International Serious Play Awards 2025: medal winners by category
The 2025 file for the International Serious Play Awards holds 42 rows for 42 games.
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2025 results
The 2025 file for the International Serious Play Awards holds 42 rows for 42 games: 10 Gold rows, 23 Silver rows and 9 Bronze rows. The 2025 rows name 7 categories: K-12, Corporate/Vocational Skills, Student Digital, Student Tabletop, Professional Tabletop/Board Games, Healthcare/Medical/Pharmaceutical/Nursing and Higher Education. The 2025 gold medals went to DICEY ESCAPE (K-12), Two Falls (Nishu Takuatshina) (K-12), Cybercrimegame (Corporate/Vocational Skills) and Hacked (Corporate/Vocational Skills), plus 6 more titles in the table. 16 rows of the 2025 list have no organization on file. The 2025 rows come from the press releases for K-12, corporate, student digital and tabletop, professional tabletop, healthcare and higher education. Years other than 2025 are on the International Serious Play Awards page.
All 2025 rows
| Game | Organization | Category | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| DICEY ESCAPE | Sinking Ship Interactive | K-12 | Gold |
| Two Falls (Nishu Takuatshina) | Unreliable Narrators | K-12 | Gold |
| Cybercrimegame | Not on file | Corporate/Vocational Skills | Gold |
| Hacked | Training.Game | Corporate/Vocational Skills | Gold |
| StepUp - Hygiene Hero Cup | Not on file | Student Digital | Gold |
| Cards of Heart | University of Southern California (USC) students, in collaboration with USC Games and the Creative Media and Behavioral Health Center | Student Digital | Gold |
| Collabyrinth | Not on file | Professional Tabletop/Board Games | Gold |
| Regime | The Bill of Rights Institute, in partnership with Game Genius | Professional Tabletop/Board Games | Gold |
| So You Want to Be an American? | Not on file | Professional Tabletop/Board Games | Gold |
| Laptitude: The Curious Cases | Not on file | Healthcare/Medical/Pharmaceutical/Nursing | Gold |
| Allan Gray Entrepreneurship Challenge: High School Game | Sea Monster | K-12 | Silver |
| Cyberchase: Cyber Sound Quest | Not on file | K-12 | Silver |
| EZRA & ALEX | Landesverband Kinder- und Jugendfilm Berlin e.V. | K-12 | Silver |
| K12 Coordinate Islands world for Minecraft Education | Not on file | K-12 | Silver |
| K12 ELA Village | Not on file | K-12 | Silver |
| Microchip Makers VR | Boise State University (GIMM program) | K-12 | Silver |
| Pimachiowin Aki: The Land That Gives Life | Logics Academy, MFNERC/MFNSS, and the Bloodvein River First Nation | K-12 | Silver |
| RICOCHET | Not on file | Corporate/Vocational Skills | Silver |
| Pivot | Oma Makhija and Aria Makhija | Student Tabletop | Silver |
| Primes | Oma Makhija and Aria Makhija | Student Tabletop | Silver |
| Death Coffee Time | Not on file | Student Tabletop | Silver |
| Campaign Trail 3000 | Alex Kaplan, Leigh Allen, and Juan Galan | Student Tabletop | Silver |
| The Consent Game | Phoonseeraah (Ada) Tieanworn | Student Tabletop | Silver |
| Ban the Jesuits | Not on file | Professional Tabletop/Board Games | Silver |
| Climate Action Force Go! | Catlilli Games | Professional Tabletop/Board Games | Silver |
| Conversely | Not on file | Professional Tabletop/Board Games | Silver |
| Cyber Threat Defender | Center for Infrastructure Assurance and Security (CIAS) at The University of Texas at San Antonio | Professional Tabletop/Board Games | Silver |
| Doomscroll | GamestormEDU | Professional Tabletop/Board Games | Silver |
| Tag! The Jurisdiction Game | Thomas R. Kline School of Law of Duquesne University | Professional Tabletop/Board Games | Silver |
| The Light Within | Not on file | Healthcare/Medical/Pharmaceutical/Nursing | Silver |
| Project Management Fundamentals | Arizona State University (Professor Christopher Glover) | Higher Education | Silver |
| Silencer | Diane Wang, Sia Yang, Samira Herber and the NYU Game Center Incubator | Higher Education | Silver |
| HR Management Simulation: People Analytics | Sim Institute | Higher Education | Silver |
| AVID Creator Planet | Super League | K-12 | Bronze |
| ACE | Not on file | Corporate/Vocational Skills | Bronze |
| Answer Campus: First Semester | NERDLab at the University of Miami | Student Digital | Bronze |
| Other People’s Money | Not on file | Student Digital | Bronze |
| Haunt & Hospitality | William Peace University Simulation and Game Design students | Student Digital | Bronze |
| An Interactive Tour of the International Space Station | Michigan State University Media and Information program | Student Digital | Bronze |
| CECO Activities | Conductive Education Center of Orlando (CECO) and CelleC Games Studio at Full Sail University | Student Digital | Bronze |
| The Braille Bistro | Not on file | Student Tabletop | Bronze |
| FULL ADHD | Psyon Games, Takeda and ADHD experts | Healthcare/Medical/Pharmaceutical/Nursing | Bronze |