Best Z Man Games Board Games in 2026

STRATEGY GAME: Players must work together playing to their characters' strengths as they plan their strategy of eradicating the diseases before they overwhelm the world with ever-increasing outbreaks. A truly cooperative game where you win or lose together.

COOPERATIVE BOARD GAME: Only through teamwork will you keep the world safe from outbreaks and epidemics. Your team must work together and plan carefully to stem the tide of infection while working toward finding the cures.

WORK TOGETHER AND SAVE HUMANITY: Four diseases threaten the world, and your elite team of specialists must find a cure for each of them before it’s too late. Everyone must work together applying their unique character skills to benefit the team—and the world.

The World’s First Dodgeball Card Game - Collect matching sets of cards faster than your opponents while simultaneously ducking, dodging and throwing squishy airborne burritos.

A Game by Exploding Kittens - Creators of award-winning, hilarious and entertaining games that adults, teens and kids will all enjoy!

A Simple and Easy Game for Kids and Adults - Clear some space and put away the antiques, because you've never played a party game quite like this. The cards you collect earn you points, but you lose points when you get hit by squishy burritos.

A Kitty-Powered Russian Roulette Card Game - The hit party game for family and friends who are into kittens and explosions and laser beams and sometimes goats

A Simple Card Game for Kids and Adults - Perfect for all occasions, including a family game night, beach trip, road trip or drinking with friends, Beginner-Friendly, just 2 Minutes to learn and 15 Minutes to play

Game Of The Year Award Winner - More than 10 million copies sold, breaking records in kids games, adult games and everything in between

SPECIAL 20TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION: Celebrate 20 years of Carcassonne with this special edition of the classic tile-placement game. The Carcassonne 20th Anniversary Edition comes with the complete base game, and is compatible with all Carcassonne expansions.

STRATEGY GAME - PLAN YOUR WAY TO VICTORY: Develop the landscape of a medieval fortress city one tile at a time. Whether blocking a city's growth or connecting with your opponent’s road to share the points, Carcassonne provides plenty of ways to use your cunning and outsmart your opponents.

HIGH REPLAYABILITY: With its simple yet rich game mechanics and tiles that can be configured into numerous combinations, Carcassonne appeals to beginners and veteran gamers alike.

STRATEGY GAME: Players must work together playing to their characters' strengths as they plan their strategy of eradicating the diseases before they overwhelm the world with ever-increasing outbreaks. A truly cooperative game where you win or lose together.

COOPERATIVE BOARD GAME: Only through teamwork will you keep the world safe from outbreaks and epidemics. Your team must work together and plan carefully to stem the tide of infection while working toward finding the cures.

PLAY OVER THE COURSE OF A YEAR: Pandemic Legacy begins like the original Pandemic, but soon morphs into something more. Pandemic Legacy has a story arc that occurs over the course of a year. Each passing month brings new objectives, new challenges, and even new rules.

The time is now to take on the roles of your favorite Dragon Ball Z heroes and stop secret enemies from capturing a prized Dragon Ball!

Travel between well-known locations across the Dragon Ball Z universe with collectible tokens to solve the mystery of WHICH Villain might find the Dragon Ball, WHO has the best chance to stop them, and WHERE the battle will go down!

2-6 Players | Ages 8+

THIS IS AN EXPANSION TO MERCHANTS AND MARAUDERS: This is not a standalone game. You will need a copy of the Merchants and Marauders Board Game in order to play with this expansion.

DIVE BACK INTO THE CARIBBEAN: Seas of Glory adds eleven new modules to bring even more depth to your quest to become an influential merchant or a dreaded pirate.

STRATEGY BOARD GAME: Mix and match different challenges, such as changing winds and managing crew loyalty, to refresh your search for fame and fortune. Each module adds a new layer of thematic flavor and gives you even more control over the path you take.

A NEW PANDEMIC SYSTEM GAME SET IN THE STAR WARS UNIVERSE: The Grand Army of the Republic is in continuous conflict with the unending waves of Count Dooku’s droid battalions. In Star Wars: The Clone Wars – A Pandemic System Game, stand together as legendary Jedi against the Sith Lord and his Separatist forces.

