Gioco dell Anno

The Gioco dell'Anno (Game of the Year) is awarded annually since 2013 by a jury of Italian game critics.
It replaces the Lucca Games Best of Show and takes its name from an older award assigned from 1991 until 1999.
The award is aimed explicitly at gateway games

Games are listed with the standardized BGG name, which in some cases is different from the name listed at the Gioco dell'Anno website.

Source: Gioco dell'Anno

Nominee: Mondo by Michael Schacht
Nominee: Room 25 by François Rouzé
Nominee: Survive: Escape from Atlantis! by Julian Courtland-Smith
Nominee: Tokaido by Antoine Bauza

Nominee: La Boca by Inka Brand and Markus Brand
Nominee: Carcassonne: South Seas by Klaus-Jürgen Wrede
Nominee: Eight-Minute Empire by Ryan Laukat
Nominee: Steam Park by Aureliano Buonfino, Lorenzo Silva and Lorenzo Tucci Sorrentino

Nominee: Dark Tales by Pierluca Zizzi
Nominee: Rush & Bash by Erik Burigo
Nominee: Splendor by Marc André
Nominee: Vienna by Johannes Schmidauer-König

Nominee: 7 Wonders Duel by Antoine Bauza and Bruno Cathala
Nominee: Celestia by Aaron Weissblum
Nominee: Codenames by Vlaada Chvátil
Nominee: New York 1901 by Chénier La Salle

Nominee: Dream Home by Klemens Kalicki
Nominee: Magic Maze by Kasper Lapp
Nominee: Topiary by Danny Devine
Nominee: Unlock!: Escape Adventures by Alice Carroll, Thomas Cauët and Cyril Demaegd

Nominee: Azul by Michael Kiesling
Nominee: Kanagawa by Bruno Cathala and Charles Chevallier
Nominee: Dragon Castle by Hjalmar Hach, Luca Ricci and Lorenzo Silva
Nominee: When I Dream by Chris Darsaklis

Nominee: Gizmos by Phil Walker-Harding
Nominee: Honga by Günter Burkhardt
Nominee: Luxor by Rüdiger Dorn
Nominee: Mysterium by Oleksandr Nevskiy and Oleg Sidorenko