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As any significant honors show draws close, one notices a clamor for introducing additional classifications to honor unsung work and satisfy the passions of followers with niche passions.

Another commentator made the case for a horror game category. It would be amazing. So would tabletop games, this being a dedicated supporter's campaign. Yet I need to apologize in advance for pushing forward because like all dedicated enthusiasts, I possess a compelling case supporting my request is the most urgent above others. This is the request: We need an award type for logic-based games.

Categorizing Game Types

Classifying creative works is not a science; opinions vary greatly, and inevitably generate discussions and end in fuzzy definitions. It's understandable that film award organizations steer clear of genre categories. Yet it remains an unavoidable compromise in the world of interactive entertainment, which are so diverse they barely qualify as a single art form.

To recognize the complete range of gaming accomplishments to gain proper attention, and to ensure all game types to have a chance for representation, genre categories are essential.

Present Award Structure

Prominent interactive entertainment events offer these classifications covering Action, Adventure-action titles, Role-Playing, Fighting, Simulation and strategy titles, plus athletic and racing experiences. Together, these classifications successfully include a lot of ground, and you can find room for numerous titles.

This doesn't apply to brain-teasing titles. No appropriate category exists to put them. Consider three of this year’s best games, all very different: structural challenges of one title, intense tile-matching in a different title, and the sweetly sociological logic puzzles in another game. Which classification works between these six categories? Nowhere, that’s where.

Acknowledgment Issues

Many instances occur excellent brain-teasers released every year lacking appropriate categories in entertainment awards, except when they manage to fit classification types such as Mobile Game, VR/AR Game, or the extremely competitive small studio competitions.

• A renowned logic title got overlooked in any category during that awards season
• A different innovative game received no nominations during that ceremony
• Popular arranging title was overlooked that year
• Only a few logic titles managed to sneak into independent or mobile categories

Importance of Logic Titles

These are often modest productions, however the design behind logic titles holds tremendous importance. Well-known matching games rank among most engaged experiences globally maintaining this status for over a decade.

The legendary block-stacking game competes with popular creative games claiming status as best-selling game of all time; it also contends for top gaming experience. Brain-teasers form essential building blocks within interactive entertainment, and they are in conversation with diverse game types.

Recommendation and Reasoning

Brain-teasers wouldn't encounter that issue. It would be easy to populate five nominees engaging, different, qualified experiences every year with ease — perhaps, with difficulty, because you’d have to leave so many good games out.

Restating the point, these represent titles without proper classification at major gaming awards. Puzzle game makers function at the demanding boundary of video game design, creating some of the purest expressions of the video game form. Similar to movie stunt professionals, they warrant appreciation. Don't make them wait decades.