History Board Games Bucket List

Command factions in an alternate 1920s Europe

Build an ancient civilization through card drafting

The two-player rebuild of 7 Wonders, tighter than the original.

Expansion 11 puts historic wonders on the map, each one with a rule of its own.

Viking Tetris: fill your board with goods, raid, and settle Greenland.

A hidden-role parliament game about failing to spot a fascist in time.

No dice, no cards; just seven players lying to each other about 1901 Europe.

Renaissance patronage, dice-driven and unforgiving of a bad round.

The original industrial-revolution canal-and-rail game, meaner than its Birmingham sequel.

A civilisation game in cards, from bronze tools to space flight, without the six-hour map.

The gateway wargame: the whole of the Second World War on one board.

The Cold War duel in cards, one card able to lose you the game.

Ten ages of technology in cards, with combos that rewrite the rules mid-game.

Two-player Cold War tug-of-war (2005).

Trade in the Mediterranean in ancient times

Build networks during the industrial revolution