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Family Game Roundup

Best Family Board Games 2023

In this roundup we take a look at the best board and card games suitable for families. We’ve carefully chosen each family board game to suit the various needs of players and audiences.

collage of the best family board games collection

Board games can be a great way to pass the time and create fond family memories with younger and older family members alike.

While there are plenty of beloved classics bound to be in your family’s rotation to bring out during family gatherings if you are looking for some new games to add to your collection, here is a diverse list of 10 excellent board games that play well with a wide variety of ages that are both tons of fun and easy to learn.

1. The Quest for El Dorado – Best Racing Game

The Quest for El Dorado, by the prolific designer Reiner Knizia, is a deck-building racing game where players try to be the first to reach the city of El Dorado by traversing an entire game board full of jungles, rivers, cities, and other obstacles along the way. To be successful, players must use their cards wisely to advance on the game board and to purchase additional cards from a market that will make their future turns more powerful.

The Quest for El Dorado

The Quest for El Dorado at a Glance

Game Type
Adventure, Card Drafting,
Deck Building, Hexagon Grid,
Modular Board, Racing
Play Time
30 - 60 mins
Skill/Complexity (2 - 5)
Light
Age
10+
Publisher(s)
Ravensburger
Published
2017
Categories
Family
Players
2 - 4
Cost
$45.95 approx
Our Rating
9/10

The game board itself is modular and can be randomly arranged, or set up according to some recommended scenarios included in the rulebook. Players start on a numbered space on one end of the board, and try to reach the other end of the board where the golden city of El Dorado is located. The first player to reach the coveted city is the winner of the game!

The game board itself is modular and can be randomly arranged, or set up according to some recommended scenarios included in the rulebook.

A player begins their turn with 4 cards, and can use those cards to move forward or to purchase cards. To move forward, a card’s symbol must match the terrain they are moving onto and be of the same or higher level. Hexes can have a movement cost of 1, 2, 3, or 4 symbols, and the card they play must also have that number of symbols in order to be able to move onto or past it. Once the player has moved, they can purchase a card from the available market by using gold cards or discarding unused card for a value of ½ a coin.

Cards can provide more powerful movement abilities or provide special bonuses such as being able to trash cards from their hand, purchase a card for free, or draw additional cards. Players can pick from a row of stacks of available cards. If, when a player decides to purchase a card, there is a depleted stack of available cards, they can pick from any stack in the “future” market, and then move that stack down to the available market, thereby making it available to all other players in the future.

The Quest for El Dorado is a lightweight game that is very intuitive and easy to teach. Normally deckbuilding games can be a struggle for new players in the sense that it is hard to tell which cards will benefit you, but because the objective of this game is so easy to understand, it’s easy for new players to visualize and internalize what they need to do. It’s no surprise that this game was nominated for the Spiel des Jahres in 2017 as it definitely fits the category of games that are accessible to families.

2. Hammer Time – Best Silly Fun

Sometimes it’s fun to pull out a game with the family that is plain silly fun, and Hammer Time is definitely a game that is just that. This is a dexterity game with multi-colored gems where players hit the side of the game box with a wooden hammer to try and knock off the right ones, and is one that both kids and adults will find highly entertaining.

Hammer Time kids game for ages 5 and up made by HABA

Hammer Time at a Glance

Game Type
Fantasy Theme, Action/Dexterity,
Set Collection
Play Time
15 - 30 mins
Skill/Complexity (1 - 5)
Light
Age
5+
Publisher(s)
HABA
Published
2020
Categories
Family / Kids
Players
2- 4 (Ideal 2)
Cost
$24.99 approx.
Our Rating
7/10

In Hammer Time, players are attempting to be the first to fill up all 4 of their wagons with the correct colored gems. The game board itself is the back of the box which contains a neoprene mat. To set up the game, players dump a whole bag of gems onto the box. There are also optional objective cards that you can include in the game as well as a colored die that makes players have to do certain things on their turn.

