Individual Games

• Merchants of Empire: each player is a rich merchant trying to extend his influence in the religious, political and economic spheres (designed by Régis Bonnessée)
• 1^st Alamein: an educational 2-player operational level military history game simulating the historical decision-making situations of Allied and Axis commanders in Egypt, in July 194 (designed by Lou Coatney)
• Aboyne (http://www.huygens.org/~sijben/Aboyne.html): a game of tactics (designed by Paul Sijben)
• All the King's Horses: a game of movement with knights on a chess board
• Ancient Empires: a strategy board game for 4 to 7 players, which models the growth and interaction of ancient civilizations around the Mediterranean (designed by Steven Mathers)
• Ascent (http://www.rpi.edu/~vanpag/abrvprty.html): a two player game, is played with a group of numbered cards arranged in an array, where the aim is to arrange cards in increasing sequence (designed by Gregory K. van Patten)
• Assault on Belgium: a one-turn mini wargame featuring the German conquest of Belgium in 1940
• Bagha Chal (Tigers Moving Game) (http://home.istar.ca/~smerek/bagha-chal/index.htm): is an all out head-to-head battle for life and death between the spectacular Tigers and the devious and conniving Goats (National Game of Nepal) (described by Paul Smerek)
• Baou: a Mancala-type game (described by Mike Smith)
• Battle for Moscow Game: a free historical wargame of the German Army's struggle to defeat the Soviet Army and capture Moscow in 1941
• Battle of Inner Force: a card game that recreates group combat (designed by Alan Kwon)
• Battle Platform Antilles: a solitaire game pitting the player against an automated platform of destruction (designed by BattlePlay)
• Bloody Mary: a free family boardgame for four or more players about Tudor England after Henry VIII (designed by Garry Stevens)
• Blox: a building block strategy game (designed by Daniel LaLiberte)
• Bones: an abstract two player game. Be the first to get 5 spaces of your color in a row - with an intriguing twist! (designed by Bruce Biskup and Joshua Howard)
• Caravansérail: a previously unpublished trading game (designed by Bruno Faidutti)
• Chessling: a new game using an old board
• ChessWar!: a strategic game for two players on standard chessboard (or any kind of battlefield made of squares) with standard chess pieces (designed by Kalle Marjola)
• Cold War Naval Battles: a series of three boxed card games for two to six players based on a 1980's sea power with an emphasis on action (designed by Dan Verssen)
• Combat Chess II: a Chess variant with a bite
• Combat Zone (http://home.att.net/~edwhitey/czone.htm): a table top board game of violent field acquisition for 2 to 4 players. Players design teams of characters who compete in a sport that has been described as a cross between rugby, soccer, polo and gladiatorial combat (designed by Ed Walker Games)
• Cronberg: an easy fast tileplacing game in a medieval city (designed by Tobias and Rosland Goslar)
• Cube Digger: a three-dimensional seek-and-find game for two players (designed by Jonathan A. Leistiko)
• Culture and Conquest: build an ancient empire by rolling dice... (designed by Lloyd Krassner)
• Currents: a cross between air hockey and the Parker Brothers game 'Bonkers!', using a relatively cramped playfield with extra levels of antagonism and randomness
• Currents: a cross between air hockey and that old Parker Brothers board game Bonkers!, except it allows up to four players, uses a relatively cramped playfield, and contains extra levels of antagonism and randomness (designed by Jason McIntosh)
• Diffusion (http://www.rpi.edu/~vanpag/Diffusion2.html): a game for two people played on certain lattices consisting of points joined by line segments (designed by Gregory K. Van Patten)
• Domination: dominoes dominate this game of strategy for two players
• Doubloon Lagoon: a game of high-seas adventure to recover a lost treasure (designed by BattlePlay)
• Dozo: a game for 2 to 3 players, played on a triangular board, where you aim to ace a stone which forms the third point of an equilateral triangle (designed by Alexander Randolph)
• Dragon Poker: players use cards to construct a dragon and provide it with treasure (designed by Lloyd Krassner)
• Epaminondas(aka Crossings): an abstract game where you advance columns of game pieces to the opponents back row (designed by Robert Abbott)
• Fencing: an abstract strategy game from John Brunner's The Shockwave Rider (described by Steve Linton)
• Fibonacci: a game for two of move and capture played on a hexagonal board (designed by Thomas Naylor)
• Final Decrees: a board game based on a monstrously incompetent bureaucracy. 4 to 5 players play the upper echelon of the various departments. The player with the least blame at the end of the game wins (designed by Carl Visser)
• Flower of the Lotus: a previously unpublished strategy game (designed by Bruno Faidutti)
• Footsteps: a tabletop tug of war (rendered by Neil Bowers)
• Frontier Post: a set of wargame rules to play out most of the Boer War battles - "Talana Hill" is the first one available (designed by Robert Laing)
