With 435 submissions from 78 countries, the 15th international A Maze. Awards received more entries from more locations than ever before competing for 7 awards and the Audience Award. The final jury will now select their categories and reveal the winners at the Award Show on 15 May in Berlin.

All Nominees of Amaze Awards 2026

  • As Long As You're Here, Autoscopia Interactive, Denmark, Netherlands, United States
  • Border Control, rect repair, China, Australia
  • Broke Signal Badlands, Forward Instinct, United States
  • coalescent || tidal rapture, Hanwen Xu & Hatim Benhsain, China, Morocco
  • Crashboard 2000, Incontrolab (Léon Denise & Emilie Breslavetz), France
  • Easy Delivery Co., Sam C, Canada
  • Egglets - The Long 10 Days, wieLuft, Germany
  • InSync, DaChu Interactive, China, United States
  • labRats, cirqueSaw, United States
  • Loopscroll, Shaman Garage, Spain, China
  • Manifest Your Dream Job Sleep Meditation, Jade Lin @strawberrycongee, United Kingdom
  • No, I'm not a Human, Trioskaz, Georgia
  • Otherworlds, Sophia Bulgakova, Ukraine, Netherlands
  • Peppered: an existential platformer, Vas Most, Nararcher, Fedya Balashov, Russia
  • Pigeon: A Love Story, Wristwork, United Kingdom
  • Ruminant 4444, Miurbu, Switzerland
  • Season 31, MainSequenceStar, France
  • Silicomrades, Outside the Fox, Czechia
  • Sire, heartcase, Netherlands
  • Skate Story, by Sam Eng, United States
  • Small Void, Alice Bucknell & Jonathan Coryn, United States, France
  • The Great Orator, The Shoebox Diorama (Daniel Ernst), Netherlands
  • The Wide Open Sky is Running out of Catfish, Zipit! Games - Benjamin Warfield & Joshua Pulsifer, United States
  • Trans Theft Horso, Ben Swithen, United Kingdom
  • We Are Dead Animals, Tote Tiere Maarten, Netherlands, Germany

WINGS 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. 

  • Beware of the Cartographer!, Tohu Bohu Games, Netherlands, France
  • Name of the Will, Zeitgeist Studio, United States, Hong Kong SAR China, Japan, Canada, Estonia, United Kingdom
  • Phonopolis, Amanita Design, Czechia, United Kingdom
  • The Last Exam, Neslihan Aydınoğlu, Türkiye
  • Tom the Postgirl, Oopsie Daisies, Switzerland

XR-HISTORY AWARD

This award by the Körber-Stiftung is looking for extraordinary XR projects which use new media to explore history, historical narration, and commemorative culture. Winners receive 2000€ prize money. Nominees will be part of a panel and all accomodation and travel is covered.

  • Coalition Constellation: Constellating Reparations, Ren Loren Britton, United States, Germany
  • Flesh Network, Sickness International, United States
  • Unsettled, Cuerpos Migrantes, Peru, Argentina

Additional honorable mentions as well as the final jury can be found on the website as well.

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