Casual Games

Despite a bumpy ride for the industry in 2021, many great casual games came across our radar throughout the year. But in the end, we could only choose one to receive our Best Casual Game of 2021 award.

Work together to solve the case before Holmes beats you to it! Find the suspect, motive, and opportunity to tie up the case before you run out of time.

Hurricanes! Volcanoes! Tornados! Oh my! Disaster has struck and you must race to the rescue to evacuate your people out of the city.

Try to build color patterns around the board in order to play cards and put on a colorful light display.

Clever Cubed is a layered and elegant roll-and-write game in which players are trying to maximize points on five different scoring tracks.

This set collection yarn from designers Adam McCrimmon and Jordan Miller is a knitter’s gaming delight. 

A word game that is all about removing letters to make words, looking for patterns in a jumbled array of letters.

Your engines are offline, you’re stuck in space, and only your tractor and repulsor beams are working. You’ll have to use your opponent’s ships to fling yourself to the warp gate and try to escape!

Choose a number from zero to five and hope you manage to outwit your opponents. Only the player who chooses the highest unique number will get to perform an action this round, with the number chosen determining that action!

Z-Man Games has announced a Star Wars themed Love Letter game, Asmodee has a new dexterity game for pre-order, and Asmodee is also set to be acquired.