• Generic Space Combat 2: a game of space ship miniature battles (designed by Thane Morgan)
• Gess (Generalized Chess): a game, played on a Go board, where stones in any 3x3 region of the board, constitute a 'piece' whose configuration determine its movement
• GobCon: a non-collectible card game of the Goblin Convention; participate in games, buy noticeable items, play tricks on your opponents and use your friendship with members of the Lair to gain Goblin Points (designed by The Goblin's Lair)
• Grand Tour: match vehicles with routes to vist the most cities (designed by Lloyd Krassner)
• Hanga-Tanga: a positional game using dice and a small checker board (designed by Michael Petty)
• Henry VIII: a free family boardgame for five or more players about Tudor England and Henry VIII (designed by Garry Stevens)
• Herbs: Janitors Rule, OK! (designed by Michael Petty)
• Hex: a connectivity game, played on a rhombus of hexagons, where each player tries to complete an unbroken chain between opposite sides of the board (designed by Piet Hein)
• HexGo (http://www.rpi.edu/~vanpag/TriHex.html): a two player game, inspired by the classic games Hex, Go, Tanbo, and Star, played on a convex plane figure with six faces, tiled by equilateral triangles (designed by Gregory K. Van Patten)
• Hexwar: a medieval castle siege (designed by Jeremy Lindsey)
• Hexwar: a Game System for combat strategy in the genre of a post WWII technology battlefield (designed by Jeremy Lindsey)
• Hi Rollin': a Stack variant (designed by Michael Petty)
• HipBones: a set of "multi-media" type games inspired by Herman Hesse' Glass Bead Game
• IceHouse: a really cool game with pyramids and no board - in a class of its own, really! (designed by Andrew Looney and John Cooper)
• Jungle: a traditional Chinese board game (described by David Bush)
• Kechi: a game of capture (designed by Michael Marcus)
• Landseer Tic-tac-Toe: a more complex version of the classic game (designed by Landseer Games)
• Linear Progression: two player abstract strategy game played on a regular chess or checkers board (designed by Lloyd Krassner)
• Lines of Action: move your pieces and connect them all up (designed by Claude Soucie)
• LNL - Laplace, Newton & Lagrange: ship-to-ship combat in space (designed by Joshua Howard)
• Mancala: the traditional African game (or game system)
• Matrix Games: different to normal wargames and role-playing games - you simply use words to describe why something should happen, the Umpire decides how likely it is, and you roll a dice
• Mesopotamia: a free game about the birth of civilisation (designed by Garry Stevens)
• Metal Talon: a futuristic wargame with dynamic pieces for 2, 3, 4, or 6 players (designed by Jonathan A. Leistiko)
• Mighty Realms: a boardgame in a medieval fantasy setting. The players rule a kingdom, they manage and expand it, move armies into battle and crush enemies (designed by Fabrice Cambounet and Frédéric Dabard)
• Misq: a card game for 3 to 6 players where players try to make a set of 4 or 8 with the help of the special cards
• Monsters Ravage Japan: "monsters arise from the depths of sea and the forests of the Land of the Rising Sun to destroy the biggest city of them all -- Tokyo" (designed by J C Connor)
• Neutron: elementary particle physics (originally published in the British magazine Games & Puzzles (designed by Robert A. Kraus)
• Number Chess (http://www.rensselaer.edu/~vanpag/Numberchess.html): a mathematical game with perfect information (designed by Greg Van Patten)
• Open-Go (http://www.rpi.edu/~vanpag/Opengo.html): a variant of Go, played on a board that is simply a circular boundary (designed by Gregory Van Patten)
• Orbs: an original board game you can play with only a Chinese Checkers board and some extra marbles. Simple to learn, hard to master... (designed by Santiago)
• Pilade: a very light abstract strategy game, that you can play with pawns from any other game (designed by Bruno Faidutti)
• Pirateer: a fast-paced strategy game where fortunes turn on pirate skullduggery and a roll of the dice (designed by Scott Peterson)
• Portaits: a solitaire game of art dealing played with a standard deck of playing cards (designed by Glastyn Games)
• Richard III: a free family boardgame about Richard III and the end of the Wars of the Roses (designed by Garry Stevens)
• Robo Battle Pigs: a simple strategic combat game, for 2 to 4 players (designed by Randy Cox)
• Royals: a card game in which each player uses a standard deck of playing cards to bump off the members of the other royal house (designed by Glastyn Games)
• Rumble: a fast-paced game of superheroic combat (designed by Ben)
• Run, Hippy, Run!: a game of capitalism let loose on the globe; exploit people and resources to advance your corporation (designed by Henry Ponopscotch)
• Seminar Power Play: each player takes the part of a decision maker and must work within a team to win the game while fulfilling his or her own motives (aggrandizement of personal power, reduction of the military's influence, etc.
