swap_horiz El Grande Alternatives

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Catan

The quintessential eurogame, *Catan* remains a hugely popular choice. Players gather resources, build settlements and ci...

Strategy Family Gateway Trading

9.3 Excellent

2

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

3

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

4

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

5

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

7

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

9

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

10

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

11

Gaia Project

Gaia Project is a complex engine-building civilization game where players develop interconnected ecosystems on alien pla...

Heavy Space 4X Z Man Games

8.7 Great

12

Scythe

Scythe is a strategic engine-building game set in an alternate 1920s Eastern European nation where players control facti...

Strategy Alt History Area Control Engine Builder

8.6 Great

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The Castles of Burgundy

The Castles of Burgundy is a tile-laying strategy game where players collect sets of medieval goods – like spices, cloth...

Strategy Heavy Dice German Style

8.5 Great

14

Concordia

Concordia is a strategic board game where players represent medieval European monarchs vying for control of a newly disc...

Strategy Deck Building Economic Roman Era

8.5 Great

15

Agricola

Agricola is a complex worker placement and resource management board game where players develop a Roman farmstead by acq...

Heavy Farming Worker Placement Lookout Games

8.3 Great

16

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

17

Viticulture Essential Edition

Viticulture Essential Edition is a strategic worker placement game where players manage vineyards, cultivating grape var...

Strategy Economic Stonemaier Worker Placement

8.3 Great

18

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

19

Tigris & Euphrates

Tigris & Euphrates is a strategic board game where players manage ancient Mesopotamian city-states, navigating trade rou...

Heavy Civilization Tile Laying Area Control

8.0 Great

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Risk

Risk is a strategy board game where players compete to dominate territories around the globe by deploying armies and att...

Strategy Classic War Game Area Control

5.5 Mediocre