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

The Law and the Outlaws finally confront each other, and their shootout will be full of surprises! Each side has two gunslingers in the field at a time: one on the frontlines and one as the rearguard. If you're careful how you position them, and use their abilities wisely, you'll be the winner of the duel... when you make your enemies bite the dust.

Many are the paths to power: brute force, subtle deception, cunning trickery. You hold the cards… but you can’t keep them all. What will you collect for personal gain? And what are you willing to give up in order to destroy? The Ravens are gathering, many of whom used to be rivals. Will you rise to power or simply be “Nevermore”.

J.F.K. died after Joan of Arc, that’s for sure. He probably had the chance to see the original King Kong movie in theaters… but was he able to see Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon, or eat fast food?

These are the kinds of questions you’ll be faced with in Timeline. Each turn, you’ll play one of your cards. There is only one goal here; to correctly play all of your cards.

Armadöra is a magical land, known for its abundance of treasure and peril. It’s plentiful Dwarven gold mines are frequently targets of raids from the neighboring factions of Elves, Wizards, Orcs, and Goblins. So, if you want to take your share of treasure, you will have to lay claim to the land by placing your palisades and warriors so that your forces outnumber those of your opponents. Each turn the question is simple: should you place one warrior or two palisades?

Clans clash, water splashes and the booming croaks of bullfrogs ring out across the moonlit pond…

Bullfrogs is a quick area control game of tactical combat. Players take command of competing frog clans in an attempt to outmaneuver each other for dominance over the pond.

Each opponent battles for lily pads by deploying, sabotaging and jumping frogs on an ever-changing pond of lily pads. On a turn, players play a card, take actions and engage in amphibian hi-jinks!

Checkers and Chess have been classic, go-to games for hundreds of years, but where is the modern twist? Tak-Tak is today’s new two-player strategy board game! It has simple rules like Checkers and the layered strategies of Chess for a gameplay dynamic that is both familiar and fresh. Players take turns moving their pieces into the gray “war zone” with the goal of reaching their opponent’s safe zone on the other side of the board.

In The Last Spike, players cooperate to build a railway from St. Louis to Sacramento. Many different routes are possible. Each player competes to accumulate the most money from land speculation before the "last spike" is laid. Quick to learn, the game is great fun for ages 10+.

Invite family and friends to join a game where you race to outfox your opponents and being quick and witty count more than being correct.

Using randomly drawn letters, you'll compose answers to goofy questions. Don't sweat about spelling or grammar – they hardly matter. Whether it's misspelled or entirely made-up, if you can convince the judge that your answer is a gem rather than a "Stinker", you'll be one step closer to the sweet smell of victory!