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Freely available board games, listed alphabetically (click on the game's entry for more info)

[0-9]

  • ['Dillos In Austin] - You think road construction is bad in your town? You should try living in Austin. This simulation for 2 to 4 ground-dwelling armored rodents will give you an idea of how confusing the roads in Austin are...
  • [1000 Blank White Questions] - Trivia game where the players make the trivia questions
  • [11 Kings] - A civilization game for 6 or (preferably many) more players.
  • [18AL] - Each player buys stock in different train companies and helps build train lines over the state of Alabama.
  • [18GA] - Each player buys stock in different train companies and helps build train lines over the state of Georgia.
  • [18US] - A complex 18xx game set in the lower 48 states with a substantial number of alterations to the 'customary' 18xx rules.
  • [1930!] - A game inspired by the game Diplomacy that attempts to retain Diplomacy's simple rules and personal interaction, but extending the game play to include aircraft, the political or economic power of countries, and many more neutral countries.
  • [36d6] - Board game using 36 six-sided dice -- each player tries to capture as many dice as possible

[A]

  • [Accelerator] - A runaway maze game for two to four subatomic particles.
  • [Acorn] - Tribes of oak harvesters line a small valley, preparing to plant their trees in the fields below. An entry into the About.com: 2003 Simultaneous Movement Game Design Competition.
  • [Age of Empires] - Based on Microsoft's PC game Age of Empires. This is a tactical-level abstraction of epic empire building and conquest.
  • [All the Way Down] - It is the dawn of time and the cosmic turtles are gathering. Each turtle wants to be the one at the top of the tower that will eventually hold up the world.
  • [Animal Hunters] - A game where players move their pieces (hunters) on a hexagonal desert. Once 4 hunters are next to a hex with an animal, that animal is captured by the player who has most hunters nearby.
  • [Archers] - Invade your enemy's woods with your archers while keeping his archers out of your own woods.
  • [Arepo] - An abstract game based on the Latin magic square, currently only available in in Catalan and French.
  • [Army of Darkness] - The game represents the battle at Arthur's castle at the end of the movie Army of Darkness.
  • [The Artifact] - Fantasy heroes band together to recover a weapon that is the only means to destroy an evil Artifact that could end up controlling the world!
  • [Ascowt] - The exciting world of racing... cows!
  • [Assembly Line] - Players each control 9 workers on an assembly line. As the products roll by, players will get a chance to score at certain points in the game, based on what product they're working on at that moment. The winner of the About.com: 2003 Simultaneous Movement Game Design Competition
  • [Asteroid] - Solo Table top game based on the Arcade Classic. Although a one player game, it can be adapted for two players.

[B]

  • [Balam] - Each player take the role of a competing king who is building cities on various sites of the thick forest of the Yucatan in the 8th century -- the most prestigious king will become the first emperor of Yucatan.
  • [Black Hole Explorer] - What evidence do we have to understand Einstein’s predictions about the strange creatures known as ‘black holes’? Expect the unexpected in this board game and learn how black holes affect the space and time around them.
  • [Blam!] - Looking for someone to shove? Strategize in Blam! with two to four elbow-room seekers.
  • [Blockade] - In early October // the Snoodles and Kleetches // all frolic and muddle // on kriddle-pop beaches. Object: To get your pieces across the board and on to the other side before your opponent does. Played on a backgammon board.
  • [Bloody Mary: Further Intrigue in the Tudor Court] - In this game you get to relive the politics of middle Tudor England as you strive to secure your candidate for the Throne... and keep your own head.
  • [Boum!] - Players compete in a closed arena, planting bombs against each other (similar the the videogame Bomberman.) Don't be the first one to blow up!
  • [Brewhouse Bash] - You are quietly sitting in a bar enjoying your fungus beer when a fight breaks out. Being an Ork, you simply can’t resist joinin’ in and so a massive scrap develops....
  • [BrickQuest] - BrickQuest is a game of small-scale fantasy combat, played with LEGO® bricks, similar to HeroQuest, Warhammer Quest, or MageKnight Dungeons.
  • [Bushi Shogi] - BUSHI means Samurai. In this Shogi variant is only two squares and two pieces, fighting Samurais'.

