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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

 

 

Agamemnon
A deeply strategic two player game, in which the game board is made up of a series of spaces connected by threads of fate.
 
Players compete to control the most threads with strength, power, and sometimes just sheer numbers.
 
A double-sided board, where one side randomizes where the different threads of fate lie, keeps the game fresh over multiple playthroughs.

 

Super Mario: Level Up!

Played on a 3D game board, each player starts each round with a new Line Up card which lists six characters. Players take turns moving characters up the board, collecting power ups as they go. You score points at the end of each round based on the level of the board the characters from your Line Up card end on.

Family friendly and gamer friendly, the game does Mario proud. 

Hotshots

Choose one of the four firefighters and use press-your-luck mechanics and cooperation to defeat the fire before it burns eight of the nineteen forest tiles.

Beautifully and richly thematic, Hotshots balances nicely between being easy to learn and challenging to play. You face tough choices, have to work together, and won’t find it easy. 

Go Nuts for Donuts

Players are competing for donuts, drafting them simultaneously from the donut row. But if two or more players go after the same donut, no one gets it and it’s immediately discarded.

Each round is fast and the simulations gameplay keeps everyone involved. The rules are also quite simple and easy to teach, and could easily be played by families (though everyone is likely to want a donut afterwards!).

Hafid’s Grand Bazaar

Outbid and outwit your opponents in this game of set collection and player negotiation. Acquire spices, textiles, livestock, and other exotic goods by bidding on caravans from lands across the ancient world. Manipulate the market and each other to acquire the most wealth and become the greatest merchant in Hafid’s Grand Bazaar!

Story Bowl
Story Bowl is the game to play with the entire family: A goofy, lighthearted team game that ends in everyone telling stories.
 
In just 45-minutes you’ll shout, play charades, squeak, and more.  All with clues that are 3-word “micro-stories” about everyone’s past memories.
 
At the end, you’ll reveal which micro-stories everyone wrote and tell the actual stories behind them.
Qwingo

It's the whimsical game of luck and quick decisions where everyone plays at once! Call out a number from 1 to 100 and roll the symbol die. Then all players write that number in the matching column on their score sheets. The key is that numbers must be placed in ascending order, so plot carefully or you’ll get boxed out! Be the first to complete a column and you rank above the rest!

Escape Room: The Game
Feel the thrill and enjoy the mystery from a escape game in your own home! As in the case in many Escape Rooms across the world, you are “locked in” in this game and the object is to find the codes to “escape” within 60 minutes by solving puzzles in riddles. Use your brain! Teamwork, good communication, ingenuity, creativity, logic and attention for detail are also very important.
 

Imagine

Imagine a game that becomes the life of the party! Combine, overlap, and even animate the special transparent cards in this fast guessing free-for-all. Is that icon actually a flag pole? Or is it a golf club, a shark fin, or even an ostrich's neck? With 61 unique icons and more than a thousand prompts, it's a game as big as your imagination!

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