List of Games

File generated on 2025-03-31

1902 Méliès

In 1902, Georges Méliès, the Wizard of cinema, filmed "A Trip to the Moon", the first science fiction movie. As his assistant directors, you have to assemble the sets, employ special effects, direct the actors, shoot scenes, splice them, and even hand paint the colour to create fabulous sequences. In 1902 Méliès you will place your assistants pawns in the Méliès studio in...

Worker Placement
Published
2023

Publisher
Looping Games

Designer
Eloi Pujadas

Artist
Pedro Soto

Category
Movies / TV / Radio theme

Weight: 5.3
Rating: 7.1
2 - 4     45 - 60     1     - 2024-05-01
2 Pommes 3 Pains

After retaining only the green base cards, shuffle them and form a face-down deck in the player center. (Add special special cards as you see fit). The first player draws and turns over a card on the table to form a first pile around the deck (other players will do the players do the same until they have 3 piles in total). Each player, in turn, must announce after observation (5 sec maximum) the number of Apples and then the...

Pattern Recognition,Race,Real-Time
Published
2024

Publisher
Prétexte SAS

Designer
Clément Gustave

Artist
Clara Louise Martin

Category
Action / Dexterity
Card Game
Weight: 2.0
Rating: 6.9
2 - 6     15     3     - 2025-01-26
7 Wonders

You are the leader of one of the 7 great cities of the Ancient World. Gather resources, develop commercial routes, and affirm your military supremacy. Build your city and erect an architectural wonder which will transcend future times. 7 Wonders lasts three ages. In each age, players receive seven cards from a particular deck, choose one of those cards, then pass the remainder to an adjacent player. Players reveal their cards...

Closed Drafting,Hand Management,Neighbor Scope,Set Collection
Published
2010

Publisher
Repos Production

Designer
Antoine Bauza

Artist
Dimitri Chappuis

Category
Ancient
Card Game
Weight: 4.6
Rating: 7.8
2 - 7     30     9     - 2024-04-01
7 Wonders Duel

In many ways 7 Wonders Duel resembles its parent game 7 Wonders. Over three ages, players acquire cards that provide resources or advance their military or scientific development in order to develop a civilization and complete wonders. What's different about 7 Wonders Duel is that, as the title suggests, the game is solely for two players. Players do not draft cards simultaneously from decks of cards, but from a display of face-down...

End Game Bonuses,Income,Layering,Market
Published
2015

Publisher
Repos Production

Designer
Antoine Bauza

Artist
Miguel Coimbra

Category
Ancient
Card Game
Weight: 4.5
Rating: 8.0
2 - 2     30     41     - 2024-11-03
7 Wonders: Architects

In 7 Wonders: Architects, 2-7 players race to become a leader of the ancient world by completing an architectural wonder that will last through the ages. Players receive an unconstructed wonder at the beginning of the game and must collect resources to build their society, develop military might to navigate conflicts, oversee resource management, research science improvements, and collect civil victory points as they race to leave...

Open Drafting,Set Collection,Variable Player Powers
Published
2021

Publisher
Repos Production

Designer
Antoine Bauza

Artist
Etienne Hebinger

Category
Ancient

Weight: 2.7
Rating: 7.5
2 - 7     25     14     - 2024-08-17
Abyss

The Abyss power is once again vacant, so the time has come to get your hands on the throne and its privileges. Use all of your cunning to win or buy votes in the Council. Recruit the most influential Lords and abuse their powers to take control of the most strategic territories. Finally, impose yourself as the only one able to rule the Abyssal people! Abyss is a game of development, combination and collection in which players try to...

Auction/Bidding,Hand Management,Memory,Open Drafting
Published
2014

Publisher
Bombyx

Designer
Bruno Cathala

Artist
Xavier Collette

Category
Card Game
Fantasy
Weight: 4.6
Rating: 7.7
2 - 4     30 - 60     14     - 2025-02-02
Animals on Board

The accessible and clever game Animals on Board features a two-tiered cardboard ark that will hold each player's animal tiles. At the start of the game, each player draws three animal tiles, chooses one of these tiles, and places it on a bracket of his ark without showing it to the other players. The leftover animals that players initially drew begin forming what will become a single animal collective in the center of the table. The...

I Cut, You Choose,Set Collection
Published
2016

Publisher
999 Games

Designer
Wolfgang Sentker

Artist
Alexander Jung

Category
Animals

Weight: 3.0
Rating: 6.8
2 - 4     15 - 30     37     - 2024-03-31
ARGH

"Revolt! Yes, my dear fellow animals, revolt against the humans who exploit us! I am a lab rat who broke free, and I will have my vengeance over those humans! Join me and together we shall blow up this place, the symbol of our oppression!" —Ratchet, Leader of Animals Revolt aGainst Humans, a.k.a. ARGH In ARGH, a minimalist game with bluff and deduction, your mission is to find allies and the components to build a bomb....

Push Your Luck,Set Collection,Take That
Published
2017

Publisher
Blue Cocker Games

Designer
Romaric Galonnier

Artist
Anne Heidsieck

Category
Animals
Bluffing
Weight: 2.2
Rating: 6.9
2 - 4     5 - 15     33     - 2024-10-26
Arkham Horror: The Card Game

Something evil stirs in Arkham, and only you can stop it. Blurring the traditional lines between role-playing and card game experiences, Arkham Horror: The Card Game is a Living Card Game of Lovecraftian mystery, monsters, and madness! In the game, you and your friend (or up to three friends with two Core Sets) become characters within the quiet New England town of Arkham. You have your talents, sure, but you also have your flaws....

Action Points,Area Movement,Communication Limits,Cooperative Game
Published
2016

Publisher
Fantasy Flight Games

Designer
Nate French

Artist
Christopher Hosch

Category
Adventure
Card Game
Weight: 7.1
Rating: 8.1
1 - 2     60 - 120     11     - 2024-10-31
Azul

Introduced by the Moors, azulejos (originally white and blue ceramic tiles) were fully embraced by the Portuguese when their king Manuel I, on a visit to the Alhambra palace in Southern Spain, was mesmerized by the stunning beauty of the Moorish decorative tiles. The king, awestruck by the interior beauty of the Alhambra, immediately ordered that his own palace in Portugal be decorated with similar wall tiles. As a tile-laying artist, you have...

End Game Bonuses,Open Drafting,Pattern Building,Set Collection
Published
2017

Publisher
Next Move Games

Designer
Michael Kiesling

Artist
Philippe Guérin

Category
Abstract Strategy
Puzzle
Weight: 3.5
Rating: 7.4
2 - 4     30 - 45     45     - 2025-02-02
Bangkok

In Bangkok, players take the role of dealers building their floating market. It's up to you to negociate in the port to choose the most advantageous barges and goods and place them thoughtfully in your market. The player with the most profitable business wins! How to play: Deal 3 "barge" cards to each player Place 3 rows of 3 "barge" cards in the center, called Central Market. Deal a secret...

Set Collection
Published
2022

Publisher
Laboludic

Designer
David Paput

Artist
Maud Chalmel

Category
Card Game
City Building
Weight: 3.3
Rating: 7.3
1 - 4     30     9     - 2022-08-03
Beer & Bread

Beer & Bread is a multi-use card game for two players. Its clever structure of alternating rounds puts a fascinating twist on player interaction, card drafting, and resource management. Founded on the fruitful lands of an erstwhile monastery, two villages have held up the dual tradition of brewing beer and baking bread. While sharing fields and resources, they still find pride in their friendly rivalry of besting each...

Closed Drafting,Highest-Lowest Scoring,Multi-Use Cards
Published
2022

Publisher
Deep Print Games

Designer
Scott Almes

Artist
Michael Menzel

Category
Card Game
Farming
Weight: 4.7
Rating: 7.7
2 - 2     30 - 45     3     - 2024-07-14
Brass: Birmingham

Brass: Birmingham is an economic strategy game sequel to Martin Wallace' 2007 masterpiece, Brass. Brass: Birmingham tells the story of competing entrepreneurs in Birmingham during the industrial revolution, between the years of 1770-1870. It offers a very different story arc and experience from its predecessor. As in its predecessor, you must develop, build, and establish your industries and network, in an effort to exploit low or...

Hand Management,Income,Loans,Market
Published
2018

Publisher
Roxley

Designer
Gavan Brown

Artist
Gavan Brown

Category
Age of Reason
Economic
Weight: 7.8
Rating: 8.3
2 - 4     60 - 120     20     - 2023-05-28
Bunny Kingdom

Peace has come at last to the great Bunny Kingdom! Lead your clan of rabbits to glory by gathering resources and building new cities across the land! Draft cards and pick the right ones to position your warrens on the 100 squares of the board, provide resources to your colonies, build new cities to increase your influence, and plan your strategy to score big at the end of the game. Settle in lakesides or fields to collect water and...

Area Majority / Influence,Closed Drafting,End Game Bonuses
Published
2017

Publisher
IELLO

Designer
Richard Garfield

Artist
Paul Mafayon

Category
Animals
Medieval
Weight: 4.6
Rating: 7.7
2 - 4     40 - 60     26     - 2025-03-09
Camel Up: The Card Game

Camel Up The Card Game brings a new way to enjoy the camel race with a racing deck! While keeping the same excitement as the board game, the card game experience gives the players a little bit more insight and control on the race. Don't forget about the crazy camel! One of them has been added and adapted exclusively in this new edition to make the unpredictable even more unpredictable! —description from the back of the...

Betting and Bluffing,Hand Management
Published
2023

Publisher
Pretzel Games

Designer
Steffen Bogen

Artist
Chris Quilliams

Category
Animals
Arabian
Weight: 3.4
Rating: 7.4
2 - 6     30 - 45     2     - 2024-01-21
Campy Creatures

Players are mad scientists in need of precious mortals for future experiments. Rather than getting your hands dirty, your army of campy creatures awaits to do your bidding. Capture the most valuable mortals over the course of three nights to win. But be warned — the mortals won't go down without a fight. Campy Creatures is a ghoulish game of bluffing, deduction, and set collection for 2-5 players. Players begin each round with...

Auction/Bidding,Hand Management,Set Collection
Published
2017

Publisher
Albi

Designer
Mattox Shuler

Artist
Josh Emrich

Category
Bluffing
Card Game
Weight: 3.1
Rating: 7.5
2 - 5     20 - 30     6     - 2024-04-20
Cannon Buster

The fight for the gold-filled treasure island is about to begin! Ships will fire cannons at each other while pirates use their special abilities to gain as much gold as possible. The player who controls the most pirates and has gathered the most gold by the end of the sixth round will be named the new master of Treasure island. Cannon Buster is based on Koryŏ, but developed as a family game with more player interaction. In...

Hand Management,Push Your Luck,Set Collection
Published
2017

Publisher
Happy Baobab

Designer
Gary Kim

Artist
Ottol

Category
Card Game
Dice
Weight: 3.8
Rating: 7.4
2 - 4     30     16     - 2023-05-21
Canvas

In Canvas, you play as a painter competing in an art competition. Players will collect art cards, layering 3 of them together to create their own unique Painting. Each card contains a piece of artwork as well as a set of icons used during scoring. Icons will be revealed or hidden based on the way players choose to layer the cards making for an exciting puzzle. Paintings are scored based on a set of Scoring cards which will change each game....

Contracts,Hand Management,Increase Value of Unchosen Resources
Published
2021

Publisher
Road To Infamy Games (R2i Games)

Designer
Jeff Chin

Artist
Luan Huynh

Category
Abstract Strategy
Card Game
Weight: 3.4
Rating: 7.6
1 - 5     30     15     - 2024-06-09
Carcassonne

Carcassonne is a tile-placement game in which the players draw and place a tile with a piece of southern French landscape on it. The tile might feature a city, a road, a cloister, grassland or some combination thereof, and it must be placed adjacent to tiles that have already been played, in such a way that cities are connected to cities, roads to roads, etcetera. Having placed a tile, the player can then decide to place one of their meeples...