[C]

  • [Café Race] - You are office workers racing downstairs with a cup full of coffee. The player that makes it to the bottom of the stairs and spills the least amount of coffee wins.
  • [Capture All Monsters] - Players move around board trying to capture monsters. When a monster is captured, the space is essentially owned by a player as in Monopoly.
  • [Caravan] - A pick up and deliver game where players trade goods and put up buildings.
  • [Caravansérail] - Each player is a sheikh ruling a desert kingdom in this game of exchange and negotiation for 6 or 8 players.
  • [Cat Burglar] - One player is the Environment Master, and the other players are thieves. The thieves have to make it to the end of the city block without getting arrested, but must avoid angry boy scouts, parades, dogs, garbage trucks, cops on horse back, fruit throwing street vendors, flirtatious supermodels, super heroes, etc.
  • [Celtic Knot] - A race game with a twist for two to four players, played with a printable board and 6 nickels, dimes, quarters, and pennies.
  • [Centre Rock] - Each player commands archers, pikemen, and swordsmen in pushing each other around, eliminating their enemies, and generally carrying on in an uncivilized fashion in the name of acquiring and defending The Rock.
  • [Cephalopod] - Played on a 5 x 5 board, players take turns adding their dice to the board, attempting to capture and place on the same turn. The player who occupies the majority of the board when the board is filled wins.
  • [Cetacean Ascension Moonbase 8 (CAM 8)] - Cetacean Ascension Moonbase 8 is a sub-surface tunnel claiming, giant hamster management game for three, four, or six hyperintelligent psychic whales.
  • [Chaos Chess] - Need a break from the straight-and-unbreakable rules of standard chess? Each card breaks at least one fundamental rule of chess, creating a game that is ever changing - even chaotic.
  • [Chess] - The classic game of skill. What more can I say?
  • [ChessWar] - A strategic game for two players. It is meant to be played on standard chessboard with standard chess pieces -- it is NOT chess with dice and some extra rules! Instead, it is strategic game played with chess pieces.
  • [Chicago] - Chicago is an auction game based on a poem by Carl Sandburg. You and your fellow players have come to seek fortune and glory in rebuilding Chicago by engaging in philanthropy to create cultural landmarks -- see who will become the grandest person in Chicago!
  • [Citadels] - Each player is in a power struggle to control the most citadels. You fortify your citadels with walls, and guide your warriors in the field of battle to storm other citadels.
  • [Click!] - The players represent two photographers willing to take pictures of neat subjects, like animals, in order to gather the most points.
  • [The Club] - You are a Night-club DJ under orders from the Club Manager to keep the clubbers happy. You must entice clubbers on to the Dancefloor (from the Bar Area), then, as the night progresses, on to the Stage.
  • [CMYK] - A Chinese Checkers variant played with 4-sided dice.
  • [Coatl] - A vaguely Aztec-themed race around a spiral. Promote your pieces and screw over your opponents with their special abilities.
  • [Cold War] - Cold War is a strategy game of bluff and diplomacy for 3 to 5 players.
  • [Congo] - A cross between XiangQi and chess, but set in Africa, where the Lion is king. Will his army of Elephants, Monkeys, Zebras, Crocodiles, and Giraffes be able to defeat his enemy on the other side of the river?
  • [Conversion] - A funky board game that uses dice as game pieces. Roll a die, place it on the board. If it’s higher than your opponent’s adjacent dice, they’re converted into your dice. Whoever has the highest total results by the time the board is filled is the winner.
  • [Cronberg] - A fast and easy tile placement game for 2 to 4 players, ages 8 and up. The object is, during the reconstruction of Cronberg, to control the most valuable intersections with your own family and eventually become Mayor of the newly rebuilt city.
  • [Cthulhu Boardgame] - Based on the Cthulhu stories by H.P. Lovecraft -- be the first to collect all three Artefacts. Will the good guys win, or will the Monster and the cultists rule the day?

