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Recommended Casual Game Award

Casual Game Recommended badgeEach Recommended game has been carefully evaluated by our editorial staff and found to meet the following conditions:

• Representative of the casual game genre in terms of game length, depth, and complexity
• Appeals to a general audience, with a G or PG content rating
• Has acheived a high rating in gameplay, quality, and originality

 


 

A unique party game in which every player gets to draw and guess during each round. Players race against each other to complete their drawings and get in their guesses first. But be careful not to go too fast, because you’ll lose points for making the most incorrect guesses and if other players fail to identify your picture.

A family-friendly bluffing game in which each round a different player takes on the role of dragon. The dragon tries to guess which colored square players are most likely to move onto next in order to force them to discard their gold.

A classic two player card game in which players take turns playing cards into different expeditions. Each expedition costs money, so be careful not to overextend yourself. At the end of each round, in each expedition count up the cards you've played into it and subtract the cost of the expedition to see how many points you scored.

Players take turns, flipping cards one at a time, looking for matches, and being ready to race their opponents to claim a pair. Your match might be stolen though if a third card is drawn from the deck that matches that design: so watch out!

Draw a card and build the prompt, using the wide range of building pieces provided for you in the game. Select 'how cards' which place restrictions on you as you build in order to earn extra points. Collect enough cards to spell 'BILDER' to win the game.

Cooperation meets memory, in this two minute game in which players face the clock to save all the cave dwellers and dodos of the island before the volcano erupts!

Vie for King Arthur’s favor by competing with your opponents in seven tasks. Draft cards and play them to move forward on each of the seven boards. Win points (or lose them) each round based on your positions on the boards. The player with the most points at the end of the sixth round will be made a knight and join the round table!

A board game gaming system, 8Bit Box takes inspiration from retro gaming to bring you three games in one box and a wealth of possibilities.

In the cooperative party game Just One, one player is trying to guess a word. The other players each write down a one word clue, compare them, remove any that match, and then show the remaining words to the guesser. Can she figure out the word? Or did too many clues match and there’s not enough left to go on?

One player controls three dinosaurs, while the others work together to escape the island, in this one vs. many game set in the beloved world of Jurassic Park. Each round, all players select one card and place it facedown. The dinosaur player reveals his card first, and executes his actions, the human players then decide what order to take their own actions in. Will the dinosaurs eliminate three humans? Or will the humans activate three locations, complete their personal missions, and escape alive?

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