Best 8 Player Board Games in 2026

CARD GAME VERSION OF MONOPOLY BOARD GAME: This Monopoly Deal card game offers all the fun of the Monopoly board game in a fast-paced card game for families and kids ages 8 and up

QUICK-PLAYING CARD GAME: It’s the Fast-Dealing Property Trading Game … made even faster! The Monopoly card game only takes about 15 minutes to play, so it’s an ideal family card game for anytime fun

COLLECT PROPERTY CARDS: The game ends when one player collects 3 complete Property sets in different colors to win

THIS IS AN EXTENSION TO THE CATAN STRATEGY BOARD GAME BASE: You will need a CATAN Base Game in order to play with this extension. Add 1-2 more friends or family without sacrificing ease of play. Add green and brown player pieces and expand your island with 2 more harbors and 11 additional terrain tiles. Up to 6 players can now enjoy CATAN with this extension.

NOW 3 to 6 PLAYERS CAN ENJOY THIS STRATEGY GAME: Trade, build and settle the Island of CATAN in this addictively fun strategy game previously called Settlers of CATAN. Players control their own civilization and look to spread across a modular hex board in a competition for victory points.

FUN GAME WITH COUNTLESS REPLAY OPPORTUNITES: The completely variable board provides great value through nearly limitless replayability. You’ll never have to play the same game twice. Looking for new adventures? Try CATAN expansions (Note: Expansions require CATAN base game to play).

YOUR GOAL: Try to get as few points as possible through flipping, trading and collecting cards over the course of several rounds. This is only possible as long as a player has not uncovered all his cards, because then ends a round. So beware, keep a close eye on the game and be cautious and wary of the other player's actions!

LOTS OF FUN for your friends and family. SKYJO is an entertaining card game that is lots of fun for kids and even older game enthusiasts (adults).

FAST GAME START: Easy to learn game rules! Includes a short manual with pictures. Ideal for a short game in-between other activities and as staple game for exciting evenings. A turn-based and time flexible game.

A FUN FILLED CARD GAME: “Rack-O” was originally released in 1956. This new retro edition, featuring fine quality cards with bold numbers, will delight players young and old.

THE PLAY: Each player is dealt 10 cards. Place cards in your rack in order, slot 50 down to 5. Turn over top card from the stockpile. Continue taking cards in turn, exchanging for cards in your rack.

WINNING A ROUND: To go “Rack-O”, player must have all ten cards in his rack from a low card in the #5 slot to a high card in the #50 slot.

THRILLING ADVENTURE GAME: It’s early 20th century The mysterious Atlantis island has been discovered in the middle of the ocean, and there are rumors of wealth! After reaching Atlantis, the explorers are ready to return home with treasures and artifacts. But Atlantis starts sinking! Who will manage reaching dry land?

STRATEGY BOARD GAME: In this cutthroat survival game, players seek to evacuate their pieces from an island that is breaking up while remembering where their highest-valued pieces are located to maximize their score.

CHALLENGING AND COMPETITIVE: Each player controls ten people that they try and move towards the safety of the surrounding islands before the main island finally blows up. Players can either swim or use boats to travel but must avoid sea serpents, whales and sharks on their way to safety.

Build a Unicorn Army. Betray Your Friends. Unicorns are Your Friends Now.

Unstable Unicorns is a strategic card game that will destroy your friendships but in a good way.

The game was one of Kickstarter’s top 100 most backed projects of all time and has sold over a million copies worldwide.

ADD TWO NEW BALDUR’S GATE CHARACTERS: Play as the ranger Minsc, with his space hamster Boo, or the shapeshifting druid Jaheira.

EXPANSION PACK: This is an expansion for Dungeon Mayhem and the base game is necessary to play. Complete game rules are not included in this expansion.

LET THE FUN START: Available separately, the Dungeon Mayhem base game is a free-for-all battle for 2 to 4 players. Last player standing wins!