[D]

  • [Dadama] - A checkers-like game for two that uses dice instead of checkers.
  • [Dead of Night] - A game based on scenarios you might recognize from various zombie films. All the players are on the same side, all working together to survive, although the option to use other players as zombie bait while you grab all the guns and lock yourself in the cellar is there if you prefer.
  • [Death Angel] - You and the other players are stuck in an abandoned farming community, hunted by a psychotic 21 year old with 10" metal blades bolted through her fingers.
  • [Dédales] - Find a way for Icarus (the yellow piece) to reach one of the 2 Labyrinth exits in as few moves as possible.
  • [Depth Charge] - It's time to test what the new crewmen have learned about using sonar. The first team to find the other team's mines wins the trophy; the other will be scrubbing toilets. An entry into the About.com: 2005 Deduction Game Design Competition.
  • [Divine Nuke Wrath] - The end of days draws near. The ruler of the Pantheon will be whomever has the most devout followers in Heaven. A quick co-op / competitive game of anarchy and destruction for 3 to 4 demigods.
  • [Djarhun] - A fantasy board game -- players move around the board, find items, and slay monsters. When a player is powerful enough, they may try to claim the Book of Avrakar. Whoever brings the Book to the predetermined location, is the victor.
  • [Dogs Do]- Take contol of the yard by weeing in strategic positions. Use your wee to claim ownership of bones, sausages, and comfy spots, and ensure that in the end you dominate the lawn, so the other dog will clear off.
  • [Don't Touch My Booty!] - A silly little pirate game for 2 players! The Goal? Arrrgghh! To be the pirate with the most booty at the end of the game, of course! This is done by creating rows of 3 or more coins.
  • [Double Blind] - Deduce your opponent's secret pattern and complete both it and your own secret pattern in this interesting deduction game.
  • [Doubloon Lagoon] - Doubloon Lagoon is an exciting game of exploration and chase for two to four players.
  • [Dungeon Plungin'] - A fantasy board game of exploration and adventure -- you build a party of adventurers, then build a dungeon as you go. Every game is different as the number of variables is huge.

[E]

  • [Economy Class] - An air travel-themed game of strategy and luck for 2-3 players.

[F]

  • [Fauna] - 'Fauna' was originally inspired by the traditional Chinese 'Animal Game'.
  • [Festival Climbers] - Players will take the roll of a team of climbers that must race to the top of the temple to ring the bell and start the village's celebration.
  • [Fields of Battle: Primitive Combat] - A combat tactics and strategy game set in a pre-gunpowder era.
  • [Final Decrees] - Final Decrees is a board game based on a monstrous incompetent bureaucracy.
  • [Fire Drill] - Pieces are moved in the fashion of the robots in Ricochet Robots, with the goal being to align four of your pieces in a row.
  • [Flix Flax] - A Rock-Paper-Scissors like game played on a 3x3 board.
  • [Flower of the Lotus] - Frogs competing to bring a lonely duck the most beautiful bouquet of lotuses.
  • [Flying Swordsmen] - The Yin and Yang forests have gone mad. Their swordsmen are fighting to either convert or kill each other in the endless bamboo forest. Mind your head, here come Flying Swordsmen!
  • [Forsooth] - You must determine the distribution of wealth in the region by figuring out which residents are honest, which are liars, and whic are 'diplomatic' (sometimes liars, sometimes honest.) An entry into the About.com: 2005 Deduction Game Design Competition.
  • [FreeStyle] - FreeStyle is a game of competition in a swimming pool for 2 to 8 players.

