Previous Winners Of The Annual EN World Most Anticipated Tabletop RPG Of The Year

Here are the previous winners of EN World’s annual ‘Most Anticipated TTRPG’ of each year since the poll started back in 2013. Last year’s winner (2025) was Legend in the Mist from Son of Oak Studios.

The results for 2026 will be announced next week, initially on Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk, and then posted here to the website shortly afterwards.

Every year, we take nominations from readers of EN World. Any standalone tabletop RPG due to be released to the general public in the following year is eligible. We then move on to a voting stage, which lasts about 3 weeks, before the results are announced in January of that year.

Winners of Each Year

2025

1. Legend in the Mist (Son of Oak)
2. Brandon Sanderson’s Cosmere (Brotherwise Games)
3. Daggerheart (Darrington Press)
4. Draw Steel (MCDM)
5. Terry Pratchett’s Discworld: Adventures in Ankh-Morpork (Modiphius)
6. Dolmenwood (Necrotic Gnome)
7. Coriolis: The Great Dark (Free League)
8. 13th Age 2nd Edition (Pelgrane Press)
9. Alien – Evolved Edition (Free League)
10. Starfinder 2E (Paizo Publishing)

2024

1. Shadow of the Weird Wizard (Schwalb Entertainment)
2. The Electric State (Free League)
3. 13th Age 2nd Edition (Pelgrane Press)
4. Pendragon 6E (Chaosium)
5. Dolmenwood (Necrotic Gnome)
6. Cohors Cthulhu (Modiphius)
7. Daggerheart (Darrington Press)
8. Monty Python’s Cocurricular Mediaeval Reenactment Programme (Exalted Funeral)
9. Mothership 1E (Tuesday Knight Games)
10. Tales of the Valiant (Kobold Press)

2023

1. King Arthur Pendragon 6th Edition (Chaosium)
2. Dragonbane/Darkar och Demoner (Free League)
3. 13th Age 2nd Edition (Pelgrane Press)
4. Household (Two Little Mice)
5. Mothership 1E (Tuesday Knight Games)
6. Shadow of the Weird Wizard (Schwalb Entertainment)
7. The Walking Dead Universe (Free League)
8. Warhammer 40K Imperium Maledictum (Cubicle 7)
9. Old Gods of Appalachia (Monte Cook Games)
10. Monty Python’s Cocurricular Mediaeval Reenactment Programme (Exalted Funeral)

2022

1. Blade Runner (Free League)
2. Broken Tales (The World Anvil Publishing)
3. Pendragon 6E (Chaosium)
4. Avatar Legends (Magpie Games)
5. Mothership 1E (Tuesday Knight Games)
6. Rivers of London (Chaosium)
7. Shadow of the Weird Wizard (Schwalb Entertainment)
8. Cy-Borg (Stockholm Kartell)
9. Swords of the Serpentine (Pelgrane Press)
10. Werewolf: The Apocalypse 5e (Renegade Studios)

2021

1. Dune Adventures in the Imperium/Twilight: 2000 (joint) (Modipius/Free League)
2. –
3. The One Ring 2nd Edition (Free League)
4. King Arthur Pendragon 6th Edition (Chaosium)
5. Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition (A5E) (ENP)
6. Rivers of London (Chaosium)
7. Pathfinder for Savage Worlds (Pinnacle Entertainment Group)
8. Brancalonia – The Spaghetti Fantasy RPG (Acheron Books)
9. Werewolf: The Apocalypse 5th Edition (Renegade Studios/Paradox)
10. SLA Industries, 2nd Edition (Nightfall Games)

2020

1. Dune Adventures in the Imperium (Modiphius)
2. Vaesen – Nordic Horror Roleplaying (Free League)
3. Cyberpunk Red (R. Talsorian Games)
4. Fallout (Modiphius)
5. Warhammer: Age of Sigmar (Cubicle 7)
6. Swords of the Serpentine (Pegrane Press)
7. Rivers of London (Chaosium)
8. Stargate (Wyvern Gaming)
9. Fading Suns 4E (Ulisses Spiele)
10. Cortex Prime (Fandom Tabletop)

