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

Work together with the other players, to lay tracks and bring six commuters home from work on time, by playing cards to extend three different commuter lines. Bring everyone home before you run out of cards to win the game. Sounds easy? Limited communication makes the game far more challenging than you might expect.

Lost Cities is a classic two-player card game that has also received the board game treatment in its time: now it’s a roll and write! Launch expeditions, but consider carefully before you do so. If you don't progress far enough along on the expedition before the end of the game, it will earn you negative points.

Choose an item, come up with a great name, and a fantastic tagline, all while keeping in line with the letters rolled by the dice.

Build your city, filling it with skyscrapers and utilities, but be sure to create the perfect layout, or those features might end up counting against your final score!

Designed by Phil Walker-Harding (Imhotep, Sushi Go!) and published by Blue Orange Games, Neoville is a tile-laying puzzle game about building nature-based cities.

A set collection game about painting beautiful pictures. Plan your turn simultaneously with other players, but the earlier you wake up to paint then the earlier your turn will be resolved! Don't sleep in to late or you may have to watch your opponents ruin your carefully laid plans.

Score points by playing tiles to create lines of matching colors. But leave no color behind, as your final score will be that of your lowest scoring color at the end of the game.

A party game about coming up with answers for categories. The catch? They can't begin with the same letter as answers that have already been given this round.