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

One player guides the others towards the key card hidden among ten others on the table. With a three minute timer ticking each round, players attempt to eliminate the cards they believe to be wrong while the guide sets up the clues for the next round.

A family-friendly logic puzzle game, in which players race against the clock to stack cupcake cups according to certain patters depicted on assignment cards while following the game’s rules for moving the cups around.

Slide tools between the layers of the cake. Attempt to knock your opponents’ tools out, while avoiding your own. And be careful! The tools that are most visible at the end of the game will be confiscated by the guards.

Stringamajig is a party game in which players use a loop of string to draw words. Using your string and some charade skills, can you get the table to guess the word 'tooth'? How about 'snail'?

Mental Blocks is a cooperative puzzle game in which each player is dealt a card that shows one perspective for the block tower they are building. Players cooperate to assemble the structure before the timer runs out.

In this cooperative logic puzzle game, players manipulate the meeple partiers spread around their house, in an effort to collect photos certain meeples in certain locations, while trying to avoid disastrous situations.

Line up the boats to plan the perfect move, as you jump from boat to boat to claim the perfect wedding gifts, sometimes literally out from under your opponents!

The detectives have gathered. But one among you is a conspirator and another their informer. Play cards to match the word the informer has given you, but the conspirator has no idea what the word is and must attempt to bluff their way through. Can you spot who it is?

Cabo: Deluxe Edition features beautifully whimsical artwork, with a blend of memory elements and lightly strategic gameplay. Each player has four cards face-down in front of them. The goal is to get the collective value of your cards closer to zero than your opponents' cards, choosing the perfect moment to go out and have all players reveal their cards and compare.

Each player controls a tribe, dropping them through a cube tower, hoping they come out again to produce the resources they need to make advancements, develop tools, and add to their tribes.