Best Fantasy And Sci Fi Board Games in 2026

THE DAWN OF A NEW AGE: Explore the latest reimagining of the Twilight Imperium saga with this epic fourth edition. The galaxy stirs once more, and the great races are again looking beyond their borders into the far reaches of space. Mecatol Rex, the jewel of galactic civilization, awaits the one who would be so bold as to take up the mantle of Emperor.

SCI-FI STRATEGY BOARD GAME: In this game of galactic conquest, each player takes command of one of seventeen unique civilizations to compete for interstellar supremacy through warfare, trade, uncertain allegiances, and political dominance. Negotiate your way to victory or overrun your foes with military might - the choice is yours.

THRILLING AND COMPETITIVE: Every faction offers a completely different play experience, from the wormhole-hopping Ghosts of Creuss to the Emiratates of Hacan, masters of trade. Each of these races have many paths to victory, but only one will sit upon the throne of Mecatol Rex as the new masters of the galaxy.

IMMERSIVE ADVENTURE GAME: The Avalon Hill HeroQuest board game is fantasy dungeon crawler in which players must work together to battle terrifying monsters and complete epic quests

MYTHICAL HEROES: The Realm is in need of champions to challenge the evil forces of the Dread sorcerer Zargon. Four heroes --Barbarian, Dwarf, Elf, and Wizard--have answered the call

STUNNING ARTWORK: The HeroQuest cards and booklets feature incredible artwork that helps takes players' imaginations into a fantastical world filled with hideous monsters, deadly traps, and more

THIS IS AN EXPANSION TO COSMIC ENCOUNTER: This is not a standalone product. A copy of the Cosmic Encounter Core Set is required to play.

AN AGE OF UNCERTAINTY IS HERE: Turmoil has spread throughout the Cosmos and a new group of alients hope to take advantage of it. How will these hopeful rulers attempt to seize power? Only time will tell.

EXCITING NEW GAME DYNAMICS: In this exciting expansion for Cosmic Encounter, 20 new alien species explode onto the galaxy! Players will now shudder at the insidious kindness of the Empath, blink in confusion at the antics of the Lunatic, and howl in outrage as their planets are stolen away by the Claw!

THIS IS AN EXPANSION TO COSMIC ENCOUNTER: This is not a standalone product. A copy of the Cosmic Encounter Core Set is required to play.

A NEW COSMIC AGE HAS ARRIVED: Time has passed in the Cosmos, and a new cast of characters has taken the stage. How will these fresh faces affect the delicate Cosmic balance of power? Only time will tell!

EXCITING NEW GAME DYNAMICS: In this exciting expansion for Cosmic Encounter, 20 new alien species explode onto the galaxy! Players will face the sticky terror of the Fungus, scratch their heads at the perplexing Magician, and shudder in fear as the Locust consumes their planets in one gulp.

THIS IS AN EXPANSION FOR STAR WARS IMPERIAL ASSAULT: This is not a standalone product. A copy of the Imperial Assault Core Set is required to play.

AN EPIC ADVENTURE BOARD GAME IN THE STAR WARS UNIVERSE: The mighty Imperial army and a cadre of deadly bounty hunters face off against daring Rebel heroes in a series of tactical combat missions leading up to a final showdown between the Galactic Empire and the Rebel Alliance.

TWIN SHADOWS: New dangers lurk in every shadow and darkened alley on Tatooine, home of bounty hunters and galactic scum. To make matters worse, Han Solo has disappeared while on assignment in Mos Eisley. Now, a crack team of elite Rebel operatives launches their investigation to uncover the truth behind the Imperial plot.

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!

HORROR GAME: This fully cooperative board game of horror and mystery takes place in the same universe as Arkham Horror 3rd Edition, Arkham KCG, Eldritch Horror and Elder Sign. Explore the veiled and misty streets of Innsmouth and stumble through the haunted corridors of Arkham’s cursed mansions as you search for answers and respite.

MYSTERY GAME: Players take the part of investigators, entering the darkened rooms of haunted Akrham mansions and other sinister locales to discover strange secrets, solve cunning puzzles and battle otherworldly dangers. Open the door and step inside - it will take more than just survival to conquer the evils terrorizing this town.

COOPERATIVE GAME WITH HIGH VARIABILITY: Game features four campaigns of varying length and difficulty.The dynamics of this game make it an excellent choice for game night with friends and family, especially if they're fans of horror!

BUILD A GALACTIC EMPIRE: In the depths of space, the aliens of the Cosmos vie with each other for control of the universe. Alliances form and shift from moment to moment, while cataclysmic battles send starships screaming into the warp.