[G]

  • [Galeone Galeotto!] - Enrole your pirate crew and sail away to conquer the seas. Don’t forget to charge up your cannons to engage your enemies.
  • [Game of the 5 Fields] - A game that could be considered a version of Chess at a strategic scale. It's an abstract version of the expansion of the civilizations during antiquity.
  • [Gnaqush] - It’s not just the nickname of the game’s designer – it’s what you’ll do with your teeth as your carefuly-laid plans get thwarted and blocked over and over again in this strategic Icehouse game for 4 players.
  • [Go Forward Rugby] - A boardgame version of Rugby.
  • [Go*Mofasta] - Get 8 stones in a row by playing the right cards -- but each card forces you to play stones of your opponent's color as well!
  • [Golem] - Players allocate resources to orientation, movement, harvesting, and regeneration in an attempt to be the first to reach 30 points. The winner of the About.com: 2004 Shared Pieces Game Design Competition.
  • [The Green Pipe] - Find the holes in your opponent's secret pipeline before he finds the holes in yours. An entry into the About.com: 2005 Deduction Game Design Competition.
  • [Grizzly] - Running for your life will never be more fun! A spine-chilling wildlife adventure for 2-6 players aged 10+

[H]

  • [Henry VIII: Intrigue in the Tudor Court] - In this rambunctious but historically accurate game you scheme and connive to win influence with the King, so that your faction will control his chosen heir and rule all England when the King dies.
  • [Hexagonal Black Box] - Determine the location of the 'atoms' in this hexagonal version of Black Box. An entry into the About.com: 2005 Deduction Game Design Competition.
  • [House of Doors] - Players try to lock each other into a small space by swinging doors. An entry into the About.com: 2004 Shared Pieces Game Design Competition.
  • [Huzzah!] - It's that time again. Renfair season. Time to put on your tights and trot out your tired old act at the Merrie King James Faire. If you don't please the crowds, and Richard the faire director, the faire is going to fire you. Pleasing both Richard and the public is going to be pretty tough. So say goodbye to your dignity and scream a boisterous 'Huzzah!'

[I]

  • [Il Ribaltone] - A game on Italian politics. It focuses players' attention to the intrigues and machinations that made the Italian governments so weak during the First Republic.
  • [International Philosophy Grudgematch] - A boardgame simulating a football [soccer] match between teams of French and German Philosophers.
  • [Invader] - A game based on a kind of videogame very common in the early 80s: the invasion of the Earth by a fleet of alien ships. The hopes of the Earth reside in the ability of a lone space warship, which has the task of decimating the invaders.

[J]

  • [Joust] - Joust is a very brief two player game themed around jousting, inspired by En Garde and Pico.
  • [Jovian Syzygy] - A dance with Jovian moons for 1 to 4 players

[K]

  • [Katmandou] - The players are men of influence, who direct archaeologists, and other special characters, in order to accumulate a maximum of fame, as represented by points, by searching archeological sites in the valley of Katmandou.
  • [Kiki and Bun-Bun] - Celebrate your glee or vent your cynicism in this two-player checkers variant inspired by the online comic Sluggy Freelance by Pete Abrams.
  • [Klin Zha] - Also known as Klingon Chess -- the object of Klin Zha is to capture your opponent's goal or make it impossible for your opponent to move legally.
  • [Knights (Shared Pieces Competition)] - Players move the knights around the board and collect points for landing on squares that have never been visited before. An entry into the About.com: 2004 Shared Pieces Game Design Competition.
  • [KokkoKid] - The hunting has began, but our crocodiles are not very smart...that's right, they are only able to go straight and imagine this, they do not know how to stop... Will you be able to help your little fish arrive to their destination safely with your die, some cunningness and a touch of luck?
  • [KokkoThrill] - In KokkoThrill you must bring to safety your little fish to the lake of tranquillity through the Kokkodrilli's swamp.
  • [Kronus Pyramid] - Enter the Kronus Pyramid is search of the Kronus Jewel. Beware of the Guardians -- and watch out for trap doors!