In Hammer Time, players are attempting to be the first to fill up all 4 of their wagons with the correct colored gems. The game board itself is the back of the box which contains a neoprene mat.

On a player’s turn, they can rotate the box however they’d like, and then tap the side of the box with a hammer until at least one falls off onto the table. If more than 8 gems fall off, that player’s turn is over and they must return all the gems back onto the box. At this point, if they satisfied the requirement for the top objective card, they can take the card and turn it into a clear crystal (i.e. wild gem). Then, the player can load their wagon with gems of the correct color, and if their wagon is full (i.e., all the gem spaces have been covered up), they flip that wagon card over and end their turn.

While there isn’t a ton of strategic depth to Hammer Time, it only takes about 15 minutes to play and is one that kids as young as 3 can probably pick up on and enjoy. This could make for a good party game as well that adults can even enjoy in the absence of kids if they are looking for a light fun game to enjoy after the kids have gone to bed.

3. Quacks of Quedlinburg – Best Push-Your-Luck Family Board Game

Quacks of Quedlinburg is a game that has had enormous success and popularity since its release in 2018, and has won many awards including the 2018 Kennerspiel des Jahres, 2018 Golden Geek Best Family Board Game, and the 2020 Origins Awards Best Family Game. This game has many great qualities that make for a wonderful family game – easy to learn rules, fun and engaging gameplay, and a good blend of luck and strategy to be welcoming for new or inexperienced gamers.

The Quacks of Quedlinburg board game box cover
Game Type
Medieval Theme,
Catch the Leader, Bag Building,
Dice Rolling, Push Your Luck
Play Time
45 mins
Skill/Complexity (2 - 5)
Light
Age
10+
Publisher(s)
North Star Games
and others
Published
2018
Categories
Family
Players
2 - 4
Cost
$59.99
Our Rating
9/10

In Quacks of Quedlinburg, players take on the role of quack doctors trying to craft potions by adding weird ingredients to their pot. This is a bag-building game similar to games like Orleans or Coffee Roaster where players start with a personal bag with a small number of cardboard tokens and collect more throughout the game.

The goal of this game is to collect the most points by the end of the game by filling their pot with ingredients. Each round, players simultaneously draw ingredients from their bag and add them to their pot one by one. The player’s pot is a spiral pattern, and the number indicated on the token will determine how far along the spiral track they must place the token from the last one they placed. If a player has drawn too many cherry bombs, their pot blows up and they must end their turn.

The goal of this game is to collect the most points by the end of the game by filling their pot with ingredients. Each round, players simultaneously draw ingredients from their bag and add them to their pot one by one.

Once all players have finished filling their pots, players have a chance to purchase new ingredients to add to their pot. Ingredients can provide cool special abilities which make each round more and more exciting, a similar experience that fans of deckbuilding will definitely love and appreciate. Players also get points depending on how much they managed to fill their pot. Players who had their pot explode do still have a chance to either get points or money to buy new ingredients, which is one aspect that makes this a great family game – no player is ever completely out of options and the game stays engaging and fun for everyone at the table.

If you’re looking for a great family game that fans of deeper or strategic games will still have a lot of fun with, it’s really hard to beat Quacks of Quedlinburg in this regard. This is a game with virtually no downtime that stays fun from the moment it starts to the moment it ends!

4. Cartographers – Best “Flip-and-Write” Family Game

Cartographers is a game that both managers to be easy to play with a large group of people and bring out people’s artistic side as they get to draw in a map – or color with colored pencils if you have those handy! This is a game in the “flip-and-write”/”roll-and-write” genre set in a fantasy world setting where a card is flipped over and players each independently draws in an individual player map.

