Recommended Casual Game Award

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.

Wakanda is a 2 player totem pole building game. Your objective is to build and claim the totem poles worth the most points at the end of the game. Each turn, you will have to choose between increasing the value of one of the available totem poles, or claiming it as your own. Totems only score points if you can also claim the corresponding village tiles. So play smart, and build totem poles that will honor the old gods.

The research teams are outfitted and ready to embark on their adventures to find five forgotten cities. Who will lead the way to fantastic discoveries?

Each player guides a team of explorers on up to five expeditions. To advance along an expedition path, a card in the path’s color must be played for each step forward. The card must be of equal or greater value to the player’s card previously played on that path.

Carved into the crags of the mist-shrouded mountains of ancient Japan lies the ancient shrine of Onitama. Masters of the Arts journey there with their promising disciples, to prove their superiority in battle.

Onitama is an elegant and simple game which captures the essence of martial arts.

Ion is a game about chemistry! But more specifically, it’s a card-drafting game about building compounds! Players are given a hand of ion and elements cards, and must select one of those cards either to bond to a card already on the table, or to set it alone. Players then pass their remaining hand of cards to an opposing player to start the process over again.

Your old favorite book is now your new favorite game! Draw a category card, grab a book, and then quickly skim to satisfy the chosen prompt (and the judge!) with the most entertaining phrase. Can you find "a ridiculous tabloid headline" in that best-selling novel? How about “dating advice” in your well-worn cookbook? Since you can use any book, you can play with any group and find limitless potential on every page! Where will you discover “the title of the next hit party game?” Find out when you Bring Your Own Book!

You are an owner of a traditional restaurant. Do your best to attract the 7 best Geisha to join you by collecting their favorite items.