Recommended Casual Game Award

A sequel to the 2023 Spiel des Jahres Nominee Next Station: London,  Next Station: Tokyo is a flip-and-write game all about building subway lines across a map of Tokyo.

Pass gifts around the table and try to track where each one ends up in this memory party game.

Fill your shelves with books, games, plants, and trophies, as you seek to organize everything elegantly and more efficiently than your opponents.

Stamp your farm full of animals, to fill your field and earn you points in this roll-and-write game that has you stamping your animals rather than writing.

Come up with words using a limited selection of letters, while giving just enough clues to maximize your points without giving the whole word away.

How well do you know the other players? Can you predict their answers to a series of questions and how close they’ll come to your own?

Plot four underground lines across London in this flip-and-write, making connections, visiting tourist sites, and crossing the River Thames, while being careful not to block yourself off.

This little card game takes only a couple of minutes to teach, but is surprisingly engaging, and full of mantis-y fun, as you race to be the first to score 10 mantis cards.

A party game featuring beautiful nature photography, in which having a card that best fits a given word can earn you points, as can having a card that least fits it.

A dexterity game of stacking ladders, following restrictions that are imposed by the die, and reaching for the moon.