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2017 Apple Design Award Winners Announced: Severed, Things 3, Mushroom 11, Enlight and More

Wednesday June 7, 2017 11:06 am PDT by Juli Clover

Each year, Apple chooses a selection of exceptional apps and games that are given the company's coveted Apple Design Award to honor design and innovation.

The 2017 design winners include popular titles like Severed, Enlight, Things 3, and Old Man's Journey.

Games:

- Mushroom 11 [Direct Link]
- Splitter Critters [Direct Link]
- Old Man's Journey [Direct Link]
- Severed [Direct Link]
- Blackbox [Direct Link]

Apps:

- Kitchen Stories [Direct Link]
- Airmail 3 [Direct Link]
- Lake [Direct Link]
- Things 3 [Direct Link]
- Elk Currency Converter [Direct Link]
- Enlight [Direct Link]
- Bear [Direct Link]

For more details on the games that were announced as Apple Design Award winners, including reviews, check out our sister site TouchArcade.

2016 Apple Design Award winners included Lara Croft Go, Frame.io, Chameleon Run, Auxy Music Creation, Streaks, Complete Anatomy, INKS, Zova, Ulysses Mobile, and djay Pro.

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MalcolmJID

24 months ago

Very glad to see Things 3 on there. An amazingly beautiful app that works so well.

Rating: 3 Votes

ck2875

24 months ago

All deserving of the awards.

Here's the Apple site explaining why they picked each one and background on the dev teams:

https://developer.apple.com/design/awards/

Rating: 2 Votes

philipmv

24 months ago

Things 3 is a beautiful app and deserving of the award. But it's also the most likely win "Vaporware of the Year" award if they take another 4 years to make a significant upgrade like last time.

Rating: 1 Votes