On March 31, the winners of the DCP were announced, including multiplayer titles like Hunt: Showdown and Albion Online. The winners shared a prize pool of 800,000 €.
This is the DCP: For over 10 years, talented German developers have been awarded cash prizes at the major award ceremony of the German Computer Game Award for their work in gaming.
Nominees included games and demos from German developer studios, which were awarded various cash amounts. On March 31, the winners of the individual categories were announced in Munich.
For the non-monetary award for the best player of the year, however, the community decided. On the official DCP page, you could vote for your favorite.
All winners at a glance
Best German Game (awarded 100,000 euros for the winning game and 30,000 euros for the two other nominees)
- Winner: Chorus (Deep Silver FISHLABS / Koch Media)
- Endzone – A World Apart (Gentlymad Studios / Assemble Entertainment)
- Lacuna (DigiTales Interactive / Assemble Entertainment)
Best Family Game (awarded 40,000 euros)
- Winner: OMNO (Studio Inkyfox)
- Katze Q – A Quantum Adventure (kamibox)
- Witchtastic (Flemming Visual Effects / Application Systems Heidelberg Software)
Newcomer Award – Best Debut (awarded 60,000 euros for the best debut game and 25,000 euros for each of the two other nominees)
- Winner: White Shadows (Monokel / Headup Games)
- A Juggler’s Tale (kaleidoscube / Mixtvision Mediengesellschaft)
- Cleo – a pirate’s tale (Greycap Audiovisual Mediadesign)
Newcomer Award – Best Prototype (awarded 50,000 euros for the best prototype and 25,000 euros for each of the four other nominees)
- Winner: Wiblu (Peter Bartonik, Christian Walter, Ramona Raabe)
- Delightfyl (Felicitas Brämer)
- Makis Adventure (Mateo Covic, Eric Hartmann / Hochschule Rhein-Waal)
- Skuggor (Tobias Borns, Sebastian Krause, Julia Wolf / Hochschule Trier)
- Words (Ahmet Zahit Dönmez / TH Köln – Cologne Game Lab)
Best Innovation and Technology (awarded 40,000 euros)
- Winner: Warpdrive (Holocafe)
- The Case – Race Against Time (MixUp)
- VR Skater (DEFICIT Games)
Best Game World and Aesthetics (awarded 40,000 euros)
- Winner: A Juggler’s Tale (kaleidoscube / Mixtvision Mediengesellschaft)
- ITORAH (Grimbart Tales / Assemble Entertainment)
- OMNO (Studio Inkyfox)
Best Game Design (awarded 40,000 euros)
- Winner: Kraken Academy!! (Happy Broccoli Games / Fellow Traveller)
- Get Together: A Coop Adventure (Studio Sterneck)
- OMNO (Studio Inkyfox)
Best Serious Game (awarded 40,000 euros)
- Winner: EZRA (Landesverband Kinder- und Jugendfilm Berlin e.V.)
- NEPO Missions (Gentle Troll Entertainment / Fraunhofer-Institut IAIS)
- Songs of Cultures – (A.MUSE – Interactive Design Studio)
Best Mobile Game (awarded 40,000 euros)
- Winner: Albion Online (Sandbox Interactive)
- Homeworld Online (Stratosphere Games / Gearbox Publishing)
- Settle and Battle (Attic Games Studio)
Best Expert Game (awarded 40,000 euros)
- Winner: Imagine Earth (Serious Brothers)
- ELEX II (Piranha Bytes / THQ Nordic)
- Kubifaktorium (Neomateria Games)
Best Live Game (awarded 40,000 euros)
- Winner: Hunt: Showdown (Crytek / Koch Media)
- Anno 1800 (Ubisoft Mainz / Ubisoft)
- Tropico 6 (Kalypso Media Group / Kalypso Media Group)
Best International Game (no monetary award)
- Winner: Elden Ring (From Software / Bandai Namco Entertainment Germany)
- Horizon Forbidden West (SIE Guerilla / Sony Interactive Entertainment)
- It Takes Two (Hazelight Studios / Electronic Arts)
Best International Multiplayer Game (no monetary award)
- Winner: It Takes Two (Hazelight Studios / Electronic Arts)
- Age of Empires IV (Relic Entertainment / Microsoft Deutschland)
- Forza Horizon 5 (Playground Games / Microsoft Deutschland)
Player of the Year (no monetary award)
- Winner: Maximilian Knabe (aka HandOfBlood)
- Melanie Eilert (aka melly_maeh)
- Matthias Remmert (aka Knochen)
- Pia Scholz (aka Shurjoka)
- Kuro Takhasomi (aka KuroKy)
Studio of the Year (awarded 50,000 euros)
- Winner: CipSoft (Regensburg)
- Paintbucket Games (Berlin)
- Wooga (Berlin)
Special Jury Prize (awarded 10,000 euros)
- Games Jobs Germany
Are there favorites among the winners? Do you know all the listed games? Which ones have you played?
Tell us in the comments and let us know what you think of the award presentation.
