Different board games for different player group sizes - from 1 to 10 plus players!!

Board games are not only to be enjoyed in large groups of people but can be great for a solo game or a cozy two-player sesh! No matter how many players, there will be a game to accommodate any group. But with lots of great choices available it can be hard to pick the best game, so let’s have a bit of a board game countdown of some of our favourite games!

1 Player Games

Friday - A Solo Adventure: This deck-building card game is based on the famous Robinson Crusoe novel. You are Friday, and you must help Robinson survive on the island and defeat the pirates. Optimise your card deck, fight alongside Robinson Crusoe, and allow him to escape the island!

Choose Your Own Adventure - War with the Evil Power Master: A co-operative game that both lets you enjoy it solo or with a group of friends! The galaxy has been at peace for centuries, but now the Lacoonian System, one of the most advanced civilisations, is facing a rebellion lead by the Evil Power Master. Can you follow the clues and find his lair before it’s too late? Save the galaxy from his diabolical plans!

U-Boat Leader: If you are after something a little more grounded in reality and on a lengthier side, have a crack at U-Boat Leader - a World War II inspired nautical wargame. This board game includes 4 different campaigns covering various stages of the Battle of the Atlantic. Develop your war strategy and strike against the enemy!

One Deck Dungeon: A dungeon adventure that is different every time. The game lets you jump right into bashing down doors, rolling dice, and squashing monsters with style, by utilising cards in different ways you can customise your character and improve there skills and gain equipment. You can choose to venture in alone or bring along a friend for a cooperative game.

2 Player Games

Mr. Jack: Here’s a perfect murder mystery for two to enjoy! One of you plays as Jack the Ripper, fleeing from one district of the city to another and dodging as many accusations as they can. The other player becomes an investigator, pursuing the infamous killer. Will they correctly guess the identity of Jack among the eight characters on the board?

The Fox in the Forest Duet: an elegant trick-taking card game, where two players co-operate in collecting all treasure off the forest path, without wandering off the trail and becoming lost! Use your cards’ special abilities, plan ahead, and most importantly – stay on the path!

Watergate: The year is 1972. The Nixon administration is chasing re-election and trying to smoothen all possible scrutiny, while the suspicious journalists are working hard at trying to uncover Nixon’s dirty dealings. Two players are pitted in a game of wits and information.

Star Realms: A fast paced deck-building card game of outer space combat. It combines the fun of a deck-building game with the interactivity of a Trading Card Game style combat. As you play, you make use of Trade to acquire new Ships and Bases and the ships and bases you acquire to either generate more Trade or to generate Combat to attack your opponent and their bases. A fast paced game that is easy to learn, with the aim to reduce your opponents score to zero to claim victory!

3 Player Games

Pandemic - Rising Tide: A different twist on a classic board game. Fight off natural disasters and keep the shores of the Netherlands safe by constructing modern hydraulic structures in principle locations across the map. The sea is restless, and the century-old dikes and pumps will not defend the country from imminent tragedy! This is a 2-5 player game, but it is especially great with 3 players.

Welkin: Have you ever thought about becoming an architect? How about a celestial one? In Welkin, you are constructing and selling floating islands. Collect resources, assemble them, and fulfill contacts. Keep an eye on the market and maximise your gains, those prices are not fixed! This game can accommodate up to 4 players, but 3 players are optimal.

Brass - Birmingham: An excellent economic strategy game on the heavier side. You are an entrepreneur, competing ruthlessly for your spot under the sun during the Industrial Revolution. Develop your industry and exploit the everchanging market.

The Quacks of Quedlinburg: Players in the game are charlatans / quack doctors each making their own secret brew by adding ingredients one at a time. Take care of what you add, though, for a pinch too much of this or that will spoil the whole mixture! Each round, players simultaneously draw chips to add to their pot. At the end of each round, players gain victory points and coins to spend on new ingredients. Push your luck as far as you can, but if you add too many cherry bombs, your pot explodes!

4 Player Games

Tiny Epic Mechs: The year is 3030, and the entertainment industry offers unimaginable spectacle, pitting Mechanised Entertainment Combat Heroes, or Mechs, against one another. You are piloting these Mechs into an epic battle royale – power up your armour, deploy defensive turrets, plant detonators… whatever it takes to eliminate the competition and amaze your audience!

Sonar - Family edition: In the blue depths, two enemy submarines find themselves face to face with one another. Each crew consists of two roles – the captain and the radio operator. Together, they must work in a succinct manner to sink the enemy vessel.

Gaia Project: Looking for something a little more complex? This well-reviewed strategy game invites you on a journey of space colonisation. Gaia Project presents 14 factions living on their own planets, each very different from one another. In order to successfully terraform neighbouring planets, they must first sufficiently develop as a civilisation. Take them on this voyage of space exploration!

Starship Samurai: Across the far reaches of the Lotus Galaxy, a civil war is waged by massive machines piloted by skilled warriors. Take your place as daimyo of one of the major clans and fight for your right to the title of Galactic Emperor in Starship Samurai, an epic fast paced game of warring clans for two to four players. Players can use diplomacy, massive fleets or deploy the most fearsome weapons the terrifying Samurai Mechs to crush your enemies and seize key locations.