SCI-FI ADVENTURE GAME: This game of interstellar exploration, negotiation, and conflict invites players to lead their own unique alien civilizations as they seek to spread across the stars. Forge your alliances, outwit your enemies and spread your colonies across the galaxy!

STRATEGY GAME: Every planet is ruled by someone and the only way to expand your cosmic colonies is through either diplomacy or war. By establishing colonies on five planets beyond the reaches of your home system, you will safeguard the future of your species and earn victory. But if you fail, you will fall into the black abyss of space!

Complete game playable out of the box

3 to 6 players

1 2 hours to play

Playing through a scenario is a cooperative affair where players will fight against automated monsters using an innovative card system to determine the order of play and what a player does on their turn

This is a game with a persistent and changing world that is ideally played over many game sessions

For 1-4 Players. Ages 14+

YOU ARE THE SHIELD AGAINST THE DARKNESS: The Brothers of the Night’s Watch recognize you as a natural leader as you struggle for promotion within their ranks. You hope to gain recognition by improving infrastructure in the area south of the Wall known as the Gift. Build, defend, and rise above your brothers to become the new Lord Commander.

STRATEGY BOARD GAME: Take on the role of Brothers of the Night’s Watch and use resources to strengthen your hold on the north by building roads, settlements, and keeps; recruiting guards for your patrol; or buying development cards. Each of these acts bring you increased power and recognition through the awarding of victory points.

CHALLENGING ADVENTURE GAME: New heroes rise to face the danger beyond the Wall in A Game of Thrones CATAN. The forests of the North conceal many secrets, and the Wildlings have only begun their attack on the Night’s Watch. With new allies and enemies, will you be able to defend the Wall and win the title of Lord Commander?

EPIC ADVENTURE GAME: Form your Fellowship and set out on your own adventures in this fully-cooperative, app-supported board game set in the fantastical land of Middle-earth! As the dark forces gather, players band together to unravel mysteries, make courageous choices, and fight against the evil that threatens the land.

STRATEGY GAME: You and your friends become heroes of the Free Peoples of Middle-earth, preparing your skills and testing your might and wisdom in combat against the encroaching darkness. Each of the iconic characters you can choose to embody have their own special abilities to contribute to your Fellowship, giving each one a distinct identity for your campaign.

COOPERATIVE GAME: Throughout Journeys in Middle-earth, you must work together with the rest of your party to survive a series of perilous adventures that sees you battling powerful foes, discovering lost treasures, uncovering forgotten lore and more.

BATTLE FOR GLORY: Blood Rage is an all-out brawl. Each Age, players draft cards to create their hands and spend Rage to execute their actions and their enemies. Players fight for control of ancient Viking territories, summon monsters from Norse legends, and complete valuable quests. Only the player who earns the most Glory will be victorious.

STRATEGY BOARD GAME: Blood Rage offers enough depth to keep any strategic player entertained while also allowing more casual players an amazing gameplay experience. Players must choose their strategies carefully during the draft phase but also be ready to adapt and react to their opponents’ strategies as the action phase unfolds.

CUSTOM CLANS: Players start with the same abilities, but throughout the game, they’ll upgrade their clan and leaders and add monsters, creating their own strengths and strategies.

THIS IS AN EXPANSION TO COSMIC ENCOUNTER: This is not a standalone product. A copy of the Cosmic Encounter Core Set is required to play.

COORDINATE AND CONQUER: Strange alliances have formed in the Cosmos, and new beings have arrived to be part of them. How will these unexpected partners change the Cosmos? Only time will tell.

EXCITING NEW GAME DYNAMICS: This exciting expansion for Cosmic Encounter brings 20 alien species, both original and classic, exploding onto your tabletop. Players will now stand petrified by the hideous Gorgon, be baffled by the puzzle of the Schizoid, and feel obsolete before the bionics of the Cyborg.

THIS IS AN EXPANSION TO COSMIC ENCOUNTER: This is not a standalone product. A copy of the Cosmic Encounter Core Set is required to play.

A POWER THAT TRANSCENDS THE AGES: Stretched beyond the confines of space and time, a crack in the cosmos has revealed a slew of ancient alien species once forgotten to the annals of history. With an unmatched level of conflict experience, these species have arisen from their temporal sleep preparing to bend the younger ones to their indomitable will.

EXCITING NEW GAME DYNAMICS: In this expansion, 30 new aliens explode onto the galaxy! Players will be terrified by the Nightmare, pledge their allegiance to The Cult, develop rapport with the Bleeding Heart and just watch the world burn with the Anarchist!

SURVIVAL BOARD GAME: The crew wakes up from hibernation to find a critical system failure that they must find and repair to safely return to Earth. The problem? One crew member is dead. Somebody ripped open his hibernation pod and pulled his body out. To make matters worse, you can hear noises in the vast corridors of the ship that sound unlike anything you have heard before.