2019

1. Savage Worlds Adventure Edition (Pinnacle Entertainment Group)
2. Pathfinder 2nd Edition (Paizo Publishing)
3. Lex Arcana (Quality Games)
4. The Expanse (Green Ronin)
5. Eclipse Phase 2nd Edition (Posthuman Studios)
6. Dune Adventures in the Imperium (Modiphius)
7. John Carter of Mars (Modiphius)
8. Changeling: The Lost 2nd Edition (Onyx Path)
9. Things from the Flood (Free League)
10. Judge Dredd & The Worlds of 2000 AD (ENP)

2018

1. Vampire the Masquerade 5th Edition (White Wolf)
2. Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay 4th Edition (Cubicle 7)
3. Kult: Divinity Lost (Helmgast AB)
4. Forbidden Lands: Retro Open-World Survival Fantasy RPG (Free League)
5. RuneQuest: Role-playing in Glorantha (Chaosium)
6. The Witcher Roleplaying Game (R. Talsorian Games)
7. Warhammer 40,000 Wrath & Glory (Ulisses North America)
8. The Expanse (Green Ronin)
9. Legend of the Five Rings 5th Edition (Fantasy Flight Games)
10. Numenera 2: Discovery & Destiny (Monte Cook Games)

2017

1. Trudvang Chronicles (RiotMInds)
2. Tales from the Loop (Free League)
3. Kult: Divinity Lost (Helmgast AB)
4. Star Trek Adventures (Modiphius)
5. Conan Adventures in An Age Undreamed Of (Modiphius)
6. Starfinder (Paizo Publishing)
7. The Witcher Roleplaying Game (R. Talsorian Games)
8. Coriolis – The Third Horizon (Free League)
9. Delta Green Roleplaying Game (Arc Dream Publishing)
10. Astonishing Swordsmen & Sorcerers of Hyperborea 2E (North Wind Adventures)

2016

1. Rifts for Savage Worlds (Pinnacle Entertainment Group)
2. Mutant Crawl Classics (Goodman Games)
3. 7th Sea 2nd Edition (John Wick Presents)
4. Conan Adventures in An Age Undreamed Of (Modiphius)
5. DCC Lankhmar (Goodman Games)
6. RuneQuest 4 (Chaosium)
7. Torg: Eternity (Ulisses Spiele)
8. Blue Rose AGE (Green Ronin)
9. Paranoia (Mongoose Publishing)
10. Delta Green (Arc Dream Publishing)

2015

1. Star Wars: Force & Destiny (Fantasy Flight Games)
2. Deluxe Exalted 3rd Edition (Onyx Path)
3. Unified Rolemaster (Iron Crown Enterprises)
4. Conan Adventures in An Age Undreamed Of (Modiphius)
5. Deluxe Tunnels & Trolls (Flying Bufalo)
6. Barbarians of Lemuria: Mythic Edition (Dungeonland)
7. Feng Shui 2 (Atlas Games)
8. Fantasy AGE (Green Ronin)
9. Paranoia (Mongoose Publishing)
10. Shadow of the Demon Lord (Schwalk Entertainment)

2013

1. 13th Age (Pelgrane Press)
2. Numenera (Monte Cook Games)
3. Star Wars: Edge of the Empire (Fantasy Flight Games)
4. Shadowrun 5th Edition (Catalyst Game Labs)
5. Call of Cthulhu 7th Edition (Chaosium)
6. Firefly (Margaret Weis Productions)
7. Fate Core (Evil Hat Games)
8. Hillfolk (Pelgrane Press)
9. Torchbearer (Burning Wheel Games)
10. –

Note that there is no 2014 entry–at the time, the 2013 poll was a one-off. It was only in 2015 that we did it again, and decided to make it an annual thing. That was also, of course, the year that Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition was released.

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