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Wingspan

Wingspan is a beautifully designed engine-building game where players attract birds to their wildlife reserves. Through...

Nature Strategy Resource Management Family Friendly

9.5 Brilliant

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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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Pandemic Legacy: Season 1

Pandemic Legacy: Season 1 is a cooperative board game where players work together to eradicate four deadly diseases glob...

Legacy Campaign Cooperative Thematic

9.1 Excellent

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Twilight Imperium: Fourth Edition

Twilight Imperium: Fourth Edition is a sprawling strategy board game for 3-6 players where participants compete to domin...

Epic Space 4X Negotiation

8.9 Great

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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

8.8 Great

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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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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

8.8 Great

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Root

Root is a highly acclaimed asymmetric strategy game set in a fantastical world. Each player controls a unique faction wi...

Fantasy Complex Engine Building Conflict

8.7 Great

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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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Spirit Island

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

Nature Strategy Fantasy Complex

8.5 Great

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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

8.5 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

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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

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Everdell

Everdell is a worker-placement engine-building game where players develop a woodland city by constructing buildings, gat...

Tableau Woodland Engine Builder Worker Placement

8.4 Great

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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

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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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El Grande

El Grande is a strategic, area-control game for 2-4 players set in the Spanish Golden Age, where players command powerfu...

Strategy Heavy Area Control German Style

8.0 Great

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Love Letter

Love Letter is a fast-paced card game for 2-4 players where each player attempts to deliver a love letter to the princes...

Card Game Filler Deduction Z Man Games

7.4 Good