Area Majority / Influence,Enclosure,Map Addition,Pattern Building
Published
2000

Publisher
Hans im Glück

Designer
Klaus-Jürgen Wrede

Artist
Marcel Gröber

Category
Medieval
Territory Building
Weight: 3.8
Rating: 7.2
2 - 5     30 - 45     47     - 2024-06-15
Cargo Noir

In Serge Laget's Cargo Noir – his fourth standalone box game from Days of Wonder – players represent "families" that traffic in smuggled goods in a 1950s noir setting. Each turn, you'll set sail to various ports where cargo is known to get "lost" for the right price – Hong Kong, Bombay, Rotterdam, New York and more – and you'll make an offer for the goods on display. If another family then offers...

Auction/Bidding,Set Collection,Worker Placement
Published
2011

Publisher
Days of Wonder

Designer
Serge Laget

Artist
Miguel Coimbra

Category
Economic

Weight: 4.2
Rating: 6.7
2 - 5     30 - 90     12     - 2024-05-21
Carpe Diem

The players slip into the role of rich patricians in ancient Rome. Everyone is trying to build a lucrative city district to score as many prestige points as possible. The novel way to get to the individual buildings of a district combined with a large variety of score cards make for an unusual game with a large number of strategies. From the successful designer, Stefan Feld.

Area Movement,Contracts,End Game Bonuses,Open Drafting
Published
2018

Publisher
alea

Designer
Stefan Feld

Artist
Lalanda Hruschka

Category
Ancient

Weight: 5.0
Rating: 7.8
2 - 4     45 - 75     32     - 2024-06-09
Cartagena 2. The Pirate's Nest

In the first Cartagena game, the players, as pirates, attempted to flee prison by making their way through a tunnel to a boat waiting for them at the end of the tunnel. But simply reaching the boat does not mean they have escaped as re-capture is always possible, perhaps, even likely. They will not be really safe until they reach their Pirate's Nest on Tortuga. Each player leads a group of pirates to Pirate's Nest on Tortuga.The path leads...

Action Points,Hand Management,Modular Board,Race
Published
2006

Publisher
Corfix

Designer
Leo Colovini

Artist
Christoph Clasen

Category
Nautical
Pirates
Weight: 3.1
Rating: 5.7
2 - 5     45     8     - 2024-01-28
Castle

Bruno Faidutti revisits the medieval setting of Ohne Furcht und Adel with the card game Castle. Players are given a set of square cards which are to be played onto the table, which has a cardboard castle battlement layout. Cards are played into one of four regions: in the courtyard, on the battlements, on the towers, or outside the castle. And when played, the cards will usually allow you to take some sort of special action, which is unique to...

Hand Management,Tile Placement
Published
2000

Publisher
Descartes Editeur

Designer
Bruno Faidutti

Artist
Emmanuel Roudier

Category
Card Game
Medieval
Weight: 3.8
Rating: 6.1
2 - 5     30     1     - 2023-10-14
Castle Combo

A quick and nifty card game by the publisher of Faraway. Each player will spend coins to draft 9 cards from 2 open markets on the table (the lower and upper city), creating along the game a 3x3 square of people interacting with each other to trigger instant effects and end-of-game bonuses. Castle Combo is a tableau-building game that combines simplicity with deep, engaging gameplay, offering highly satisfying...

End Game Bonuses,Multi-Use Cards,Open Drafting,Set Collection
Published
2024

Publisher
Catch Up Games

Designer
Grégory Grard

Artist
Stéphane Escapa

Category
Card Game
Medieval
Weight: 3.4
Rating: 7.8
2 - 5     10 - 25     13     - 2025-03-19
The Castles of Burgundy

The Castles of Burgundy is set in the Burgundy region of High Medieval France. Each player takes on the role of an aristocrat, originally controlling a small princedom. While playing, they aim to build settlements and powerful castles, practice trade along the river, exploit silver mines, and use the knowledge of travelers. The game is about players taking settlement tiles from the game board and placing them into their princedom,...

Dice Rolling,End Game Bonuses,Grid Coverage,Hexagon Grid
Published
2019

Publisher
alea

Designer
Stefan Feld

Artist
Antje Stephan

Category
Dice
Medieval
Weight: 5.8
Rating: 8.2
1 - 4     70 - 120     25     - 2025-01-19
CATAN

In CATAN (formerly The Settlers of Catan), players try to be the dominant force on the island of Catan by building settlements, cities, and roads. On each turn dice are rolled to determine what resources the island produces. Players build by spending resources (sheep, wheat, wood, brick and ore) that are depicted by these resource cards; each land type, with the exception of the unproductive desert, produces a specific resource: hills produce...

Chaining,Dice Rolling,Hexagon Grid,Income
Published
1995

Publisher
KOSMOS

Designer
Klaus Teuber

Artist
Volkan Baga

Category
Economic
Negotiation
Weight: 4.6
Rating: 7.5
3 - 4     60 - 120     9     - 2023-05-29
Chess

Chess is a two-player, abstract strategy board game that represents medieval warfare on an 8x8 board with alternating light and dark squares. Opposing pieces, traditionally designated White and Black, are initially lined up on either side. Each type of piece has a unique form of movement and capturing occurs when a piece, via its movement, occupies the square of an opposing piece. Players take turns moving one of their pieces in an attempt to...

Grid Movement,Once-Per-Game Abilities,Pattern Movement,Square Grid
Published
1475

Publisher
(Public Domain)

Designer
(Uncredited)

Artist
(Uncredited)

Category
Abstract Strategy

Weight: 7.3
Rating: 7.1
2 - 2     0     27     - 2024-10-26
Citadels

In Citadels, players take on new roles each round to represent characters they hire in order to help them acquire gold and erect buildings. The game ends at the close of a round in which a player erects his/her eighth building. Players then tally their points, and the player with the highest score wins. Players start with a number of building cards in their hand; buildings come in five colors, with the purple buildings typically...

Action Drafting,Closed Drafting,Income,Lose a Turn
Published
2000

Publisher
Hans im Glück

Designer
Bruno Faidutti

Artist
Cyrille Daujean

Category
Bluffing
Card Game
Weight: 4.1
Rating: 7.0
2 - 8     20 - 60     2     - 2024-09-07
Clash of Decks: Starter Kit

You are a surviving Sorcerer-Lord from the Erret Archipelago. A territory where hundreds of islands are connected together by huge bridges. Bridges once conferred the Archipelago greatness and prosperity, and permitted flourishing trade between its islands. The Archipelago's wealth, which would only transit through these bridges, offered every resident a life of comfort and carefreeness. But today, overpopulation, natural resources depletion,...

Card Play Conflict Resolution,Hand Management,Open Drafting
Published
2020

Publisher
Grammes Edition

Designer
Léandre Proust

Artist
Freepik

Category
Card Game
Fantasy
Weight: 4.0
Rating: 6.7
1 - 2     15 - 30     3     - 2023-01-07
Clockworker

Clockworker is a worker-placement game in which the workers have characteristic movements. More specifically, robots operate the factory and gain resources from the abandoned earth. A factory has multiple worker spaces, and many robots can go to work in the same batch, but it takes time to gain resources. As a result, you need to manage the timing of how the robots return so that you can develop your technology. In the end, the player...

Worker Placement
Published
2020

Publisher
Hobby Japan

Designer
Rikkati

Artist
モリ (mor!)

Category
Science Fiction

Weight: 4.3
Rating: 7.5
2 - 4     45 - 60     8     - 2023-08-19
Conspiracy: Abyss Universe

Conspiracy: Abyss Universe is a card game set in the world of Abyss. The card deck in the game consists of cards in five colors, with twelve of each color and cards numbered 0–6. Each player in the game drafts cards and builds a reverse pyramid, starting with a row of five cards, then placing four cards in a row below that, then three under that, etc. On a turn, you can draw 1–3 cards from the deck, choose one of...

Open Drafting,Pattern Building,Set Collection,Tile Placement
Published
2019

Publisher
Bombyx

Designer
Bruno Cathala

Artist
Pascal Quidault

Category
Card Game
Fantasy
Weight: 3.6
Rating: 7.6
2 - 4     30     157     - 2025-03-18
Creature Comforts

Life in the forest is a lot of fun, at least while the sun is shining and the leaves are on the trees. Those days don’t last forever though, and long before the weather starts to change, the wise animals start to harvest for the long cold winter ahead. You will spend many months tucked into your burrow and you want to make it as cozy as possible. A nice bowl of soup, a comfortable rocking chair, and some toys and games will go a long way...

Dice Rolling,Events,Open Drafting,Set Collection
Published
2022

Publisher
Kids Table BG

Designer
Roberta Taylor

Artist
Shawna J.C. Tenney

Category
Animals

Weight: 4.7
Rating: 7.7
1 - 5     45     3     - 2023-12-31
Dale of Merchants

It is an age of great discoveries. New and wonderful items find their ways into the hands of the greatest merchants. And if there ever is a place those traders love, it is the town of Dale. There’s an extraordinary guild in the Dale founded by the greatest merchants. The tricky part is getting the membership since one must win the annual trading competition to be invited to the guild. Notable animalfolk merchants from...

Auction: Dutch,Deck, Bag, and Pool Building,Dice Rolling
Published
2015

Publisher
Snowdale Design

Designer
Sami Laakso

Artist
Sami Laakso

Category
Animals
Card Game
Weight: 4.2
Rating: 7.6
2 - 4     30     9     - 2024-05-12
Darwin's Journey

When all you can identify in the horizon for many long days is the line that detaches the sea from the sky, the glimpse of a distant shore appearing before you will make you shiver at the understanding that the adventure is about to begin. You find yourself astonished, landing on the shore that will be the origin of an extensive exploration through the Galapagos, a magic place of inconceivable beauty and endless biodiversity. There,...

Contracts,Ownership,Point to Point Movement,Set Collection
Published
2023

Publisher
ThunderGryph Games

Designer
Simone Luciani

Artist
Paolo Voto

Category
Exploration
Travel
Weight: 7.8
Rating: 8.1
1 - 4     60 - 120     2     - 2024-06-02
Diamoniak

Be the first person to build a castle in one's own color. All the cards are placed face down in the center of the table. In each turn the players must always take at least one card from the top of this draw pile. If a player picks up a 'castle' card, she places it in front of her, marking the beginning of a castle in the color of that particular card. If another player is already building a castle in that color, the player...

Push Your Luck,Set Collection
Published
2009

Publisher
Djeco

Designer
Grégory Kirszbaum

Artist
Alex Sanders

Category
Card Game
Children's Game
Weight: 2.0
Rating: 6.2
2 - 4     15     16     - 2024-02-23
Dinosaur Island

In Dinosaur Island, players will have to collect DNA, research the DNA sequences of extinct dinosaur species, and then combine the ancient DNA in the correct sequence to bring these prehistoric creatures back to life. Dino cooking! All players will compete to build the most thrilling park each season, and then work to attract (and keep alive!) the most visitors each season that the park opens. Do you go big and create a pack of...

Action Points,Dice Rolling,Income,Set Collection
Published
2017

Publisher
Pandasaurus Games

Designer
Jonathan Gilmour-Long

Artist
Kwanchai Moriya

Category
Animals
Economic
Weight: 6.1
Rating: 7.8
1 - 4     90 - 120     12     - 2025-03-01
Disney Lorcana

GAME SYSTEM This entry is to allow for discussion/rating of the game system as a whole. It is not for a specific product or release. Versions will appear on the individual item pages. Disney Lorcana is a trading card game (TCG) that features Disney characters in both original and reimagined art styles that live in an all-new world with unique and magical...

Deck Construction,Hand Management,Income,Multi-Use Cards
Published
2023

Publisher
Ravensburger

Designer
David Iezzi

Artist
Cory Godbey

Category
Card Game
Collectible Components
Weight: 4.2
Rating: 7.3
2 - 6     0     17     - 2025-01-15
Disney Villainous: The Worst Takes it All

In Villainous, each player takes control of one of six Disney characters, each one a villain in a different Disney movie. Each player has their own villain deck, fate deck, player board, and 3D character. On a turn, the active player moves their character to a different location on their player board, takes one or more of the actions visible on that space (often by playing cards from their hand), then refills their hand to four cards....

