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

Players are competing for donuts, drafting them simultaneously from the donut row. But if two or more players go after the same donut, no one gets it and it’s immediately discarded.

Each round is fast and the simulations gameplay keeps everyone involved. The rules are also quite simple and easy to teach, and could easily be played by families (though everyone is likely to want a donut afterwards!).

Outbid and outwit your opponents in this game of set collection and player negotiation. Acquire spices, textiles, livestock, and other exotic goods by bidding on caravans from lands across the ancient world. Manipulate the market and each other to acquire the most wealth and become the greatest merchant in Hafid’s Grand Bazaar!

Story Bowl is the game to play with the entire family: A goofy, lighthearted team game that ends in everyone telling stories.

In just 45-minutes you’ll shout, play charades, squeak, and more. All with clues that are 3-word “micro-stories” about everyone’s past memories.

At the end, you’ll reveal which micro-stories everyone wrote and tell the actual stories behind them.

It's the whimsical game of luck and quick decisions where everyone plays at once! Call out a number from 1 to 100 and roll the symbol die. Then all players write that number in the matching column on their score sheets. The key is that numbers must be placed in ascending order, so plot carefully or you’ll get boxed out! Be the first to complete a column and you rank above the rest!

Feel the thrill and enjoy the mystery from a escape game in your own home! As in the case in many Escape Rooms across the world, you are “locked in” in this game and the object is to find the codes to “escape” within 60 minutes by solving puzzles in riddles. Use your brain! Teamwork, good communication, ingenuity, creativity, logic and attention for detail are also very important.

Imagine a game that becomes the life of the party! Combine, overlap, and even animate the special transparent cards in this fast guessing free-for-all. Is that icon actually a flag pole? Or is it a golf club, a shark fin, or even an ostrich's neck? With 61 unique icons and more than a thousand prompts, it's a game as big as your imagination!

Fire, Water, Earth, Wind. These four elements have driven mankind’s mythology, philosophy and science for eons. Now, master the power of these primal forces in this easy-to-learn, but deeply strategic game of capture and area control.

In Element, players take turns drawing and placing four element stones to encircle opposing sages. Each element has unique properties players can use to block an opponent’s movement.

The sorcerer has sent you, a street urchin like Aladdin, into a cave to look for a magic lamp that lets you call upon a genie’s favors. However, the cave also encloses fabulous treasures sorted into three chests. If you’re not too greedy, this could be your chance to become rich!

In a forgotten time, when magic could move mountains, the Kingdom of Caladale was home to people of all kinds, living in castles of unimaginable beauty. Yet, on one fateful night, an ancient spell of great power was cast by one unable to control it. By daybreak all of the castles were destroyed – their walls and towers torn apart, twisted together and scattered across the land.