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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 deck-building racing game in which players are competing to be the first to reach the legendary city of El Dorado. Play cards to cross the map and buy cards to help decide which path to take. Will you go by land or by sea? But watch out! Your opponents might block your way.

Each player is an archaeologist with one of four uniquely themed dig sites. Every round you will each place a tile onto your board, trying to enclose scarabs in order to score points.

Koi is a peaceful game of swimming fish and changing weather. Will you catch the dragonflies?

A gorgeous game in which each move can create a ripple effect that can change the race of the entire board.

Pilot your ship and travel between planets, picking up and selling junk in a bright, colorful game about planning your movies carefully as you visit Mars, Earth, and the Moon!

Bluffing, deduction, and push-your-luck all come together to present a light, tense game, that’s all about trying to push your opponents a step too far — while never going overboard yourself.

Building flowers one petal at a time, players compete for control of the garden and the flowers themselves in a game that is beautiful, strategic, and relaxing.

Collect marbles to create magical potions, each with a special ability you can use once to help you during the game. Marbles are selected from a dispenser. If matching marbles collide after one has been removed, a potion explosion occurs!

A unique twist on the word game genre, in Letter Tycoon players create a letters empire by purchasing patents to letters and earning points whenever one of their letters appears in an opponent’s word.

The Mind is a cooperative card game about becoming in tune with your teammates. Players are dealt a hand of cards ranging between one and one hundred, and each round you are dealt a bigger and bigger hand. Without words or gestures, players must attempt to play all their cards, each round, in ascending order.
 
Will you learn how to read your partners?
 

A dice rolling, push-your-luck game. Investigate mysterious locations, fail and you must draw a tentacle from the tower! If marbles fall out of the tower you may learn spells, discover clues, bring the world one step closer to doom, or you might even go mad!

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