Hand Management,Take That,Variable Player Powers
Published
2018

Publisher
Ravensburger

Designer
Aaron Donogh

Artist
N/A

Category
Card Game
Fantasy
Weight: 5.0
Rating: 7.5
2 - 6     45 - 120     11     - 2024-04-28
District Noir

District Noir — first released as 聖杯サクセション (Throne and Grail) — is a two-player game with bluffing and set collection. To set-up the game, remove three face-down cards from the deck of 45 cards from the game, then lay out two cards face up to start a line. Each round, each player receives five...

Hand Management,Open Drafting,Push Your Luck,Set Collection
Published
2016

Publisher
Spiral Éditions

Designer
Nobutake Dogen

Artist
Przemysław Fornal

Category
Card Game

Weight: 2.6
Rating: 6.5
2 - 2     10 - 20     69     - 2025-03-29
Dixit

Each turn in Dixit, one player is the storyteller, chooses one of the six cards in their hand, then makes up a sentence based on that card's image and says it out loud without showing the card to the other players. Each other player then selects the card in their hand that best matches the sentence and gives the selected card to the storyteller, without showing it to anyone else. The storyteller shuffles their card with all of the...

Race,Storytelling,Targeted Clues,Voting
Published
2008

Publisher
Libellud

Designer
Jean-Louis Roubira

Artist
Marie Cardouat

Category
Card Game
Humor
Weight: 2.4
Rating: 7.1
3 - 8     30     3     - 2025-02-09
Dixit: Disney Edition

Each turn in Dixit, one player is the storyteller, chooses one of the six cards in their hand, then makes up a sentence based on that card's image and says it out loud without showing the card to the other players. Each other player then selects the card in their hand that best matches the sentence and gives the selected card to the storyteller, without showing it to anyone else. The storyteller shuffles their card with all of the...

Storytelling,Targeted Clues,Voting
Published
2023

Publisher
Libellud

Designer
Jean-Louis Roubira

Artist
Maëva da Silva

Category
Card Game
Party Game
Weight: 2.2
Rating: 7.2
3 - 6     30     9     - 2024-10-24
DONUTS

DONUTS, which was first playable as INSERT, is an abstract strategy game for two players in which you attempt align five rings of your color to win. To set up, arrange the four 3x3 tiles at random into a 6x6 grid. Each square of the grid has a vertical, horizontal, or diagonal line on it. The first player places one of their rings on any unoccupied space, and the line in that space indicates the direction in which the opponent must...

Enclosure,Square Grid,Tile Placement
Published
2023

Publisher
Funforge

Designer
Bruno Cathala

Artist
Philippe Nouhra

Category
Abstract Strategy

Weight: 2.9
Rating: 7.3
2 - 2     10 - 15     33     - 2025-02-18
Dracula

From the publisher: Count Dracula has left his home in Transylvania to travel by ship to London, where he plans to hunt for innocent victims. The famous Dr. van Helsing got wind of Dracula's plans and immediately caught the next carriage to London. It is a race against time! Van Helsing tries to find and destroy all of the vampire's coffins, while the count tries to find five victims. Will the horror end tonight or will the count's...

Hand Management,Memory,Secret Unit Deployment
Published
2003

Publisher
KOSMOS

Designer
Michael Rieneck

Artist
Bernd Wagenfeld

Category
Horror
Novel-based
Weight: 3.8
Rating: 5.6
2 - 2     30     2     - 2023-01-01
DreamQuest

DreamQuest is a co-operative adventure game for two players — ideally one adult and one child, who take on the roles of Protector and Dreamer. Together you are trying to complete a quest before the Dreamer awakens, choosing the path to follow, making decisions, fighting monsters, rolling dice, and trying to reach the end of the adventure in time. If the Dreamer rises before the end of the quest, you must start the adventure...

Cooperative Game,Role Playing,Storytelling
Published
2021

Publisher
Elixeer

Designer
Nicolas Jarry

Artist
Vincent Powell

Category
Adventure
Book
Weight: 0.0
Rating: 6.6
2 - 2     30     0     - N/A
Escape: The Curse of the Temple

Escape: The Curse of the Temple is a cooperative game in which players must escape (yes...) from a temple (yes...) which is cursed (yes...) before the temple collapses and kills one or more explorers, thereby causing everyone to lose. The initial game board consists of a row of three square tiles, each showing a combination of two symbols, say, two green adventurers or one green adventurer and one blue key in one corner of the tile....

Cooperative Game,Dice Rolling,Elapsed Real Time Ending,Grid Movement
Published
2012

Publisher
Queen Games

Designer
Kristian Amundsen Østby

Artist
Oliver Schlemmer

Category
Action / Dexterity
Adventure
Weight: 3.0
Rating: 6.7
1 - 5     10     23     - 2025-03-15
Everdell

Within the charming valley of Everdell, beneath the boughs of towering trees, among meandering streams and mossy hollows, a civilization of forest critters is thriving and expanding. From Everfrost to Bellsong, many a year have come and gone, but the time has come for new territories to be settled and new cities established. You will be the leader of a group of critters intent on just such a task. There are buildings to construct, lively...

Contracts,End Game Bonuses,Hand Management,Income
Published
2018

Publisher
Starling Games (II)

Designer
James A. Wilson

Artist
Andrew Bosley

Category
Animals
Card Game
Weight: 5.7
Rating: 8.0
1 - 4     40 - 80     41     - 2024-11-11
Evolution

In Evolution, players adapt their species in a dynamic ecosystem where food is scarce and predators lurk. Traits like Hard Shell and Horns will protect your species from Carnivores, while a Long Neck will help them get food that others cannot reach. With over 4,000 ways to evolve your species, every game becomes a different adventure. Evolution packs a surprising amount of variety for a game with simple rules. The variety comes from...

Action Points,Hand Management,Push Your Luck,Simulation
Published
2014

Publisher
NorthStar Game Studio

Designer
Dominic Crapuchettes

Artist
JJ Ariosa

Category
Animals
Card Game
Weight: 4.8
Rating: 8.0
2 - 6     60     14     - 2022-02-15
Fairy Tale Inn

The Fantasy Fair is about to begin, and storybook characters from all over the realm are coming to town for the show. Everyone knows there's only one place the visitors all want to stay: The Fairy Tale Inn! It's everyone's favorite home away from home, and like always, the place is going to be fully booked. Each of the Inn's two owners compete to be the one who takes the best care of the guests. They take turns ushering guests into...

Chaining,Enclosure,Square Grid,Victory Points as a Resource
Published
2021

Publisher
CMON Global Limited

Designer
Remo Conzadori

Artist
Davide Tosello

Category
Abstract Strategy

Weight: 2.7
Rating: 7.5
2 - 2     15 - 20     18     - 2025-02-21
Faraway

Welcome to Alula, a mysterious continent with ever-changing geography, shaped after the rhythm of the seasons. Beyond the Sea of Mists lies the mysterious continent of Alula. Roam across the land in search of its secrets, meet its inhabitants and list its wonders in order to gain more fame than your opponents. Throughout a game of Faraway, you will play a row of 8 cards in front of you, from left to right. These cards represent the...

Contracts,Open Drafting,Set Collection,Simultaneous Action Selection
Published
2023

Publisher
Catch Up Games

Designer
Johannes Goupy

Artist
Maxime Morin

Category
Adventure
Card Game
Weight: 3.8
Rating: 7.8
2 - 6     15 - 30     150     - 2025-03-28
Farm Club

Farm Club is an optimisation game with simple rules but requiring crucial decisions to be made. On his turn, each player chooses from the available lots (animal + objective) the one combination that best serves their strategy: should they take a sheep or a duck? Where should they place it on his farm? With only 9 rounds of play, Farm Club is fast-paced and constantly requires players to use their judgement : each animal,...

Pattern Building,Set Collection
Published
2022

Publisher
BLAM !

Designer
Alexandros Kapidakis

Artist
Jeanne Landart

Category
Animals
Children's Game
Weight: 3.5
Rating: 7.1
2 - 5     20     72     - 2025-02-08
The Fellowship of the Ring: Trick-Taking Game

The Fellowship of the Ring: Trick-Taking Game is a co-operative card game that plays out over eighteen chapters that lead players through the events of the novel The Fellowship of the Ring. The chapters can be played in any order, but ideally you play them in sequence. In each chapter, each player takes a different character role — Frodo, Gandalf, Sam, Pippin, Farmer Maggot, etc. — and each character has a condition that...

Communication Limits,Cooperative Game
Published
2024

Publisher
Office Dog

Designer
Bryan Bornmueller

Artist
Elaine Ryan

Category
Adventure
Card Game
Weight: 4.1
Rating: 8.0
1 - 4     20     9     - 2025-03-28
Final Girl

Playing on a famous horror movie trope, Final Girl is a solitaire-only game that puts the player in the shoes of a female protagonist who must kill the slasher if she wants to survive. The Core Box, when combined with one of our Feature Film Boxes, has everything you need to play the game. Each Feature Film Box features a unique Killer and and iconic Location, and the more Feature Films you have, the more killer/location combinations...

Dice Rolling,Hand Management,Pick-up and Deliver
Published
2021

Publisher
Van Ryder Games

Designer
Evan Derrick

Artist
Tyler Johnson

Category
Card Game
Horror
Weight: 5.4
Rating: 8.1
1 - 1     20 - 60     7     - 2024-12-15
Finspan

You are a marine researcher seeking to find and observe an array of aquatic life in the colorful Sunlight Zone, ghostly Twilight Zone, and pitch-black Midnight Zone of the world's seas and oceans. In Finspan, the fish you discover over four weeks will generate a series of benefits as you dive deeper into the ocean. Each dive site specializes in a key aspect of expanding your research: Grow your collection of fish. ...

End Game Bonuses,Hand Management,Once-Per-Game Abilities
Published
2025

Publisher
Stonemaier Games

Designer
David Gordon (I)

Artist
Ana Maria Martinez Jaramillo

Category
Animals
Card Game
Weight: 4.7
Rating: 7.9
1 - 5     45 - 60     3     - 2025-03-30
Fish 'n' Chips

Fish 'n' Chips is a dexterity game for two or more players, with the players being divided onto Team Pelican or Team Seagull. Your goal is to grab available fish and/or control the three areas of the shore by having the most power in them. To do both of these things, you'll take turns throwing chips for your team onto the playing area. But be careful, because any chip that is "under" another chip is no longer worth anything.

Area Majority / Influence,Team-Based Game
Published
2021

Publisher
Studio H

Designer
Christophe Coat

Artist
Pierô

Category
Action / Dexterity
Animals
Weight: 2.0
Rating: 7.2
2 - 8     15 - 20     24     - 2025-02-25
Flyin' Goblin

Attack! Catapult your goblin soldiers, and plunder the riches of the castle! Gold and diamonds reward the best shots, but each room is full of surprises...not all of which are pleasant! To win, you will have to fully build you totem first OR accumulate the necessary amount of diamonds! In a round, you will perform the following actions in sequence: - Everyone catapults their goblins Then, each players takes turn...

Real-Time,Set Collection,Worker Placement, Different Worker Types
Published
2020

Publisher
IELLO

Designer
Corentin Lebrat

Artist
Tomasz Larek

Category
Action / Dexterity

Weight: 2.5
Rating: 7.4
2 - 4     30     26     - 2025-02-25
Get Bit!

"You don't have to be faster than the shark, just faster than your friends!" Get Bit! is a card game where players are competing to stay alive as the others are being eaten by the shark. The order of the swimmers is determined by simultaneously playing cards face-down then revealing the values. The number on each player's card determines position in line (higher numbers in front, lower numbers in back), however ties...

Hand Management,Player Elimination,Race,Relative Movement
Published
2007

Publisher
Robot Martini, Inc.

