Best Cryptozoic Entertainment Card Games in 2026

STRATEGY GAME: Experience an intense two-player struggle for supremacy in the ancient world! Challenge your opponent and bring your civilization to victory with Prestigious Buildings, Military Supremacy or Scientific Supremacy.

TAKE CONTROL OF YOUR CIVILIZATION: Decide to invest in science, military or prestige. If you fail to build defenses, your capital city may be destroyed, but ignore technology and your people may be left in the dark ages. Will your city achieve greatness, or will your opponent prevent you from completing all your Wonders?

CIVILIZATION WAS BORN FROM EVOLUTION: One game of 7 Wonders Duel plays over the course of three rounds, called Ages, during which you will choose cards with increasingly powerful effects. Each card you choose will influence your general strategy.

COOPERATIVE PARTY GAME: Just One is a cooperative party game in which you work together to discover as many mystery words as possible. Find the best clue to help your teammate. Be unique, as all identical clues will be cancelled!

FAST-PACED GAMEPLAY: A complete game is played over 13 cards. One player draws a card without looking at it and chooses a random number from 1 to 5. Other players secretly write a clue on their easels, then compare their easels and cancel any identical clues. Show the remaining easels to the player who draw the card so he can guess the Mystery Word!

STRATEGY GAME: Score as close to 13 points as possible. All players earn 1 point for each correct answer. In the event of a wrong answer, they lose the current card as well as the top card of the deck, thus losing 2 points. If players have no answer, they only lose the current card.

7 WONDERS CITIES BOARD GAME EXPANSION: Expand your 7 Wonders Base Game with the 7 Wonders Cities expansion. A great add-on or gift for any 7 Wonders player! Note that this expansion is compatible with all other 7 Wonders expansions (New Edition).

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.

NEW INTERACTIONS: This expansion adds two new Wonders, the possibility of playing in teams (4 and 6 player games), and a new type of card: Cities. Mercenaries, thieves, spies, and diplomats will all bring a new type of interaction to your games.

Concept-New terms expand the cooperative basic game with further terms. Here you communicate mute via universal symbols that can be flexibly and creatively combined with each other

Draws a card and selects a term with the difficulty level simple, difficult or challenge. Your fellow players will guess this term

First placed the question mark that stands for the main category of the term. You can set additional cubes of the main category or introduce subcategories

STRATEGY GAME: What’s a better testament to your civilization than an awe-inspiring wonder? Balance between gathering building materials, developing your civilization’s academics and maintaining a military, all through a unique card drafting system.

CIVILIZATION GAME: Develop your civilization and build your wonder. Materials help build your wonder, academics offer victory point bonuses, and military can earn victory points when war erupts.

DRAFTING GAME: The decks to your left and right are always face-up and shared with the players next to you as well. This open information creates a fun balancing act of drafting the card you need or drafting a card to deny another player.

7 WONDERS LEADERS BOARD GAME EXPANSION: Expand your 7 Wonders Base Game with the 7 Wonders Leaders expansion. A great add-on or gift for any 7 Wonders player! Note that this expansion is compatible with all other 7 Wonders expansions (New Edition).

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.

NEW EXCEPTIONAL PEOPLE: In addition to two brand new Wonders, this expansion introduces a new type of card: Leader cards. Queens, astronomers, philosophers and generals bring an extra dimension of strategy to your games.

A BLUFFING GAME IN THE UNIVERSE OF THE HIT NETFLIX SHOW: Play as a Stranger Things character and head to Hawkins. The Mind Flayer has created an army of Possessed people. Some of you are already under its control… don’t let it attack you and your friends!

IMMERSIVE STRATEGY BOARD GAME: Each player takes a Character tile and a card that tells you whether you are a SANE hero or POSSESSED by the Mind Flayer. Over a series of turns, two teams fight against each other: Sane versus Possessed characters.

SOCIAL DEDUCTION GAME: Work together as sane characters to determine and defeat the possessed players while they try to defeat the sane ones. In meetings, players secretly pass cards to one another and can become possessed or take damage.

7 WONDERS BOARD GAME EXPANSION: Expand your 7 Wonders Base Game with the 7 Wonders Edifices expansion. A great add-on or gift for any 7 Wonders player! Note that this expansion requires the 7 Wonders Base Game.

STRATEGY BOARD GAME: As 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.

EXPAND YOUR GAME WITH EDIFICES: In addition to two brand new Wonders, this expansion introduces a new type of card: Edifices. Amphitheater, Belvedere, Archives, and much more will bring new challenges to your games.