel des Jahres  | Mysterium Kids
Kennerspiel des Jahres  | Challengers!
Deutscher Spielepreis | Deutscher Spielepreis  | Planet Unknown | [2]
Deutscher Kinderspielepreis  | Mysterium Kids
As d'Or |  | Akropolis | [3]
Dicebreaker's Tabletop Awards  | Rising Star: Publisher  | Hot Banana Games  | [4]
Rising Star: Designer  | Cassi Mothwin
Publisher of the Year  | Restoration Games
Designer of the Year  | David Thompson & Trevor Benjamin
Best Art  | Sefirot
Best Ongoing Card Game  | Disney Lorcana: The First Chapter
Best Roleplaying Game  | Women Are Werewolves
Best Board Game  | Sky Team
People's Choice  | Fabula Ultima

## Significant games-related events in 2023

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## Deaths

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Date | Name | Age | Notability

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January 23  | Serge Laget | 63  | French board game designer
February 19[5] | Jonathan M. Thompson | 51  | American role-playing game designer
March 27  | Joli Quentin Kansil | 80  | Game designer
April 1[6] | Klaus Teuber | 70  | German board game designer
April 21  | Ivan Moscovich | 96  | Game designer
May 10  | Russ Nicholson |  | British fantasy illustrator
July  | Patrick Lucien Price |  | Game designer and editor at TSR
August 28[7] | Teeuwynn Woodruff | 56  | American writer and game designer
December 30[8] | Bryan Ansell | 68  | British role-playing and wargame designer and former owner of Games Workshop

## References

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1. ^ "Award winners 2023". Spiel des Jahres. Retrieved 2025-05-02.
2. ^ Weber, Michael (2023-10-04). "Gewinner Deutscher Spielepreis 2023 stehen fest". Reich der Spiele (in German). Retrieved 2025-05-02.
3. ^ "As d'Or - Prix ludique - Jeux de société". Philibert (in French). Retrieved 2025-05-02.
4. ^ Jarvis, Matt (2023-12-02). "Tabletop Awards 2023 winners: this year's best board games, RPGs, designers and publishers". Dicebreaker. Retrieved 2025-05-02.
5. ^ "Obituary for Jonathan Thompson at Aulds Funeral Home".
6. ^ Brown, Andy (2023-04-04). "'Catan' creator Klaus Teuber has died". NME. Retrieved 2023-04-04.
7. ^ "Teeuwynn Woodruff, MTG, Vampire: The Masquerade, and D&D Writer, Passes Away". 4 September 2023.
8. ^ "Man behind one of Nottingham's most successful companies dies aged 68". 31 December 2023.

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