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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

 


 

Players are skiers, with rockets attached to their skies, and they’re racing down a mountain. Unfortunately you have to contend with both a yeti and an avalanche on your way down! And if you go to fast, you may have a crash!

An atmospheric dungeon crawler, great for a casual audience. Survive through fifteen rooms and defeat the boss to claim your freedom, or die trying!
 
The castle is created randomly each time, so you never know what monsters and dangerous you'll encounter. Each round, players turn over the next card in the chapter deck. You may find a treasure chest that requires cunning to open, a seller of useful items, or deadly monsters!
 
A fun twist on classic dungeon crawlers, Dungeon Fighter turns a classic genre into a dice throwing, dexterity game! You’re no longer rolling those dice, you’re throwing them.
 
Roll the die onto the target board to deal damage to monsters, miss and take damage yourself! 
The goal of the game is to create several sets of birds. Each set must be of a different color of bird, and each set must contain a card depicting one of that color of bird, followed by the cards depicting two and three of that bird, in order. On your turn, you flip one of the bird cards on the table. If the bird (or birds) on the newly revealed side can be added to your collection, you do so, otherwise you place the card anywhere back on the table.
 

Rule an empire, expand your influence, add planets to your domain and grow your fleet! Tiny Epic Galaxies packs a thrilling space adventure in one small box, turning a usually complex genre of game into an accessible, casual experience.

An escape room game packed into one single deck of cards. Players are trapped in the Laboratory of Doctor Thyme, in the room full of puzzles that need solving in order to escape the room and secure a job with the famous doctor!

WordSpiel is a simple, spiraling word game that keeps gameplay quick and turns short. Each round, players are dealt ten cards. The goal of each round is to be the first to get rid of all your cards. Create a new word based off the last card (or cards) play, and watch the spiral grow! 

HOP! is a dexterity game about trying to climb your character up a three layered board. Everyone starts by placing their character on level one. The game will end once someone reaches the seventh level or loses all five of her balloons.
 
The goal of Martial Art is to either win twelve land points or three bridge icons. Each player chooses a card from his hand and places it face down on the table. The cards are then flipped and the card with the highest value wins. However, some cards have special abilities which can change the tide of war.
 
Inspired by the classic dice game Liars Dice, Spoils of War is a game of deception, betting, and press-your-luck.
 
Players roll their dice and keep the results hidden under their dice cups. One by one you bid, trying to guess how many of each number players have collectively rolled. Get it right, and you'll collect Viking treasure, get it wrong and it will cost you gold. 

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