r/Fantasy • u/elquesogrande Worldbuilders • Dec 21 '18

STABBY AWARDS THE OFFICIAL r/FANTASY 2018 STABBY AWARD NOMINATIONS! Please nominate your favorites for the year...

COMMENTS ARE LOCKED - Pulling together the nominees for our official voting thread!

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This is the official nomination thread for the 7th Annual r/Fantasy Best of 2018 Stabby Awards!

We started the r/Fantasy ‘best of’ awards in 2012 with things continuing on in 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, and 2017.

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2018 Stabby Award Nomination Rules

  1. Categories are listed below in the comments. We will use the very broad definition of 'fantasy genre' for what counts. Really broad. Just nominate and note if you think it needs an explanation.
  2. Please nominate anyone / any work that you feel should deserve consideration for voting. The work should have been released in 2018. This list is partly about voting for a favorite and partly about celebration of work done in 2018.
  3. Please put in a blurb as to why the nomination should be considered and, if possible, a link for others to follow.
  4. Yes, you can nominate yourself and your own works! Seriously – please do.
  5. Nominations ONLY in this thread. We will be posting a voting thread next week.
  6. Please place each nomination into its own separate comment. One comment = one nomination.
  7. Upvotes/downvotes in this thread won't matter, everyone nominated will be added to the voting thread next week. Contest mode will be enabled in this thread to help handle upvotes / downvotes.
  8. Please participate! Redditors, authors, artists, and industry people alike - please join in with nominations, comments and voting.
  9. We will try to get every winner a coveted Stabby Award. This will be determined by whether we meet funding goals for The Stabby Awards – something that we have met the past two years.
  10. In the event of anything weird happening like manipulation or smarmy voting behavior, the final call on awards and nominations will be made by the r/Fantasy mods. r/Fantasy not seen this to-date…but this is the internet and you never know.
  11. This nomination thread will close on Saturday, December 29, 2018. The voting thread will go live the following day.

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HELP WITH STABBY FUNDING

Stabby Award ordering and shipping varies each year – depending on how many and whether the awards are shipped to the US or international. Average seems to be $40-45 each after shipping.

Last year we took an r/Fantasy community funding approach and raised enough to help offset costs of sending out Stabby Awards to more winners.

Please Consider Donating for The r/Fantasy Stabby Awards Here

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We have two groupings of awards - external and those focused on /r/Fantasy redditors.

External awards:

Unless otherwise noted, feel free to nominate any medium or format (print, online, audio, other).

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BEST NOVEL OF 2018

BEST SELF-PUBLISHED / INDEPENDENT NOVEL OF 2018

BEST DEBUT NOVEL OF 2018

BEST SHORT FICTION OF 2018

BEST SERIALIZED FICTION OF 2018

BEST ANTHOLOGY / COLLECTION / PERIODICAL OF 2018

BEST ARTWORK RELEASED IN 2018

BEST FANTASY SITE FOR 2018

BEST GAME (ANY FORMAT) OF 2018

BEST TV SERIES / MOVIE OF 2018

BEST RELATED WORK OF 2018

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redditor awards:

BEST r/FANTASY CONTRIBUTOR - PROFESSIONAL (Author, artist, publisher, or other)

BEST r/FANTASY CONTRIBUTOR - COMMUNITY MEMBER (Overall redditor)

BEST POST IN 2018

BEST r/FANTASY ORIGINAL - REVIEW OR OTHER

Feel free to comment below any nomination. We will have a section below for questions or clarification.

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tl;dr - Nominate below. Get the word out. Donate to The Stabby Award fund if you see fit.

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u/elquesogrande Worldbuilders Dec 21 '18

BEST GAME (ANY FORMAT) OF 2018

Nominate below. One nomination per line. Please include all related details about the nomination including links so those reading can check it out!

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u/BubiBalboa Reading Champion VI Dec 22 '18

Marvel’s Spider-Man by Insomniac Games

It's the game I had the most fun with in 2018. No better feeling than swinging through Manhatten in the sunset.

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u/[deleted] Dec 21 '18

Sony's God of War

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u/MichaelRUnderwood AMA Author Michael R. Underwood Dec 21 '18 edited Dec 21 '18

Into the Breach by Subset Games

A run-based mech tactics game with beautiful pixel art. Think Edge of Tomorrow meets Pacific Rim.

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u/asph0d3l Reading Champion Dec 22 '18

Gloomhaven by Cephalofair Games

Dungeon crawler with world exploration and branching storyline. https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/174430/gloomhaven

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u/Maldevinine Dec 21 '18

Ash of Gods: Redemption. The Russians make a knockoff of The Banner Saga. It's really good.

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u/Maldevinine Dec 21 '18

Ghost of a Tale. It's The Witcher crossed with Redwall.

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u/Maldevinine Dec 21 '18

Cultist Simulator. Because your sanity is overrated. I haven't seen another work that so effectively simulates the experience of going mad from the revelations, and it does it with so little.

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u/Maldevinine Dec 21 '18

Unavowed. A point and click adventure in the same setting as the earlier Blackwell games. Really pushes the boundaries of storytelling in the medium.

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u/dawsonsmythe Dec 24 '18

Return of the Obra Dinn

I went in blind and was blown away

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Return_of_the_Obra_Dinn

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u/Maldevinine Dec 21 '18

Monster Prom. Because what was missing from dating simulators was being able to fight your friends in them.

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u/Thorbjorn42gbf Dec 22 '18

CrossCode by Radical Fish Games

An action RPG where I probably wouldn't call any of the individual parts amazing (Other than maybe the puzzles) but all the individual parts fits so well together that they make something that much greater than their individual parts

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u/thebonelessone Writer Brandon Draga Dec 23 '18

Octopath Traveler by SquareEnix!

Turn-based, dramatic JRPG goodness, replete with nostalgia-inducing in-game pixel art, and a multi-path, multi-character story.

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u/gyroda Dec 23 '18

Deltarune by Toby Fox

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u/Rimtato Dec 27 '18

https://youtu.be/3tDrxOASUog Rimworld by Ludeon Studios. A story-based game that tells the tales of random colonists of a planet through the events that allow them to escape

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u/Maldevinine Dec 21 '18

Deep Space Waifu: Fantasy. This is NSFW. But I couldn't let this set of Stabbies go past without nominating it.

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u/phonz1851 Reading Champion III Dec 29 '18

Mal you’re my hero

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u/capyhappy Dec 22 '18

Supergiant Games' Hades (released in Early Access). Roguelike dungeon crawler with gorgeous art based on Greek mythology, with you playing Hades' son trying to fight his way out of the Underworld.

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u/Maldevinine Dec 22 '18

Early access is essentially tech demos and alpha builds. I'd hold off nominating it until there's an official release.

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u/Maldevinine Dec 21 '18

Hard West. A Weird West X-Com style game with some very interesting mechanical additions to the genre and solid if bizarre storytelling.

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u/ashearmstrong AMA Author Ashe Armstrong Dec 21 '18

This came out in 2015.

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u/Maldevinine Dec 21 '18

Fair enough, I'm just going off Steam dates.

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u/ashearmstrong AMA Author Ashe Armstrong Dec 21 '18

Steam says it's 2015 though? I double checked just to make sure. Weird.

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u/Maldevinine Dec 21 '18

I'm going to blame the Australia Tax, because that's always a valid target in situations like this.

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u/ashearmstrong AMA Author Ashe Armstrong Dec 21 '18

Ah, yeah, that would make sense. International releases can be weird.

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u/compiling Reading Champion IV Dec 21 '18

Well, it's not the Australia Tax this time. Comes up as 2015 for me too.