Want to know which games we have added to the recommendation guide most recently? This page will be kept up to date with only the 20 newest recommendations (most recent at the top), including our top picks, honorable mentions, and games we feel are “worth a look.”
👀 New Worth a Look
Challengers!
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.
👀 New Worth a Look
Feed the Kraken
Summary: Social deduction aboard a ship as sailors, pirates, and cultists vie for influence and secretly work towards their own objectives.
You Might Like If… you enjoy social deduction games and want an option that is a little more of a “big game” experience and still works great and some very high player counts.
👍 New Honorable Mention
Poetry for Neanderthals
Summary: Try to get your teammates to guess the secret word, but you must only use one-syllable words or get hit with the inflatable “No!” stick!
You Might Like If… you enjoy games where you try to get your teammates to guess something, and like the idea of a funny and challenging twist where everyone sounds like stumbling cavemen.
👀 New Worth a Look
Ready Set Bet
🔴 Daniel’s #44 All-Time
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.
👍 New Honorable Mention
Spots
Summary: Perform different tricks to place dice on adorable dog cards as you push your luck and race to complete six dogs first.
You Might Like If… you enjoy rolling dice and want an accessible game with a fun theme that has exciting moments and nice variety due to the randomized trick abilities used in each game.
⭐️ New Top Pick
Cthulhu: Death May Die
🟢 Ryan’s #25 All-Time 🔴 Daniel’s #8 All-Time
Summary: Work as a team to disrupt the ritual and slay the Lovecraftian Elder One.
You Might Like If… you enjoy thematic games with lots of dice-rolling and want a game that provides a big experience in a reasonable amount of time and has great variety and expandability with the mixing and matching of different Elder Ones and scenarios.
👍 New Honorable Mention
Unmatched: Cobble & Fog
Summary: Pick a character from Victorian-era literature and face off on a map in a duel to the death.
You Might Like If… you enjoy tactical games of conflict and want one that lets you match up any two fighters (or four in team mode) and having an interesting battle on one of the variable maps. We recommend Cobble & Fog as the jumping in point for Unmatched, but it is a system that can be expanded with tons of different sets to have more characters and maps to choose from.
⭐️ New Top Pick
Stella: Dixit Universe
🔴 Daniel’s #47 All-Time
Summary: Try to predict which connections other players will make among surrealistic pictures, trying to make many guesses without being the player who makes the most.
You Might Like If… you enjoy more right-brained activities with subjective connections between words and artwork and trying to get in the minds of other players. If you enjoy Dixit, this is a fresh variant that plays better at lower player counts, doesn’t pressure players to come up with clues, and all the cards are compatible between Stella and Dixit.
⭐️ New Top Pick
So Clover!
🔴 Daniel’s #41 All-Time
Summary: Work as a team to solve the arrangement of multi-word cards based on single-word clues from other players.
You Might Like If… you enjoy word games and want a non-competitive experience where everyone is solving the puzzle together.
⭐️ New Top Pick
Heat: Pedal to the Metal
🟢 Ryan’s #23 All-Time 🔴 Daniel’s #22 All-Time
Summary: Manage your car’s speed to prevent overheating as you push to win the race.
You Might Like If… you want an easy-to-learn racing game that plays well across a wide range of player counts and has a really elegant deck-building system that is simple but full of interesting decisions.
⭐️ New Top Pick
SCOUT
Summary: Try to be the first to get rid of all your cards by playing stronger sets and finding the right time to scout other players’ cards — however, you can never change the order of the cards in your hand!
You Might Like If… you enjoy traditional card games where you are managing a hand to try to play all your cards but want a game that puts a new twist on the genre that leads to some really fascinating new decisions.
⭐️ New Top Pick
Ark Nova
🟢 Ryan’s #4 All-Time 🔴 Daniel’s #15 All-Time
Summary: Plan and build a modern zoo through card effects and a spatial puzzle, managing your appeal while also supporting conservation initiatives.
You Might Like If… you enjoy games that require you to carefully optimize interconnected actions and adapt to various card effects, and like the idea of a game that gives you a feeling of building something up while also racing to be the first to reach the target amounts of conservation and appeal.
👀 New Worth a Look
The Guild of Merchant Explorers
Summary: Explore strange lands, establish trade routes, and search for treasure on your personal map by using the revealed terrain card each turn.
You Might Like If… you enjoy games in the roll-and-write genre or simply like working on your own personal puzzle and want a game that has the neat twist of acquiring powerful custom abilities that will trigger as certain cards are flipped as the game progresses.
👀 New Worth a Look
Blood on the Clocktower
Summary: Deduce who the Demon is through logic and bluffing, and remain in the game even if your character has been killed.
You Might Like If… you enjoy large-group social deduction games, and are looking for a deeper experience that is full of variability in roles and keeps everyone engaged the entire time.
⭐️ New Top Pick
Final Girl
🟢 Ryan’s #12 All-Time
Release Year: 2021 Complexity: Medium
👥 1 Player
⏰ 20-40 min
💸 ~$40*
🔗 Buy
*Core box is not playable by itself; at least one feature film must be purchased to play.
Summary: You alone must survive and defeat the horror movie killer through a combination of tactical planning and good fortune.
You Might Like If… you enjoy highly thematic experiences, don’t mind randomness, and want a horror-themed solo-only game that has tons of variety as you buy more feature films as any of the killers and locations can be mixed and matched.
⭐️ New Top Pick
Nemesis
🔴 Daniel’s #3 All-Time
Summary: Survive an alien-infested spaceship but beware of other players and their agendas.
You Might Like If… you enjoy games that create memorable moments and don’t mind swingy randomness, and you want an epic story-driven game the odds are stacked against you and players have secret agendas so you don’t know who to trust.
👍 New Honorable Mention
Ransom Notes
Summary: Try to create the funniest response to a prompt, but you can only use the word magnets that are in front of you.
You Might Like If… you are wanting a creative exercise that will get the group laughing out loud with no one caring about any kind of winning or losing. The game is marked as 17+ and contains mature prompts and words; however, it can easily be converted into a great family game by simply removing the components that aren’t appropriate for your group.
⭐️ New Top Pick
Under Falling Skies
Summary: Strategically allocate your dice as you alone command the forces of a city holding off invading aliens.
You Might Like If… you enjoy puzzles and worker placement and want a solo game filled with tough decisions and an opposition whose behavior is predictable and controlled by your own actions.
⭐️ New Top Pick
Welcome to the Moon
Summary: Strategically place numbers and activate abilities across eight unique boards in this flip-and-write game that has you traveling from earth to the moon.
You Might Like If… you enjoy working on your own puzzle and trying to plan ahead and want a game that has a variety of maps with different twists to keep the game fresh. Also includes a campaign mode if you can consistently gather the same group.
⭐️ New Top Pick
PUSH
Summary: Push your luck to collect the most points, but be careful, a roll of the die can wipe out any points you haven’t banked.
You Might Like If… you enjoy pushing your luck and want a simple but interactive card game that packs exciting moments into a quick playing time.
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