QUICK GAME OF SMART QUESTIONS - Divide yourselves up in teams, or play one on one, and ask up to 10 questions to guess the Marvel character on the Game Card! Can she fly? Is he a part of the Avengers? Be the first player to win 7 Game Cards!

STRATEGIZE YOUR WAY TO VICTORY - Use Clue Cards and Bonus Questions to win more cards. First one to win 7 cards wins the game!

WHAT'S INSIDE - The game includes 52 Game Cards, 6 Clue Cards, 1 Card Holder and a handy box to store it all. The box size is portable & travel-friendly.

Invented thousands of years ago, Mancala is one of the world's favorite games of counting and strategy

Hinged wooden board folds for easy storage, making it a great choice for home and travel

Reinforces STEM and STEAM skills

Celebrity Cat-Themed Card Swapping Game - Liven up your family game night with several rounds of Cat Chaos Card Game! This fast and frantic card-swapping game features a cuddly cast of A-list feline celebrities such as Luke Skywhisker, Pablo Picatso and more!

Claw Your Way to Victory - Each party game pack includes 25 sets of 4 cards each, which is referred to as a cat-suit. The first player who completes 3 sets of cat-suits wins!

Enjoy a Chaotic Type of Fun - Build your cat-suits by swapping cards with the pile at the center of the table. Outwit your opponents by being quick and strategic as you build your cat game suits.

QUILT MAKING PUZZLE GAME: Patchwork is a wonderful two-player game that captures the magic of needlework and sewing fabric together into designs. Each player works to create a beautiful patchwork quilt out of the available patches.

STRATEGY GAME: Players compete to build the most aesthetic quilt possible on their 9x9 game board. You never know what patch you’ll be able to claim, so lay your board out carefully. Creating a beautiful quilt requires effort and time, but some patches just don't fit together.

CHALLENGING TWO-PLAYER GAME: Choose your patches carefully and keep a healthy supply of buttons to not only finish your quilt but to make it better and more beautiful than your opponent's.

Think you know which came first – the invention of mayonnaise or decaffeinated coffee? Lincoln’s Gettysburg address or John Deere’s first plow? Test your knowledge with Chronology by Buffalo Games – the game of all time!

Build your own timeline of cards. Someone will read you a historical event from a card. You decide where that event falls in your timeline. If you are right, keep the card and your timeline grows. The first player to build a timeline of 10 cards wins!

Recommended for 2 to 8 players, ages 14+

Head to Miami and get caught up in the nostalgic feeling as you relive your favorite memories from the classic television show The Golden Girls in this unique and collectible Monopoly game. A great gift for fans of The Golden Girls show and a perfect game that you won't want to pass up.

Buy, sell, and trade your way to victory as you collect properties featuring locations from the show including The Lanai, Shady Pines, and Hollingsworth Manor - you’ll even find one of Miami’s hottest spots around, Blanche’s bedroom!

Featuring 6 custom sculpted player tokens - Cheesecake, Stan’s Toupee, Rose’s Teddy Bear Fernando, Sophia’s Purse, Blanche’s Hand Mirror, and a Candied Herring

THRILLING GAME OF TERROR AND ADVENTURE: Ancient evil is stirring across the globe. You and your trusted circle of colleagues must travel around the world, working against all odds to hold back the approaching horror. The end draws near! Do you have the courage to prevent global destruction?

SCARY STRATEGY GAME: Defeat foul monsters, travel to Other Worlds and solve obscure mysteries surrounding this unspeakable horror. The effort may drain your sanity and cripple your body, but if you fail, the Ancient One will awaken and rain doom upon the known world.

COOPERATIVE MYSTERY GAME: Brave investigators team up to pit their skills and weapons against the threat of the Ancient One. Together they explore the remote corners of the globe, fight the nightmarish creatures that lurk in the shadows and solve the ancient mysteries of this Eldritch Horror!

BAMBOO GARDENING GAME: Long, long ago, the Emperor of China, in a gesture of peace, offered the Emperor of Japan a Giant Panda. You have been appointed to the delicate task of caring for this politically-important Panda and tending to the Emperor's illustrious bamboo garden.