Cartographers board game box cover

Cartographers at a Glance

Game Type
Fantasy Theme, Territory Building,
Bingo, Grid Coverage, Line Drawing,
Paper-and-Pencil,
Solo/Solitaire Game
Play Time
30 - 45 mins
Skill/Complexity (2 - 5)
Light
Age
10+
Publisher(s)
Thunderworks Games and others
Published
2019
Categories
Family
Players
1 - 100
Cost
$24.95
Our Rating
8.9/10
Rules of Play
Official Rules

The main idea of the game is that players are trying to efficiently fill in their map and be the best cartographer by scoring the most points by the end of the game. Players can gain points by meeting certain end-of-round scoring objectives that are randomized for each game, presenting a new and fresh puzzle each time you play.

The main idea of the game is that players are trying to efficiently fill in their map and be the best cartographer by scoring the most points by the end of the game.

Each turn, a card is flipped over that will typically contain a choice of terrain type as well as polyomino (Tetris) shape. Players each simultaneously pick from the options available and draw that shape onto their player map. Once a certain collective value of cards has been revealed, the round ends and players evaluate two of the scoring cards as determined by the current round.

A fun twist to the game is that when a monster card is revealed all players hand their map to their neighbor where players have a chance to draw monsters onto an opponent’s map. At the end of each round, empty spaces that surround a monster will score a negative point, so it adds just a little bit of unpredictability that makes the game extra fun and adds an element of player interaction that is normally absent from games of this genre.

Given its very small box size and how easy it is to teach, Cartographers is an excellent family game for any gamer’s collection that is easy to throw in the bag on your way to a family gathering or even a restaurant while you wait for your food!

5. Story Time Chess – Teach Your Young Children the Classic

Many parents have the dream of teaching their children the classic game of Chess and enjoying playing this game they have fond memories of. However, the game can be notoriously difficult to teach to kids because of the fact that the different pieces have different movement rules. Story Time Chess is a game and system that is designed to help teach Chess to kids as young as the age of 3, or anyone who wants to learn the game for the first time! While this isn’t technically a “new” board game, the way that this version introduces and teaches the rules to new players is incredibly innovative.

Story Time Chess is a game and system that is designed to help teach Chess to kids as young as the age of 3, or anyone who wants to learn the game for the first time

Game Type
Abstract, Grid Movement,
Pattern Recognition,
Point to Point Movement
Play Time
10 mins
Skill/Complexity (1.4 - 5)
Light
Age
3+
Publisher(s)
Self-Published
Published
2019
Categories
Family / Children
Abstract Strategy
Players
2
Cost
$49.99 approx.
Our Rating
8.4/10
Story Time Chess game for children

Story Time Chess introduces the main ideas and rules of Chess in bite-size chunks through stories. The game comes with a storybook as well as character cardboard cutouts that fit onto the Chess pieces themselves. The goal of each story is to teach kids why each character/piece moves the way it does without giving them a set of rules to help them naturally discover and internalize the rules.

For instance, the kings are introduced as King Chomper (white) and King Shaky (black). King Chomper is a king who eats too much food and can only move really slow because he’s so full. King Shaky is a king who lives in a pillow castle and is really scared whenever he goes outside, so he tiptoes around. The idea is when you put the character on the board, kids will understand that they only move 1 square at a time because of the story they heard.

The storybook also comes with tons of mini activities to help kids play around with each character/piece and slowly learn how they move around the board. This is a game with excellent production quality and cartoony artwork that will appeal to kids and help families discover and enjoy Chess in a new and fun way!

6. Fjords – A Simple Tile-Laying Game Great at 2 Players

Grail Games has just released a brand-new version of the classic 2-player tile-laying game Fjords, complete with updated artwork from Beth Sobel, expansion modules designed by Phil Walker Harding, a refined ruleset, and the ability to play with 3-4 players. Fjords is often compared to Carcassonne, but it is quite different in nature and is also arguably much easier for new players to learn.

Fjords is often compared to Carcassonne, but it is quite different in nature and is also arguably much easier for new players to learn.

