MOST AMAZING GAME AWARD
The Grand Prize of the A MAZE. Awards goes to the most relevant, forward-thinking interactive and playful content. We premiere the best work overall - in terms of art, innovation, music, story and interaction. The prize is dedicated to the masterpiece of the award selection that shows us a path we never walked before.
| Year | Winner |
|---|---|
| 2025 | despelote — Julián Cordero, Sebastián Valbuena, Gabe Cuzzillo & Ian Berman (CO, US) |
| 2024 | No Case Should Remain Unsolved — Somi (KR) |
| 2023 | Player Non Player — Jonathan Coryn (FR) |
| 2022 | Tux and Fanny — Albert Birney & Gabriel Koenig (CA, US) |
| 2021 | Stilstand — Ida Hartmann & Niila Games (DK) |
| 2020 | Nightmare Temptation Academy — Lena NW & Costcodreamgurl (US) |
| 2019 | Kassinn — Huldufugl (IS) |
| 2018 | Attentat 1942 — Charles University / Czech Academy of Sciences (CZ) |
| 2017 | Everything — David O’Reilly (US) |
| 2016 | Cosmic Top Secret — Trine Laier, Mads Lyngvig Jespersen, Lise Saxtrup & Bjørn Svin (DK) |
| 2015 | Curtain — Llaura McGee (IE) |
| 2014 | Perfect Woman — Lea Schönfelder (DE) & Peter Lu (US) |
| 2013 | Spaceteam — Henry Smith (CA) |
| 2012 | Proteus — Ed Key (UK) & David Kanaga (US) |
HUMAN HUMAN MACHINE AWARD
This award goes to the best game that can be played by two or more people in the same room (local multiplayer), and includes some digital element – fully analog games won’t be accepted.
| Year | Winner |
|---|---|
| 2025 | Synch.Live — Hillary Leone & the Synch.Live Team (US) |
| 2024 | Waxwing — Common Opera (US) |
| 2023 | The MetaMovie Presents: Alien Rescue — The MetaMovie (US) |
| 2022 | Okthryssia and Saturnia’s Bureaucratic Adventures — Fantasia Malware (DE) |
| 2021 | Map to Utopia — Fringe ensemble / Platform theatre (DE) |
| 2020 | Brave Mouse Cartographer I — common opera (US) |
| 2019 | Blabyrinth — Sleeping Beast Games (CA) |
| 2018 | Tuned Out — Shallow Games (US) |
| 2017 | Word After Word — Jonah Warren (US) |
| 2016 | Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes — Steel Crate Games, Inc. (CA) |
| 2015 | Crawl — Powerhoof (AU) |
| 2014 | Nidhogg — Messhof (US) |
LONG FEATURE AWARD
This is the award for complex games and developing virtual reality worlds. Those are the ones, who challenge your life by offering immersive storytelling and much more than 2hrs gameplay.
| Year | Winner |
|---|---|
| 2025 | THRESHOLD — Julien Éveillé (FR) |
| 2024 | [ECHOSTASIS] — Enigma Studio (IR) |
| 2023 | SEASON: A letter to the future — Scavengers Studio (CA) |
| 2022 | NORCO — Raw Fury / Geography of Robots (US) |
| 2021 | I Am Dead — Hollow Ponds (UK) |
| 2020 | Knife Sisters — Transcenders Media (SE) |
| 2019 | THE LONGING — STUDIO SEUFZ (DE) |
| 2018 | The Norwood Suite — Cosmo D (US) |
| 2017 | Orwell — Osmotic Studio (DE) |
DIGITAL MOMENT AWARD
Poems, statements, experiments, short experiences – expressions of socio-critical messages, personal or comedic life situations and feelings through an interactive medium. Maybe a sensual mechanic, a toy that gives the player a surprising twist in their experience.
| Year | Winner |
|---|---|
| 2025 | Some Goodbyes We Made — Safe Flight Games, Joey Schutz (US) |
| 2024 | GRUNN — Tom van den Boogaart (NL) |
| 2023 | Extreme Evolution: Drive to Divinity — Sam Atlas (US) |
| 2022 | BORE DOME — Goblin Rage (DK) |
| 2021 | Adventures of HarriHarri — Harold Hejazi (FI) |
| 2020 | Promesa — Julian Palacios (IT) |
| 2019 | Consume Me — Jenny Jiao Hsia & AP Thomson (US) |
| 2018 | Genital Jousting - Story Mode — Free Lives (SA) |
| 2017 | Everything is going to be OK — Nathalie Lawhead (US) |
EXPLORER AWARD
Go, where nobody has gone before! This is the award for all forms of experiences beyond the boundaries of contemporary ways to play or develop games. Here, we are exploring alternative controllers, interactive installations, creative coding experiments, robotics and tech performances, as well as interdisciplinary teams, collaborations with science, makers, engineers, researchers, theater and writers.
