SGDA Swiss Game Awards

SGDA Swiss Game Awards

The 9th Swiss Game Awards 2022 WINNERS

Best Entertainment Game
FAR: Changing Tides, Okomotive

Best Serious Game
Lausanne 1830: Histoires de registres, Digital Kingdom & EPFL

Excellence in Execution
Captain Velvet Meteor: The Jump+ Dimensions, Momo-pi Studio

Audience Choice Award
FAR: Changing Tides, Okomotive

Junior Award 
Vote Now!, Joël Rimaz
Honourable Mention: Projected Dreams, Team Strawberry

The 9th Swiss Game Awards 2022 nominees

Entertainment Games
Anshar 2: Hyperdrive, OZWE Games
Backfirewall_, Naraven
Captain Velvet Meteor: The Jump+ Dimensions, Momo-pi Studio
FAR: Changing Tides, Okomotive
Letters – a written adventure, 5am Games
Monorail Stories, Stelex Software
Swordship, Digital Kingdom
Terraformers, Asteroid Lab

Serious Games
Lausanne 1830: Histoires de registres, Digital Kingdom & EPFL
Microbiomes, Koboldgames & NCCR Microbiomes
Migros Merge, Gbanga & Migros-Genossenschafts-Bund
Oris – Joy of Mechanics, dreiplay studio & Oris
re(use), ETH Zurich
Respect – For who I truly am, Studio MACACO



The SGDA Swiss Game Award is the game developers award of Switzerland and celebrates projects that have put the Swiss game industry on the radar. The award honours innovation in form of novel and disruptive ideas in the digital media sector: playable games (all styles, genres and target platforms), services, middleware, innovative collaborations, cutting-edge marketing ideas, groundbreaking commissioned or advertising productions as well as new collectives.

  • Annual industry award
  • Swiss, nation-wide, all regions, all national languages
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Media contact: media@sgda.ch, +41 32 511 14 77

Winners & nominees

2022 Winners

2022 Nominees Category Entertainment Games

2022 Nominees Category Serious Games

2021 Winners

  • Best Entertainment Game Award 2021: Mundaun, Hidden Fields, Lucerne
  • Best Serious Game Award 2021: Democratia, Blindflug Studios, Zurich
  • Audience Choice Award 2021: Castello Visconteo, Stelex Software, Ticino
  • Excellence in Visuals 2021: Towaga, Sunnyside Games, Lausanne

2021 Nominees Category Entertainment Games

2021 Nominees Category Serious Games

2021 Jury

  • Adam Moravanszky (Jury president), Senior Director Simulation Technology (Nvidia)
  • Chino Noris, Software Engineer (Oculus VR/Meta)
  • Cornelia Zogg, Communication specialist and games journalist
  • Sarah Abbou, author and art director for games

2020 Winners

  • Winner Swiss Game Award 2020: Nimbatus, Stray Fawn Studio, Zurich
  • Audience Choice Award 2020: Unrailed!, Indoor Astronaut, Zurich
  • Excellence in Execution 2020: Transport Fever 2, Urban Games, Schaffhausen

2020 Nominees

2019 Winners

  • Winner Swiss Game Award 2019: FAR: Lone Sails, Okomotive, Zurich
  • Audience Choice Award 2019: FAR: Lone Sails, Okomotive, Zurich
  • Excellence in Gameplay 2019: Persephone, Momo-π, Bulle
  • Junior Swiss Game Award 2019: Twin Blades, Jad Zahar, Ricardo Crespo, Hugo Scholl

2019 Nominees

2018 Winners

2018 Nominees

2017 Winners

  • Swiss Game Award 2017: DERU (formerly known as Schlicht), INK KIT, Zurich
  • Audience Choice Award 2017: DERU (formerly known as Schlicht), INK KIT, Zurich
  • Junior Swiss Game Award 2017: Bane of Asphodel, Robin Schmidiger, Konrad Leichtle

2017 Nominees

2016 Winners

  • Swiss Game Award 2016: Feist, Bits & Beasts, Zurich
  • Audience Choice Award 2016: Cloud Chasers, Blindflug Studios, Zurich
  • Junior Swiss Game Award 2016: Bämeräng, Tim Bürge, Aaron Abt

2016 Nominees

2015 Winners

From 2014 to 2016 the cycle changed from autumn to early spring. Therefore, no award was given away in 2015.

  • Junior Swiss Game Award 2015 winners: The Glove (Nick Baumann, Christian Knieling, Dominik Wittwer) & Continent Conquest (Michael Plüss)

2014 Winners

2014 Nominees

2013 Winners

  • Swiss Game Award 2013: Drei, Etter Studio, Zurich

2013 Nominees