[L]

  • [La Mafia] - A fascinating multiplayer game on the history of the mafia phenomenon and its inteconnection with political and economic power in Italy from the end of World War II until the present day
  • [A Lamb Between Two Lions] - A board game for 2-6 players that attempts to represent some of the action of Buzkashi games held at festivals in northern Afghanistan.
  • [The Legacy of Kings] - The game (set in the AD&D Birthright world) covers the grand strategic conflict for the continent of Cerilia. One player is the game moderator and also controls the Awnsheglien. The other players act as regents of the various realms.
  • [Lilypad] - Two tiny fairies try to race across a pond filled with frogs and turtles without getting wet, and the first one across wins.
  • [Lockhaven: Fate of the Irish] - A famine has wiped out all means of survival for the local Irish people. Four families have risen up from the devastation. Each family has entrusted their eldest son to wander the vast lands to loot and steal what he can to build his family's fortune.
  • [Lost Treasures] - A simple two player game where each player must hire a party of adventurers to retrieve the treasure from a forgotten dungeon.
  • [Louis XVI] - The king is trying to escape from the people; the people are trying to capture him. An entry into the About.com: 2002 Unequal Forces Game Design Competition.

[M]

  • [Macadam] - Macadam was born on the street and now spreads out on the web. It's an easy strategy board game. This game looks alike football or basketball: you simply need to bring your pawns in your opponent side and 'score' a goal.
  • [Manic Minelayers] - Litter the playing field with mines to trap your pitiable opponent in this two-player strategy game. Triumphant laughter is optional.
  • [The Mayor of Hooverville] - Who will eat the most food? Who will wear the least tattered clothes? Who will live in the finest hovel? Who will become The Mayor of Hooverville?
  • [Mesopotamia: Birth of Civilisation] - Mesopotamia follows the rise and fall of twenty nations from the Sumerians to the Persians over two thousand years of history.
  • [Midnight Banshees] You're one of four Banshees racing to be the first to collect five skulls from the surrounding tombs.
  • [Minizoomerz] - The minizoomerzTM board game puts you in control of your own minizoomerzTM racer. Competing for fame and glory over countless minizoomerz tracks and circuits across the globe.
  • [Miskatonic Madness] - Miskatonic Madness takes place at the fabled Lovecraftian University -- Play the Investgators or the Cultists, save the day or summon your dark god!
  • [Missle Match] - Dominoes are put to creative use as missiles (one number is the missile power; the other is the travel distance) in this game. An entry into the About.com: 2003 Simultaneous Movement Game Design Competition.
  • [Monkey Trouble] - A huge catastrophe has happened during the reception the Countess organised in her garden! Koko the little monkey has escaped and is handing out the Countess's unmentionables!
  • [Moriarty] - A deduction game in which two players each choose one of four colors and then try to determine which color their opponent has chosen. An entry into the About.com: 2003 Simultaneous Movement Game Design Competition.
  • [Mozaika Numernabisa] - A game loosely based on a scene form Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra where Numernobis is showing a mosaic he's building.

[N]

  • [Navigator] - Investigate and explore with two to four detectives and a map. Goal: Discover your opponents’ hideouts before they find yours.
  • [Nelaxtam] - Invade the island and contol as much of it as possible before your adversary does. An entry into the About.com: 2003 Simultaneous Movement Game Design Competition.
  • [Nibelungenlied] - An interesting game played on a triangle-based board based on The Nibelungenlied, an epic poem written in Germany about 1200AD. An entry into the About.com: 2003 Simultaneous Movement Game Design Competition.