STRATEGY BOARD GAME: Utilize each character’s unique abilities to cut down swarms of droids, complete missions across the galaxy, and use the power of the Force to battle iconic villains across four exciting scenarios.

PERFECT FOR STAR WARS FANS: Take on the roles of heroic Jedi, each with powerful and unique abilities, to battle the Separatist forces. Play through 4 different scenarios, each featuring its own main villain.

THIS IS A PANDEMIC BOARD GAME EXPANSION: You will need Pandemic Base Game in order to play with this expansion.

NEW LEVEL OF CHALLENGES: Your job of curing deadly diseases is about to get more difficult. This expansion introduces three modules that provide unique ways to play and give you greater control over each game's difficulty.

FINE-TUNE THE DIFFICULTY OF YOUR GAME: Take greater control over the diseases, or make things more unpredictable. If you want to inject an increase in difficulty to your games, the Emergency Event Challenge is for you.

Pick your favortie icon to carry you around the game board

Recruit your team to become the richest fighter

Upgrade your team with Kame Houses and Hyperbolic Time Chambers

ENTER THE HOUSE OF DANGER: Discover a thrilling adventure investigating criminal activity and a dark history in your town. Haunted by the mystery of the Marsden mansion's missing owner, you decide to take the case. With your skills as a detective, as well as your psychic senses, you're confident you can solve it.

ADVENTURE GAME: Explore the mansion and unravel its secrets. Cross paths with ghostly figures, navigate a secret lab, and conquer challenges. Think carefully as you choose which paths to investigate. What will YOU choose?

COLLECT CLUES AND ITEMS: Starting with a bottle of water and your trusty pocket knife, you'll discover clues and new items to aid your investigation and help overcome obstacles that challenge your perception, strength, dexterity, and more as you explore. Clues and items found along the way can be used to boost your chances of winning the challenge.

STRATEGY GAME: Fish, hunt, and gather from the prehistoric landscape and compete with other tribes for claim over key natural features in this exciting stand-alone game inspired by the classic Carcassonne which provides plenty of ways to use your cunning and outsmart your opponents.

A JOURNEY TO PREHISTORIC TIMES: A mammoth herd stomps across the grasslands to drink from a crystal-blue river. Cunning hunters watch from the trees, waiting for the right moment to strike. Looming stone monuments, menhirs, encircle a peaceful forest clearing, while fisherfolk set traps in a distant lake.

HOW TO ACHIEVE VICTORY: Hunters & Gatherers combines the classic tile-laying gameplay of the original Carcassonne with new thematic features and adjusted scoring rules for an all-new challenge. Expand the wilderness as you play, then score points for features you've claimed. Use the special menhir tiles to your advantage to get ahead of your opponents!

STRATEGY GAME: You and your friends play as a team of Dutch civil officials helping to modernize the water containment system. Your ultimate goal is to construct four hydraulic structures that will ensure the safety of the Dutch people for generations to come.

COOPERATIVE BOARD GAME: Only through teamwork will you have a chance to win. Players must work together planning their strategy. Choose your actions carefully, work as a team, and usher in the Industrial Age! A truly cooperative game where you win or lose together.

WATER THREAT: For centuries, the Dutch have relied upon a series of dikes and wind-powered pumps to keep water from invading their lands. But with a quarter of the Netherlands reclaimed from the sea and an expanding population, a new system is needed to hold back the ever-encroaching waters.

STRATEGY GAME: Travel back in history to the time of the world’s greatest empire: Rome. You must recruit armies, fortify cities, forge alliances, and face off against the invading hordes in battle in order to stop the fall of Rome!

COOPERATIVE BOARD GAME: Improve your team’s chances to defend against the invaders by working together and using your unique skills wisely. Only through teamwork will you have a chance to stop the invading horde. A truly cooperative game where you win or lose together.

THE GREATEST EMPIRE IN HISTORY: At the height of its power, the Roman Empire held more than two million square miles of territory, but the borders have been left open to invasion. Members of these invading tribes migrate through the cities and countryside of the Empire. If left unchecked, these warriors will sack cities, proceeding along the path to Rome itself.

