The winners of the PLAY25 award have been announced!

At this year's PLAY – Creative Gaming Festival, two special awards were presented again: the jury's Most Creative Game Award and the audience's Audience Award.

Most Creative Game Award 2025: Scriptorium: Master of Manuscript (Yaza Games)

The jury picked Scriptorium: Master of Manuscript as the most creative game of the year. This game will have you feeling like you're in a lively, humorous world of medieval manuscripts. As you make your way through the pages, you'll encounter vibrant, outlandish, and poetic miniatures. You'll be fulfilling requests from a clientele as varied and eccentric as the miniatures themselves.

Excerpt from the laudatory speech:
„Some games challenge us. Our dexterity or deductive skill. Some tell stories. Of lives past, lives never imagined or everyday horrors. Some games do both. And then there are games that turn us players into storytellers. The work we honor today opens a door – or rather, a heavy, leather-bound book. Whoever opens it steps into a world of ink, parchment, and imagination. A world in which creativity is not merely a tool, but the very playground itself. Page by page, line by line (...)“ said the Jury (Su-Jin Song, Christina Kutscher, Hannah, Senta Gohr, Sven Ahlgrimm)“

Audience Award 2025: Aurora Sensoria (Lea Schroth)

This year, the audience chose Aurora Sensoria, an immersive installation that allows visitors to experience the world from a jellyfish's perspective. A powerful space for reflection about perception, emotions, and the influence of external stimuli on us and other living beings is created through the interplay of aesthetic light and inner reaction.

Congratulations to all the winners, and thank you to everyone who voted!