Fjords board game box cover
Game Type
Territory Building, Area Majority/
Influence, Chaining,
Map Addition,
Modular Board, Tile Placement ,
Kickstarter
Play Time
30 - 45 mins
Skill/Complexity (1.3 - 5)
Light
Age
8+
Publisher(s)
Grail Games and Others
Published
2022 (reimplemented)
Categories
Family / Children
Players
2 - 4 (Ideal 2)
Cost
$39.99 approx.
Our Rating
8.1/10

Fjords is a game that is divided into two halves. In the first half of the game, players take turns drafting tiles and connecting them to existing tiles on the table and thereby expanding a beautiful map with coasts, plains, ocean, and snowy mountains. When a player places a tile, they can choose to place one of their four longhouses on it if the tile contains grassy plains. Once all tiles have been placed or can no longer legally be placed (by connecting to at least 2 other tiles with matching terrain on all sides), the second half begins.

Players then take turns placing one of their Vikings on the game board to claim an empty tile containing a plain or cliff. The Viking must be placed next to either a longhouse or Viking of their color. Once all Vikings that can be placed have been placed, players get 1 point for each Viking of their color on the game board.

While being an extremely simple family game, there is quite a bit of strategy in terms of how/where to place tiles, longhouses, and Vikings in order to help you and not your opponent(s). The game is very quick, but offers an expanded mode for 2 players with additional tiles, longhouses, and Vikings for those who want a deeper, more strategic experience. There are also a number of mini expansion modules (runestones) included in the game that can be mixed and matched to add difficulty with providing various additional scoring objectives and actions.

Because Fjords is so quick and easy to pick up, it definitely makes for a wonderful family tile-placement game with plenty of replayability, and one that certainly has some beautiful table presence with the artwork on the tiles as players build the map.

7. Wingspan – Best Card Tableau-Building Board Game with a Great Theme

There are very few games in the modern board gaming hobby that have managed to draw in non-gamers and receive mainstream media attention based on its theme alone like Wingspan produced by Stonemaier Games and designed by Elizabeth Hargrave. Wingspan is a game all about trying to fill in your aviary with different species of birds, and is well known for its beautiful production quality including artwork by Beth Sobel and fantastic physical components. If you haven’t tried this game already, and you are a fan of card games and engine-building games, this is for sure one that is worth looking into.

Wingspan is a game all about trying to fill in your aviary with different species of birds, and is well known for its beautiful production quality including artwork by Beth Sobel and fantastic physical components.

Wingspan board game box cover
Game Type
Animals, Card Game,
Educational, Card Drafting,
Dice Rolling, Drafting,
End Game Bonuses
Play Time
40 - 70 mins
Skill/Complexity (2.5 - 5)
Medium
Age
10+
Publisher(s)
Stonemaier Games and
Others
Published
2019
Categories
Strategy / Family
Players
1 - 5
Cost
$59.99 approx
Our Rating
9.2/10

In Wingspan, players take turns performing actions in order to try to score the most points by the end of the game. Players can get points based on the birds in their aviary, eggs on their bird cards, and other bonuses. Specifically, players have a chance to earn bonus points at the end of each round by doing the best at a certain category, and these end-of-round bonuses are randomized for each game, providing an excellent level of replayability.

Player actions include playing bird cards from your hand (and paying any required cost in resources), gaining food tokens, laying eggs, or drawing additional cards. The last 3 actions allow players to also activate the special abilities of the bird cards in that particular row from right to left, which can lead to some very rewarding turns especially later in the game.

This game is very simple to learn and play, and is especially made easy with the included guidance sheet for first-time players that gives them specific cards in their hand and recommended steps for their first few turns to get them going. This makes it easy to “teach as you go,” which is one way to ensure new players have an enjoyable first experience! Wingspan has won so many awards since it was released in 2019, and continues to receive new expansions for birds of different continents.