Designer
Dave Chalker

Artist
Xavier Collette

Category
Animals
Bluffing
Weight: 2.2
Rating: 6.6
2 - 7     10 - 20     6     - 2025-02-09
Ghost Blitz

Balduin, the house ghost, found an old camera in the castle cellar. Immediately he photographed everything that he loves to make disappear when he is haunting  – including himself, of course. Unfortunately, the enchanted camera takes many photos in the wrong colors. Sometimes the green bottle is white, at other times it's blue. Looking at the photos, Balduin doesn't really remember any more what he wanted to make disappear next....

Pattern Recognition,Speed Matching
Published
2010

Publisher
Zoch Verlag

Designer
Jacques Zeimet

Artist
Doris Matthäus

Category
Action / Dexterity
Card Game
Weight: 2.3
Rating: 6.9
2 - 8     20     16     - 2025-03-30
Ghost Fightin' Treasure Hunters

In a dark and dreary house, every sound sends a cold chill through your bones. A door opens – is someone there? You hear whispers, but no one answers when you call. Your eyes and ears may deceive you, but the hair on your neck tells you what you already know: There are ghosts here — and not just one for these spirits are legion. In Ghost Fightin' Treasure Hunters, a.k.a. Geister, Geister, Schatzsuchmeister!, four intrepid...

Cooperative Game,Dice Rolling,Pick-up and Deliver
Published
2013

Publisher
Mattel, Inc.

Designer
Brian Yu

Artist
Pierô

Category
Adventure
Children's Game
Weight: 3.3
Rating: 7.6
2 - 4     30     15     - 2024-03-03
Gold River

In Gold River, an updated version of Boomtown and La Fièvre de l'Or, players want to take home as much money as possible from the mines that surround them. On a turn, multiple items — mines, dynamite, town characters, and more — will be available for auction. Players keep bidding until all but one player passes; that player pays their bid to the player on their right, who keeps half the money (rounded up), then...

Auction/Bidding,Dice Rolling,Set Collection
Published
2020

Publisher
Korea Boardgames

Designer
Bruno Cathala

Artist
Jonathan Aucomte

Category
American West

Weight: 3.7
Rating: 7.4
2 - 5     35     8     - 2024-04-19
Grand Austria Hotel

In the thick of the Viennese modern age, exquisite cafés are competing for customers. Inspiring artists, important politicians, and tourists from all over the world are populating Vienna and in need of a hotel room. This is your opportunity to turn your little café into a world famous hotel. Hire staff, fulfill the wishes of your guests, and gain the emperor's favor. Only then will your café become the Grand Austria...

Action Drafting,Contracts,Dice Rolling,End Game Bonuses
Published
2015

Publisher
Lookout Games

Designer
Virginio Gigli

Artist
Klemens Franz

Category
Economic

Weight: 6.4
Rating: 8.0
2 - 4     60 - 120     30     - 2024-10-06
Great Western Trail

America in the 19th century: You are a rancher and repeatedly herd your cattle from Texas to Kansas City, where you send them off by train. This earns you money and victory points. Needless to say, each time you arrive in Kansas City, you want to have your most valuable cattle in tow. However, the "Great Western Trail" not only requires that you keep your herd in good shape, but also that you wisely use the various buildings along...

Deck, Bag, and Pool Building,Hand Management,Ownership
Published
2016

Publisher
eggertspiele

Designer
Alexander Pfister

Artist
Andreas Resch

Category
American West
Animals
Weight: 7.4
Rating: 8.1
2 - 4     75 - 150     17     - 2024-08-10
Guess Who?

The mystery face game where you flip over a collection of faces with different color hair, eye color, hair, hats, glasses etc. to deduce who the secret person is that your opponent has chosen. You flip over the hooked tiles as you narrow your choices by asking characteristic questions.

Deduction,Questions and Answers
Published
1979

Publisher
(Unknown)

Designer
Theo Coster

Artist
(Uncredited)

Category
Children's Game
Deduction
Weight: 2.2
Rating: 5.4
2 - 2     20     16     - 2022-04-09
Guillotine

The French Revolution is famous in part for the use of the guillotine to put nobles to death, and this is the macabre subject of this light card game. As executioners pandering to the masses, the players are trying to behead the most popular nobles. Each day the nobles are lined up and players take turns killing the ones at the front of the line until all the nobles are gone. However, players are given cards which will manipulate the line...

Hand Management,Open Drafting,Set Collection,Take That
Published
1998

Publisher
Wizards of the Coast

Designer
Paul Peterson

Artist
Quinton Hoover

Category
Age of Reason
Card Game
Weight: 2.5
Rating: 6.8
2 - 5     30     3     - 2024-11-01
Hallertau

The Hallertau in Bavaria, Germany is the largest continuous hop-producing region in the world. It prides itself upon being the first in Middle Europe to cultivate hops. This game is set around 1850, when the Hallertau became what it is today. As chief of a small Bavarian village in the Hallertau, your objective is to increase its wealth and prestige in the eyes of the world. To achieve this, you will need to supply the local...

Action Points,Advantage Token,Automatic Resource Growth,Contracts
Published
2020

Publisher
Lookout Games

Designer
Uwe Rosenberg

Artist
Lukas Siegmon

Category
Animals
Economic
Weight: 6.6
Rating: 7.9
1 - 4     50 - 140     5     - 2024-04-07
Happy City

Do you have what it takes to grow a city from a humble market to a thriving mini-metropolis? Collect 10 buildings and make sure your citizens are happy with the place they live in! Gameplay 1. Income Phase — At the start of each round, every player receives coins equal to the sum of the income symbols shown on the bottom of their cards. 2. Action Phase — Resolved in turn order: a. (optional)...

Deck, Bag, and Pool Building,Income,Market,Open Drafting
Published
2021

Publisher
Cocktail Games

Designer
Toshiki Sato

Artist
たかみまこと (Makoto Takami)

Category
Children's Game
City Building
Weight: 2.4
Rating: 7.3
2 - 5     20 - 30     10     - 2024-10-27
Heat: Pedal to the Metal

Based on simple and intuitive hand management, Heat: Pedal to the Metal puts players in the driver's seat of intense car races, jockeying for position to cross the finish line first, while managing their car's speed if they don't want to overheat. Selecting the right upgrades for their car will help them hug the curves and keep their engine cool enough to maintain top speeds. Ultimately, their driving skills will be the key to...

Catch the Leader,Deck, Bag, and Pool Building,Hand Management
Published
2022

Publisher
Days of Wonder

Designer
Asger Harding Granerud

Artist
Vincent Dutrait

Category
Racing
Sports
Weight: 4.4
Rating: 7.5
1 - 6     30 - 60     7     - 2024-10-06
Hero Realms

Hero Realms is a fantasy-themed deck-building game that is an adaptation of the award-winning Star Realms game. The game includes basic rules for two-player games, along with rules for multiplayer formats such as Free-For-All, Hunter, and Hydra. Each player starts the game with a ten-card personal deck containing gold (for buying) and weapons (for combat). You start each turn with a new hand of five cards from your personal deck. When...

Deck, Bag, and Pool Building,Hand Management
Published
2016

Publisher
Wise Wizard Games

Designer
Robert Dougherty

Artist
Randy Delven

Category
Card Game
Fantasy
Weight: 3.7
Rating: 7.3
2 - 4     20     10     - 2025-03-30
Hive

Hive is a strategic game for two players that is not restricted by a board and can be played anywhere on any flat surface. Hive is made up of twenty two pieces, eleven black and eleven white, resembling a variety of creatures each with a unique way of moving. With no setting up to do, the game begins when the first piece is placed down. As the subsequent pieces are placed this forms a pattern that becomes the playing surface (the...

Enclosure,Grid Movement,Hexagon Grid,Pattern Movement
Published
2001

Publisher
Gen42 Games

Designer
John Yianni

Artist
John Yianni

Category
Abstract Strategy
Animals
Weight: 4.6
Rating: 7.2
2 - 2     20     33     - 2024-05-28
Honey Buzz

The bees have discovered economics. The queens believe that if they sell honey to the bears, badgers, and woodland creatures, they will find peace and prosperity. Spring has arrived and it's time to build the hive, find nectar, make honey, and, for the first time ever, set up shop. Honey Buzz is a worker bee placement game where players expand a personal beehive by drafting various honeycomb tiles that grant actions that are triggered...

Action Retrieval,Contracts,Grid Movement,Hexagon Grid
Published
2020

Publisher
Elf Creek Games

Designer
Paul Salomon

Artist
Anne Heidsieck

Category
Animals
Economic
Weight: 5.5
Rating: 7.8
1 - 4     45 - 90     25     - 2024-11-02
Imaginarium

Imaginarium is a strategy, combination and development game. From its Kickstarter description: Through the mist, you can just about see the gigantic form of the factory. This is where the essence of dreams is shaped! We will enter the factory through the grand entrance. Here are the famous machines! You can repair, combine or dismantle them. They will produce the resources needed to repair more powerful machines. I am...

Action Drafting,Contracts,Set Collection,Take That
Published
2018

Publisher
Bombyx

Designer
Bruno Cathala

Artist
Felideus Bubastis

Category
Fantasy

Weight: 5.8
Rating: 7.1
2 - 5     90     1     - 2024-08-16
The Isle of Cats

The Isle of Cats is a competitive, medium-weight, card-drafting, polyomino cat-placement board game for 1-4 players (6 with expansions). In the game, you are citizens of Squalls End on a rescue mission to The Isle of Cats and must rescue as many cats as possible before the evil Lord Vesh arrives. Each cat is represented by a unique tile and belongs to a family, you must find a way to make them all fit on your boat while keeping...

Closed Drafting,Grid Coverage,Hidden Victory Points,Income
Published
2019

Publisher
The City of Games

Designer
Frank West

Artist
Dragolisco

Category
Animals
Fantasy
Weight: 4.7
Rating: 7.8
1 - 4     60 - 90     67     - 2025-02-16
Istanbul: Big Box

Istanbul: Big Box is the all-in-one package for Istanbul, including the base game as well as both expansions, Mocha & Baksheesh and Letters & Seals. It also includes the Istanbul: Caravan Leader Mini Expansion, in the form of a small tile rather than a camel meeple. This combination also gives players the option to play on a big 5 x 5 tiles bazaar.

Contracts,Dice Rolling,Grid Movement,Modular Board
Published
2018

Publisher
Pegasus Spiele

Designer
Rüdiger Dorn

Artist
Andreas Resch

Category
Economic

Weight: 5.0
Rating: 8.0
2 - 5     40 - 90     5     - 2020-10-27
It's a Wonderful World

In It’s a Wonderful World, you are an expanding Empire and must choose your path to your future. You must develop faster and better than your competitors. You’ll carefully plan your expansion to develop your production power and rule over this new world. It’s a Wonderful World is a cards drafting and engine building game from 1 to 5 players. Each round, players will draft 7 cards and then choose which ones will be...

Closed Drafting,End Game Bonuses,Hand Management,Set Collection
Published
2019

Publisher
La Boîte de Jeu

Designer
Frédéric Guérard

Artist
Anthony Wolff

Category
Card Game
Civilization
Weight: 4.6
Rating: 7.3
1 - 5     45     18     - 2025-03-29
Jaipur

You are one of the two most powerful traders in the city of Jaipur, the capital of Rajasthan, but that's not enough for you because only the merchant with two "seals of excellence" will have the privilege of being invited to the Maharaja's court. You are therefore going to have to do better than your direct competitor by buying, exchanging, and selling at better prices, all while keeping an eye on both your camel...

Hand Management,Hidden Victory Points,Market,Open Drafting
Published
2009

Publisher
GameWorks SàRL

Designer
Sébastien Pauchon

Artist
Vincent Dutrait

Category
Card Game
Economic
Weight: 2.9
Rating: 7.7
2 - 2     30     14     - 2024-04-04
Jaws

In JAWS, one player takes on the role of the killer shark off Amity Island, while the other 1-3 players take on the roles of Brody, Hooper and Quint to hunt the shark. Character and event cards define player abilities and create game actions for humans and the shark. Gameplay is divided into two acts — Amity Island and The Orca — played on a double-sided board to replicate the film's story: In the Amity Island phase,...

