Cacowards 2019

The 2019 Cacowards is the sixteenth annual Cacowards feature, released by Doomworld on December 10, 2019. It was written by Andrew Stine (Linguica), Boris Klimeš (dew), Demon of the Well, Major Arlene, Not Jabba, rd, Marisa Lago, and Stephen Browning (Scuba Steve). There were ten runners-up.

Winners

 * Eviternity - Dragonfly et al. -
 * Verdant Citadel - exl -
 * Paradise - Tango -
 * Hell-Forged - Amuscaria -
 * Finely Crafted Fetish Film - Ribbiks -
 * Hocus Pocus Doom - rf` -
 * Shotgun Symphony - Steve Duff -
 * Lost Civilization - Jaska -
 * Remnant - Aurelius -
 * The Wayfarer - Not Jabba -

Runners-up

 * Infraworld - The Hatehammer - StormCatcher.77 -
 * Lunar Catastrophe - Miss Bubbles and Count651 -
 * The Slaughter Spectrum - Bridgeburner56 -
 * Darkest Room - Paul977 -
 * Cyb's Freaky Colonoscopy - Big Ol' Billy et al. -
 * Alienated - Lorenz0 -
 * Doom Zero - Christopher Golden (DASI-I) -
 * Entropy - Nirvana -
 * SIGIL - John Romero - (Official website)
 * Doom 3: Phobos - Team Future - (Official website)

Multiplayer award

 * 32in24-17 - YEDS -
 * NeonDM - Mechanix Union -

Gameplay mod awards

 * Doom 4 Vanilla - Noiser et al. -
 * Lt. Typhoon - Skelegant -
 * NAKU-NARU - Naku Team -

Codeaward

 * Doom Neural Upscale 2X - hidfan et al. -

Mordeth award

 * Sonic Robo Blast 2 - Sonic Team Junior - (Official website)

Machaward

 * Mikoportals - Mikolah -

Spaceship of Theseus

 * Hedon - Zan - (GOG.com/Steam)

Most promising newcomers

 * Aurelius
 * Bridgeburner56
 * Miss Bubbles & Count651
 * elend
 * RustyGold
 * NoReason
 * depr4vity

Creator of the Year

 * Ola Björling (ukiro)

Espi award

 * James Paddock (Jimmy)