STRATEGY GAME: Choose your character wisely because each one comes with a unique set of skills and weaknesses. Players work together but watch out because each of them has their own agenda on this infested ship. When faced with ultimate horror, will you trust your crewmates? Nemesis is the ultimate cooperative board game.

DETAILED MINIATURES: Game includes 26 high quality miniature figures and over 500 detailed game components that fully immerse you into the sci-fi horror.

COOPERATIVE ADVENTURE GAME: In Familiar Tales, players explore a massive world with branching paths and memorable characters brought to life in the pages of a story book. This app-driven experience, takes players through a professionally narrated, fully scored, decade-spanning fantasy epic.

STRATEGY BOARD GAME: Players take on the role of a wizard's familiars and go on a decades-spanning adventure to protect and raise a displaced princess. Their choices will not only affect the skills their characters develop, but also the story they’re playing through. If they are victorious and the throne is reclaimed, what kind of woman will sit upon it?

INNOVATIVE CARD PLAY SYSTEM: Players can level up their familiars by building and customizing their skill decks. This creates progression by allowing players do acquire new skills and collect resources to craft new items. Players will use their skill cards to perform all manner of exciting actions throughout their campaign.

BRING DOOM TO THE TABLETOP: DOOM The Board Game is a tactical combat game inspired by Bethesda’s blockbuster video game. Featuring two distinct player roles, the game brings the epic battle between elite marines and Hell's most threatening monsters to the tabletop. Descend into the hellish landscape of DOOM and join the epic struggle between demon and marine.

ACTION-PACKED COMBAT GAME: The asymmetrical gameplay pits one invader player and their arsenal of bloodthirsty demons against one to four elite marines, each equipped with a customizable deck of intimidating weapons and hardy armor, numerous lives, and the ability to Glory Kill weakened enemies within range.

STRATEGY BOARD GAME: Every mission presents you with a unique map, specific rules, various items for retrieval, and objectives for both invaders and marines. Whether you take on the role of the demonic invader or the continually respawning marines, you’ll have to carefully plan out every move and use your specialized abilities to achieve your given objective and prevent your opponent from completing theirs.

THIS IS AN EXPANSION TO COSMIC ENCOUNTER: This is not a standalone product. A copy of the Cosmic Encounter Core Set is required to play.

YOUR TIME OF POWER IS NOW: The forces in the Cosmos have grown. New aliens have appeared, and with their arrival the tension between all species has never been higher. Who will reign in the crowded Cosmos? Only time will tell.

EXCITING NEW GAME DYNAMICS: In this expansion, 30 new alien species explode onto the galaxy! Players will have plans foiled by the wild Joker, mutter silently at the imposing Yin-Yang, roll their eyes at those annoying Tourists and go absolutely mad from the swirling of the Whirligig!

POST-NUCLEAR APOCALYPTIC BOARD GAME: Based on the hit video game series by Bethesda Softworks, Fallout is an exciting adventure game in which one to four survivors will begin at the edge of an undiscovered landscape with one primary objective: to survive. Staying alive, however, is just the beginning.

STRATEGY GAME: With just one objective to guide them from the very beginning, each player must explore the hidden map, fight ferocious enemies and build the skills of their survivor as they attempt to complete challenging quests and balance feuding factions within the game.

CHALLENGING & COMPETITIVE HORROR GAME: A sprawling wasteland lies before you, wiped out by the centuries-old atomic blasts of the Great War. Through the bare foundations creep mutated critters whose origins you can only guess. To win the game, players must collect influence and secure their spot in a society struggling to thrive in a world forever changed.

STRATEGY BOARD GAME: Descent: Legends of the Dark is the next entry in the renowned Descent Board Game franchise. Select a hero to play as and work together with up to 3 of your friends as you fight your way through a campaign that will immerse you into the world of Terrinoth as never before.

COOPERATIVE GAME: Unlike previous Descent titles, Legends of the Dark is fully cooperative. All players work together as they progress through the story. All of the monsters are controlled by an intuitive app that tells the players how the monsters respond to the players’ actions.

APP-DRIVEN: The all-new Descent app brings an increased level of immersion to the world of Terrinoth. Not only does the app take on the role of the Overlord, controlling the monsters with A.I., but it also drives the story, allowing players to make choices that shape the narrative of the game.

ADVENTURE GAME: The city of Arcadia has stood as a bastion of peace for the past 1000 years. But now, the evil Lord Fang has taken over the Temple of Dawning Twilight. He’s joined forces with the trolls, orcs, and goblins to ensure this city will fall!

STRATEGY BOARD GAME: In Arcadia Quest, each player controls a group of Heroes joined together in a Guild. They will do battle with Fang’s minions and each other, completing quests and upgrading their team on the path to a climactic showdown with Lord Fang.

