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Recommended Casual Game Award

Casual Game Recommended badgeEach 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

 


 

It's the moment of truth.  Will your friend choose Outer Space, or The Bottom of the Sea? Do they prefer the Window or the Aisle?  Are they all about the Party, or the After-Party?  Successfully predict how your friends will answer thought-provoking questions like these and advance your token to the finish line!

What's It? is the game where creative minds think alike. Roll the die to get your category for the first round. Flip over a doodle card so it ends up face up. As the doodle card is being flipped over, turn your timer to start counting down 30 seconds. Players try and guess what the doodle is based on the category on the die. Try to think like the other players! After 30 seconds, stop writing. Total up the matching answers. Mark one point for every matching answer! The Doodler scores a point for every non-matching answer.

Can you see the yellow piece?” “No, but the blue piece must be on the second level!” In ever-changing teams, two partners must combine their sense of observation to reproduce a depicted construction. But building is not everything; since their effort is timed, they will want to succeed as fast as possible for them to score the most points. Once their task is done, a new team is formed and a new task begins. Will you be the one whose building skills will rise above the competition?

It's a Race in the Restaurant! Play your cards to manage a staff of waiters and busboys trying to be the first to dish out all of your orders. Sounds simple enough... the soups are up, send them out!! Busboy! Clear table 2! Wait! I've got too many dishes, you take some! AAAH! This is cold, send it back! OK, maybe not QUITE that frantic, but you get the picture. Nothing a good wait staff can't handle!

As a medieval monk, you are charged with increasing the prestige of the abbey’s collection of historical and sacred texts. By acquiring the resources for manuscript illustration & reproduction, your abbey produces and sells its valuable works, thereby bringing in finances necessary for maintaining a fine abbey. Will you succeed in making your abbey the most prestigious of all?

In Walk the Plank!, players represent the worst pirates in a captain's crew. The captain has rounded you all up because you're all lazy and stupid and simply not worth the rum and loot you get paid. That said, the captain has decided he's willing to keep two of you in his crew. To prove you're worthy, you will fight amongst yourselves, trying to shove other players' pirates off the end of the plank while keeping yours alive!

Who will pluck the most popular pairs? Each player gets 60 seconds to pair up 11 images at the same time. 5 pairs and one bad apple! Players gain points by matching the most other players with the same pairs. Test your powers of prediction with this fun family game!

Save the world from the Merchant of Death! The "merchant of death" is an infamous dealer of illegal arms whose business dealings have reaped him great profits, but have also put weapons into the hands of nefarious criminals throughout the world. In Gunrunners, players lead their own teams of international agents who pursue the Merchant of Death and confiscate his weapons. Will your agents succeed in bringing the Merchant of Death to justice?

Click Clack Lumberjack is a dexterity game that really is a blast, just AXE your friends... yeah we just said that. It is a fast-paced, classic dexterity game for 2-10 players featuring an axe, a tree, some grubs and an infinite amount of fun from Korea!

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