• Sizzlin' Starships (http://www.teamfrog.com/starship.htm): simple rules for spaceship fighter combat between the forces of the Star Rangers and the Evil Kraut Empire (designed by Paul Arden Lidberg)
• Slarge!: a set of miniatures rules for an unusual sports game (a cross between icehockey and baseball?) (maintained by David Ferris)
• Slimetrail: a slithering slug strategy game (designed by Bill Taylor)
• Sophia: a two player game with "pennies and dimes" (designed by Richard Hutnik)
• Sovereign Seas Lite: nautical combat in the period 1860-1870 (designed by Bruce Biskup and Joshua Howard)
• SPACEFARER Starship Simulator (http://home.att.net/~edwhitey/synopsis.htm): table top game of miniature combat between starships (designed by Ed Walker Games)
• Speedway: a fun and fast racing game using simple equipment (designed by P F Dwyer)
• Spiele aus Timbuktu (http://mschacht0.tripod.com/downloadgods.html): rules and graphic files for the outsold commercial card game Gods (designed by Michael Schacht)
• Squares: The US Civil War Game: a two player, abstract recreation of a classic Civil War engagement between the Blue and the Gray (designed by G Myers)
• Starmada: a board game of starship fleet combat including ship design and campaign rules (designed by Daniel S. Kast)
• Stratagem: an abstract simulation of international conflict, designed for large, introductory history courses at the college level
• Superhero Gladiators: the world's least expensive collectible card game (designed by David L. Van Slyke)
• Surprised Stare Games: make Hesketh's Christmas Lottery and Hesketh's Legacy
• Susan: a quick and subtle board game for two players (designed by Stephen Linhart)
• Syndicate Wars: a card game, using black & white pictures, situated in the 40's, when the Mafia began to organize themselves in "Syndicates", with famous names like Charlie "Lucky" Luciano and Benjamin "Bugsey" Siegel
• Ta-Se: a memory game that will have you in your cups in no time
• Talk.Bizarre: The Board Game: a non-serious game based on the Usenet group of the same name (designed by Michael Rigler)
• Tanbo: a game, played on a Go board, which models a system of plant roots struggling for survival (designed by Mark Steere)
• Tank Commander (http://www.teamfrog.com/tankcom.ht): simple rules for tank battles between the Royal Ruritannian Army, and the forces of the Empire (designed by Paul Arden Lidberg)
• Teeko: an abstract alignment game (designed by John Scarne)
• Temple: a version of the card game that the Great Dalmuti was based on. Uses a normal deck of cards but is more of a role-playing game than a card game (designed by Andrew Looney)
• The Barons of Fyn: see who can grab the most land before the king returns (designed by Bruce Biskup and Joshua Howard)
• The Helios Project (http://www.rinc.or.jp/~adrian/projecth/index.html): application of the materials presented in the rest of SF2D&I to Science Fiction games, game miniatures, game counters and short illustrated backstory
• The Lord of the Rings Boardgame: you've seen the rest... now play the weirdest! (designed by O. Sharp)
• The Stars Our Decimation: a space fleet combat board game (designed by Charles Oines and Matt Klestinski)
• The Two Pipers: why did the piper cross the swamp? (designed by Michael Petty)
• The Way: by rotating and replacing cards on the board, players try to be the first to find The Way (designed by Bruce Biskup and Joshua Howard)
• Three Squared: an unusual multiplayer card game that makes use of a standard Uno deck in an entirely new way (designed by Glastyn Games)
• Tiger Hunt (http://home.att.net/~edwhitey/tiger.htm): "a wild, man eating tiger is loose in the jungles of India"... a game for 2 to 6 players using a chess board and either chess pieces or miniatures (designed by Ed Walker Games)
• Tiles: a 2 or 3 player game in which players place tiles in an attempt to form closed areas of their color (designed by Bruce Biskup and Joshua Howard)
• Trash Wars (http://home.att.net/~edwhitey/trash.htm): table top game of miniature combat between robots (designed by Ed Walker Games)
• Trax (http://www.daimi.aau.dk/~tusk/pbmserv/trax/trax.index.html): a game of connections (designed by David Smith)
• Trimok: a board game for two, developed from the old Japanese game jan-ken-pon (scissors-paper-rock)
• Trolley Car: a game for 2-6 players in which two trolley lines compete to be the first to cross contested intersections (designed by Rick Heli)
• Trysse: a mancala variant
• Tunnel Trouble (http://home.att.net/~edwhitey/tunnel.htm): table top chase game for 2 or more players. Players create a deck of tiles that are laid out in a maze pattern, then race from their home bases on the edges of the maze to the center (designed by Ed Walker Games)
• Turnio: a tactical board-game for two players
• TwixT: two players - or teams - try to connect opposite sides of the board (designed by Alex Randolph)
• Verba volant, Scripta manent: a game of letters and bluff, a kind of liar's dice with words. Better played with cards, but can use Scrabble tiles
• Walls and Stairways: collect treasures from the magical labyrinth and return them to your city (designed by David L. Van Slyke)
• Warp War: SF tactical starship combat with diceless resolution (designed by Metagaming Company)

Games Collections

• Abstract Games (http://www.rpi.edu/~vanpag/#games): original abstract game rules, and thoughts on the role and value of games (designed by Gregory van Patten)
• Academic Gaming Review: all types of freeware, shareware, and charityware games and simulations suitable for high school and college classroom use
• Al's Games: a set of free games - including Cupido, Logjam and Rush (designed by Allen Sliwinski)
• BoneGames: free, original board and card games (abstract, fantasy and wargames) of a very high quality (designed by Joshua Howard and Bruce Biskup)
• CheapAss Games Free Stuff: collection of free games from the Cheepest of the Cheep...