Action Points,Area Movement,Card Play Conflict Resolution
Published
2019

Publisher
Ravensburger

Designer
Prospero Hall

Artist
Roger Kastel

Category
Animals
Fighting
Weight: 4.3
Rating: 7.0
2 - 4     60     3     - 2024-08-11
Karuba

This is a tile-laying race game with players starting with boards that are identical, and one player drawing tiles that they all will use. They race to get their explorers to temples first and earn points. Along the way they can collect additional points by collecting items off the paths they create. The game ends when one player gets all of their explorers to their corresponding temples or whenever the last tile is drawn and placed. Most...

Bingo,Connections,Grid Movement,Network and Route Building
Published
2015

Publisher
Conclave Editora

Designer
Rüdiger Dorn

Artist
Claus Stephan

Category
Exploration
Puzzle
Weight: 2.9
Rating: 7.6
2 - 4     30 - 40     44     - 2025-03-02
King of Tokyo: Dark Edition

King of Tokyo: Dark Edition is a collector's edition [limited edition: 100 000 copies in 12 languages] of King of Tokyo, with the fight taking place in an alternative and darker world in which the struggle for control of Tokyo has never been so fierce...and wicked! This edition includes deluxe components (such as an embossed box and lightning-bolt-shaped energy) and all-new art by Paul Mafayon. The game is based on the classic KoT...

Dice Rolling,King of the Hill,Open Drafting,Player Elimination
Published
2020

Publisher
IELLO

Designer
Richard Garfield

Artist
Paul Mafayon

Category
Dice
Fighting
Weight: 3.2
Rating: 7.8
2 - 6     30     84     - 2024-01-07
Kingdomino

In Kingdomino, you are a lord seeking new lands in which to expand your kingdom. You must explore all the lands, including wheat fields, lakes, and mountains, in order to spot the best plots, while competing with other lords to acquire them first. The game uses tiles with two sections, similar to Dominoes. Each turn, each player will select a new domino to connect to their existing kingdom, making sure at least one of its sides...

Open Drafting,Tile Placement,Turn Order: Stat-Based
Published
2016

Publisher
Blue Orange (EU)

Designer
Bruno Cathala

Artist
Cyril Bouquet

Category
City Building
Medieval
Weight: 2.5
Rating: 7.1
2 - 4     15 - 25     142     - 2025-02-28
Kites

The sun is shining, the wind is blowing, and you know just what to do — gather your friends to fly some kites! In Kites, everyone works together to keep all their kites — represented by colorful sand timers — in the air. Take turns playing cards, flipping the sand timers, and coordinating with other players to ensure none of the timers run out. If it does, a kite has crashed! Add complication cards for additional...

Cooperative Game
Published
2022

Publisher
Floodgate Games

Designer
Kevin Hamano

Artist
Beth Sobel

Category
Real-time

Weight: 2.1
Rating: 7.0
2 - 6     10     22     - 2024-10-01
Lovecraft Letter

It is the 1920s, and the world is in a state of confusion following WWI. During this time, you and your friends find yourselves amongst mysterious events. You are surrounded by strange figures, letters with unreadable texts, as well as sudden appearances of being unknown. By relying on your connections, you set out to investigate these incidents. Unknown to you are the frightful truths that lie in wait ahead of you... Lovecraft Letter...

Deduction,Hand Management,Player Elimination,Push Your Luck
Published
2017

Publisher
Alderac Entertainment Group

Designer
Seiji Kanai

Artist
Vincent Dutrait

Category
Card Game
Deduction
Weight: 2.9
Rating: 7.6
2 - 6     5 - 15     11     - 2025-02-01
Mahjong

Mah-Jongg (Chinese 麻將/麻将 Májiàng [game of the] sparrow) is a traditional Chinese game using illustrated tiles, with game play similarities to rummy. It is a popular gambling game, but wagering real stakes is by no means necessary to have fun playing. The tiles consist of three suits numbering 1-9 (Dots, Numbers or Characters, and Bamboo, the...

Hand Management,Set Collection
Published
1850

Publisher
(Public Domain)

Designer
(Uncredited)

Artist
Barbro Hennius

Category
Abstract Strategy

Weight: 5.1
Rating: 7.5
3 - 4     120     4     - 2023-09-09
Mamma Mia!

Designer Uwe Rosenberg has a talent for dreaming up new and inventive card games, and Mamma Mia! is a perfect example of this talent, with players placing pizza ingredients into a combined pool, then trying to time their pizza baking in order to make use of what's available in the kitchen. Each player starts the game with eight different pizza orders to fill, with one of those order cards in hand; each player also starts with a hand...

Hand Management,Memory
Published
1998

Publisher
ABACUSSPIELE

Designer
Uwe Rosenberg

Artist
Franz Vohwinkel

Category
Card Game
Memory
Weight: 2.7
Rating: 6.7
2 - 5     30     6     - 2023-08-24
Mandala Stones

In Mandala Stones, you use artists to collect colorful stones in towers that you then score. To set up the game, randomly place the 96 stones — 24 each in four colors and 48 each in two patterns — on the main board in stacks of four. Place the four artist pillars in their starting locations among these stone stacks. On a turn, you either pick stones or score stones. To pick, move an artist to a new location, then...

End Game Bonuses,Layering,Pattern Building,Set Collection
Published
2021

Publisher
Board&Dice

Designer
Filip Głowacz

Artist
Zbigniew Umgelter

Category
Abstract Strategy

Weight: 3.7
Rating: 7.4
2 - 4     30     19     - 2024-02-04
Mandragora

The school of magic is buzzing with excitement. It's almost time for the final test. The apprentice witches go from shop to shop to find the magic items to demonstrate their skills in casting spectacular spells. Mandragores, a kind of Swiss Army knife of witchcraft, are particularly sought after. Be careful with cursed scrolls, as the terrible curse they contain could very well cost you the victory! How to play: Each...

Published
2021

Publisher
Studio H

Designer
Bruno Cathala

Artist
Pierô

Category
Card Game
Economic
Weight: 2.5
Rating: 7.3
2 - 4     25 - 30     15     - 2024-01-13
Mariposas

Every spring, millions of monarch butterflies leave Mexico to spread out across eastern North America. Every fall, millions fly back to Mexico. However, no single butterfly ever makes the round trip. Mariposas is a game of movement and set collection that lets players be part of this amazing journey. Mariposas is played in three seasons. In general, your butterflies try to head north in spring, spread out in summer, and...

Grid Movement,Hexagon Grid,Movement Points,Set Collection
Published
2020

Publisher
Alderac Entertainment Group

Designer
Elizabeth Hargrave

Artist
Matt Paquette & Co.

Category
Animals
Environmental
Weight: 4.4
Rating: 7.4
2 - 5     45 - 75     10     - 2023-06-16
Marvel Dice Masters: Age of Ultron

Marvel Dice Masters: Age of Ultron is a collectible dice-building tabletop game designed by Quarriors! creators Michael Elliott and Eric M. Lang. In this game, each player fields one of the superhero teams, with each hero — Rocket Raccoon, Groot, Captain Marvel, Daredevil, Kang and more — being represented by custom-tooled dice; each team must be composed of 15 dice, and a player can "purchase" dice only from his...

Deck, Bag, and Pool Building,Dice Rolling,Variable Player Powers
Published
2015

Publisher
Asmodee

Designer
Mike Elliott

Artist
N/A

Category
Collectible Components
Comic Book / Strip
Weight: 4.9
Rating: 7.6
2 - 2     60     4     - 2022-09-17
Marvel United

In Marvel United you take the role of iconic Marvel Heroes cooperating to stop the master plan of a powerful Villain controlled by the game. Each Villain unveils their unique master plan, with cards that trigger different effects, and threats that pose challenges across the locations. Heroes must choose carefully the cards to play from their unique decks, that not only offer different actions and superpowers to use, but also combine with the...

Cooperative Game,Hand Management,Modular Board,Solo / Solitaire Game
Published
2020

Publisher
CMON Global Limited

Designer
Andrea Chiarvesio

Artist
Édouard Guiton

Category
Card Game
Comic Book / Strip
Weight: 3.6
Rating: 7.8
1 - 4     40     9     - 2024-12-24
Meeple Land

Build the most renowned amusement park of all time in Meeple Land! Buy the most beautiful attractions, offer the best services, and accommodate as many meeples as possible with buses and advertising. Meet the expectations of the meeples, and success will be yours! Do not neglect any of your meeples, however, for the unsatisfied ones will tarnish your reputation... —description from the publisher

Auction: Turn Order Until Pass,Income,Market,Modular Board
Published
2020

Publisher
Blue Orange (EU)

Designer
Cyrille Allard

Artist
Tomasz Larek

Category
City Building
Economic
Weight: 3.8
Rating: 7.6
2 - 4     45     13     - 2022-09-04
Memoir '44

Memoir '44 is a historical boardgame where players face-off in stylized battles of some of the most famous historic battles of World War II including Omaha Beach, Pegasus Bridge, Operation Cobra and the Ardennes. Memoir '44 includes over 15 different battle scenarios and features a double-sided hex game board for both beach landings and countryside combat. Each scenario mimics the historical terrain, troop placements and objectives of...

Area Majority / Influence,Campaign / Battle Card Driven
Published
2004

Publisher
Days of Wonder

Designer
Richard Borg

Artist
Cyrille Daujean

Category
Miniatures
Wargame
Weight: 4.5
Rating: 6.8
2 - 8     30 - 60     4     - 2025-03-16
Mice and Mystics

In Mice and Mystics, players take on the roles of those still loyal to the king – but to escape the clutches of Vanestra, they have been turned into mice! Play as cunning field mice who must race through a castle now twenty times larger than before. The castle would be a dangerous place with Vanestra's minions in control, but now countless other terrors also await heroes who are but the size of figs. Play as nimble Prince Collin and...

Area Movement,Cooperative Game,Dice Rolling,Multiple Maps
Published
2012

Publisher
Plaid Hat Games

Designer
Jerry Hawthorne

Artist
JJ Ariosa

Category
Adventure
Animals
Weight: 5.5
Rating: 7.6
1 - 4     60 - 90     14     - 2022-10-28
Mille Fiori

In Reiner Knizia's Mille Fiori (millefiori is a glasswork technique for decorative patterns, the name means Thousand Flowers), you take the role of glass manufacturers and traders who want to profit as much as they can from their role in the production of fine glass art. The game board features different aspects of the glass production cycle: workshops where the glass is created, houses where it's installed, people who support your...

Area Majority / Influence,Closed Drafting,Pattern Building
Published
2021

Publisher
Schmidt Spiele

Designer
Reiner Knizia

Artist
Stephan Lorenz

Category
Card Game
Industry / Manufacturing
Weight: 4.4
Rating: 7.7
2 - 4     60 - 90     22     - 2025-03-30
The Mind

The Mind is more than just a game. It's an experiment, a journey, a team experience in which you can't exchange information, yet will become one to defeat all the levels of the game. In more detail, the deck contains cards numbered 1-100, and during the game you try to complete 12, 10, or 8 levels of play with 2, 3, or 4 players. In a level, each player receives a hand of cards equal to the number of the level: one card in level 1,...

Communication Limits,Cooperative Game
Published
2018

Publisher
Nürnberger-Spielkarten-Verlag

Designer
Wolfgang Warsch

Artist
Oliver Freudenreich

Category
Card Game
Number
Weight: 2.1
Rating: 7.4
2 - 4     20     28     - 2025-02-18
Monstervania

A twins, Marta and Lucas, a terrible misfortune has befallen. Mordekai, the Dark Magician of the Forbidden Forest of Vania, has kidnapped their father and he is now their most valuable hostage. If there's one thing for which those lands are known, it's for the terrible dangers that surround them. They say that these lands are inhabited by some of the most violent monsters, which used to have a reputation for being quite peaceful. With the help...

