Board games
Traditional games theme
Any tags that describe a board game or something that originally was a board game.
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| Backgammon board game | This tag indicates the game is based on backgammon or includes a game based on backgammon. (too short) | 1970 / 2023 | 344 games |
| Bagh-Chal | Games based on the Nepalese board game "Bagh-Chal" and its variants. (too short) | 2 games | |
| Battleship | Based on the board game "Battleship". (too short) | 1970 / 2020 | 139 games |
| Checkers | (too short) | 1975 / 2016 | 151 games |
| Chess | An abstract strategy board game. The modern variant was invented sometime in the Middle Ages in Europe. | 1970 / 2021 | 738 games |
| Chess variant | Any form of chess, whether directly inspired by chess or one of its ancestors. (too short) | 1976 / 2021 | 19 games |
| Chinese checkers | A strategy board game invented in the 19th century in Germany as a variant of Halma. Despite the name, this is not Chinese in origin nor a variant of checkers. Sometimes even mislabeled as Chinese chess. | 1983 / 2015 | 15 games |
| Game of the Amazons | A two-player abstract strategy game played on a chess board. (too short) | 1998 / 2002 | 3 games |
| Gomoku | A board game traditionally played with Go pieces on a Go board where the winner is the player who gets an unbroken row of exactly five stones horizontally, vertically or diagonally. | 1975 / 2014 | 74 games |
| Halma | Based on the board game "Halma" and its variants. Originating in 1880s, USA. A game of perfect information for 2-4 players typically on a 16x16 board. | 1987 / 2000 | 4 games |
| Go | An East Asian abstract strategy board game for two players originated in ancient China, usually played on a board with 19x19 grid though other sizes are used as well, with players placing black and white pips at the grid intersections. | 1978 / 2016 | 148 games |
| Mahjong | Popular Asian board game. Normally played with four players, but two player mahjong variants are also very common in video games. | 1979 / 2018 | 650 games |
| Mensch ärgere Dich nicht | Popular German board game. Aggravation in the USA. (too short) | 1988 / 1992 | 10 games |
| Monopoly | A board game published by Parker Brothers in 1935, a variant of the few decades older The Landlord's Game. | 1970 / 2014 | 97 games |
| Neutron Board Game | A strategy board game played on square grids. (too short) | 1 game | |
| Nine Men's Morris | Games based on the board game "Nine Men's Morris" and its variants. (too short) | 1985 / 2016 | 25 games |
| Peg solitaire | Peg solitaire is a board game for one player involving movement of pegs on a board with holes. [i]--[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peg_solitaire]Wikipedia[/url][/i] | 1973 / 2013 | 73 games |
| Ponjan | A kids version of the table game mahjong played in Japan (too short) | 1996 / 2009 | 6 games |
| Reversi | Two-player board game played on an eight-by-eight square grid with pieces that have two distinctly opposite sides. | 1977 / 2015 | 308 games |
| Shanghai solitaire | Shanghai is a solitaire game concept, played with Mahjong tiles instead of cards. (too short) | 1981 / 2016 | 143 games |
| Shōgi | Shōgi, or Japanese chess, is the most popular of a family of chess variants native to Japan. [i](Source: Wikipedia)[/i] | 1983 / 2017 | 162 games |
| Space Hulk | Based on the Space Hulk board game set in the Warhammer 40,000 universe where players controlled a Space Marine Terminator squad to search through "Space Hulks" for lost information and/or technology. | 1992 / 2018 | 28 games |
| Stratego | An abstract board strategy wargame. (too short) | 1983 / 1998 | 11 games |
| The Game of Life | Board game created in 1960 by Milton Bradley. (too short) | 1976 / 2010 | 28 games |
| Xiàngqí | A chess variant from China. The board uniquely has 'Palace' & 'River' areas that modify or restrict the movements or points of some pieces | 1985 / 2009 | 19 games |