UNIQUE FARMING GAME: Can you grow bamboo across your plantation as a mischievous panda eats wherever he can? In every game of Takenoko, the players take the role of gardeners of the Nippon emperor caring for his Giant Panda and growing a bamboo plantation. Your mission is to farm and irrigate parcels of land growing green, yellow, and pink bamboo.

STRATEGY BOARD GAME: You must cultivate plots of land using irrigation and intelligence so that bamboo, the only food that the Panda will eat, grows in abundance. But beware of the sacred animal's uncontrollable appetite for crunchy young sprouts.

STORYTELLING GAME: Dixit is the classic, simple, lighthearted game of storytelling and guesswork where your imagination unlocks the tale. Every picture tells a story – but what story will your picture tell?

CREATIVE GUESSING GAME: Each round, one player selects a card and thinks up a clue inspired by the card. The other players all choose cards that they think match the clue. The cards are shuffled and then revealed. Players secretly vote for the card that best matches the narrator's story. The player whose card is chosen scores points.

ENGAGING DREAMLIKE ILLUSTRATIONS: Dixit features 84 cards with original artwork illustrated by Marie Cardouat that depicts fantastical situations. The gorgeous art brings your imagination into unexplored realms as you try to challenge and delight your fellow players.

TRAVEL-FRIENDLY EDUCATIONAL TOYS: IQ Focus features 120 challenges where players fill the grid while focusing on the center squares. Thanks to its compact size and portable travel case, it makes a great travel companion.

BRAIN GAMES BUILD SKILLS: Build concentration skills, problem-solving abilities, spatial insight, logic, and planning while playing with SmartGames’ travel games for kids and adults. So fun to play you’ll forget the learning part!

AGES 8 AND UP: This puzzle is perfect for kids and adults alike. With 120 challenges, you’re sure to find a puzzle that tests you and pushes you to think outside the box. While it’s a single-player game, it’s exciting to solve challenges with others.

STRATEGY GAME: You are a leader of one of the seven greatest cities of the Ancient World. Gather resources, develop commercial routes and affirm your military supremacy. Build your city and erect an architectural wonder which will transcend future times.

BUILD YOUR CIVILIZATION: Players draft cards over multiple rounds, carefully building towards long-term goals. Keep an eye on your neighbors’ progress since they share similar ambitions. Will your wonder transcend the millennia to come?

HOW TO WIN THIS GAME: Each player compares their military strength with one of their neighboring cities. After the third age, players score the points given by their cards and their military conflicts. The player with the most points wins!

Each player receives a secret role

Mix & match with One Night Ultimate Daybreak, One Night Ultimate Vampire, One Night Ultimate Alien, One Night Ultimate Super Villains, and One Night Ultimate Bonus Roles for unlimited replayability!

Free app that tells you exactly what to do at nighttime, allowing everyone to play!

Play as your favorite character to defend the wizarding world from evil forces: Harry Potter, Hermione Granger, Ron Weasley and Neville Longbottom

Gain influence to master powerful spells, recruit allies, and uncover magical items

Enhance your abilities with over 140 cards

PARTY GAME: The Number is a simple and tactical game in which you have to write a 3-digit number on your tablet while trying not to have a number in common with the others! An easy to learn party game is perfect for all ages at your next gathering.

A CLEVER MIX OF BLUFFING AND RISK TAKING: Writing a large number earns more points, but it's also a risky gamble because if you have a number in common with one of the smaller numbers revealed by one of your classmates, you don't score any points!

STRATEGY GAME: As the round progresses, you can no longer use the numbers you have used before, so the possibilities gradually narrow. It's up to you to make the right choices, to bet high or to make yourself very small to keep your chances on the last rounds. After 2 rounds, get the highest score to win the game.

