The best board games like Dungeons & Dragons to play in 2025

D&D Water -Deep: Dungeon Game for Mad Mage Adventure System Board Game

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If you really want a board game that recreates Dungeons & Dragons Experience, there is no better place to start than Adventure System Games, the Adventure System Game is actually a downsized version of the 4th edition rules in the box, with a board. There is no DM to run the game: When you explore the dungeon, you pull the tiles randomly, while the monsters print them on their cards based on simple and varied AI routines. But there is another Narrative movementdivided into various scenes, secretly revealed, murderous monsters and robbed treasures. The Dungeon of Crazy Mage is the latest set, but there are many of them, they all explode.

Hero Game System

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Although one of the interesting things about D&D board games is usually that you don't need someone to play the role of DM, having someone narrate experiences and control bad people can make the experience richer for all participants. If you want to keep the character, then the 1989 classic modern reprint hero Have you covered it? Mechanically almost identical, one player controls the evil wizard and his minions, while the others are heroes, exploring a series of dungeons in search of gaining experience and cherishing and ending evil once and for all. As a bonus, it's also simple, an excellent choice for parents to play with their children (see also our Choices for more Family board game).

clank! Legacy: Acquisition and Merger

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Our two previous picks were old-fashioned games. If you want something more modern, consider this version of Excellent deck game clank! It has both the popular dungeon and dragon podcast acquisition brand, and also has a legacy structure, meaning the game is an ad campaign that is completely unique as you progress, secure copy and adventures. The game itself combines exciting, chaotic deck structures and original adventures with a more distinctive, distinctive narrative framework, full of surprises and humor. For more information, see our clank! Buying Guide.

Dungeons and Dragon Attacks

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While the adventure system game above tries to reduce the fourth version of D&D in the form of traditional adventure games, the Onslaught port Rules of the fifth edition Entering a small board game, two adventure parties fight for dominance in the dungeon room. While this is not how role-playing games tend to run, each player has at least one full-blown partisan conflict in his gaming career, and the game thoughtfully includes robbed treasures and characters to make it more realistic. Plus, desktop translations of the beloved fifth edition rules are really attractive and tactically challenging.

Bloodline: The Legend of Dark

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More and more modern adventure champion titles run the game into the app's missions, giving players the freedom to enjoy the mystery and advance their characters through campaigns. Bloodline: The Legend of Dark Perhaps the most advanced in every aspect. The app is very comprehensive, revealing dungeons, controlling monsters, narrating downtime, and even tracking your resources to feed project build features. Meanwhile, the physical components are excellent, with full 3D cardboard dungeons and detailed miniatures to bring your desktop adventures to life.

Lord of the Rings: A Medieval Journey

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Dungeon & Dragons, as we all know, counts Tolkien’s epic novels in its inspiration. So board games that include onshore and dungeon adventures, as well as combat and character progression are sure to be a similarity. Fortunately, there is still a lot to enjoy under the hood: It’s another app-oriented event that keeps players focused on fun while also spending time challenging groups with puzzles and riddles that simply cannot be purely physically produced. Set in the Hobbit and Lord of the Rings Bookit allows players to create their own Middle Earth flakes.

Tiny epic dungeon

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All draft picks so far – besides their similarity to D&D, will be intoxicating price points. If you want one Dungeon Crawling Cheap, this adorable entry is more than just that it always succeeds in shrinking the big theme into a small box in the popular Tiny Epic series. A bunch of heroes venture into a unique dungeon to try to level up enough to challenge the boss, but with the torch burning they face a tough timer. With a quick game time and a novel combat system that gives you a chance to mitigate bad results, it does feel like a huge dungeon that emerges from this very modest box.

Glohaven: The Lion's Chin

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You may have heard of Gloomhaven and Frostavintwo of which – are literally the largest and most popular board games. The power of their popularity is a fascinating combination of adventure narratives, challenging strategies and novel mechanics, each class gives a unique deck set that you must mix and match two moves every turn. They are all RPG-length campaigns, but they have some siblings, Glohaven: The Lion's ChinThis gives you all the cost of mechanical kindness and has more manageable activities. Plus, it's a prequel, so if it allows you to taste the fare that can get longer and longer, you can jump in and continue the story.

Dragonholt's legacy

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You may be familiar with the concept of choosing your own adventure book, where you read the text paragraphs and at the end which numbered paragraphs you choose to tell a version of your own story. Dragonholt's legacy expands the concept's multiple folds and makes it a multiplayer game, creating a very detailed campaign with dazzling options and branch points. Plus an activation token system that allows everyone to have a place in decision making, as well as some strategic nuances about what skills and deployment capabilities to deploy, and you already have the ultimate text adventure, although it can also be a good one Solo board game For that classic old-fashioned feel.

Betrayal at Baudel Gate

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This is a little different from the fantasy mission fare that dominates the rest of the list, but it still evokes a sense of D&D meetings and has a forgotten domain brand, so it's perfectly suited. Your team of heroes starts working together to explore the cursed city of Bauddle Gate by flipping tiles and looting items, but at some point, it will start to appear. It's revealed in a narrative book that will bring you the winning conditions of the game and often fight one player as a traitor against others. It's an exciting setting with many varieties that often boil down to the exciting conclusions of heroism trying to defeat the aggression of darkness.

Dungeons and Dragons: Neverwinter's sleeper

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Another wall choice focusing on the puzzle aspect of adventure, this is one Escape room style board game When you investigate a puzzle in the iconic Ice Road Dell environment, you have to figure out all kinds of pitfalls, tricks, and riddles. It aims to play only once for all ages, after which you can trade or sell, but it has a unique genre spin that brings together some simple exploration, role-playing opportunities and combat mechanics Desktop RPG The flavor and evolving narrative lay the foundation for an epic conclusion.

Matt Thrower is a freelance writer at IGN, specializing in tabletop games. You can contact him on the blues @mattthr.bsky.social.