8. Cascadia Best Abstract Puzzle Game For Families

Cascadia is a very new game, but one that has definitely exploded in popularity and even won the Golden Geek Award for Light Game of the Year. With easy rules and an appealing nature theme for family members of all ages to enjoy, Cascadia still manages to provide a wonderfully thinky layer of abstract strategy that is both challenging and engaging.

Cascadia board game box cover
Game Type
Animals Theme, Puzzle,
End Game Bonuses, Hexagon Grid,
Open Drafting, Pattern Building,
Solo / Solitaire Game

Play Time
30 - 45 mins
Skill/Complexity (2 - 5)
Light
Age
10 +
Publisher(s)
Flatout Games and Others
Published
2021
Categories
Family / AbstaAbstract Strategyct Strategy
Players
1 - 4 (Ideal 2 - 3)
Cost
$39.99 approx.
Our Rating
8.3/10

In Cascadia, players are trying to gain the most points by drafting tiles and wildlife tokens, and then placing them into their own individual habitat in order to strategically aim for completing certain objectives. When a player drafts a tile/wildlife token combo on their turn, the tile placement rules are very relaxed – they simply place the tile anywhere as long as it connects to 1 other tile. The wildlife token must then be placed on a tile that contains that matching symbol.

In Cascadia, players are trying to gain the most points by drafting tiles and wildlife tokens, and then placing them into their own individual habitat in order to strategically aim for completing certain objectives

At the beginning of the game, randomly-drawn scoring objective cards are placed out for players to work toward, which are evaluated at the end of the game. The objective cards are each specific to a particular animal and have different configurations that will score points. For example, the salmon scoring card will provide an increasing number of points for adjacent tiles with salmon tokens on them, the hawk scoring card provides points for each tile next to a hawk that does not contain a hawk, and the bear scoring card provides points for each pair of adjacent bears.

Also, at the end of the game, players will score points for each tile in their largest contiguous region for each of the habitats, and the player with the largest region for each of the habitat types will score additional points.

While there are definitely a lot of puzzly abstract games out there with variable scoring, Cascadia is one with a beautiful theme and artwork that can provide some educational opportunities for kids to learn about some animals and habitats. No doubt this game will continue to stay popular with families in the coming years!

9. The Crew: Mission Deep Sea – Best Casual Family Card Game

The Crew: Mission Deep Sea is a sequel to the award-winning card game The Crew: The Quest for Planet Nine. The games are largely similar, but Mission Deep Sea implements a very streamlined mission task system, and playing The Quest for Planet Nine is not a prerequisite for trying and enjoying Mission Deep Sea. If you know nothing about either of these titles, The Crew is a cooperative trick-taking card game that has very simple rules to get into and offers some very addicting gameplay.

The Crew Mission Deep Sea card game box cover

The Crew: Mission Deep Sea at a Glance

Game Type
Science Fiction, Card Game,
Cooperative,
Communication Limits,
Trick Taking
Play Time
20 mins
Skill/Complexity (2 - 5)
Light
Age
10+
Publisher(s)
Kosmos and
Others
Published
2021
Categories
Family / Strategy
Players
2 - 5
Cost
$14.99
Our Rating
9/10

The main idea of The Crew: Mission Deep Sea is that players are working together to succeed at missions, which can be played at random or following a sequential storyline. For each mission, players are individually dealt a hand of cards, and the group draws task cards matching the level of difficulty for the current game. Players then reveal the task cards and draft them in player order, which require a certain objective to be met at a certain point in the round in order for the player to achieve that objective.

The main idea of The Crew: Mission Deep Sea is that players are working together to succeed at missions, which can be played at random or following a sequential storyline.

Being a trick-taking game, The Crew: Mission Deep Sea involves several rounds in which a starting player players a card of a particular number and suit; then, each player must play a card of that same suit if able or a card of any suit if they don’t have a card of the leading suit. The player who plays the highest card of the leading suit wins the trick unless a player has played a card from the trump suit (a black submarine in this game), in which case the player with the highest-valued trump suit card wins the trick.