5-6 Player Games

Marrying Mr. Darcy: “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.” Relive the events of Jane Austen’s novel Pride and Prejudice as one of the female characters. Engage in social events, collect character points, and use your personal charms to attract the most eligible bachelors!

Forgotten Waters: Welcome to a fantastical pirate adventure! Embark on a mission with your crew, work together as a team to progress on a common goal, but don’t forget to further your own personal agenda. You’re a pirate, after all! The game features 5 different scenarios and a large array of locations to choose from.

Paranormal Detectives: Guess what… you’re a ghost! You look around, only to find your lifeless body, surrounded by a group of detectives, eager to reach out to you in the afterlife and solve the mystery of your demise! Using their paranormal abilities, the detectives will attempt to communicate with the ghost and try to solve the murder.

Magic Maze on Mars: The first settlers of mars are arriving soon, but the colony is not ready yet! You are the robots that are trying to build the colony before the settlers arrive. The goal in Magic Maze on Mars is to build "domes" where the settlers can live, then to guide them to their domes when they arrive. Its a race against time to get the settlers to the domes before they run out of oxygen.

7-8 Player Games

Incan Gold: This is a fast-paced press-you-luck game, in which players journey deep into the mines or explore the jungle to find treasure. There are dangers at every turn, but you can already feel the golden coins in your hand! How far are you prepared to venture in pursuit of wealth?

Obscurio: Escape the sorcerer’s library before it’s too late! The Grimoire guides you through the labyrinth of illusions by providing images – interpret them correctly, and you will find the exit in no time. There is a traitor among you, however, who will attempt to lead you astray!

Citadels Deluxe: Plot, scheme, and deceive as you build fantastical cities in Citadels, a classic game of card drafting, intrigue, and cunning characters. In Citadels, two to eight players must shrewdly draft characters and use their abilities to create the best city possible. Each round players will take on new roles to represent characters they hire in order to help them acquire gold and erect buildings. The game ends at the close of a round in which a player erects their eighth building.

Decrypto: Join the greatest Encryption team in the world! Your mission is to transmit secret codes to your teammates without letting the opposing team intercept them. Decrypto is a scramble communication game where you give clues to your teammates that only they can understand, but vague enough to make sure your opponents don't decipher it!

8-10 Player Games

A Fake Artist Goes To New York: It is an art collaboration night, and one of you is a fraud! Each artist knows the piece they are collectively working on, and it is their job to oust the pretender. Keep drawing, one contiguous stroke at a time, but don’t be too obvious, or the impostor will figure it out!

Wavelength: are you and your friends on the same frequency? In Wavelength, players attempt to guess each other’s minds. Teams take turns rotating the dial, and one player from each team, chosen as a Psychic, is trying to direct them towards this round’s “bullseye” by giving away clues, hot-or-cold style.

Concept: In this deduction party game, players communicate via icons on the board to express a word or a phrase to their teammates. Similar to charades, Concept challenges you to bring the clues together into a cohesive idea.

Saboteur: You’re digging for gold deep in the shadowy maze of a mining tunnel, when suddenly a pickaxe shatters your lamp and the cavern goes pitch black. The saboteur has struck again... but who is the saboteur? Can you and your fellow miners complete a path to the hidden gold, or will the saboteur thwart your efforts? With a unique combination of cooperation and betrayal, Saboteur reveals new secrets every time it’s played.

10+ Player Games

Monikers: A party game based on Celebrities, but with an awesome twist! Players take turns trying to help their teammates guess the name of a well-known person. In the first round, clue givers are allowed to say anything they want, except the name itself. In the second round, they can only say one word. In the final round, they can only communicate via gestures.

Two Rooms and a Boom: Players are divided into two teams – Red & Blue. The Blue team has a President, while the Red team has a Bomber. Each round, some players are swapped between the two “rooms”, and if the President and the Bomber meet, the whole game goes Boom and the Red team wins! Can the Blue team figure out the Bomber and keep their President safe?

Ultimate Werewolf Legacy: A village plagued by werewolves, with every new dawn another villagers grizzly remains are found. With the villagers scrambling to solve the mystery as to who among them is the werewolf before they are overrun. Players will secretly be allocated onto two teams and it will be a race against time to find the hidden menace among them, as the villagers don't know who the werewolves are, and the werewolves are trying to remain undiscovered while they slowly eliminate the villagers one at a time.

Town of Salem - The Card Game: Let the witch trials begin! The players are distributed secret roles and are either Good or Evil. In a classic social deduction scenario, players bluff their way out of trouble and vote on who’s going to by lynched next! Similar to the popular game Werewolf but with its own unique roles and game phases, Town of Salem will quickly become your new favourite party game!

This wraps up the list of some of our favourite board games for different player group sizes, we hope this helps you find something to suit the number of players in your group. If you have questions please feel free to ask our friendly Melbourne based team, they will be happy to help you find the right game for you.

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