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

This lovely little card game has a beautiful, relaxing atmosphere and is a joy to play, even if you are competing to be the most talented gardener.

Amalgam is both nicely strategic and extremely easy to learn.

In the center of the table there is a grid of six-by-six cards that are laid out face up. Corner cards make up each of the four corners, while the remaining cards come from the deck of ingredient and spell cards.

Six making is the next evolution of chess! The rules are simple: Your goal is to build a tower of six or more disks with your color on top. On your turn, you will either start a new tower by adding a piece to the board, or capture an existing tower by moving another in play. The twist is that each tower moves like a different chess piece, based on the number of disks in that tower.

Show off your spatula skills and prove you have what it takes to become the master of stir-fry! Win the hearts of your customers by creating the best dishes before the ingredients run out. Sound too spicy? You’d better get used to the heat because it’s tom to Wok on Fire!

Costume Party is a quick card game about bluffing, memory, and, of course, looking great.

Attend parties, win prizes and choose from a number of corny costumes, each with their own unique appeal.

Have you ever played a fun game that was ultimately the same each playthrough? Yeah, it might change a bit from group to group, but eventually, it just starts gathering dust on the shelf.

Enter PWNs, the game with so many different possibilities, strategies, and combinations and character placement that no game can ever be alike.

Set sail for an exciting adventure of strategy and skullduggery in this captivating card game. Storm your opponents’ merchant ships and seize valuable treasure. But watch your back matey – plundering pirates are out to capture your ships as well! The player with the most loot rules the high seas.

Wakanda is a 2 player totem pole building game. Your objective is to build and claim the totem poles worth the most points at the end of the game. Each turn, you will have to choose between increasing the value of one of the available totem poles, or claiming it as your own. Totems only score points if you can also claim the corresponding village tiles. So play smart, and build totem poles that will honor the old gods.

The research teams are outfitted and ready to embark on their adventures to find five forgotten cities. Who will lead the way to fantastic discoveries?

Each player guides a team of explorers on up to five expeditions. To advance along an expedition path, a card in the path’s color must be played for each step forward. The card must be of equal or greater value to the player’s card previously played on that path.

Carved into the crags of the mist-shrouded mountains of ancient Japan lies the ancient shrine of Onitama. Masters of the Arts journey there with their promising disciples, to prove their superiority in battle.

Onitama is an elegant and simple game which captures the essence of martial arts.