Recommended Casual Game Award

Casual Game Recommended badge Each Recommended game has been carefully evaluated by our editorial staff and found to meet the following conditions:

• Representative of the casual game genre in terms of game length, depth, and complexity
• Appeals to a general audience, with a G or PG content rating
• Has acheived a high rating in gameplay, quality, and originality

Carved into the crags of the mist-shrouded mountains of ancient Japan lies the ancient shrine of Onitama. Masters of the Arts journey there with their promising disciples, to prove their superiority in battle.

Onitama is an elegant and simple game which captures the essence of martial arts.

Ion is a game about chemistry! But more specifically, it’s a card-drafting game about building compounds! Players are given a hand of ion and elements cards, and must select one of those cards either to bond to a card already on the table, or to set it alone. Players then pass their remaining hand of cards to an opposing player to start the process over again.

The brilliant Dr. Eureka has important experiments for you to complete!

You must solve his scientific formulas by moving your materials from tube to tube without touching them with your bare hands! Solve the solutions faster than your competition to prove you are the smartest scientist in the lab!

Your old favorite book is now your new favorite game! Draw a category card, grab a book, and then quickly skim to satisfy the chosen prompt (and the judge!) with the most entertaining phrase. Can you find "a ridiculous tabloid headline" in that best-selling novel? How about “dating advice” in your well-worn cookbook? Since you can use any book, you can play with any group and find limitless potential on every page! Where will you discover “the title of the next hit party game?” Find out when you Bring Your Own Book!

You are an owner of a traditional restaurant. Do your best to attract the 7 best Geisha to join you by collecting their favorite items.

Explore! Discover! Sabotage!

Join the Golden Age of Archeology! Compete with your rival colleagues to become the most revered archeologist in the world. Use seas, mountains, and airports to connect your dig sites to your base camp. Collect valuable artifacts and out with your opponents in this easy-to-learn strategic, tile-laying game.

Beware the mummy!

Welcome to the city of Machi Koro, the Japanese card game that is sweeping the world.

You've just been elected Mayor. Congratulations! Unfortunately, the citizens have some pretty big demands: jobs, a theme park, a couple of cheese factories, and maybe even a radio tower. A tough proposition sine the city currently consists of a wheat field, a bakery, and a single die.

Enter a fantasy realm with only five minutes to complete your missions!

Dungeon Time is a real time, cooperative card game of exciting dungeon adventures and catastrophic failures for 1 (yes, you can play solo!) to 5 players.

As the sand falls in the sandtimer, you must race through the deck to achieve as many missions as you can. Simultaneously, you and your friends draw, play, draw, frantically looking for all the Items you need to complete your Missions.

Every morning Odin sends his ravens, Huginn and Muninn, across the world to bring back news of what life is like on Earth. Naturally, after thousands of years, they've gotten a little competitive...

Race through the landscape in opposite directions to be the first to return to Odin. Focus on speed, or enlist the help of the trickster god Loki to create shortcuts and hinder your opponent. Can you be certain Loki's changes won't help your opponent instead? There's only one way to find out!