| Year | Winner |
|---|---|
| 2025 | Flora — Judit Castells, Daniela Guevara, Paula Jaime & Mariana Pachon (CO) |
| 2024 | BLUESUBERBIA — Nathalie Lawhead (US) |
| 2023 | Lost on Mars — Trey Ramm (US) |
| 2022 | We Are One — Flat Head Studio (AT) |
| 2021 | Before Your Eyes — Goodbyeworld Games (US) |
| 2020 | Cook your way — Enric Granzotto Llagostera (CA) |
| 2019 | Operation Jane Walk — Leonhard Müllner & Robin Klengel (AT) |
AUDIENCE AWARD
The winner will be voted out of the 25 nominees by the public during the course of the festival. Every visitor gets 3 pink dots to vote for their favourite game at A MAZE. / Berlin.
| Year | Winner |
|---|---|
| 2025 | Breaking News — Danil Bialo, Tamir Herzberg & Evyatar Cohen (IL) |
| 2024 | Non Virtual Reality Games — 3m Jump (DE) |
| 2023 | Viewfinder — Sad Owl Studios (UK, PH, US, NO, ES, FI) |
| 2022 | Titanic II: Orchestra for Dying at Sea — Flan Falacci (US) |
| 2021 | Time Bandit — Joel Jordon (CA) |
| 2020 | Utopias: Navigating without coordinates — AAA (DE) |
| 2019 | Sticky Cats — The Bones Brothers (SA) |
| 2018 | Wobble Garden — Robin Baumgarten (DE) |
| 2017 | VinylOS — Josef Who? & Jonas Bo! (AT) |
| 2016 | Genital Jousting: A MAZE. Grand Prize Winning Game — Team Swaffelen (NO/ZA) |
| 2015 | Line Wobbler — Robin Baumgarten (DE) |
| 2014 | Choosatron — Jerry Belich (US) |
WINGS GENDER DIVERSITY AWARD
This Award highlights games from women and gender marginalized developers, and awards 2.000€ to the chosen winner. To be considered for this award, games must be made by teams with women or gender marginalized developers in key positions. WINGS is proud to offer funding and opportunities to amplify voices less heard in the games industry.
| Year | Winner |
|---|---|
| 2025 | Curiosmos — Céline & the Silly Stars (FR) |
| 2024 | Miniatures — Other Tales Interactive (DK) |
| 2023 | Psychotic Bathtub – The Story of an Escalating Mind. And Ducks. — natsha (CH) |
| 2022 | A Rejection Story! — Faezeh Khomeyrani (NL) |
DISCONTINUED AWARDS:
HUMBLE NEW TALENT AWARD
Outside of the competing nominees, the Humble New Talent Award highlights important new voices in the culture of games. Nominees are chosen by A MAZE. and will not be awarded for one game, but their work and thoughts in general.
| Year | Winner |
|---|---|
| 2021 | Colestia — David Cribbs (AU) |
| 2020 | Studio Oleomingus (IN) |
| 2019 | Maria Fedotova & Zoya Yakovleva / lowpolis (RU) |
| 2018 | Bahiyya Khan (SA) |
COLLIDER AWARD
Mash everything! Foster interdisciplinary productions! This is the award for all forms of experiences created in collaboration with science, makers, engineers, researchers, theater and writers. It also includes alternative controllers, interactive installations and creative coding experiments, robotics and tech performances.
| Year | Winner |
|---|---|
| 2018 | fountain — Philipp Stollenmayer (DE) |
| 2017 | FRU — Through Games (NL) |
WTF?! AWARD
The award for games that transport no compromises, reckless art, subversive fun and provoking progression. A MAZE./ is looking for the best glitch, punk, alt.ctrl and art games.
| Year | Winner |
|---|---|
| 2016 | Lieve Oma — Florian Veltman (FR) |
| 2015 | Line Wobbler — Robin Baumgarten (DE) |
| 2014 | Fjords — Kyle Reimersgartin (US) |
OTHER DIMENSIONS AWARD
Quite a number of independent game developers and digital artists are discovering this adventurous technology as a new way of expression. A MAZE. features that passionated evolution and is looking for the total embodiment in the beauty of an other dimension.
| Year | Winner |
|---|---|
| 2016 | Diorama No.3 - The Marchland — The Shoebox Diorama (NL) |
| 2015 | Pixel Ripped — Ana Ribeiro (BR) |
