• [Raffut à Faeris] - You're leading a Mafia Group and you're trying to bend the rules your way during Election Day in Faeris.
• [RAMbots] - Similar to RoboRally, each player controls a single RAMbot, and will lay out strings of instructions which tell the RAMbot how to move and shoot beams of colored energy. The first player to tag four goals in a specified order wins the game.
• [Rangers!] - The rules and OPFOR from Gators!, but this time, it's the Army Rangers' turn.
• [Rat Hot] - (aka Dschunke: Das Legespiel) The swimming markets of Asia is pulsating with life. Two merchants are putting their goods on display, and will be happy to cover the goods of their adversary in the process. At the end will we see who was the best to present their goods.
• [Rattenscharf] - (aka Dschunke: Das Legespiel) The swimming markets of Asia is pulsating with life. Two merchants are putting their goods on display, and will be happy to cover the goods of their adversary in the process. At the end will we see who was the best to present their goods.
• [Rebellion] - A 2 player card game of strategy, betting, and intrigue. Each player represents the leader of a war-torn nation in the midst of a civil war.
• [Red Actions] - Miniatures rules for the Russian Civil War. The basic unit of the game is the platoon, which is composed of somewhere between 20-50 Red Gangsters or White Interventionist Dupes.
• [Red Dwarf: The Card Game] - Based on the long-running British sitcom, the card game translates the core of the show - adventuring to avoid boredom - into a two player icon-matching race.
• [Reiner Knizia's Decathlon] - Ten games in one! Reiner's ultimate game of armchair athletics, from the 100 Metres to Pole-Vault.
• [Ren] - A free 2 player abstract strategic boardgame. Players alternate turns placing their stones on the board, trying to score points by forming groups (ren) of 4 or 6 stones in a row or box formation.
• [Renaissance Man] - Are you and one to three other multi-talented friends as nifty as my friend Ben? Play Renaissance Man and find out!
• [Renfield] - Mmm, Bugs. You can't eat just one. Renfield is what the Gravediggers of Parts Unknown play for money, when they're not scavenging body parts for Science. It's a gambling game about parts, tools, gravestones, and bugs. Yummy, delicious bugs.
• [Reviser] - A new twist on the classic game Othello/Reversi. An entry into the About.com: 2002 Unequal Forces Game Design Competition.
• [Richthofen] - Richthofen is a WWI Air Combat Card Game. You play the part of a famous fighter pilot ace, taking to the skies to engage your enemy in the life and death struggle of air combat.
• [The RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology Card Game] - The RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology has created a set of game cards illustrating basic developmental biology concepts.
• [Ringmaster] - This game recreates the strategic battles between the good and evil armies of J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle Earth. The battle mechanism is based on the play of special cards. No dice are used.
• [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.
• [Robot Maze Race] - Each player tries to program their robot to maneuver through a disorganized warehouse without bumping into too may crates or walls on the way. An entry into the About.com: 2005 Deduction Game Design Competition.
• [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.
• [Roll Out the (Gun) Barrels] - Well, here's a very cheap way to simulate large battles without having to deal with maps and counters and fifteen hours per turn. Also includes variants for fantasy/medieval battles (ROtGB: Mediveval Strife) and for space opera-style star battles (ROtGB: Star Strife).
• [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.
• [Roman Backgammon] - (aka Tabula) An ancient Roman precursor to Backgammon, this game was known as Alea, meaning 'gambling', but came to be called Tabula, meaning 'board' or 'table'
• [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.
• [Rotationary] - A single-player puzzle game. Comparable to the Rubik's Cube(TM), each move causes a chain reaction. Before making a move each result must be considered. Unlike the cube, though, there are no wrong moves; it is possible to solve a puzzle at any state. Also unlike the Cube, the game is expandable.
• [The Round Table] - (aka die Tafelrunde) Draco leads 'die Tafelrunde.' He shares out the incomes of the daily adventures. Therefore all heroes try to be his favourites.
• [Royal Ace-assin] - Face cards are royal figureheads. Numbered cards are influential members of the royal court. The Aces are royal assassins. There are 3 "years" of play. At the end of the 3 years, the assassins are sent out.
• [Royal Carpet] - Designed by Don Green (designer of Octi), Royal Carpet challenges players to move two kings off the far edge of the board.
• [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.
• [Rumble] - A fast-paced game of superhero combat, with players secretly allocating energy points to attack and defense, attempting to outguess their opponents and knock them out of the game.
• [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!
• [Rungs] - Far away, in the land of Elm, there is a majestic tree reaching up to the clouds. Legend has it that he who successfully reaches the top of this giant will gain untold fortunes and become ruler of a vast unknown land.
• [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.
• [Russian Civil War] - A free historical card game simulating the Russian Civil War. One player is the Red/Communist, the other player is the White/Tsarist.
• [The Russian Portfolio] - A wargame involving the German's Army Groups Centre, North, & South with their intrepid Minor Allies versus the Soviet Russians during the beginning of the Russian Campaign.
• [RYB] - Mix colors with dice to capture goals from two to five players. Object: To complete Goal cards and gain points by rolling different combinations of colored dice.

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