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Recommended Casual Game Award

Casual Game Recommended badgeEach Recommended game has been carefully evaluated by our editorial staff and found to meet the following conditions:

• Representative of the casual game genre in terms of game length, depth, and complexity
• Appeals to a general audience, with a G or PG content rating
• Has acheived a high rating in gameplay, quality, and originality

 


 

Two teams of codebreakers compete to crack the other team’s codes while correctly identifying their own. Each team has a series of code words each associated with a number. Every round, a member of your team will draw a card with three numbers on it and must give clues associated with the code words, to help your team guess the numbers. Be careful! The other team is listening to your clues and will have a chance to guess the number as well.

A fast-playing little card game with take-that and memory elements. Players are elephants trying to clear out all the junk in the circus tent. Get rid of the cards in your hand, deplete the draw pile, and toss the last of your trash to win the game.

An alien visitor, a kid, and government agents: who will the visitor trust?
 
The visitor determines a secret rule that decides what cards he will accept and which he will reject. The kid and the agent attempt to deduce the rule by submitting cards as tests. The kid and visitor win and lose together, while each agent player wins alone.

When the zoo closes at night, the animals come out to play, frolic, and partake in kung fu tournaments. Who will be the mightiest warrior? The cheetah? The elephant or gorilla? Maybe the zebra!

In Kung-Fu Zoo, players flick dice into the arena, trying to knock each other into cages and hoping their dice roll good results.

Players take on a series of mini games in a randomly generated dungeon that will have them balancing dice, testing their dexterity, rolling fast, and taking on other similar challenges in a bid to beat the clock in the cooperative party game.

Each player must work with two partners to create two cities. Building one with the player on your left hand and one with the player on your right, you place a tile in each of your cities every round.. But be careful, only the city worth the least points will score you points at the end of the game.

Each player takes on the role of one of six iconic Disney villain, and competes to be the first to complete their personal objective and become the most dastardly villain of them all. Will you be King John as he tries to get richer? Ursula as she seeks to take over the ocean? Or Jafar in his quest for the lamp?

Clank! is a unique blending of multiple mechanics including deck building, push your luck, and dungeon crawling.
 
Explore a dungeon, steal from a dragon, and make it out alive (or at least try to)!

Players are bees, racing to roll dice in this real time dice game with tile placement elements.

Each flower you win goes into your hive, but placement is key as only matching flowers adjacent to each other will score points at the end of the game.

Players work together to discover the secret words hidden in a series of puzzles. One player has the answer key and must guide one or more players through the necessary steps in order to find the solution.

Keep an eye on the clock and learn to communicate with your teammates or be stuck in the lost temple forever.

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