Cooperative Game,Narrative Choice / Paragraph
Published
2024

Publisher
Zacatrus

Designer
Silvestre Pastor

Artist
Alberto Cernuda Navarro

Category
Adventure
Fantasy
Weight: 4.0
Rating: 6.4
1 - 2     15     5     - 2025-03-31
Movie Mind

With your team, dive into the scenery in Movie Mind, scrutinize the smallest detail, and try to answer the five questions in time to earn as many points as possible. Questions are divided up to match the colors of each player/team, and a bonus question can be answered that awards the whole 5 points at once. Eight hundred films can be found through more than one thousand questions covering all cinematographic styles: Ghostbusters,...

Action Timer
Published
2021

Publisher
Gigamic

Designer
Boris Uzan

Artist
Diane Fayolle

Category
Movies / TV / Radio theme
Party Game
Weight: 2.0
Rating: 6.7
2 - 9     20 - 30     13     - 2024-01-01
Mr. Jack

In Mr. Jack, one of the two players represents Jack the Ripper, who will be one of the eight characters on the board. This player knows which character is Mr. Jack, and his goal is to flee from the district as soon as possible (or avoid being accused for eight turns). The other player represents an independent investigator (not represented on the board) who tries to guess the identity of Jack — but he can make only one accusation during...

Grid Movement,Hexagon Grid,Open Drafting,Variable Player Powers
Published
2006

Publisher
Hurrican

Designer
Bruno Cathala

Artist
Pierô

Category
Deduction
Murder/Mystery
Weight: 4.3
Rating: 6.5
2 - 2     30     12     - 2024-11-03
My City

My City is a competitive legacy game in which you develop a city on your own playing board through the ages. The game consists of 24 episodes, beginning with the development of a city in its early preindustrial stages and progressing through industrialization. During each game, players customize their experience by adding elements to their personal boards and adding cards to the game. Players' choices and action made during one...

Bingo,Catch the Leader,Grid Coverage,Legacy Game
Published
2020

Publisher
KOSMOS

Designer
Reiner Knizia

Artist
Michael Menzel

Category
City Building

Weight: 3.9
Rating: 7.8
2 - 4     30     24     - 2023-05-01
Mykerinos

1899. For more than a century, the European public has been fascinated by Egyptology and the discoveries of Denon, Champollion, Petrie and others. Seeking adventure and glory, teams of archaeologists search the sands of Egypt for hidden treasures. Mykerinos. Embody archaeologists seeking relics from ancient Egypt for powerful benefactors. Will you be convincing at the museum's final exhibition? The game takes place over four...

Area Majority / Influence,Hand Management,Modular Board
Published
2006

Publisher
Ystari Games

Designer
Nicolas Oury

Artist
Arnaud Demaegd

Category
Exploration

Weight: 5.1
Rating: 6.9
2 - 4     30 - 60     12     - 2023-11-05
Nicodemus

Nicodemus Gideon is retiring! To take his place, two assistants of the Dream Factory — that is, you and one other — will face off in a duel in which you repair machines and complete projects as quickly as possible in order to score 20 or more points first. In Nicodemus , you can return to the universe of Imaginarium in a game in which the two players must block one another repeatedly, with advantages swinging one way, then...

Action Points,Action/Event,Contracts,Hand Management
Published
2021

Publisher
Bombyx

Designer
Bruno Cathala

Artist
Felideus Bubastis

Category
Fantasy
Industry / Manufacturing
Weight: 4.9
Rating: 7.2
2 - 2     45 - 60     32     - 2024-06-12
Noria

A new era is looming on the horizon. The future of Noria is right in front of you, and you must guide your flourishing trading empire into prosperity. Discover flying islands, buy ships, and build factories. Invest in prestigious projects, and secure their success by passing on secret knowledge to politicians. For even above the clouds, there is still room for improvement... Noria is the debut title from Sophia Wagner, winner of the...

Deck, Bag, and Pool Building
Published
2017

Publisher
Edition Spielwiese

Designer
Sophia Wagner

Artist
Klemens Franz

Category
Economic
Fantasy
Weight: 7.2
Rating: 6.7
2 - 4     70 - 120     17     - 2024-04-10
OASIS New Hope

In a post-apocalyptic world, go on a quest for the Oasis, the last source of fresh water in a thousand miles’ radius. To reach your goal, you will have to draw, steal or fetch Travel cards and play them in front of you in descending order from your starting city Khalla #13 to the Oasis #0. Beware traveler, you’re not the only one looking for this Eden ! Be efficient and mindful to keep others in check and control the game...

Hand Management,Race
Published
2023

Publisher
Astro Éditions

Designer
Monsieur V

Artist
Samir Guessab

Category
Card Game
Racing
Weight: 3.4
Rating: 6.9
2 - 4     25 - 40     10     - 2024-10-27
Pandemic

In Pandemic, several virulent diseases have broken out simultaneously all over the world! The players are disease-fighting specialists whose mission is to treat disease hotspots while researching cures for each of four plagues before they get out of hand. The game board depicts several major population centers on Earth. On each turn, a player can use up to four actions to travel between cities, treat infected populaces, discover a...

Action Points,Cooperative Game,Hand Management
Published
2008

Publisher
Z-Man Games

Designer
Matt Leacock

Artist
Josh Cappel

Category
Medical

Weight: 4.8
Rating: 7.5
2 - 4     45     1     - 2020-09-15
Patchwork

In Patchwork, two players compete to build the most aesthetic (and high-scoring) patchwork quilt on a personal 9x9 game board. To start play, lay out all of the patches at random in a circle and place a marker directly clockwise of the 2-1 patch. Each player takes five buttons — the currency/points in the game — and someone is chosen as the start player. On a turn, a player either purchases one of the three patches...

Grid Coverage,Income,Open Drafting,Rondel
Published
2014

Publisher
Lookout Games

Designer
Uwe Rosenberg

Artist
atelier198

Category
Abstract Strategy
Economic
Weight: 3.2
Rating: 7.8
2 - 2     15 - 30     67     - 2024-08-19
Pick Up Sticks

Long, thin sticks are scattered on the table in a heap. The black one is used as a tool to pick up the others. The player picks up sticks one at a time, until he causes any other stick to move besides the one he is attempting to pick up. Score points based on the color retrieved. The game is believed to have developed from the yarrow stalks used for divination with the Chinese I Ching. Published in Germany about 1850. This...

Physical Removal,Push Your Luck,Set Collection,Take That
Published
1850

Publisher
(Public Domain)

Designer
(Uncredited)

Artist
Pieter Woudt

Category
Action / Dexterity
Children's Game
Weight: 2.1
Rating: 6.2
2 - 6     10 - 30     26     - 2025-03-16
Pitch Out

Pitch Out (previously announced as Conflickt) is a disk-flicking game with tactical elements in which players try to take out or isolate the opponent's leader. The game is played with a bunch of disks (5-8 for the base sets) and five "walls". In turns, players place their pieces and two walls on their side of the field. Then, they start flicking one disk per turn, trying to push the opponent's disks out of the...

Flicking,Variable Player Powers
Published
2020

Publisher
Gigamic

Designer
Adrien Charles

Artist
Laurent Nicolas

Category
Action / Dexterity

Weight: 2.0
Rating: 7.1
2 - 2     5 - 10     18     - 2025-02-06
PitchCar Mini

A mini version of Pitchcar with smaller track pieces. Contains 6 straight and 10 curve track pieces that allow the construction of more than 10 different racing circuits. 8 wooden cars are included as well.

Flicking,Race
Published
2003

Publisher
Ferti

Designer
Jean du Poël

Artist
N/A

Category
Action / Dexterity
Racing
Weight: 2.3
Rating: 6.5
2 - 8     30     13     - 2025-02-09
Power Grid Deluxe: Europe/North America

Power Grid deluxe: Europe/North America is a standalone game in the Power Grid universe. For the expansion to regular Power Grid see Power Grid: Europe/North America. For the 10th anniversary of the highly successful game Power Grid we present this new deluxe version including brand new components. Wait for a huge double-sided game board presenting Europe and North America, newly customized wooden parts and an entire deck of new power...

Auction: Turn Order Until Pass,Catch the Leader,Income,Market
Published
2014

Publisher
2F-Spiele

Designer
Friedemann Friese

Artist
Harald Lieske

Category
Economic
Industry / Manufacturing
Weight: 6.4
Rating: 7.9
2 - 6     120     3     - 2022-03-04
Puerto Rico

This deluxe game of Puerto Rico began as Puerto Rico: Anniversary Edition, a tenth anniversary edition of Andreas Seyfarth's Puerto Rico that celebrates Puerto Rico's debut at Spiel 2001 with a production-ready copy that met mass acclaim. Game play is the same as the original Puerto Rico game: The players are plantation owners in the days when ships had sails. By growing up to five different kind of crops – corn, indigo, sugar,...

Action Drafting,End Game Bonuses,Follow,Hidden Victory Points
Published
2011

Publisher
alea

Designer
Andreas Seyfarth

Artist
Harald Lieske

Category
City Building
Economic
Weight: 6.5
Rating: 8.2
2 - 5     90 - 150     10     - 2021-04-24
The Quacks of Quedlinburg

In The Quacks of Quedlinburg, players are charlatans — or quack doctors — each making their own secret brew by adding ingredients one at a time. Take care with what you add, though, for a pinch too much of this or that will spoil the whole mixture! Each player has their own bag of ingredient chips. During each round, they simultaneously draw chips from their bags and add them to their pots. The higher the face value of the...

Catch the Leader,Deck, Bag, and Pool Building,Delayed Purchase
Published
2018

Publisher
Schmidt Spiele

Designer
Wolfgang Warsch

Artist
Dennis Lohausen

Category
Medieval

Weight: 3.9
Rating: 8.4
2 - 4     45     70     - 2025-02-15
Qwirkle

The abstract game of Qwirkle consists of 108 wooden blocks with six different shapes in six different colors. There is no board, players simply use an available flat surface. Players begin the game with six blocks. The start player places blocks of a single matching attribute (color or shape but not both) on the table. Thereafter, a player adds blocks adjacent to at least one previously played block. The blocks must all be played in a...

Hand Management,Pattern Building,Square Grid,Tile Placement
Published
2006

Publisher
MindWare

Designer
Susan McKinley Ross

Artist
(Uncredited)

Category
Abstract Strategy

Weight: 3.2
Rating: 6.9
2 - 4     45     18     - 2024-07-07
Reign of Cthulhu

Beings of ancient evil, known as Old Ones, are threatening to break out of their cosmic prison and awake into the world. Everything you know and love could be destroyed by chaos and madness. Can you and your fellow investigators manage to find and seal every portal in time? Hurry before you lose yourself to insanity. In Pandemic: Reign of Cthulhu, you'll experience the classic Pandemic gameplay with an horrific twist that'll have you...

Action Points,Cooperative Game,Hand Management
Published
2016

Publisher
Z-Man Games

Designer
Matt Leacock

Artist
Philippe Guérin

Category
Horror
Novel-based
Weight: 4.3
Rating: 7.7
2 - 4     40     10     - 2024-09-01
Rest In Peace

For more than a century, two families of ghosts have been fighting each other to control the greatest mansions of the land. Claim manors and castles by sending your most frightening ghosts, and put an end to this endless war by outguessing the other family. Rest In Peace is a two-player game in which you play a family of ghosts composed of 21 cards (from 1 to 6). Each round, you will be fighting for a mansion, trying to outbid your...

Auction/Bidding,Hand Management
Published
2021

Publisher
Blue Cocker Games

Designer
Fabien Gridel

Artist
Anne Heidsieck

Category
Card Game
Fighting
Weight: 3.1
Rating: 7.1
2 - 2     15     20     - 2024-08-19
Root

Root is a game of adventure and war in which 2 to 4 (1 to 6 with the 'Riverfolk' expansion) players battle for control of a vast wilderness. Like Vast: The Crystal Caverns, each player in Root has unique capabilities and a different victory condition. Now, with the aid of gorgeous, multi-use cards, a truly asymmetric design has never been more accessible. The nefarious Marquise de Cat has seized the great woodland, intent on...

