Best Tile Laying
Azul is a beautifully designed abstract strategy game where players draft colorful tiles to decorate their palace walls. Its simple rules, elegant components, and satisfying gameplay make it accessible to all ages while offering surprising strategic depth. Players carefully plan their tile placement...
Isle of Skye: From Chieftain to King is a tile-laying board game designed by Andreas Pelikan and Alexander Pfister, published in 2015 by Lookout Games. Players assume the roles of Scottish clan chiefs who construct personal territories by purchasing landscape tiles from one another through a player-...
Cascadia is a board game designed for families and strategy enthusiasts. Players build a realistic representation of the Pacific Northwest’s ecosystem through tile-laying. The game focuses on creating interconnected habitats for animals and plants, rewarding players who establish thriving biodiversi...
Tigris & Euphrates is a strategic board game where players manage ancient Mesopotamian city-states, navigating trade routes, developing infrastructure, and vying for dominance through diplomacy and warfare along the fertile river valleys of the Tigris and Euphrates.
Food Chain Magnate is an economic strategy board game designed by Jeroen Doumen and Joris Wiersinga and published by Splotter Spellen in 2015. Players operate competing restaurant companies, recruit and train employees, advertise food and drinks, set prices, and build distribution networks to satisf...
Carcassonne is home to one of the most stunning and well-preserved medieval walled cities in Europe. The massive double walls and fortified towers create a scene straight out of a fantasy novel. Visitors can walk along the ramparts, explore the interior streets, and visit the nearby Château Comtal....
Karuba is a tile-placement board game designed by Rüdiger Dorn and released in 2015. In this family-friendly game, all players have identical personal boards and simultaneously place matching tiles to carve paths through a jungle. The objective is to guide four distinct adventurers to their correspo...
Blokus is a strategy game for two to four players where the goal is to place colored tiles onto a board, attempting to occupy spaces and prevent opponents from doing the same with their own sets of pieces. Players must strategically utilize all seven pieces per color before running out of space.
Lanterns: The Harvest Festival is a tabletop tile-laying game designed by Christopher Chung and released in 2015. Players take on the roles of artisans decorating the palace lake for an imperial festival by placing hexagonal aquatic tiles. Matching the colored sides of these tiles allows players to...
This is a modified, cooperative play pattern for the classic tile-laying game. Instead of competing for the most points, the group must work together to build a functional city or network that meets a pre-determined objective (e.g., connecting three specific landmarks). The cooperative twist forces...