[O]

  • [Obnoxio] - Put the board together as a 3x3 grid in anyway you like, as long as the 'WIN' tile is in the center of the board. The object is to be the first player to the center of the board.
  • [OP-Position] - Players attempt to capture 4 checkers of one color or 6 checkers total. However, movement around the outside of the board is governed by the die that moves about in the 5x5 center, and pieces of opposite color move in opposite directions.
  • [OrkoMondo] - You will be in the shoes of the Dwarves Commander, the Commander of Elves, of Humans or Orks trying to get the absolute domination of a 'midland' divided in 36 territories and crossed by a river... may it be the Dreamland?

[P]

  • [Package War!] - Players take on the role of package shipping moguls determined to dominate the industry and crush the competition. An entry into the About.com: 2004 Shared Pieces Game Design Competition.
  • [Pagoda] - Warring Confucian tribes battle for control of a sacred mountaintop. Features a whimsical reincarnation scheme.
  • [Payout!] - A “race to the end” board game where you race around the board collecting money. If you land on a vault with coins in it, you get the coins. If you land on a space without coins in it, you have to put coins in. When you get to the board's end, you get to sit in a vault and take all of the coins that go in it.
  • [Petri] - Multiply and spread in this strategic territory-claiming, piece-elimination game with a strong dose of chance for two to six organisms.
  • [Petting Zoo Gangsta] - The object of this game is to be the last one standing at the petting zoo.
  • [Phantom Vortex] - You're one of four Phantoms racing around a crumbling Druidic Temple, hoping to be the first to take control of the VORTEX (which controls all space and time, binds the universe together, and picks up FM radio like you wouldn't BELIEVE)!
  • [Pirateer] - Vast treasure, fast ships and cutthroat rivals await you on the seas of Pirateer, the fast-paced strategy game where fortunes turn on pirate skullduggery and a roll of the dice.
  • [Pitter Pattern] - Pattern placement and deduction for two to four players. Object: Place tokens on a board to match patterns on your card or (even better) on your opponent’s card.
  • [Playground Commandos] - Pogosticks vs. skateboards -- and watch out for the trash cans -- in this clever duel. An entry into the About.com: 2002 Unequal Forces Game Design Competition.
  • [PocketCiv] - A Solitaire Civization game that's compact enough to play on a plane. Hopefully. Well, maybe not, but it's close...in it's most basic form. Winner of The Gone Gaming 2006 Board Game Internet Awards: Best Downloadable Board Game
  • [Points Total] - Will you grab the high scoring spots, or will let your tile score high by pointing toward other tiles?
  • [Pomota] - A board game abstraction of tactics-genre video games combining elements of Tactics Arena Online and Greg Stolze’s NoCoPo -- factions from various aspects of pop culture, from B-movies to comics to anime, battle each other for no good reason at all.
  • [Por'rika] - The Schelati (amphibians) lay eggs in the Sacred Waters. But the Sacred Waters are in the prime hunting territory for the Ser'ra (large birds of prey). An entry into the About.com: 2002 Unequal Forces Game Design Competition.
  • [Praetorian] - The police try to hunt down an assassin in this exciting hunt. An entry into the About.com: 2002 Unequal Forces Game Design Competition.
  • [President] - Can you use two Secret Service agents to move the president through an extremely hostile crowd?

[Q]

  • [Q.A.X.] - Interesting stock-market & trading game for 2-4 players. Make the most profits by buying, selling and clever, tactical moving and trading!
  • [Q.U.L.E.] - A board game version of the classic computer game, M.U.L.E. -- battle to make the most of your time on a harsh planet.
  • [Quadruple Agent] - A game of espionage gone horribly awry for 4 players. Object: To guide a hopelessly befuddled secret agent back to your territory.
  • [Qurush] - You’ll flip for this 3-D puzzle game for two or four players. Slide and flip cubes on a shared game board to create your secret pattern. Don’t get squished!

