If you have young kids who love Battleship, Naval Battleshould be your next board game.Ĭaptain Sonaroffers all the fun of Battleship but with more players and submarines! Roberto Fraga and Yohan Lemonnier’s 2-8 player strategy game has players working in teams as they try to sink their opponents’ subs.
Like Battleship, Naval Battleis played with miniature ships, plus the 2-sided board gives the game extra replayability. Players take it in turns to move around the board and attack their opponent with the goal either to sink their opponent’s battleship or capture their base. Each player has four ships, a battleship, a galleon, a frigate, and a brig, each with its own strengths and weaknesses. Naval Battle is a light-weight, family game described by the makers, Bombat Game, as ‘Real Sea Chess for your Kids’. Naval Battle is a board game for kids that is perfect if you are looking for more 2-player games like Battleship. Players must work together to keep the island from sinking before they can collect the artefacts and escape.įorbidden Island will be as much fun for families and it is for regular gamers, as it offers teamwork, adventure, and plenty of tension. A helicopter will drop you onto the island and you must move across the tiled board to collect the treasures.īut the island is increasingly sinking beneath the ocean and tiles will flip over as they begin to be submerged. Players take on the role of adventurers who are tasked with retrieving four precious artefacts from a sinking island. This co-operative, 2-4 player game is designed by Matt Leacock and is great for gamers and families looking for all the excitement of Battleship whilst working as a team. If you enjoy strategically locating secret objects in Battleship, you will love Forbidden Island.
Then, a clue-giver from each team will draw a card with a 3-digit code and must give out hints for the code based on their team’s keywords – for example, for 1 the clue-giver could say ‘bacon’.Īnd whilst the other team is deciphering these codes, your team will try to intercept the clues and, from round two onwards, have the chance to decipher your opponents’ codes before they do.ĭecrypto is delightfully simple and fun and, like Battleship, requires discovering secret information from your opponent. Designed by Thomas Dagenais-Lespérance, this code-cracking game is addictive and perfect for casual game nights.Įach team has 4 keyword cards with corresponding numbers from 1-4 – such as ‘pig’ for 1. Ever wish you could play games similar to Battleship but with more players? Decrypto is a fun party game for 3-8 players in which two teams will compete to crack their opponents’ codes.