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

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.

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Games:

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

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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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Top Rated Comments

118 months ago
Very glad to see Things 3 on there. An amazingly beautiful app that works so well.
Score: 3 Votes (Like | Disagree)
ck2875 Avatar
118 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/
Score: 2 Votes (Like | Disagree)
FloatingBones Avatar
118 months ago
Not one macOS app?
Not one -- three. Airmail, Things, and Bear run on iOS and macOS.
Score: 1 Votes (Like | Disagree)
Polyphonie Avatar
118 months ago
Things and Bear Notes are both well made and well supported apps that deserve the accolades.
Score: 1 Votes (Like | Disagree)
iDento Avatar
118 months ago
Things 3, always in my dock since version 1.
Score: 1 Votes (Like | Disagree)
oneMadRssn Avatar
118 months ago
Not one macOS app?
Score: 1 Votes (Like | Disagree)