Casual Games

Will you donate your beans to a player in need or wheel and deal? Rio Grande's classic card game puts you in the role of bean farmer.

Ice Cool 2 has been announced, Asmodee has acquired Mayfair Games, and Cabot is hosting a board game cooking contest.

A dungeon crawler for a casual audience, the Dark Castle is tough to escape and tougher to forget. Each play through will be different as the castle changes every time you play. Dive in and try to survive, if you dare!

Gamewright has announced eight new games, a new edition of Monopoly that actively encourages cheating will be coming soon, and a Star Wars Fluxx is released in Russia.

Can you defeat the friendly bear or the dreaded eleven kittens? Dungeon Fighter turns a classic genre into a dice-throwing dexterity game! You’re no longer rolling those dice, you’re throwing them.

Gamewright has announced a new game in their Forbidden line, Renegade Game has a new Clank! expansion coming, and the Washington Post talks board games.

The votes have been tallied and a winner has been announced for our first annual Best Casual Game of the Year award: Sagrada by Floodgate Games! Congratulations to the publisher and the designers, Adrian Adamescu and Daryl Andrews, for a job well done.

Line your birds up and collect them in a row, if you can remember where they’re all hiding! This delightful little game mixes memory with set collection as you flip cards and try to remember where you put them all.

Renegade Game Studios has announced a new game, Plan B Games has created a new publishing and design studio, and Board Game Geek has announced a new show.

There are many game awards out there, from the Spiel des Jahres to the Golden Geek Awards and everything in between. But it's time for an award specifically for casual games!