[R]

  • [Raffut à Faeris] - You're leading a Mafia Group and you're trying to bend the rules your way during Election Day in Faeris.
  • [Road Cycling Tour] - A road cycling simulation intended to be flexible enough to simulate any multi-stage road cycling event.
  • [Robo Battle Pigs] - Imagine Richochet Robot with lasers, or even Robo Rally with pigs. An extremely creative use of the 8x8 game board.
  • [Rock, Paper, Scissors, Inc.] - No longer satisfied with being a child's pasttime, Rock, Paper and Scissors have all gone into business against each other: Rocks Inc., Paper Inc., and Scissors Inc. An entry into the About.com: 2003 Simultaneous Movement Game Design Competition.
  • [Rock, Scissors, Paper] - A two player pure abstract board game which mixes 'Rock, Paper, Scissors' with Chess and Capture the Flag.
  • [Rocketball] - A no-hands, no-feet, no-touching game of soccer for two players and a screaming-hot ball.
  • [Rollerball] - Players use their workman, whose job it is to run around and make changes to the ring, to help them get a ball that is travelling the concentric rings around the board to pass ovet their base for points.
  • [Roots and Shoots] - An abstracted territory control game in which you are plants searching for delectable nutrients and hoping for rain before the others encroach.
  • [Royal-er Game of Ur] - Inspired by the Royal Game of Ur, modified it to be played with more standard components and with a slightly different twist. The goal is to move all your dice to the ending space before your opponent, using your opponent's own dice as speed boosts along the way.
  • [Run, Hamster, Run!] - An accelerating game of science and survival for two to five experiment subjects. Object: To be the last hamster left in play. The best way to do this is to avoid falling into the Alligator Pit at the end of the Conveyor Belt.
  • [Run Hippy! Run! The Boardgame] - As a Captain of Industry, you will exploit the people and resources of the world to advance your corporation, all the while plotting to crush any dissent.
  • [Runaround] - A race game with a twist for two players. Be the first player to get 5 “runs” by passing a piece over your starting space 5 times. Be careful! The “U” shaped board can cause you to swicth places with an opponent, for good or for bad!
  • [Rush N'Crush] - In a post-apocalypse future (à la Mad Max), with scarce resources and few individuals, the survivor clans resolve disputes through ritualised racing instead of open warfare.

[S]

  • [Saving Private Checkers] - Checkers with an explosive twist for two players. Kinda like a cross between normal checkers and the D-Day invasion....
  • [Schlock Attack] - A two-player checkers variant inspired by the online comic strip Schlock Mercenary by Howard Tayler. Object: To be the last player with checkers on the board or to meet your special victory conditions.
  • [Scoop!] - A fast-paced game of competitive journalism for two to six players.
  • [Search Diver] - Search Diver is a microgame involving dive planning and underwater search.
  • [Shangzhou-Gold] - A cyberpunk-themed tile-laying and territory acquisition game with significant resource management, bidding, territory conflict, and negotiation elements.
  • [Shannon] - An elegant abstract game inspired by Sudoku and Triple Triad, a CCG mini-game in Final Fantasy 8 -- you place dice on a chess board, converting your opponent’s dice to your color hoping to score the most points at the end of the game.
  • [The Shining] - The Shining is a game based on the Stephen King novel of the same name.
  • [Sibling Rivalry] - The sibling rivalry between you and your brother is legendary. This game gives you a chance to show him who's better in battle.
  • [Slipmax] - A dynamic game of gain an loss played on an ever-changing board for two to six players.
  • [Smallville: The Board Game] - Agents of the evil Kryptonian Zod have arrived on Earth and have disguised themselves as Clark Kent -- they want to convince Clark Kent’s friends and family that THEY are the real Clark so that they can banish the real Clark. With him gone, the Earth will be theirs.
  • [Spyhunting] - A spy is trying to travel from one corner to the opposite corner and back, the hunter is trying to shoot the spy before that happens. An entry into the About.com: 2002 Unequal Forces Game Design Competition.
  • [Subzero] - Roll your snowball and shoot them 'fast and furious' over your opponents. Move, hit, avoid the flying snowballs.
  • [Supersurf! Championship Sky-Surfing in the World of Judge Dredd] - A game of championship-level sky-surfing, or power-boarding, in the world of Judge Dredd. Race your surfer to the finish line, braving dangerous obstacles, at great heights and great speeds through one of 2000AD’s Mega-Cities.
  • [Survival Terror] - A free game inspired by George A. Romero's zombie movie series (Night of the Living Dead, etc.)
  • [Sword and Sail] - Embark on an ancient time of political and military upheaval as great empires struggle for world power. A game that combines civilization building, strategic planning, wargaming, and empire building all in one!

