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.
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…
Cucumber Catastrophe – A Trick-Taking Game About Not Taking Tricks
Cats have a pretty good life. They sleep all day, get fed whenever they feel like it, and somehow still find reasons to complain. But in Cucumber Catastrophe, their peaceful existence is interrupted by something far more terrifying than a vacuum cleaner: cucumbers. If you’ve ever seen those videos of cats launching themselves into the…
Fantastic Trails – Ants, Numbers, and the Long Way Home
When you first look at Fantastic Trails, it gives off a pretty relaxed first impression. Colourful artwork, cute ants, a small box… it all looks quite approachable. Then you start playing and realise these ants are asking you to make some surprisingly difficult decisions. In Fantastic Trails, you’re building up your own ant colony by…
Fluffypede – A Card Game of Plush Construction
The world of Fluffypede is built around this sudden obsession with giant fluffy plush creatures called Fluffypedes, and the whole thing feels just weird enough to immediately get your attention. You play as toymakers trying to stitch these creatures together while fighting over limited materials, changing builds, and scoring chances that can disappear one turn…
Link City – Building by Association
Most cooperative games ask players to stop something terrible from happening. A virus spreads across the world, monsters appear, a spaceship breaks apart, or somebody accidentally opens a portal to another dimension. Link City goes in a much stranger direction. Here, the big challenge is trying to agree on where an alien embassy should be…
Giraffe Raffe – Climbing Toward the Last Apple
In Giraffe Raffe, a group of hungry giraffes gathers around apple trees, all trying to reach fruit hanging just a little too high above them. At first glance, it looks like a very cheerful little card game. Bright colours, goofy giraffes, tiny wooden apples… the sort of thing that gives off “nice family game” energy…
Madcala – Wonderland Mancala
When I first saw Madcala on the table, I expected something chaotic. Colorful gems, twisted Wonderland characters, glowing cats with creepy smiles, oversized tea-party artwork… it gives the impression that the game is going to spiral into nonsense after a few turns. That’s not really what happens. Underneath all the Wonderland weirdness sits a surprisingly…
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