Fantasy Board Games Bucket List

Engage in the classic tabletop role-playing game Dungeon & Dragons with friends or a local group

The first collectible card game, and still the deepest.

Engage in the strategic and immersive world of Warhammer table-top gaming

Build a city of critters and constructions

Complete the epic dungeon crawling campaign

Vikings fight for glory in a doomed world, with drafted powers each age.

Magic returned to a 2050s corporate world, so elves and orks now run cyberware-assisted espionage against the megacorps.

Great Old Ones fight over the ruins of Earth in an asymmetric area-control brawl.

Paizo's continuation of D&D's third edition after Wizards moved on, with the Golarion setting and its book-length adventure paths.

Expansion 3, now sold as Dragon & Fairy: a dragon walks the board eating followers, the fairy protects the one she stands with, and magic gates drop a meeple anywhere.

A crew of thieves in a city lit by demon blood, where the heist is planned backwards through flashbacks instead of at the table.

The Ring goes south while armies burn Middle-earth; the best Tolkien game.

Say what you will do out loud, then decide whether to be brave or cowardly about it.

A cooperative fantasy campaign where the clock is the real enemy.

The grim Old World from the bottom up: characters start as ratcatchers and boatmen, and the critical tables take limbs off.

Plan a route through a fantasy map using transport cards others also need.

A deck-builder where every noisy card wakes the dragon a little more.

An app-driven co-operative campaign through Tolkien's world.

Dwarves farm, mine and furnish a mountain home; Agricola without the starvation.

Fantasy races overrun the map and then go into decline on purpose.

The first big expansion to the island-defence game, adding events and beasts.

The 200-hour sequel: a frontier outpost to rebuild between dungeon crawls.

The friendlier way into Gloomhaven, with a tutorial campaign and a printed map.

A twelve-card engine duel: mages, artifacts and essence, in thirty minutes.

Factions reshape terrain into their own home ground and race for shared cult tracks.

Defend your island against colonizers

Lead Viking clans in the final battle of Ragnarök

Lead woodland factions in an asymmetric game