Recommended Casual Game Award

Bidding, drafting, and tile placement, come together in this board game about building stations and shipping goods.

Using historical logos and real life cities, Railroad Rivals taps into the history of railroads, as players compete to create a railroading empire.

Players place and move stones on a board of various sizes, trying to complete a line from one side of the board to the other created by their pieces.

Cops are bursting through the door and the only way to avoid arrest is to snag a phony ID card and make sure your story checks out.

Pass around the wallet, slip cards in and out, and when the round ends, see if your ID is right and you can’t escape with some cash in hand.

A cooperative real time game with minimum communication. Players control four heroes as they race through the magical mall to steal equipment and make it for the exits. Only catch: each player only has a limited number of actions they can make a hero do, so players must work together, pooling their various actions in order to complete the heist while only being allowed to talk occasionally.

A game that tests your speed! Players take turns flipping over two cards at a time. As soon as a player’s cards makes certain matches, everyone races to grab the right nuts in the center of the table. Depending on the nut, the slowest player may have to place cards under their scoring tile, or the fastest player may get to choose who has to place cards under their tile.

A 2018 Spiel des Jahres nominee, Luxor has players making their way through an Egyptian tomb to reach the sarcophagus. Each player controls a certain number of meeples, unlocking more as they make their way further along the board. The board itself is randomly built each time you play, and players score points for items they collect as they go and how far each meeple makes it into the tomb.

Players alternate between giving clues and guessing, in this two player variant of the popular party game Codenames.

Take on missions across the map, each of which will force you to adapt your strategy and try out new approaches.

Muse shares certain core mechanics with games such as Dixit and Mysterium while bringing enough new ideas to the table that it can stand apart on its own.

One team chooses both the card the other team is trying to guess as well as selecting the type of clue the other team's muse must give in order to lead their team into selecting the correct card from a group of six. The first team to win five cards, wins the game.

In this cooperative board game, players work together to clear out rooms and explore the dungeon, until the monstrous terror awakens and players must race to defeat it before it reaches the exit.

With simple, dice based combat, and unique heroes for each player, the game is a casual take on the dungeon crawling genre.