SGDA Swiss Game Awards

SGDA Swiss Game Awards

The SGDA Swiss Game Awards (SWIGA) is the game developers award of Switzerland. It honours outstanding projects that have put the Swiss game industry on the radar. The SGDA has been awarding the Swiss industry prize since 2013 to honour Swiss excellence in games.

Swiss Game Awards Ceremony 2023, Gamesweek Zurich | The Conference (c) SGDA

Award Ceremony

The prizes for the best Swiss games were presented at the Swiss Game Awards ceremony during Gamesweek Zurich.

The awards ceremony took place in Zurich on 17 November 2023.

Watch Award Ceremony 2023

Award Categories 2023

Swiss Game Awards – Best Entertainment Game 2023

The SWIGA game of the year main prize and the best game of all games submitted, is honoured by the jury with “The Swiss Game Award”.

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Swiss Game Awards – Best Serious Game 2023

Serious games and gamification solutions become more and more important. The SGDA honours with this category a serious game or a gamification solution that makes an impact and fosters sustainable development. 

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Swiss Game Awards – Most Anticipated Game 2023

An award to celebrate the most promising upcoming project in the Swiss video game industry.

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Swiss Game Awards – Excellence Award 2023

Each game submitted will also be evaluated in regards to the Excellence Award. With this category the jury honours the creative or technicals skills of a project. The jury may consider the execution of the entire game or just a specific element which is of outstanding quality. During the submission process, you will be able to emphasize one or more aspects, you want the jury to consider like gameplay, game mechanics, story, visuals, sound, technology or else.

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Jury 2023

The nominees and winners are chosen by an independent jury, selected by the SGDA Board of Directors.

SGDA Student Swiss Game Awards

Winner

  • Fix it!, Amina Matt (University of Lausanne UNIL – Swiss Federal Institute of Technology EPFL)

Nominees

  • Dissecting Love, Noe Mael Arnold (Zurich University of the Arts, ZHdK)
  • Fix it!, Amina Matt (University of Lausanne UNIL – Swiss Federal Institute of Technology EPFL)
  • To the Moon, Alan Hyjazi (Ceruleum)
  • Troubles Ahead, Sébastien Rieder (Maitres du Monde)

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
  • Hashtags #swiga23 #SwissGameAwards #SGDAch

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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