FAST-DEALING PROPERTY TRADING GAME: It’s a Family Game Night staple! Players buy, sell, dream and scheme their way to riches with the Monopoly board game

COMMUNITY CHEST CARDS: Fans voted for cards they'd like to see, and the votes are in! This edition includes 16 winning cards, each reflecting some great things about being part of a community

PLAYERS BUY, SELL AND TRADE TO WIN: Players buy out neighborhoods, sell properties, charge rent, and grow an empire in the Monopoly Game for adults and kids age 8 and up

A picture-perfect spin on the classic Codenames party game

2-8+ player (in two teams)

15 minutes playtime

What You Get - The Quest for El Dorado comes with 7 Terrain tiles, 2 Terrain strips, 1 ending tile, 6 blockages, 8 playing pieces, 4 Expedition boards, 1 starting player hat, 1 market board, 86 Expedition cards, 36 Cave tokens, and instructions.

Fun Play Experience - You can play a game in 60 minutes, and it's perfect for 2-4 players ages 10 and up, which makes this a perfect gift for families who love to play games together.

Easy to Understand Instructions - High quality, easy to understand instructions make it possible to start playing right away.

TRAVEL THE FAMED TOKAIDO ROAD: Welcome to the Tokaido, the legendary East Sea Road connecting Kyoto to Edo, in Japan. In Tokaido, each player is a traveler crossing the "East Sea Road", one of the most magnificent roads of Japan. Here you will begin an extraordinary journey during which you will discover a thousand marvels.

ADVENTURE GAME: While traveling, you will meet people, taste fine meals, collect beautiful items, discover great panoramas and visit temples and wild places but at the end of the day, when everyone has arrived at the end of the road you'll have to be the most initiated traveler – which means that you'll have to be the one who discovered the most interesting and varied things.

STRATEGY BOARD GAME: Action spaces are laid out on a linear track with players advancing down this track to take actions. Players must choose whether to advance slowly along the track in order to get more turns or to travel more rapidly to beat other players to their desired action spaces.

An Epic Adventure: Get ready for an epic adventure with the novelty board game in which players explore a magical world of fun, adventure, friendship, and good vibes of course.

Designed for 21+: This game is designed for ages 21+. Encouraged to be played with 2+ players.

How to Play: Pull a card from the deck and follow the instructions, then move the character piece accordingly. All movements (forward, backward or other) are based on the cards.

Easy-to-learn card game for 2–4 players.

Party game for friends and family, ages 8+.

Games are fast, 5–10 minutes.

An addictive tile-based puzzle game for 2-4 treasure hunters ages 8-99. Game length: about 40 minutes. Simple to learn, while giving the player plenty of important decisions to make along the way.

Premise: A team of adventurers gets dropped off on the beach of a mysterious island and set off through the jungle to hunt for treasure, their ultimate goal being to ransack ancient temples.

Lay your tiles on a grid to form paths in a fast-paced strategy game, racing against other players to snag the loot first. The faster you are, the more points you earn. Every game plays differently!

TIKTOK MADE ME BUY IT–OVER 3 MILLION SOLD! Millions of players around the world can’t get enough of this best-selling, award-winning, brain-bending, puzzle game

THE FIRST EVER KANOODLE FOR TWO PLAYERS! Go head-to-head in the brain-teasing puzzle race for two. Challenge your friends while encouraging problem-solving, critical thinking, and spatial reasoning skills

HOW TO PLAY: Slide a challenge card into the board, place the pieces shown, then race to fit the remaining pieces—before your buddy does. Press the button to launch your opponent’s pieces for the ultimate checkmate

FUN FAMILY GAME: Bring everyone together for a few quick rounds of Stomple during your weekly game night. It’s a family friendly competition of who can outstomp whom. The last player standing is the family champion—until next time!

STIMULATE YOUR BRAIN: Stomple is easy to learn but hard to master. With three ways to stomp, use your strategic thinking skills to figure out how your next move can outwit and outmaneuver your opponents.

MODERN GAME DESIGN: The premium game, Stomple, features high-quality, vibrant playing pieces and a wood storage tray. Leave the game on display in your home and its bold colors and stylish design will spark a conversation – or invite spontaneous game play!