• Da Vinci Free Games: a collection of free games, ready to print...
• Five-in-a-row Games: includes Renju, Go-Moku, Pente and other five-in-a-row games (maintained by Renju International Federation)
• Free Board Games: numerous do-it-yourself educational and abstract strategy games, from the "Superlative Game Company Ltd."
• FreeBoardGames.com: a range of games available for download and printout
• GamesLab: an adhoc collection of small games (designed by Derek Hohls)
• Garry's Games: a collection of historical boardgames that are both fun and educational (maintained by Garry Stevens)
• Glasytn Free Games: free games, including Royals and Three Squared
• Grognard Game Links: a list of pointers to a number of board wargames
• IceGames: a selection of new Icehouse games (collated by Glenn Overby)
• Invented Card Games: not board games, but some really innovative ideas for original card games
• Invisible City Games: a sumptuous assortment of games, with the promise of more to come. Stop by, browse, and take - no haggling required!
• KenMGames: a variety of great free games - 'happily putting more into moronic' has never been so much fun... Ken Rules! (or is that: Ken's Rules??)
• LudoChron (http://www.ymir.de/ludochron/indexe.htm): a delightful collection of on-line classic games, playable as "applets"; unfortunately the rules are only in German (maintained by Mario Bollen)
• Medieval & Renaissance Games: rules for numerous board and card games from this period (maintained by contains rules for numerous board and card games from this period)
• New World Games: a variety of "home grown" games (designeded by Michael Petty)
• Off the Wall Boardgames: has been set up to help yet another generation to rediscover the broad range of traditional games. Includes: overview of each game, the rules and a special page with a board layout and pieces, designed to print onto A4 sheets
• Original Game Rules: from the drawers of the Game Cabinet
• Penny Games: s set of free and low-cost games
• Period Games (http://www.riconnect.com/wulfric/sca/interest/game/index.htm): rules for numerous "classics" (maintained by Wulfric)
• rpr Design Page: a set of board (and other) games; including Neo-Hunt, Lords of Hell, ChessWar, Nihti, Bottisota-3, Alter Ego NCCG, Orcwars (designed by Kalle Marjola)
• Samo's Games: a creative Italian wargamer and game designer showcases some of his works; stunning graphics!
• Taipei Improvisational Theatre Structures: Improvisational Language Games (collated by Brian Phillips)
• The World of Abstract Games: well-laid out rules to over a hundred abstract games and variants, under the categories 'Variations on Go' (including Other Rules, Boards, Pieces, Players), 'Games of Soldiers' and 'Games of Kings and Soldiers'
• Tom Jolly's Free Games: a bunch of mixed card and board games from the designer of the classic "Wiz War"
• Tom's Spaceship Game List: a comprehensive list of information on spaceship miniatures and spaceship games
• Viking and Anglo-Saxon Era Games: including Hnefatafl, Duodecim scripta (or Tabula or Kvatrutafl), Merels or Nine Men's Morris
• Warp Spawn Games: an amazing collection of free games; over 70 at last count. A must see site! (designed by Lloyd Krassner)
• White Mask Games: a whole bunch of free games - nice one, guys! - to download in .PDF format and play..
• Wine Dark Sea Games: a collection of (mostly) word games (collated by Stanley Anderson)
• Wunderland Games: a mix of free and commercial games