Party games are all about getting people talking, laughing, and maybe embarrassing themselves just a little. They’re quick to set up, easy to teach, and perfect for big groups that care more about having fun together than about keeping score.
Some examples of party games are TETO!, Wurst Case Scenario and Mini Dinosaur.
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…
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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…
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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.…
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SHUG – A Social Fantasy Adventure Full of Strange Encounters
There are games where you sit there planning five turns ahead and trying to optimise every little move. Shug really doesn’t care much about that. This is a game where people argue with monsters, block roads out of spite, and…
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Burnout – Surviving Office Life
I think most of us have had at least one job that slowly drained the life out of us. Endless meetings, strange management decisions, somebody replying “per my last email” like it’s a threat… Burnout takes that feeling and turns…
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Slime Artist – Turning Blobs into Masterpieces
Most party games ask you to draw, guess, or explain. Slime Artist does something a bit weirder… in a good way. The idea is that you’re a tiny slime that sneaks into a museum and wants to become a masterpiece.…
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Zoology – Guess Who’s Who in the Animal Kingdom
Zoology is one of those games that seems easy to understand at first, but once you start playing, it turns into something a bit different than you expected. The idea is easy enough. The big Encyclopedia Zoologica has basically exploded,…
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Snorkeling – A Card Game About Staying Underwater
I’ll be honest, when I first saw Snorkeling, I expected something very light and maybe a bit forgettable. Cute fish, bright colours, small box. You know the type. But after a few plays, I realised there’s a bit more bite…
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Codenames: Back to Hogwarts – When a Party Game Goes to Wizard School
Codenames is one of those games that just keeps showing up at tables. I mean, even people who don’t really follow board games know it. Someone always brings it out when the group gets big enough. It’s easy to start,…
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Fifty Fifty – It Looks Simple At First
At first glance, Fifty Fifty looks almost too simple. A deck of numbered cards from 1 to 100, quick turns, rules you can explain in a minute. It feels like one of those games you pull out when you don’t…
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