
It’s a really clever system that makes for some fun back and forth gameplay. The other player gets movement/attack points equal to the difference in the value of the two cards. Each round, both players choose a card to play, but only the player with the lowest number on their card gets to use the action. Designed by a team-up of Bruno Cathala ( 5 Tribes) and Bruno Faidutti ( Citadels), Raptor features tactical play all while trying to outthink your opponent. During the game, one player takes on the role of a mama raptor trying to protect her babies while the other player controls a team of scientists trying to capture the raptors. Raptor is a card driven board game for two players. It’s a fun theme park building game, but I wasn’t a very big fan of the hooligan mechanic, so it only comes in at number 9 on the list. Each round you’ll be drafting dice that have DNA on them and using those to make dinosaurs for your park. But at its heart, it’s a dice rolling and set collection game. The design team decided to channel their inner 80s vibe as Dinosaur Island has a lot of bright neon colors and gratuitous use of the color pink. Published by Pandasaurus Games, Dinosaur Island has players building their own dinosaur theme park. Not only are you building out chains of animals, but every now and then, dinosaurs will move around your area eating the animals, allowing them to lay eggs, which is how you score points! Gods Love Dinosaurs is a fun and goofy game that should appeal to players who love tile playing and drafting games. Each turn, you’ll draft a tile to add to your ecosystem, which gives your little world new animals. In this tile-laying game, players are gods creating their own ecosystems and biomes.


From euro games to park builders to even skirmish games, get ready for some Triassic terror. So bring on the dinosaur board games!Īnd you know what? There are actually quite a few great options for you to get your dinosaur fix in. But we aren’t just here to talk about dinosaur movies. If you have the time, I’d highly suggest watching the Jurassic Park episode of The Movies That Made Us on Netflix it’s a great show. It wasn’t the first time that dinosaurs had graced the silver screen, but it was a technical marvel for its time. In 1993 when Jurassic Park debuted, the world was enthralled.