Action Points,Action Queue,Action Retrieval
Published
2018

Publisher
Leder Games

Designer
Cole Wehrle

Artist
Kyle Ferrin

Category
Animals
Fantasy
Weight: 7.6
Rating: 8.5
2 - 4     60 - 90     39     - 2024-04-21
Rory's Story Cubes

Here's a game that's enormous fun and will sharpen your wits and hone your imagination. The 54 images were designed by Rory O'Connor of Ireland, a trainer in creativity and creative problem-solving. They can be used to arrive at answers or decisions in an indirect and ingenious way. Originally Rory had put the images on the faces of a Rubik's Cube, and players would turn the Cube to scramble the images, then choose one side to play...

Cooperative Game,Dice Rolling,Pattern Recognition,Storytelling
Published
2005

Publisher
The Creativity Hub

Designer
Rory O'Connor

Artist
Rory O'Connor

Category
Children's Game
Dice
Weight: 2.2
Rating: 6.6
1 - 12     20     25     - 2024-12-15
Le Roy des Ribauds

Le Roy des Ribauds is a card game adaptation of the famous comic series created by Vincent Brugeas and Ronan Toulhoat. At the beginning of the game, each player is dealt a hand of 3 cards, and a row of 4 face-down cards, called the Court, is created. There are 4 type of cards: Roi (King) , Reine (Queen), Chevalier (Knight) and Assassin (Rogue). On their turn, a player can either flip a card on the Court, revealing it, or play...

Hand Management,Memory
Published
2024

Publisher
Matagot

Designer
Erwann Ricord

Artist
Ronan Toulhoat

Category
Card Game
Medieval
Weight: 2.0
Rating: 7.1
2 - 2     10 - 15     60     - 2025-03-23
Santorini

Santorini is a re-imagining of the purely abstract 2004 edition. Since its original inception over 30 years ago, Santorini has been continually developed, enhanced and refined by designer Gordon Hamilton. Santorini is an accessible strategy game, simple enough for an elementary school classroom while aiming to provide gameplay depth and content for hardcore gamers to explore, The rules are simple. Each turn consists of 2...

Grid Movement,Map Reduction,Race,Square Grid
Published
2016

Publisher
Roxley

Designer
Gord!

Artist
Lina Cossette

Category
Abstract Strategy
Ancient
Weight: 3.4
Rating: 7.2
2 - 4     20     46     - 2025-03-02
Sea Salt & Paper

During your turn, you assemble your hand, maybe place cards for their effect, and decide if you want to end the round. But do you think you are the one with the most points in hand? You will have to choose: stop the round immediately or give the others an extra turn to try to extend the gap? Is it worth taking the risk? The game ends when you reach 30/35/40 points (4/3/2 players). The excitement of ending the round to catch...

Hand Management,Open Drafting,Push Your Luck,Set Collection
Published
2022

Publisher
Bombyx

Designer
Bruno Cathala

Artist
Lucien Derainne

Category
Animals
Card Game
Weight: 2.9
Rating: 7.7
2 - 4     30 - 45     56     - 2025-02-16
Similo

Similo is a co-operative deduction game, and each version of the game — e.g., Fables, History, Myths — comes with a deck of thirty cards, beautifully illustrated by Naïade, showing the portrait and the name of a series of characters with a common theme. Your goal is to make the other players guess one secret character (out of the twelve characters on display in the middle of the table) by playing other character cards...

Communication Limits,Cooperative Game,Deduction
Published
2019

Publisher
Horrible Guild

Designer
Martino Chiacchiera

Artist
Xavier Gueniffey Durin

Category
Card Game
Children's Game
Weight: 2.1
Rating: 6.9
2 - 8     10 - 15     74     - 2025-02-21
Skulls of Sedlec

Sedlec Ossuary, 16th Century AD. The Black Plague and Hussite Wars have overcrowded the graveyard. Help the Bone Collector, a half-blind monk, by exhuming graves and arranging the skulls inside the crypt. You are novice monks, competing to create the best arrangement of skulls. Dig up graves from the graveyard to reveal cards, take cards into your hand to collect skulls, and arrange the cards from your hand into a...

Open Drafting,Pattern Building,Set Collection
Published
2020

Publisher
Button Shy

Designer
Dustin Dobson

Artist
Marty Cobb

Category
Card Game
Print & Play
Weight: 2.5
Rating: 7.7
2 - 3     20     21     - 2025-03-23
Sky Team

Sky Team is a co-operative game, exclusively for two players, in which you play a pilot and co-pilot at the controls of an airliner. Your goal is to work together as a team to land your airplane in different airports around the world. To land your plane, you need to silently assign your dice to the correct spaces in your cockpit to balance the axis of your plane, control its speed, deploy the flaps, extend the landing gear, contact...

Communication Limits,Cooperative Game,Dice Rolling
Published
2023

Publisher
Scorpion Masqué

Designer
Luc Rémond

Artist
Eric Hibbeler

Category
Aviation / Flight

Weight: 4.1
Rating: 7.6
2 - 2     15     4     - 2024-09-08
Skyjo

Every player has 12 hidden cards (3x4). Two are turned face up. On your turn you can take the top card from the discard or draw pile. You can exchange one card (hidden or open) from your display. Round ends when one player has only open cards. (equal turns). All card will be revealed. Add the numbers of the card for scoring. Game ends after one player has 100 or more points. Whoever has the lowest number wins. Special rule: Whenever...

Set Collection
Published
2015

Publisher
Magilano

Designer
Alexander Bernhardt

Artist
Alexander Bernhardt

Category
Card Game
Math
Weight: 2.1
Rating: 6.8
2 - 8     15 - 45     11     - 2025-02-21
Smash Up: Pretty Pretty Smash Up

Think only pirates, time travelers, vampires and bears can smash bases? Well, get ready to be taught a lesson — in the nicest way possible! Pretty Pretty Smash Up brings the sweetest factions ever to the vicious fight for victory! Kitty Cats use their incredible cuteness to take control of enemy minions. Princesses ply their royalty, beauty and even their love to get their way. Fairies' fickle tricks give you options like never...

Area Majority / Influence,Hand Management,Variable Player Powers
Published
2015

Publisher
Alderac Entertainment Group

Designer
Paul Peterson

Artist
N/A

Category
Animals
Card Game
Weight: 4.3
Rating: 7.1
2 - 2     45     11     - 2023-10-01
Sobek: 2 Players

Construction is underway on a temple dedicated to Sobek. A huge market has emerged nearby, supplied by the continuous flow of feluccas and pirogues along the Nile. Your Guild of Merchants is determined to take advantage of this unbelievable opportunity, and ready to use any means to grab sumptuous goods out of the way of your opponent. Beware, though, as it will be crucial not to have accumulated too much corruption when the time of reckonings...

End Game Bonuses,Hand Management,Set Collection,Variable Set-up
Published
2021

Publisher
Catch Up Games

Designer
Bruno Cathala

Artist
Xavier Gueniffey Durin

Category
Ancient
Economic
Weight: 3.9
Rating: 7.6
2 - 2     20     70     - 2025-03-02
Splendor

Splendor is a game of chip-collecting and card development. Players are merchants of the Renaissance trying to buy gem mines, means of transportation, shops—all in order to acquire the most prestige points. If you're wealthy enough, you might even receive a visit from a noble at some point, which of course will further increase your prestige. On your turn, you may (1) collect chips (gems), or (2) buy and build a card, or (3)...

Contracts,Open Drafting,Race,Set Collection
Published
2014

Publisher
Space Cowboys

Designer
Marc André

Artist
Pascal Quidault

Category
Card Game
Economic
Weight: 3.6
Rating: 7.7
2 - 4     30     51     - 2024-06-08
Sprawlopolis

Jackhammers chattering, trucks beeping, engines roaring, the sounds of construction are everywhere. Sprawlopolis is growing and YOU are in charge of it all. The last team of planners couldn't cut it, so the city turned to your team, the best of the best. If anyone can turn this tiny town into a thriving civic center it's you. In Sprawlopolis, 1-4 players work together to build a new city from the ground up. Using only 18 cards and a...

Closed Drafting,Cooperative Game,Hand Management,Layering
Published
2018

Publisher
Button Shy

Designer
Steven Aramini

Artist
Loïc Billiau

Category
Card Game
City Building
Weight: 3.6
Rating: 7.1
1 - 4     15 - 20     9     - 2025-02-16
Stew

Stew is a push-your-luck, partial knowledge game. You and your fellow players take on the role of a farmer collecting items from the garden to make a stew. There are six vermin that want to eat your stew before you do. Draw a card and add it to your stew or feed some of the vermin to protect your pot. Make sure you do not wait too long, or your fellow farmers might eat your stew. Released in the April 2018 Board Game of the Month...

Memory,Push Your Luck
Published
2018

Publisher
Button Shy

Designer
Jason Glover

Artist
Loïc Billiau

Category
Deduction
Farming
Weight: 2.4
Rating: 6.8
2 - 4     10 - 20     8     - 2025-03-17
Stone Age

The "Stone Age" times were hard indeed. In their roles as hunters, collectors, farmers, and tool makers, our ancestors worked with their legs and backs straining against wooden plows in the stony earth. Of course, progress did not stop with the wooden plow. People always searched for better tools and more productive plants to make their work more effective. In Stone Age, the players live in this time, just as our ancestors...

Contracts,Dice Rolling,End Game Bonuses,Set Collection
Published
2008

Publisher
Hans im Glück

Designer
Bernd Brunnhofer

Artist
Michael Menzel

Category
Dice
Economic
Weight: 4.9
Rating: 7.8
2 - 4     60 - 90     22     - 2023-06-18
Stuffed Fables

Stuffed Fables is an unusual adventure game in which players take on the roles of brave stuffies seeking to save the child they love from a scheming, evil mastermind. Make daring melee attacks, leap across conveyor belts, or even steer a racing wagon down a peril-filled hill. The game delivers a thrilling narrative driven by player choices. Players explore a world of wonder and danger, unlocking curious discoveries. The chapters of Stuffed...

Cooperative Game,Dice Rolling,Role Playing,Roll / Spin and Move
Published
2018

Publisher
Plaid Hat Games

Designer
Jerry Hawthorne

Artist
Kristen Pauline

Category
Adventure
Animals
Weight: 4.9
Rating: 7.2
2 - 4     60 - 90     4     - 2024-08-24
Sushi Go Party!

Sushi Go Party! expands Sushi Go! with a party platter of mega maki, super sashimi, and endless edamame. You still earn points by picking winning sushi combos, but now you can customize each game by choosing à la carte from a menu of more than twenty delectable dishes. What's more, up to eight players can join in on the sushi-feast. Let the good times roll! —description from the publisher

Closed Drafting,End Game Bonuses,Hand Management,Set Collection
Published
2016

Publisher
Gamewright

Designer
Phil Walker-Harding

Artist
Nan Rangsima

Category
Card Game
Party Game
Weight: 2.6
Rating: 8.2
2 - 8     20     18     - 2025-03-16
Takenoko

A long time ago at the Japanese Imperial court, the Chinese Emperor offered a giant panda bear as a symbol of peace to the Japanese Emperor. Since then, the Japanese Emperor has entrusted his court members (the players) with the difficult task of caring for the animal by tending to his bamboo garden. In Takenoko, the players will cultivate land plots, irrigate them, and grow one of the three species of bamboo (Green, Yellow, and Pink)...

Action Points,Contracts,Dice Rolling,End Game Bonuses
Published
2011

Publisher
Bombyx

Designer
Antoine Bauza

Artist
Nicolas Fructus

Category
Animals
Environmental
Weight: 4.0
Rating: 7.1
2 - 4     45     10     - 2021-09-12
Targi

Unlike in other cultures, the desert Tuareg men, known as Targi, cover their faces whereas women of the tribe do not wear veils. They run the household and they have the last word at home in the tents. Different families are divided into tribes, headed by the ‘Imascheren’ (or nobles). As leader of a Tuareg tribe, players trade goods from near (such as dates and salt) and far (like pepper), in order to obtain gold and other...