SIMPLE BATTLES WITH AWESOME MINIATURE FIGURES: Confrontations are quickly and easily resolved with intuitive dice combat. Attackers attempt to score hits with their rolls and defenders get a chance to roll for blocks. With twelve highly-detailed Hero figures and tons of monsters, like Orcs, Beastmen, and Trolls, the adventures will be larger than life.

3-6 players, 1-2 hours average play time

Recommended for ages 10 and up

Get the fast and fun gameplay of Munchkin with the fantasy flavor of Pathfinder in one neat package

THE WAR FOR AZEROTH HAS BEGUN: Small World of Warcraft is set on the fantasy world of Azeroth, where the races of the Alliance and the Horde — including Orcs, Dwarves, Trolls, and Worgen — clash in a world-consuming conflict. Players vie for conquest and control of a world that is simply too small to accommodate everybody.

STRATEGY BOARD GAME: Players choose combinations of special powers and races from the Warcraft universe, such as Portal Mage Pandarens or Herbalist Goblins, and vie for control of Azeroth. To help them achieve dominance, players will occupy legendary terrains and seek control of powerful artifacts.

MULTIPLE PATHS TO VICTORY: All empires eventually fall, so players must be ready to put an overextended race into a state of "decline" and lead a new one. You may have one active race and one race in decline at the same time. Your occupation total can vary depending on the special abilities of your race and the territories they occupy. After the final round, the player with the most coins wins.

Fantasy and Fun-filled Family Adventure - Go on a quest in this fantasy-themed board game for the whole family! Explore the magical Tolk's Cave to find treasures and scare away monsters through this very unique and exciting game for kids ages 5 and up.

Easy to Learn & Play - The Quest Kids board game is easy to play, with simple rules to encourage independent play among young gamers. Learn the rules with your kids or give them time to learn by themselves for a fun-tastic experience!

A Fantasy Board Game Starter - Introduce your child to the world of fantasy board games! Featuring classic heroes and fun villains with a learning curve that slowly escalates in complexity, this game will help boost your child’s creativity and curiosity.

THIS IS AN EXPANSION TO COSMIC ENCOUNTER: This is not a standalone product. A copy of the Cosmic Encounter Core Set is required to play.

A STORM BREWS IN THE COSMOS: As new aliens rise to power in the Cosmos, the established species scramble to build powerful orbital structures to defend their home worlds from domination or to aid in their conquest. Will these space stations shift the balance of power in the Cosmos?

EXCITING NEW GAME DYNAMICS: In this expansion, 25 new alien species explode onto the galaxy! Players will face the imposing Bulwark, grumble at the cantankerous Grumpus, groan at the unimaginable cuteness of the Squee and tremble as their ships are subjugated by the Tyrant!

Simple rules and engaging illustrations are ideal for younger gamers and fun for the whole family.

A cooperative, role-playing game where every player gets a unique character with a special ability.

Embark on a quest to find a pack of lost wolf cubs before the dragon reaches the castle.

BATTLE SYSTEMS TERRAIN Gothic Core set provides the scene for regions at the edge of the galaxy with archaic technology. It is part of a range of sci fi and fantasy landscapes for war and tabletop games

SUPERB WAR SETTING These models require no painting as each side of the card is already printed in full color. The terrain is made on high quality high density cards.

3D MULTI-LEVEL BUILDINGS For grittier scenarios Gothic Core Set is a complete set suitable for 28mm to 35mm sci-fi games. It includes a Printed Neoprene Gaming Mat (2' x 2' / 600mm x 600mm).

EXPERIENCE THE SEQUEL TO NEMESIS: Nemesis Lockdown is a standalone sequel that also integrates into the original Nemesis game and its expansions. This standalone expansion retains the highly cinematic, cooperative experience of the original game while introducing a lot of fresh new mechanics.

THRILLING SCI-FI SURVIVAL GAME: During the game, players will be taken to a totally new location - a secret base on Mars, represented by a multi level board. Survive an alien-infested lab on Mars but beware of other players and their agendas.

STRATEGY BOARD GAME: During the tense gameplay, you and your fellow players will gather items, explore different rooms and use your actions, craft, run, and fight other species. At the same time, each player will try to complete a secret objective that will grant them victory... Sometimes at the expense of others.

Add sci-fi elements to any fifth-edition fantasy campaign.

In the misty recesses of time, before the kingdoms and lands you know—before the elder elves, the dwarven ancestral lords, and even the dragons—civilizations undreamt of rose and fell.

They built citadels of metal, glass, and light. They crafted wonders and harnessed energies we can only guess at. The remnants of their incredible creations now lay hidden away in the deepest recesses of the world.