Family games keep things light and easy to learn, the kind you can pull out with anyone at the table without spending half an hour on rules. They’re meant for laughs, a bit of friendly competition, and that feeling of just enjoying a game together, whether you’re a seasoned player or brand new to the hobby.
Some examples of family games are The Peak Team, Movie Fight and 10 To Leave.
Crops – Farming With One Eye on the Moon
In Crops, you have twelve turns to build a field of vegetables in a 3 by 4 grid. You place crop cards, connect matching family symbols, add goals to individual columns, and create moon phases between neighbouring cards. The problem is that a card rarely helps with everything at once. The carrot that completes one…
Capsule Collector – What’s Hiding Inside?
Bright capsules are lined up behind the glass, and somewhere inside them might be the toy you’re hoping for. Or, let’s be honest, it might be another rubber duck. You won’t know until you open it. In Capsule Collector, two to four players collect capsules, place them in a 4×4 grid and reveal the toys…
Kuroshio – Route Building on the Open Ocean
The Kuroshio Current carries warm water north through the western Pacific, along Taiwan and Japan. It attracts large schools of fish, followed by bigger predators, whales and fishing boats hoping to find a valuable catch. In Kuroshio, we add sea cards to the table, sail through fish schools and try to reach useful fishing grounds…
Durchmarsch – Or Why Stopping Is Harder Than Rolling
Durchmarsch is a small dice game about moving along a row of numbers, one step at a time, while constantly asking yourself one simple question: do I stop now, or do I roll again? At first, that doesn’t sound like much. You roll dice, cross off numbers, and try to reach the end of a…
Octobuns – Baking Orders With Eight Arms and Nine Spaces
The harbour is busy, the customers are hungry, and somewhere in the middle of all that chaos, an octopus is trying to run a bakery. That already sounds like a good start for a card game. In Octobuns, players are octopus bakers collecting ingredients, making buns, and completing orders for the local harbour visitors. It…
Carnuta – A Druidic Potion Puzzle With Sun and Moon Runes
Deep in the forest of Carnuta, a group of druids comes together for their yearly ritual. Not to hug trees, although I’m not judging, but to brew potions and decide who deserves the title of druid of the year. In Carnuta, you collect ingredients, manage sun and moon runes, and slowly build your own potion…
2 PineApples – Count the Fruit Before It Changes
A pine, an apple, and a pineapple walk into a card game. It sounds like the start of a bad joke, but that is more or less what 2 PineApples is about. You look at three piles of cards, count what is visible, and say the right thing before your brain takes a little holiday.…
Las Vegas – The Biggest Payout Isn’t Always the Best
Welcome to Las Vegas, where everyone is chasing the biggest payouts, but the casino that looks the most attractive isn’t always the one you want to visit. One well-placed die can completely change your plans, which is something we learned pretty quickly. In this game, we’re all trying to win the most money by sending…
Toys – The Teddy Bear Has Had Enough
When the lights go out and the house finally goes quiet, the toys wake up. At least, that’s the idea behind Toys. On one side you have the old guard. A battered teddy bear, a retro handheld console, and an old rotary phone that has probably seen better days. On the other side are the…
Bombastic – Three in a Row, If You Dare
Every tile in Bombastic is a question mark. Somewhere in the grid are the symbols you’re looking for. Somewhere else is a bomb that’s waiting for somebody to make a bad decision. And the funny thing is, sometimes you know exactly what you’re doing right before you realise you absolutely don’t. Bombastic is a small…
Pinkuins – Keeping the Band Together
A group of penguins is about to play the biggest concert of their lives. The audience is ready, the instruments are waiting, and somehow you’ve ended up as the stage manager. In Pinkuins, players collect tiles and place them on their own board to create the best concert setup possible. The trick is that grabbing…
Bavianenberg – Climbing Higher While Keeping Secrets
The battle for Bavianenberg has started, and it’s exactly as chaotic as a mountain full of ambitious baboons sounds. Six colourful baboon clans are trying to climb as high as possible, because the higher they end up, the more points they’re worth at the end of the game. Simple enough. The catch is that every…
Spooky Tower – Catching Ghosts on Camera
For centuries, a magical amulet kept the town’s ghosts trapped inside the old clock tower. Then, of course, someone had to go and break it. Now the ghosts are roaming freely through the streets, hiding in plain sight. The catch? Nobody can actually see them. The only way to spot them is by taking photographs…
Bunny Kingdom Town – More Than Just Bunny Kingdom for Two
When I first heard about Bunny Kingdom Town, I wasn’t entirely sure what to expect. The original Bunny Kingdom is a game about expanding across a large kingdom, claiming territories, and building fiefs. This one goes in a different direction. Instead of managing a kingdom, you’re building a single town together with one other player…
Oh My Pigeons! – A Flock of Trouble
When I first heard about a game where players compete to collect pigeons on a park bench, I wasn’t entirely sure what to expect. It’s not exactly a theme you see every day. Pigeons aren’t usually the stars of board games. They’re more the birds that stare at you while you’re eating fries and make…
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