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

Published by Red Raven Games, Megaland is a 20-minute push-your-luck game, designed for 2-5 players, which combines elements of Incan Gold and Machi Koro.

Choose your puzzles carefully, build up a supply of puzzle pieces, and master the art of solving in this competitive puzzle game.

Published by Boardcubator, Puzzle L is a Tetris-style puzzle game for 1-4 players, with engine-building elements.

Morels, girolles, boletes, and parasol mushrooms! The woods are full of yummy mushrooms, ripe for harvesting. But the other players are after them, too, and you’ll have to choose carefully if you want to take home the most delicious ones.

Dive deep into the ocean, avoiding sharks and seeking aid from turtles and manta rays as you race your opponents to the bottom, while guessing how deep certain objects are in a stack of transparent cards.

Float on the wind, spread your dandelion seeds, and flower across the gardens, in this elegantly simple mixture of area control and dice.

A fascinating twist on a well-known and well-loved genre, Cat in the Box brings a new dimension to trick-taking, in which you decide which suit each card in your hand belongs to.