swap_horiz Catan Alternatives

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7 Wonders Duel

7 Wonders Duel cleverly adapts the popular 7 Wonders into a streamlined two-player experience. Players draft cards to bu...

Strategy Miniature Strategy Game Asymmetric

9.2 Excellent

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Forbidden Island

Forbidden Island is a fantastic cooperative board game where players work together to retrieve four sacred treasures fro...

Adventure Family Easy To Learn Escape

9.2 Excellent

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Outfoxed!

Outfoxed! is a cooperative mystery game where players work together to solve the case of the missing pie. Children beco...

Family Friendly Problem Solving Family Detective

9.2 Excellent

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Wingspan

Wingspan is a beautifully designed engine-building game centered around attracting birds to your wildlife preserve. Its...

Nature Strategy Resource Management Family Friendly

9.2 Excellent

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Pandemic

Pandemic is a board game designed for cooperative play. Players assume the roles of specialists tasked with combating fo...

Strategy Classic Cooperative Pandemic

9.2 Excellent

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Root

Root is a highly asymmetrical game of woodland warfare where players control unique factions with vastly different objec...

Strategy Fantasy Complex Warfare

9.1 Excellent

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Azul

Azul is a beautifully designed abstract strategy game where players draft colorful tiles to decorate their palace walls....

Strategy Family Beautiful Abstract

9.1 Excellent

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Spirit Island

Spirit Island is a deeply strategic cooperative game where players embody powerful spirits defending their island from c...

Nature Strategy Fantasy Complex

9.0 Excellent

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Ark Nova

Ark Nova is a complex and rewarding engine-building game where players design and develop urban parks in a bustling metr...

Strategy Modern Resource Management Complex

9.0 Excellent

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Jaipur

Jaipur is a quick and engaging two-player card game centered around trading goods in a bustling Indian market. Players c...

Strategy Family Friendly Fast Paced India

8.8 Great

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Telestrations

Telestrations is a hilarious combination of telephone and Pictionary. Players simultaneously sketch and guess, leading t...

Creative Family Easy To Learn Humor

8.8 Great

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Ticket to Ride

Ticket to Ride is a hugely popular and accessible route-building game where players collect colored train cars and claim...

Strategy Classic Accessible Easy

8.8 Great

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Scythe

Scythe is a strategic board game set in an alternate history 1920s Eastern Europe. Players manage factions competing for...

Strategy Alt History Area Control Engine Builder

8.6 Great

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The Castles of Burgundy

The Castles of Burgundy is a complex strategy board game for experienced players. It involves constructing a network acr...

Strategy Heavy Dice German Style

8.5 Great

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Concordia

Concordia is a strategy board game set in the Roman era. Players take on the roles of European monarchs expanding across...

Strategy Deck Building Economic Roman Era

8.5 Great

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Lost Ruins of Arnak

Lost Ruins of Arnak is a cooperative exploration game where players, as archaeologists, delve into the crumbling city of...

Strategy Exploration Deck Building Worker Placement

8.3 Great

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Viticulture Essential Edition

Viticulture Essential Edition is a strategy board game centered around managing a vineyard. Players utilize worker place...

Strategy Economic Stonemaier Worker Placement

8.3 Great

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7 Wonders

7 Wonders is a fast-paced card drafting game where players develop their civilizations over three ages. The simultaneous...

Strategy Family Civilization Card Drafting

8.3 Great

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Power Grid

Power Grid is an economic strategy board game centered around building and operating an electricity network. Players bid...

Strategy Auction Economic Network Building

8.2 Great

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Splendor

Splendor is a strategy board game where players collect gem tokens and develop wooden engine parts to score points, aimi...

Family Card Game Gateway Engine Builder

7.8 Good