Recommended Casual Game Award

Each player takes on the role of one of six iconic Disney villain, and competes to be the first to complete their personal objective and become the most dastardly villain of them all. Will you be King John as he tries to get richer? Ursula as she seeks to take over the ocean? Or Jafar in his quest for the lamp?

Players are bees, racing to roll dice in this real time dice game with tile placement elements.

Each flower you win goes into your hive, but placement is key as only matching flowers adjacent to each other will score points at the end of the game.

Players work together to discover the secret words hidden in a series of puzzles. One player has the answer key and must guide one or more players through the necessary steps in order to find the solution.

Keep an eye on the clock and learn to communicate with your teammates or be stuck in the lost temple forever.

Bidding, drafting, and tile placement, come together in this board game about building stations and shipping goods.

Using historical logos and real life cities, Railroad Rivals taps into the history of railroads, as players compete to create a railroading empire.

Players place and move stones on a board of various sizes, trying to complete a line from one side of the board to the other created by their pieces.

Cops are bursting through the door and the only way to avoid arrest is to snag a phony ID card and make sure your story checks out.

Pass around the wallet, slip cards in and out, and when the round ends, see if your ID is right and you can’t escape with some cash in hand.

A cooperative real time game with minimum communication. Players control four heroes as they race through the magical mall to steal equipment and make it for the exits. Only catch: each player only has a limited number of actions they can make a hero do, so players must work together, pooling their various actions in order to complete the heist while only being allowed to talk occasionally.

A game that tests your speed! Players take turns flipping over two cards at a time. As soon as a player’s cards makes certain matches, everyone races to grab the right nuts in the center of the table. Depending on the nut, the slowest player may have to place cards under their scoring tile, or the fastest player may get to choose who has to place cards under their tile.

A 2018 Spiel des Jahres nominee, Luxor has players making their way through an Egyptian tomb to reach the sarcophagus. Each player controls a certain number of meeples, unlocking more as they make their way further along the board. The board itself is randomly built each time you play, and players score points for items they collect as they go and how far each meeple makes it into the tomb.