Abstract Games, Page 5

A crowd of umbrellas throngs the streets of New York, and seen from the sky, the colors dance... In Umbrella, each player orchestrates a "dance" of umbrellas in a street crossing.

Thousands of plants and animals have been discovered but haven't been seen for decades and could be on the brink of extinction. In order to save these species, we must first find them again. The Search for Lost Species is a game about this real-world search. You are scientists on an expedition to find one of those lost species, focusing on those in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea.

A wacky family game with a push-your-luck mechanic. Players take on the roles of grandchildren helping Grandma put all her kittens to bed - and she has a lot of them! The cats love to sleep in one place, next to each other (and on top of each other), so it takes a bit of creativity. The first player to tuck all their assigned kittens in wins!

In Paws Up, players become pet influencers competing to collect the most “paws” through clever photo cards and storytelling. It’s a fast-paced, light strategy card game perfect for families and casual gamers.

Knitting Circle is a standalone follow-up to the award-winning Calico. In this cozy tile-laying puzzle game for 1–4 players, you take on the role of knitters crafting the most beautiful assortment of garments. With variable scoring goals and dozens of unique template cards, every game offers a fresh spatial puzzle.

A new invasive species of butterflies are fluttering near your garden. You will lose 2 points for each of these butterflies if they land in your garden bed! A new twist on the classic gameplay of Butterfly Garden from Dr. Knizia.  

What hue do you think of when we say “apple”? Hues and Cues is a vibrant game of colorful communication where players are challenged to make connections to colors with words. Using only one and two-word cues, players try to get others to guess a specific hue from the 480 colors on the game board. The closer the guesses are to the target, the more points you earn. Since everyone...

A simplified version of Ubongo for the youngest players aged 5 and up, which you can take with you anywhere.

On a dark night, your broomsticks drop you quietly to the top of an evil tower. Explore the tower to equip yourself and collect the items you need to defeat the terrible wizards lurking there! Using your magic wands, simultaneously point at one of the tokens in the tower room to collect it. If two players point at the same item, the one with the most powerful wand wins the item, but must...

An elegant game for two players with wooden tiles and changing directions of play. Fast, clever, and surprisingly addictive!

My Very First Games: Let's Be VeterinariansOh no, the animals are sick and need your help ASAP! In "My Very First Games: The Vet," young players take on the role of veterinarians to treat and care for some cute but sick animals. Each animal has its own specific problem: the crocodile has a toothache, the elephant has a cold, the cheetah has a stomachache, and the poor flamingo has a broken leg....

A deceptively cute, deceivingly challenging abstract strategy game for two players. Every time you place a kitten on the bed, it goes “boop.” Which is to say that it pushes every other kitten on the board one space away. Line up three kittens in a row to graduate them into cats… and then, get three cats in a row to win.  

Floristry is a 2 player, tile-laying game. Players compete at the historic Aalsmeer Dutch Auction to win the best flowers and then use them to create the most charming window display.

Butterfly Garden, first released as Indigo, is a tile-laying game along the lines of Metro, Tsuro, and Linie 1 in which players build paths bit by bit, with no player owning the individual paths and everyone trying to exploit the paths already present. Unlike those earlier games, however, your goal is to move butterflies from their starting locations on the board to...

Forests are magical places where different spirit animals live... In Whispering Woods, you have to build trails for your spirit animals and thus complete missions that will benefit you with victory points. On each turn, you can collect two landscape tiles for your forest, or one quest tile with a particular path to be able to score in the future. You will also be able to complete several...

Northwest a 2-to-4-player tableau-building game with unique point salad scoring and shared movement mechanics. It can be taught in 3 minutes or less and has the right balance of luck and strategy to make it accessible to anyone.

TroubleZ is a card game for 2 to 6 players. The simple rules allow children from 7 years old to play. In the game, players try to create "Hordes" - sets of cards for which they earn points at the end of the game by laying out cards.  

In the game Removal you take on the challenging task of moving the whole house as efficiently as possible, but at the same time as sparingly as possible, so that nothing brakes.

In the game Removal you take on the challenging task of moving the whole house as efficiently as possible, but at the same time as sparingly as possible, so that nothing brakes.

Garden Lake offers a relaxing and rewarding experience. Players build their garden lakes with water lilies and koi fish using pentomino tiles. The catch is that on their turn, players always place one tile, but they can earn additional tiles by completing various objectives, which allows them to chain moves and strategize their way to victory.

Around five thousand years ago, a resilient group of farmers and hunters built a thriving community on the Orkney Islands of Northern Scotland. Rather than discarding their empty shells, broken tools, bones, and other waste, they used them to form large mounds of earth over hundreds of years. Later generations dug into these midden piles to create a series of rooms and tunnels to shelter from...

Expansion for the game Santorini. For the 2nd edition of Santorini, Roxley Games redetermined the best base gods and revamped some gods that were less fun. They have also added brand-new gods and moved some of the more complex ones into 4 new expansion packs. Soaring Over Olympus contains Europa & Talus, Aeolus, Eirene, & Harpies.

Expansion for the game Santorini. For the 2nd edition of Santorini, Roxley Games redetermined the best base gods and revamped some gods that were less fun. They have also added brand-new gods and moved some of the more complex ones into 4 new expansion packs.Seasons of Chaos contains Jason, Urania, Khione, & Terpsichore.