EASILY JOIN THE FUN IN CARCASSONNE: Designed for ages four and up, My First Carcassonne brings children into the fun of building the city of Carcassonne. It maintains the same core game design that makes the original Carcassonne a classic, while eliminating the need to count high scores.

FUN HOLIDAY ATMOSPHERE IN CARCASSONNE: The city of Carcassonne is celebrating its national holiday. As is the tradition, people mark the occasion by setting the city’s sheep, hens, and cows loose in the streets.

THE CHILDREN HAVE THE TIME OF THEIR LIVES IN CARCASSONNE: As the game progresses and tiles are placed, the streets of Carcassonne expand and the children of Carcassonne—illustrated on the tiles—start to fill the streets trying to catch the loose animals.

DRAFTING AND BLUFFING GAME: A modern classic, Citadels is a simple-to-play, yet deeply strategic bluffing game. Citadel’s accessible rules and rewarding game play make it perfect for players new to tabletop games and veteran gamers alike.

DIVERSE CHARACTERS: Each turn you’ll draft one of the available characters for that round. Characters determine the order players will go in and what special abilities they can use on their turn. For example, thieves steal gold and assassins eliminate other characters.

BUILD KINGDOMS: When your character activates, you’ll be able to collect gold, draw and select a district card, and build a district from your hand. What districts you build will determine your strategy and how many victory points you’ll earn at the end of the game.

THIS IS A PANDEMIC THE CURE BOARD GAME EXPANSION: You will need Pandemic The Cure Base Game in order to play with this expansion.

STRATEGY GAME: Players must work together playing to their characters' strengths as they plan their strategy of eradicating the diseases before they overwhelm the world with ever-increasing outbreaks. A truly cooperative game where you win or lose together.

COOPERATIVE BOARD GAME: Only through teamwork will you keep the world safe from outbreaks and epidemics. Your team must work together and plan carefully to stem the tide of infection while working toward finding the cures.

STRATEGY GAME: Calling all worthy defenders of Azeroth! The next title in the bestselling Pandemic System takes place in the popular World of Warcraft universe, where The Lich King and his undead scourge threaten to overrun the continent of Northrend. Will you unite and stand against him?

ADVENTURE GAME: Players take on the roles of legendary heroes, battling ghouls and abominations, completing quests, and at long last, facing the Lich King at Icecrown Citadel. Can you save the world from the merciless Lich King or will his cursed blade claim yet another soul?

COOPERATIVE BOARD GAME: Only through teamwork will you have a chance to win. Players must work together, using unique character abilities and planning their strategy. A truly cooperative game where you win or lose together.

THIS IS A PANDEMIC BOARD GAME EXPANSION: You will need both the Pandemic Base Game and Pandemic On the Brink Expansion in order to play with this expansion.

NEW EXCITING CHALLENGE - RACE AGAINST TIME TO TREAT DISEASES AND TEST CURES: New medical technology has been developed that will help treat the infectious diseases spreading across the globe. This expansion adds more variety and challenge to your mission of containing deadly disease outbreaks.

SECOND NEW EXCITING CHALLENGE - SOLO GAME: Now you can take on the diseases by yourself. With a little help from the CDC, you're on your own. Stay in contact with your home base and discover the cures before it’s too late.

STRATEGY GAME: Players must work together playing to their characters' strengths as they plan their strategy of eradicating the diseases before they overwhelm North America with ever-increasing outbreaks. A truly cooperative game where you win or lose together.

COOPERATIVE BOARD GAME: Only through teamwork will you keep the world safe from outbreaks and epidemics. Your team must work together and plan carefully to stem the tide of infection while working toward finding the cures.

TEAM UP TO FIND A CURE: As members of an elite disease-control unit, you must work together to discover cures to three deadly diseases threatening the continent. Travel from city to city treating cases and preventing outbreaks as you research the cures together.

​It's the classic UNO card game everyone loves, with graphics geared to Dragon Ball Z fans! Perfect for anime fans ages 7 years and older.

​Each card is decorated with Dragon Ball Z graphics, which provides a new card-matching plot twist every time the game is played!

