Recommended Casual Game Award

Casual Game Recommended badge Each 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

Fill your forest with trees and give the creatures of the forest a home underneath the branches before winter comes and ends the game.

This two-player abstract strategy game is intricate and challenging, as players attempt to make groups of matching-colored tokens on the board, with groups established later in the game scoring more points.

Collect adorable dragons and build magical amulets in this clever game with a unique card playing mechanic.

Can you escape the evil genius’s lab and warn the world to save the day, in this real-time cooperative puzzle game?

In this cooperative deduction game played over five quick rounds, one player becomes the clue giver. Their goal is to help everyone else guess a secret character. They do this by playing cards featuring other characters and indicating whether those characters are similar to or different from the secret one.

Railroad Ink is a roll-and-write dice game about drawing routes on your player board as you lay down rail and help plot the highway, making connections and reaching exits to maximize your points as the dice determine the routes you must take.

The goal of this simple family card game is to collect sets of three. On your turn reveal one card at a time, from either the center of the table or another player's hand until you create a set or you reveal a card that doesn't match the others.

Vivarium is a set-collection game, with easy-to-learn mechanics and fun choices to make each turn, about exploring a recently discovered cavern and identifying new species of creatures to complete contracts and further science.