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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

9.4 Excellent

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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

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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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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

9.0 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

8.9 Great

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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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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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Ticket to Ride

Ticket to Ride is a strategy board game where players compete to build railway routes across a map. The game’s notable a...

Strategy Classic Accessible Easy

8.8 Great

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Everdell

Everdell is a beautifully illustrated engine-building game where players construct a thriving woodland city. Through str...

Family Friendly Beautiful Tableau Engine Building

8.7 Great

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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

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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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Cascadia

Cascadia is a strategic tile-laying game where players develop the Pacific Northwest ecosystem by placing habitat tiles...

Nature Family Puzzle Tile Laying

8.2 Great

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Sagrada

Sagrada is a strategic board game where players compete to construct Antoni Gaudí’s unfinished basilica through careful...

Family Puzzle Abstract Dice Drafting

7.7 Good

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Blokus

Blokus is a strategy game for two to four players where the goal is to place colored tiles onto a board, attempting to o...

Family Abstract Spatial Tile Laying

7.2 Good