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Family Game Night Adventure: Our First Time with Catan Jr.

We tried Catan Jr. for the first time and loved how it engaged everyone at the table – from our 6 and 8-year-olds to us parents. This pirate-themed version of Settlers of Catan teaches resource management in a fun way. It played in about 30–40 minutes and kept the whole family involved from start to finish.

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Published October 20, 2025

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Family Spotlight⭐ 8.0

Family Night Pick

Catan

Trade, build, and share big table moments.

Negotiation, planning, and lighthearted rivalry keep adults engaged while teens learn the art of the deal.

👥 3-4 players⏱️ 60-120 min📊 Intermediate

•Perfect at 4 players
•60-90 minute sessions
•Teaches resource strategy

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Party Starter⭐ 9.0

Quick Laughs

Codenames

One-word clues, big laughs, zero downtime.

A lightning-fast word game that scales for the whole crew — ideal when you need a shared win in under 30 minutes.

👥 4-8 players⏱️ 15-30 min📊 Beginner

•Great for big groups
•Teaches creative thinking
•Setup in under 2 minutes

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Co-op Spotlight⭐ 9.0

Teamwork Hero

Pandemic

Coordinate, communicate, and save the world together.

A modern cooperative classic that rewards planning and keeps tension high without turning competitive.

👥 2-4 players⏱️ 45-60 min📊 Intermediate

•Play as a team
•Adjustable difficulty
•45-minute missions

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Similo

Similo is a co-operative deduction game, and each version of the game — e.g., Fables, History, Myths — comes with a deck of thirty cards, beautifully illustrated by Naïade, showing the portrait and the name of a series of characters with a common theme. Your goal is to make the other players guess one secret character (out of the twelve characters on display in the middle of the table) by playing other character cards from your hand as clues, stating whether they are similar t

👥 2-8 Players⏱️ 10-15 min📊 Intermediate

⭐ 9.0

Cascadia

Cascadia is a puzzly tile-laying and token-drafting game featuring the habitats and wildlife of the Pacific Northwest. In the game, you take turns building out your own terrain area and populating it with wildlife. You start with three hexagonal habitat tiles (with the five types of habitat in the game), and on a turn you choose a new habitat tile that's paired with a wildlife token, then place that tile next to your other ones and place the wildlife token on an appropriate habitat. (Each tile

👥 1-4 Players⏱️ 30-45 min📊 Advanced

⭐ 8.5

Calico

Calico is a puzzly tile-laying game of quilts and cats. In Calico, players compete to sew the coziest quilt as they collect and place patches of different colors and patterns. Each quilt has a particular pattern that must be followed, and players are also trying to create color and pattern combinations that are not only aesthetically pleasing, but also able to attract the cuddliest cats! Turns are simple. Select a single patch tile from your hand and sew it into your quilt, then draw another p

👥 1-4 Players⏱️ 30-45 min📊 Intermediate

⭐ 8.0

Pandemic: Rising Tide

It is the dawn of the Industrial Age in the Netherlands. For centuries, the country has relied upon a series of dikes and wind-powered pumps to keep it safe from the constant threat of flooding from the North Sea, but this system is no longer enough. In Pandemic: Rising Tide, it is your goal to avert tragedy by constructing four modern hydraulic structures in strategic locations that will help you defend the country from being reclaimed by the ocean. Storms are brewing and the seas are restless

👥 2-5 Players⏱️ 45 min📊 Advanced

⭐ 9.0

The King's Dilemma

The King's Dilemma is an interactive narrative experience with legacy elements, featuring several branching storylines leading to many possible finales and an evolving deck of event cards at its core. Players represent the various houses leading the government of the Kingdom of Ankist. You will draw one card from the "Dilemma deck" each round and experience the game story as it unfolds. Each card poses a problem that the Council has to resolve on the King's behalf. As members of the King's inne

👥 3-5 Players⏱️ 45-60 min📊 Advanced

⭐ 9.0

Teotihuacan: City of Gods

Travel back in time to the greatest city in Mesoamerica. Witness the glory and the twilight of the powerful pre-Columbian civilization. Strategize, accrue wealth, gain the favour of the gods, and become the builder of the magnificent Pyramid of the Sun. In Teotihuacan: City of Gods, each player commands a force of worker dice, which grow in strength with every move. On your turn, you move a worker around a modular board, always choosing one of two areas of the location tile you land on: one off

👥 1-4 Players⏱️ 90-120 min📊 Advanced