End Game Bonuses,Modular Board,Open Drafting,Set Collection
Published
2012

Publisher
KOSMOS

Designer
Andreas Steiger

Artist
Taira Akitsu

Category
Arabian
Card Game
Weight: 4.7
Rating: 7.8
2 - 2     60     9     - 2025-03-01
The Taverns of Tiefenthal

In the village of Tiefenthal lies "The Tavern of the Deep Valley". There, all citizens from the area gather, but it's important to attract new, wealthy guests for only then is there enough money to expand the tavern, which will then lure nobles into the tavern as well. But which tavern expansion is best? Should you focus on money? Or rather ensure that the beer will keep flowing? In The Taverns of Tiefenthal, the challenge...

Deck, Bag, and Pool Building,Dice Rolling,Open Drafting
Published
2019

Publisher
Schmidt Spiele

Designer
Wolfgang Warsch

Artist
Dennis Lohausen

Category
Card Game
Dice
Weight: 5.4
Rating: 7.8
2 - 4     60     31     - 2024-09-15
Teotihuacan: City of Gods

Travel back in time to the greatest city in Mesoamerica. Witness the glory and the twilight of the powerful pre-Columbian civilization. Strategize, accrue wealth, gain the favour of the gods, and become the builder of the magnificent Pyramid of the Sun. In Teotihuacan: City of Gods, each player commands a force of worker dice, which grow in strength with every move. On your turn, you move a worker around a modular board, always...

Area Movement,Rondel,Set Collection,Solo / Solitaire Game
Published
2018

Publisher
NSKN Games

Designer
Daniele Tascini

Artist
Odysseas Stamoglou

Category
Ancient

Weight: 7.6
Rating: 7.9
1 - 4     90 - 120     24     - 2024-07-07
Terraforming Mars

In the 2400s, mankind begins to terraform the planet Mars. Giant corporations, sponsored by the World Government on Earth, initiate huge projects to raise the temperature, the oxygen level, and the ocean coverage until the environment is habitable. In Terraforming Mars, you play one of those corporations and work together in the terraforming process, but compete for getting victory points that are awarded not only for your contribution to the...

Closed Drafting,Contracts,End Game Bonuses,Hand Management
Published
2016

Publisher
FryxGames

Designer
Jacob Fryxelius

Artist
Isaac Fryxelius

Category
Economic
Environmental
Weight: 6.5
Rating: 8.2
1 - 5     120     20     - 2025-01-02
The Thing: The Boardgame

The Thing is a game that mixes different mechanisms to create an experience that is as faithful as possible to that of the original film. It is a "hidden role" game, in which one player is initially the Thing and the others players are humans. The purpose of the Thing is to infect others, to prevent the survivors from escaping from the base (which can happen three different ways), or to try to escape with them by behaving as a...

Hidden Roles,Semi-Cooperative Game,Traitor Game,Voting
Published
2022

Publisher
Pendragon Game Studio

Designer
Giuseppe Cicero

Artist
Davide Corsi

Category
Horror
Movies / TV / Radio theme
Weight: 6.0
Rating: 7.7
1 - 8     60 - 90     2     - 2025-02-22
Tikal

Tikal is a game of exploration within the Central American jungles in search of lost temples and the treasures within. Players send their team of explorers into the jungle, exposing more and more of the terrain. Along the way, you find temples that require further uncovering and treasures. Players attempt to score points for occupying temples and holding onto treasure. Tikal is the first game of the Mask...

Action Points,Area Majority / Influence,Auction/Bidding
Published
1999

Publisher
Ravensburger

Designer
Michael Kiesling

Artist
Mariusz Gandzel

Category
Exploration
Territory Building
Weight: 5.6
Rating: 7.2
2 - 4     90     5     - 2022-12-22
Timeline: Classic

Timeline: Classic is a card game played using 55 cards. While other versions of Timeline are focused on certain elements (events, inventions, discoveries, etc.), Timeline Classic is a highly engaging version that encompasses multiple themes in one convenient package. Was the pencil invented before Washington crossed the Delaware? Each card depicts an invention on both sides, with the year in which that invention was created on only one side....

Published
2018

Publisher
ADC Blackfire Entertainment

Designer
Frédéric Henry

Artist
Jérémie Fleury

Category
Card Game
Educational
Weight: 2.3
Rating: 6.9
2 - 6     15     12     - 2024-06-15
Tomorrow

The authoritarian and liberticide government increases its hold on the people. Faced with this challenge, a group of pacifist and idealistic rebels, the Dragonflies, fight for a better tomorrow. The government will do everything in its power to prevent the Dragonflies from exposing their actions. Who will win? On a turn in the minimalist asymmetric game Tomorrow, a player performs two actions from these choices, repeating an action if...

Action Points,Hand Management,Take That
Published
2023

Publisher
RUNES Editions

Designer
Feng Yi

Artist
Alice Vuillet

Category
Card Game
Science Fiction
Weight: 3.5
Rating: 7.7
2 - 2     20 - 30     8     - 2024-05-25
Trek 12: Amazonia

Explore uncharted and mysterious lands: can you thwart their dangers? Map undiscovered areas, trace new trails in the rainforest, and observe the vivid flora and fauna. Trek 12 Amazonie is a roll-and-write exploration game, with evolutive gameplay and content. Every player plays simultaneously. To score points, you have to create trials (chains of consecutive numbers) and zones (areas of a same number) and to observe the fauna. The...

Bingo,Chaining,Dice Rolling,Paper-and-Pencil
Published
2021

Publisher
Lumberjacks Studio

Designer
Bruno Cathala

Artist
Olivier Derouetteau

Category
Adventure
Animals
Weight: 2.8
Rating: 7.7
1 - 50     15     22     - 2025-03-23
Tsukiji

Tokyo, 1930. The morning wakes up lazy, but you have a lot of work to do. In Tsukiji, each player is a restaurant owner who faces other traders at tough auctions for the best batches of fish and seafood. Understand the logic of prices, manipulate quotes, set traps, sabotage your opponents, and seek the greatest possible profit in this tense fight for the best fish in all of Japan!

Auction/Bidding,Commodity Speculation,Market,Open Drafting
Published
2017

Publisher
Redbox Editora (Redbox)

Designer
Leandro Pires

Artist
Alex Mamedes

Category
Card Game
Economic
Weight: 3.8
Rating: 7.6
2 - 4     20 - 30     18     - 2025-03-02
Unicorn Glitterluck: Cloud Stacking

The five little unicorns Glitterluck, Rosalie, Marvel Flower, Magic Swirl, and Stardust live in a beautiful cloud castle. Every day, friends come to visit them; there are always many visitors and a lot going on and the castle is running out of space. Using many clouds and a little bit of magic, the unicorns gradually add more turrets to their castle. The object of the game is to collect the 10 pink crystals, stack the clouds and the...

Cooperative Game,Point to Point Movement,Stacking and Balancing
Published
2019

Publisher
HABA

Designer
Kristin Mückel

Artist
Stephanie Roehe

Category
Action / Dexterity
Children's Game
Weight: 2.0
Rating: 6.2
1 - 4     15     9     - 2024-02-04
UNO: DragonBall Z

In UNO Dragon Ball Z, the card game gets the characters from the famous Japanese manga and the popular TV series. It includes a Wild Shenron's Wish Card unique to this deck with specific rules (using card with the famous DragonBall). The classical wild card having the design of the DragonBall themselves. As in the classic UNO game, players aim to get rid of all their cards by matching a card in their hand with the current card...

Hand Management,Take That
Published
2022

Publisher
Mattel, Inc.

Designer
N/A

Artist
N/A

Category
Card Game

Weight: 0.0
Rating: 6.5
2 - 10     5 - 30     28     - 2025-02-18
UNO: Super Mario

Join Mario, Luigi, and all their friends for a game of UNO! It's the UNO you love, but this version also includes a special Mario Super Star Card that makes your character invincible. After another player plays a Draw 4 or Draw 2 card, play the Super Star Card to bounce the card power back to that player. And two customizable cards deliver even more game-changing moments and help defeat opponents! Score points by being the first to get rid of...

Hand Management,Take That
Published
2016

Publisher
Mattel, Inc.

Designer
N/A

Artist
N/A

Category
Card Game
Video Game Theme
Weight: 2.0
Rating: 6.1
2 - 10     0     66     - 2025-02-18
Viticulture Essential Edition

In Viticulture, the players find themselves in the roles of people in rustic, pre-modern Tuscany who have inherited meagre vineyards. They have a few plots of land, an old crush pad, a tiny cellar, and three workers. They each have a dream of being the first to call their winery a true success. The players are in the position of determining how they want to allocate their workers throughout the year. Every season is different on a...

Contracts,Hand Management,Race,Solo / Solitaire Game
Published
2015

Publisher
Stonemaier Games

Designer
Jamey Stegmaier

Artist
Jacqui Davis

Category
Economic
Farming
Weight: 5.8
Rating: 8.0
1 - 6     45 - 90     17     - 2024-01-01
Volto

The next Doge of Venice is about to be elected: two families are in line to see their representative prevail. During the carnival, everyone wears masks, so it's the perfect opportunity for your family to eliminate the rival family. Discredit the opposing contender in St Mark's Square to ensure the council's vote! Your family takes advantage of the Venice Carnival to get rid of your rival for the title of...

Square Grid,Variable Set-up
Published
2022

Publisher
Blue Orange (EU)

Designer
Yusuke Emi (江見祐介)

Artist
N/A

Category
Abstract Strategy

Weight: 3.6
Rating: 7.3
2 - 2     5     43     - 2025-02-17
Warhammer Age of Sigmar

Warhammer: Age of Sigmar is a skirmish tabletop game for two or more players where you command several armies from a huge range that goes from Humans, Dwarves, High Elves, Undead Vampires, Orcs, Beastman and lots of races. This book provides you with all the rules you need to play, and guides you through collecting and painting your own army of Citadel miniatures.

Dice Rolling,Line of Sight,Measurement Movement
Published
2015

Publisher
Games Workshop Ltd.

Designer
(Uncredited)

Artist
N/A

Category
Fantasy
Medieval
Weight: 5.4
Rating: 6.7
2 - 2     40 - 180     0     - N/A
Welcome to the Moon

You've built housing for humanity in neighborhoods and New Las Vegas. Now you need to save humanity through space colonization... Welcome to the Moon uses the same flip-and-write game mechanisms as the earlier title Welcome To..., but now you can play in a campaign across eight adventure sheets. On a turn, you flip cards from three stacks to create three different combinations of a starship number and a corresponding action, then all...

Bingo,Narrative Choice / Paragraph,Paper-and-Pencil,Pattern Building
Published
2021

Publisher
Blue Cocker Games

Designer
Alexis Allard

Artist
Anne Heidsieck

Category
City Building
Science Fiction
Weight: 5.0
Rating: 8.5
1 - 6     25 - 30     18     - 2023-12-30
Wingspan

Wingspan is a competitive, medium-weight, card-driven, engine-building board game from Stonemaier Games. It's designed by Elizabeth Hargrave and features over 170 birds illustrated by Beth Sobel, Natalia Rojas, and Ana Maria Martinez. You are bird enthusiasts—researchers, bird watchers, ornithologists, and collectors—seeking to discover and attract the best birds to your network of wildlife preserves. Each bird...

Action Queue,Dice Rolling,End Game Bonuses,Hand Management
Published
2019

Publisher
Stonemaier Games

Designer
Elizabeth Hargrave

Artist
Ana Maria Martinez Jaramillo

Category
Animals
Card Game
Weight: 4.9
Rating: 8.5
1 - 5     40 - 70     85     - 2025-01-12
Wooly Wars

The country of La Guerre des Moutons (the war of sheep) is full of fields and forests. There are sheep in the fields and wolves and hunters in the forests. Each player tries to make the largest pens with his own sheep inside by placing his own tiles. You can easily close small pens, or you can be ambitious and try to build large farms... but if you cannot enclose the fields, your sheep are likely to be eaten by the big bad wolves roaming in...

Enclosure,Hand Management,Player Elimination,Tile Placement
Published
2002

Publisher
999 Games

Designer
Philippe des Pallières

Artist
François Bruel

Category
Animals
Bluffing
Weight: 3.3
Rating: 6.1
2 - 4     30     2     - 2022-08-07