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

In this cooperative building game, one player sees the card that shows what the team is trying to build and must use gestures to convey it, while a second player interprets these signs and walks the builder (who has her eyes closed) through the building process.

A family friendly auction game in which players must bid for plots of land, competing to fulfill shared and secret objectives, earn bonus tokens, and come out on top with the most money in order to be named the new head of the family.

A two player set collection and hand management card game set in the Scottish Highlands, from the designer of Lost Cities and The Quest for El Dorado.

Line up three or more bubblees in a row to move them from your planet to your score pile, activating their powers when you do so to move bubblees to your opponent's board, rotate those on yours, or even move a lone bubble to your score pile.

Wavelength has players attempting to guess where a target has fallen between two extremes, based on a clue given to them by their psychic. The psychic's clue is based on a card that tells them what the two extremes are (such as cold and hot, or dark and light).

Step into the role of explorers in Wayfinders, where you take to skies and connect far flung islands through flight and airports.

Charades meets social deduction, in this compact little card game about hunting the pretender among you.

A social deduction party game in which one player gives clues with images and the other players attempt to determine which picture on the table the clues point to, while an unknown traitor attempts to muddy the water.

Decktective: Bloody-Red Roses is a mystery game set in the 1800’s, where players must work together to figure out the answer to a series of questions, using a deck of cards and a 3D murder scene created with the game box and a few cards.

Players must work together to hunt down an elusive creature, but in the end only one of you will have the glory of the find, so be careful not to give too much information away.