Best 8 Player Board Games (Low-Medium Complexity)
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Best 8 Player Board Games (Low-Medium Complexity)

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Looking for an 8-player game that is accessible and light on rules but still has meaningful strategy? Here are our recommendations.

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⭐️ Top Picks

Our top recommendations in this category, and games that we personally own to fill this niche.

Cartographers

🟢 Ryan’s #40 All-Time

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Release Year: 2019 Complexity: Low-Medium

  👥  1-100 Players

  ⏰  30-60 min

  💸 ~$25

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Summary: Fit shapes of various terrains into your map, doing your best to fill in space efficiently while also meeting the scoring conditions for that game.

You Might Like If… you enjoy spatial puzzles (think Tetris) and want a game that plays great across a broad range of players with a nice amount of variety from game to game with randomized objectives.

👍 Honorable Mentions

Games that missed being top picks, but that we still think are great choices for a lot of people.

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Release Year: 2018 Complexity: Low-Medium

  👥  1-100 Players

  ⏰  20-40 min

  💸 ~$30

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Summary: Plan ahead as you number your houses and design your neighborhood in this simultaneous-play flip-and-write game.

You Might Like If… you enjoy working on a puzzle where you need to plan ahead and want a game that can plays well anywhere from 2 players to 12+ players. The sequel Welcome to the Moon is our personal favorite in this line, but only supports 6 players, so the original is still a great option for playing with large groups.

 👀 Worth a Look

Games we haven’t tried yet ourselves, but we believe could be a good choice in this category.

Ready Set Bet

🔴 Daniel’s #44 All-Time

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Release Year: 2022 Complexity: Low-Medium

  👥  2-9 Players

  ⏰  45-60 min

  💸 ~$40

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Summary: Bet on a horse race as it is in progress in this chaotic real-time game.

You Might Like If… you enjoy betting and high-energy games and want a unique game that can play well up to some really high player counts.

Challengers!

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Release Year: 2022 Complexity: Low-Medium

  👥  1-8 Players

  ⏰  45-60 min

  💸 ~40

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Summary: Build your deck and try your luck in a chaotic capture the flag tournament!

You Might Like If… you don’t mind a huge amount of luck in games and can get into the excitement of a chaotic tournament bracket of simultaneous head-to-head matchups. Given the tournament-bracket style of this game, even numbers of players are ideal.

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