The 10 best board games for 5+ players

Wingspan is a beautifully illustrated engine-building game where you attract birds to your wildlife preserve, scoring points through strategic combos over four rounds. Perfect for nature lovers and board game fans seeking a medium-weight, competitive challenge.

Wingspan is a competitive, medium-weight card-driven game where you play as a bird enthusiast—researcher, watcher, or collector—building a network of wildlife preserves. Your goal: discover and attract the best birds to create powerful chains of combos across three habitats.

In medieval Orléans, you recruit farmers, knights, monks, and more to build a thriving engine of trade, science, and construction. Perfect for strategy lovers who crave multiple paths to victory and tough choices every turn.

Welcome to medieval France, where the bustling city of Orléans is your stage. Your goal? Assemble a loyal following of farmers, merchants, knights, monks, craftsmen, scholars, and traders — each with unique abilities that fuel your rise to supremacy.

Terra Mystica is a deep, luck-free strategy game where 14 unique factions compete to terraform and expand their territory, perfect for players who love planning ahead and outsmarting opponents without dice or cards.

In the world of Terra Mystica, 14 distinct peoples are bound to their own home landscapes, and to grow, they must terraform neighboring lands into their preferred terrain while competing against other factions. This is a game of pure strategy — no luck, no dice — rewarding careful planning and subtlety. Each player controls one faction, each with unique special abilities, and must expand their territory while developing their group's skills and progressing in four religious cults.

Build a peaceful Roman trading empire in this strategy game for 2–5 players where cunning planning beats luck of the dice. Perfect for ages 13+ who love deep, competitive economic games.

Two thousand years ago, the Roman Empire ruled the Mediterranean — and now it's your turn to guide a dynasty. In Concordia, you'll send colonists to settle cities producing bricks, food, tools, wine, and cloth, all while expanding your trade network and earning the favor of ancient gods. This is a peaceful strategy game of economic development — no dice, no luck, just sharp planning.

Scythe is a strategic engine-building game set in an alternate-history 1920s Europa, where you command a faction of mechs and farmers to conquer territory and claim power. Perfect for players who love deep, asymmetric strategy with no dice-based luck.

It’s an alternate-history 1920s Europa, where the ashes of the first great war still darken the snow. The mysterious Factory—a capitalistic city-state that once fueled the war with heavily armored mechs—has shut its doors, and now several nearby countries eye its secrets. In Scythe, you control one of five unique factions, each starting with different resources, a distinct location, and a hidden goal. This is a game of farming and war, broken hearts and rusted gears, innovation and valor.

Nemesis drops you onto a derelict spaceship crawling with evolving aliens, where survival means completing secret objectives, managing a broken ship, and watching your back for traitors among your crew. Perfect for fans of sci-fi horror who love tense, semi-cooperative chaos.

Welcome to the Nemesis, a ship overrun with hostile alien organisms called Intruders — and you're trapped on board with them. You'll take on the role of a crew member with a unique skill set, personal deck of cards, and starting gear: the scientist can hack computers and research solutions but crumples in a fight, while the soldier is your go-to for blasting aliens but might not be so handy with a datapad.

Command your interstellar empire in this strategic space conquest game. Outwit rivals through exploration, tech, and tactical warfare—adapt your alien species’ strengths for victory. Second Dawn upgrades the 2011 classic with slick new visuals and elite miniatures.

Chart your course through a galaxy brimming with conflict and discovery in Eclipse: Second Dawn for the Galaxy. As the leader of a formidable alien civilization, you’ll explore uncharted star systems, research cutting-edge technologies, and forge powerful fleets to dominate the cosmos. No single path to victory fits all—capitalize on your species’ unique traits while countering foes’ ambitions, whether through warfare, diplomacy, or cunning economic strategies.

In the 2400s, you and your rivals compete to transform Mars into a habitable planet, balancing corporate greed with terraforming progress. Perfect for strategy lovers who enjoy deep card play and engine-building.

It's the 2400s, and humanity has set its sights on turning the Red Planet green. Giant corporations, backed by the World Government on Earth, are racing to raise Mars's temperature, oxygen levels, and ocean coverage until the planet is truly habitable. In Terraforming Mars, you play as one of those corporations, working together with rivals to terraform the planet — but secretly competing for Victory Points (VPs) earned not just from terraforming, but from building infrastructure across the solar system…

Twilight Imperium: Fourth Edition is an epic 6-8 hour game of galactic conquest for 3-6 players who love deep strategy, negotiation, and asymmetric factions. Perfect for dedicated board gamers ready to claim the throne of Mecatol Rex through military might, political scheming, and trade.

Twilight Imperium: Fourth Edition drops you into a sprawling galaxy where three to six players each command one of seventeen wildly different factions — from the wormhole-hopping Ghosts of Creuss to the trade-obsessed Emirates of Hacan. Every game begins with you and your rivals building the galaxy itself, strategically placing 51 galaxy tiles featuring lush planets, supernovas, asteroid fields, and gravity rifts around the central capital of Mecatol Rex.

Balance military might and political intrigue while deploying spies, signing contracts, or riding sandworms in this standalone deck-building and worker-placement game for fans of Dune and strategic board games.

In Dune: Imperium – Uprising, you must continue to balance military might with political intrigue, wielding new tools in pursuit of victory. Deploy spies to shore up your plans, secure vital contracts to expand your resources, or learn the ways of the Fremen and ride mighty sandworms into battle.