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Recommended Casual Game Award

Casual Game Recommended badgeEach 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

 


 

Coconuts is a dexterity game based on the "Monkey King" character from Chinese mythology.

In the game, players launch coconuts toward a field of cups in the middle of the playing area. Land in a cup, and you get to stack it on your player board; land in a cup on someone else's board, and you get to move it to yours. Whoever first completes a pyramid of six cups on his player board wins!

Ninja Dice is a fast-paced, push-your-luck dice game with a unique mechanic: it’s not just what you roll, where the dice land is important! Each turn in Ninja Dice you create a house filled with challenges and use your ninja skills to beat them. Move quick! The other ninjas are also rolling dice to attack you (and each other) because the ninja with the most treasure wins! Ninja Dice introduces a mechanic that allows certain dice to modify other dice based on how they land.

Stuff and Nonsense is a game of low adventure, featuring a cadre of would-be explorers who never actually leave home.

You'll wander the outskirts of London, collecting evidence of your imaginary journeys, then return to the Adventurer's Club to spin your web of lies.

But beware of Professor Elemental: he was the first one to think of this, and he's not at all impressed!

Fast Anagram Fun! KerFlip is an exciting, shoot-from-the-hip style word game that rewards you for making words faster than your opponents can. The first time a tile is used, it’s worth 10 points. Once it’s been scored, flip it to its orange side. Now it’s worth only 5 points to other players!

In Evolution, players create and adapt their own species in a dynamic ecosystem with hungry predators and limited resources.  Traits like Hard Shell and Horns will protect you from Carnivores, while a Long Neck will help you get food that others cannot reach.

With over 12000 different species to create, every game becomes a different adventure. So gather your friends around the table and see who will best adapt their species to eat, multiply and thrive!

In this crazy new card game, players battle the DEMENTED, DISGUSTING AND DERANGED...from macabre characters to diabolical traps! Using action cards, players try to beat each encounter they face. If successful, they get a coin...if not, they lose a card. Players may also confiscate coins from their opponents by attacking them with BACKSTAB moves. The first player to rack up 25 cents WINS THE GAME!

You don't have to know it all to win it all! Skōsh is the team-play trivia game for people who have more fun figuring it out than knowing it all. Draw from hundreds of questions, then pool your wits and take your best guess - you might miss the mark but the closer you get, the faster you advance. Keep score with a tug-of-war by trying to pull the puck away from your opponent's winning circle and into your own. It's free-wheeling fun for all whether you miss by a mile or win … by a Skōsh.

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