We love ourselves a family game night or afternoon, whether it’s PC gaming or sitting around the table. Here are some of our favorite games/versions of games.
1. Moose Master
This game is hilarious! It is full of crazy, ever-changing rules with penalty cards and cards for gameplay. It doesn’t take much to learn it, and a round can be less than 30 minutes.
buy it: Amazon
2. Abiotic Factor
This one is a Steam or xBox/PlayStation game, but we play it through Steam. This one is a weekend regular for the hubby, Man Child #4, and I. It’s probably better suited to high school and older. The game is a survival-meets-crafting game set in an underground research facility in New Zealand. The premise is of aliens and a containment failure, which leads to a culty military encroachment and a whole lot of interrealm chaos. Sounds weird, I know. But it’s really fun and surprisingly humorous at times.
buy it: Abiotic Factor
3. Dutch Blitz
This isn’t a new game, created in Germany in the 1930s. It’s got Klondike solitaire vibes with pumps, carriages, plows, and pails instead of traditional suits. It’s all about building number-progressing piles and going out first, with some other fun rules. The OG game is for up to four players, but you can also get expansion packs to allow for more players.
buy it: Dutch Blitz
4. World of Warcraft
This one’s my jam. I’ve been playing WoW since the beginning. I also play with Man Child #1, Man Child #4, and occasionally my husband, although usually on my own. I love this game, love the expansions, love the ever-changing game play. The graphics are great, the lore is engrossing, and the music is fire!
buy it: World of Warcraft –> That’s my refer-a-friend link so I get goodies!
5. Exploding Kittens
As you can see, we love a card game! Exploding Kittens is so much fun… think Russian Roulette with felines. The cards are hilarious, the gameplay infectious. We play this with a few expansions to add to the fun. We play with: Zombie Kittens, the NSFW Edition, Imploding Kittens, Streaking Kittens
buy it: Exploding Kittens
6. Small World of Warcraft
This one is a conquer-and-expand strategy board game. They have a bunch of different versions, but this is the one we have and play. Before this, I’d never played this kind of game, but it’s a lot of fun.
buy it: Amazon
7. Hello Kitty Monopoly
I’m not ashamed. I love me some Hello Kitty stuff. My kid bought me this one recently, and we played it this weekend. It’s adorable!
buy it: The OP Games
8. Cards Against Humanity
We play a lot of this, and it’s always pure chaos. But in addition to the main game, pictured above, we have the Family Edition and a slew of expansions like the Everything and Absurd boxes, and a Golden Girls edition.
Fun fact, you can get the OG and Family Edition games as a PDF downloads for free on the website. They’ve offered it for free in that format since the beginning.
buy it: Cards Against Humanity
9. Murdle
This board game is a new one in our lineup. I got it for my birthday last month, and it is so much fun. It’s constructed so that the gameplay is different every time, using a board set up like a logic-puzzle grid. And there’s a daily online version here, as well as a slew of puzzle books you can get at bookstores.
buy it: Murdle
10. Only Murders in the Building
A game based on the Hulu show, which is a GREAT show! This was another birthday gift, and it is a lot of fun to play. Every single game is different, with infinite combinations of cards to create new adventures. SO MUCH FUN!
buy it: GameStop
11. Star Trek Fluxx
This is another highly replayable games, with changing rules and objectives. The nerds in us love it. It’s no longer printed from the creator, but the game and its three expansions are still on Amazon.
buy it: Amazon
12. The Blackbrim trilogy
Man Child #3 and I are obsessed with these games, and we’ve dragged in the rest. Man Child #4 is weirdly good at them, too. The three games are sold separately, but we’ve played the story through to the end. They’re set in Victorian England, and players act as detectives to chase a criminal, Reager Skinner, through code-cracking, clues, and puzzles. The games come with all kinds of fun materials, too.
buy it: Puzzling Pursuits
13. The Night Hunter
This is a game like the Hunt-a-Killer games, similar to the above. Players are the detectives, searching for the truth through clues and puzzles. This one focuses on Bill Mendax, the Night Hunter, who is currently serving life in prison. But then similar murders begin again, and the public is forced to wonder if it’s a copycat or if the wrong person is in prison.
buy it: Amazon
We just play Scrabble here. My husband isn’t into games. Great list!
I only like Scrabble too! I played Cards Against Humanity once with a group and I couldn’t bear to read some of the cards! I play Monopoly with my grandson.
I was introduced to Exploding Kittens by my twin nephews when I went to visit the family in July. That’s a wild game. One game I love is called Skip-Bo. It’s by the maker of Uno, and it’s a card game. Another is called Chronology, but I don’t know if you can still find it. In that one, you have to place various historical events in the proper chronological order. It can be harder than it sounds.