Just like in the classic UNO game, players match cards by color or number in a race to empty their hand.

STRATEGY GAME: A colony ship suddenly crash lands on a frozen, uncharted planet. Damaged beyond repair, the scattered remains of your ship will do little to protect you from the brutal cold. Now it’s up to you to scavenge, build, explore, and lead your faction to victory before the sun sets.

COMPETITIVE SURVIVAL GAME: Players are leaders of separate hostile factions competing to survive and claim control over the underground caverns on a remote icy planet. Act quickly and strategically to avoid further sabotage from other factions. Rescue your crew and send them underground to win area majorities and earn the most points.

UNIQUE WORKER PLACEMENT GAME: Send drones out from your engineering platform to scavenge resources and save your crew. Gather different materials to upgrade and customize your platform, fine tuning new actions to suit your individual strategy. Utilize multi-use cards to your advantage and claim the underground caverns for your faction to survive.

STRATEGY GAME: The spread of hard-to-contain diseases threaten the population of Europe. Playing as a team of skilled researchers, you and your friends will work together to discover cures for three deadly diseases. Pandemic is an award-winning, cooperative game series.

HOT ZONE: This is the second entry in the Pandemic: Hot Zone series, a smaller, quicker to play version of the best-selling game Pandemic. A cooperative game, it’s a challenging, fun game for family game night or gateway game for new board game players.

MUTATIONS AND HEMISPHERES: Pandemic: Hot Zone – Europe introduces Mutation cards. These cards can be added to the game when you and your friends are ready for a difficult new challenge. Players who also have Hot Zone – North America can play the Hemisphere mode that uses both maps.

An exciting game of hidden identities for two to four players

Move wayward druids across the mystic realm of the Fae while obscuring your identity

When isolated, druids perform rituals that award points

HISTORICAL DRAMA: It’s the mid-19th Century and the Iberian Peninsula is awash in malaria, typhus, cholera, and yellow fever. As members of The Second Royal Philanthropic Expedition, you must stop them diseases from spreading.

STRATEGY BOARD GAME: In Iberia, your goal is to research how to stop the four illnesses from spreading. Use cards whose colors correspond to researched illness cubes to clean water in surrounding areas and bring you one step closer to victory.

COOPERATIVE BOARD GAME: Take on one of seven roles such as the rural doctor or an agronomist as you travel throughout the peninsula researching each illness. Treat patients, share knowledge and clean the water supply to slow the spread or build a railroad network to make travel between hospitals more efficient. Whatever direction you take, you win or lose as a team.

Bears vs Babies is the perfect card game for adults, teens and kids (ages 10+) who are into building monstrous bears who eat horrible babies

A highly-strategic party game for 2-5 players and only 20 minutes to play

Includes 107 Cards (2.5 x 3.5 inches), Playmat, FAQ sheet, Rule Book all inside a FURRY BOX

THRILLING SCI-FI GAME: At some point in the not-so-distant future, we humans had to look for a new place to live. Just when we thought we'd have to settle for Mars, we suddenly discovered a new planet, one we lovingly christened "Planet B".

POLITICAL STRATEGY GAME: In Planet B, you slip into the role of corrupt governors. You make crooked deals with corporations to advance your own interests. You build your city, let the population work for you, rise in the favor of political factions, or control the news.

WORKER PLACEMENT GAME WITH CORRUPTION AND DARK HUMOR: All of your actions come at a price. By the time you're vying for the presidency, you'll want potential voters to be on your side. In the end, as always, only one thing counts - Who has managed to pocket the most government money?

THIS IS A MINI-EXPANSION TO THE PALEO BOARD GAME: This is not a standalone game. You will need the Paleo base game in order to play with this expansion.

PALEOLITHIC ADVENTURE GAME: Terror Birds provides a collection of new hazards, as well as a new human and dream card to help you survive this unique threat in the world of Paleo.

STRATEGY BOARD GAME: This new mini-expansion for the popular cooperative prehistoric survival game features a brand new objective that sends you and your friends into new territory to find some strange, large eggs before they hatch and spread their mischief.