Best Board Games
Tabletop classics with the setup, the rules arguments and the missing pieces removed. Checkers, backgammon, dominoes, reversi, ludo and their relatives, all played against a computer opponent that knows the rules and moves immediately. Most offer several difficulty levels, so there is somewhere to go once the easy setting stops being interesting.
Best Board Games, ranked
Ordered by editorial picks first. This list is generated from the provider catalogue and changes when the cached feed is refreshed.
A note on this order: we do not track what you or anyone else plays, so this is not a play-count ranking. It follows the publisher's own catalogue ordering, weighted toward recent releases. We would rather tell you that than invent numbers to justify a list.
Board games are the best argument for a computer opponent
Every one of these games historically needed a second person who was free right now and wanted to play the same thing. A computer opponent removes that entirely, and unlike in party games, nothing is lost — checkers and backgammon are just as good against a machine as against a person, and the machine never takes twenty minutes over a move.
Questions
- Can I play against the computer?
- Yes — every board game here includes a computer opponent, usually with selectable difficulty.
- Can I play against a friend?
- Some games support two players sharing one device. Online multiplayer against remote opponents is not offered in this catalogue.