[T]

  • [Tabernacle] - Relive the creation of a settlement in Canada, the way Samuel de Champlain did so many times in the XVIIth century (Quebec, Port Royal, etc.)
  • [Tako] - Based loosely on a mathematical game called Tsianshidsi, Tako is a fun little game.
  • [Thinking in Circles] - A game of intuition and second-guessing for two players. Object: To set three adjacent circles to your color, or to get three adjacent circles to match your secret shape sequence. You do this by outguessing what your opponent will play.
  • [Tim and Tam] - A lovely amusing children & family game for 2-8 players. Tim Tomato and Tam Paprika take you to the market to sell fruits and vegetables. Who gets paid most for the fruit and vegetable cards wins!
  • [Time Jump] - Who can guess the other's plans? Who's fooling who? You better stay 'cool' flying through the dimensions...and be aware of the nasty timeholes!
  • [Tokar's Arcana] - Tokar's Arcana is a simple, yet in-depth game of strategy and warfare. For the most part, it plays very similar to Chess.
  • [Tortellini Football] - A game of American football, using a piece of tortellini pasta as the ball. An entry into the About.com: 2003 Simultaneous Movement Game Design Competition.
  • [Treefort Nations] - Today, as the sun rises over the Great Wood, a feeling of determination accompanies it. All the monkeys feel certain that when the sun sets in the evening, the ultimate ruler of the trees will have been determined, once and for all...
  • [Tumblewords] - It’s like a cross between that game where you make words with tiles and that game where you drop checkers into a vertical grid.
  • [Turnio] - The chips show on two or four corners quarters of circles or squares. Each player chooses one of these symbols. The players try to place or turn the chips in a way that completes their symbols.

[V]

  • [V-Attack] - You are in charge of breaking through the wall of your enemy’s city to allow the entry of your battalion to take over. While you are attacking the walls of your enemy, they in turn are attacking you. Victory belongs to him who enters the city first.

[W]

  • [Winter Pause] - Winter has arrived. The soccer fields are ruined, either muddy from rain, slippery from snow or frozen hard as a rock. Not the best of times for a good game of soccer. But the real freak will not be stopped by such trivialities. He will find himself a fine warm gymnasium and play there.
  • [Wizard's Garden - The Alesalitis Plant] - Wizard's Garden is a game about planting and harvesting. Players take turns planting (placing game pieces) from a common seed basket (the pile of game pieces).

[X]

  • [Xtropolopoquetl] - Four Olmec boulder statues are demanding sacrifices of pure elements. A pyramid of offerings has been placed between the statues. The statues are picky and will only eat elements they favor, so it is your job to feed the statues every last morsel of their favorite element.

[Y]

  • [Yield!] - Your patrol vehicle materializes in Sector 701. If another vehicle appears in Sector 701, your mission is to immediately intercept and destroy it. An intruder is already present! You grit your teeth and step on the accelerator...

[Z]

  • [Zombie Nightmare] - Your goal is to get Jeff (your alter ego) safely through a cemetery infested with zombies. Will you make it? Or will you end up.... zombie food?
  • [Zombie Rancher] - A post-zombie apocalypse game of entrepeneurisim for two or four players.
  • [Zombie Wars] - In the sleepy town of Smallton, the zombie lors will settle their grudges once and for all, pitting their shambling hordes against each other in a battle for dominance.

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