Being a cooperative game, players are working together in order to ensure that all players reach their particular objective. The challenge in this game, however, is that communication between players is very limited. Each player has a sonar token which they can use to communicate to other players whether a particular card in their hand is the highest-valued, lowest-valued, or only card of that particular suit in their hand.

Players win if they manage to successfully achieve every task card, and lose if there is even one task card left that a player cannot win. The task cards add a ton of variety to the game and make each round feel radically different. They can make players do things like win a trick containing a card of a particular value and/or color, to win the first trick of the game, or win a trick containing a trump card of a particular value. As you might imagine, getting every player to achieve their task card while not communicating is quite the challenge!

If you enjoy casual card games, The Crew: Mission Deep Sea might be a great game for your collection, and one that has the ability to appeal to fans of classic trick-taking card games but with a fresh, innovative approach.

10. Luxor – Best Set Collection Family Board Game

If you’re grown tired of classic “roll-and-move” style games with no decision making, and are looking for an alternative to play with your family that they will catch onto real quick, Luxor is a set collection game that will surely provide a lot of fun. Designed by Rudiger Dorn, best known for recent classics like Karuba, Instanbul, and Steam Time, Luxor is a game that puts players into the role of adventurers of an ancient Egyptian temple who compete against each other to collect the most goods while they race to the tomb of the pharaoh.

Luxor is a game that puts players into the role of adventurers of an ancient Egyptian temple who compete against each other to collect the most goods while they race to the tomb of the pharaoh.

Luxor board game box cover

Luxor at a Glance

Game Type
Adventure
Ancient Theme, Race
Modular Board


Play Time
Approx 45 mins
Skill/Complexity ( 1.9 - 5)
Light - Medium
Age
8+
Publisher(s)
Queen Games
Published
2018
Categories
Family - 8 Year Olds
Players
2 - 4
Cost
Approx $49.99
Our Rating
8.9/10

The track that players race around to get to the tomb will remind many people of some of those classic games where you roll a die and move a number of spaces, then take a good at the space wherever you land. However, in Luxor, players are dealt a hand of cards, each with a number, which players will use on their turn to move that number of spaces. As an added twist, players cannot change the order of cards in their hand and must play a card from either end. At the end of their turn, they draw a new card and place it in the middle. In this sense, players must plan the order they play their cards in order to land on the right spaces.

Players also start the game with 2 adventurers, and can unlock additional adventurers as they progress through the temple. On a player’s turn, they can only move one adventurer. In order to gain the benefit of some tiles, a player must have multiple adventurers on that tile at the end of their turn. This level of forward-thinking feels just right for younger players and still fun for more experienced gamers as well.

Depending on the tile a player lands on, they can obtain things like treasure, more powerful cards into their hand, keys to get into the tomb, and additional boost movements to move further into the temple. Ultimately, players are trying to gain the most points mainly from treasure tiles and collecting unique sets of treasures, putting additional adventurers on the board, and collecting a sarcophagus by getting to the tomb before other players.

The base game of Luxor is very simple as-is, and for additional complexity there are a number of mini expansions (or “Queenies”) that are available from Queen Games, as well as a full expansion “The Mummy’s Curse” if you are looking for additional replay value or depth. However, just the base game alone is bound to provide you and your family plenty of enjoyment.

David Harriman

Dave's passion for board games began as a kid when his uncle taught him how to play Chess. He eventually discovered the world of hobby board gaming as a young adult with Settlers of Catan which sparked his interest in discovering what kinds of other games were out there. While Dave is always willing to try new types of games, his favorite games tend to be mid-weight Euro games – The Castles of Burgundy, Viticulture, and Orleans, to name a few.

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Whale Riders is a 2021 family board game that was designed by Dr. Reiner Knizia , a great board game designer. Players sail the coast on Whales in the game Whale Riders acquiring and trading goods. Get as many of those pearls as possible to win the game.

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