Board & card games
Here’s an update to this list.
The board games (and a few card games) I’m listing here are sometimes called Eurogames — often made in Europe, they rely on more strategy and less luck. My other list of card games is a list of games you can play with a regular deck of cards.
Settlers of Catan and Ticket to Ride are the best board games ever made.
Longest Games (roughly 75 to 120 minutes)
- Best of the best
- Above and Below
- Agricola
- Candamir: The First Settlers
- Lost Ruins of Arnak
- Starfarers of Catan
- Terraforming Mars
- Tzolk’in: The Mayan Calendar
Longer Games (roughly 45 to 75 minutes)
- Best of the best
- 7 Wonders
- Carcassonne
- Cities and Knights of Catan
- Dominion
- Elasund: The First City
- Elfenland
- Settlers of Catan
- Stone Age
- Ticket to Ride Europe
- Runner ups
- Alhambra
- Blue Moon City
- El Grande
- Evolution
- Jamaica
- Lost Cities: The Board Game
- Pandemic +
- Photosynthesis
- Robo Rally
- Star Trek Panic +
- Takenoko
Shorter Games (roughly 15 to 45 minutes)
- Best of the best
- 10 Days in Africa
- Blokus Trigon
- Imhotep
- Ingenious
- Kingdomino
- Paperback
- Qwirkle
- Tokaido
- Wooly Bully
- Runner ups
- 6 nimmt!
- Arboretum
- Azul
- Camel Up
- Cartagena
- Colt Express
- Dixit
- Kingdom Builder
- Ubongo
- Zooloretto
2 Player Games
- Best of the best
- 7 Wonders Duel
- Battle Line
- Catan Card Game
- Dragonheart
- Lost Cities
- Newton
- Runner up
- Race for the Galaxy
Many of these games have different versions or expansions — I’ve listed the version I’ve played most often.
+ These games are cooperative.
If you want to read information or reviews of board games, you could look on BoardGameGeek.