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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

 


 

Fire, Water, Earth, Wind. These four elements have driven mankind’s mythology, philosophy and science for eons. Now, master the power of these primal forces in this easy-to-learn, but deeply strategic game of capture and area control.
 
In Element, players take turns drawing and placing four element stones to encircle opposing sages. Each element has unique properties players can use to block an opponent’s movement.
 
The sorcerer has sent you, a street urchin like Aladdin, into a cave to look for a magic lamp that lets you call upon a genie’s favors. However, the cave also encloses fabulous treasures sorted into three chests. If you’re not too greedy, this could be your chance to become rich!
 
In a forgotten time, when magic could move mountains, the Kingdom of Caladale was home to people of all kinds, living in castles of unimaginable beauty. Yet, on one fateful night, an ancient spell of great power was cast by one unable to control it. By daybreak all of the castles were destroyed – their walls and towers torn apart, twisted together and scattered across the land.
 
This lovely little card game has a beautiful, relaxing atmosphere and is a joy to play, even if you are competing to be the most talented gardener.
 
Amalgam is both nicely strategic and extremely easy to learn.
 
In the center of the table there is a grid of six-by-six cards that are laid out face up. Corner cards make up each of the four corners, while the remaining cards come from the deck of ingredient and spell cards.
 
Six making is the next evolution of chess! The rules are simple: Your goal is to build a tower of six or more disks with your color on top. On your turn, you will either start a new tower by adding a piece to the board, or capture an existing tower by moving another in play. The twist is that each tower moves like a different chess piece, based on the number of disks in that tower.
 

Show off your spatula skills and prove you have what it takes to become the master of stir-fry! Win the hearts of your customers by creating the best dishes before the ingredients run out. Sound too spicy? You’d better get used to the heat because it’s tom to Wok on Fire!

Costume Party is a quick card game about bluffing, memory, and, of course, looking great.

Attend parties, win prizes and choose from a number of corny costumes, each with their own unique appeal.

Have you ever played a fun game that was ultimately the same each playthrough? Yeah, it might change a bit from group to group, but eventually, it just starts gathering dust on the shelf.

Enter PWNs, the game with so many different possibilities, strategies, and combinations and character placement that no game can ever be alike.

Set sail for an exciting adventure of strategy and skullduggery in this captivating card game. Storm your opponents’ merchant ships and seize valuable treasure. But watch your back matey – plundering pirates are out to capture your ships as well! The player with the most loot rules the high seas.

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