By complexity
Medium Weight Games
Games with enough strategy to satisfy experienced players without overwhelming beginners.
Medium
7 Wonders
Seven players, three ages, thirty minutes: the card drafter that made big group strategy actually work.
Medium
7 Wonders Duel
The two-player version that's actually better than the original. Tense, every choice matters.
medium
Azul: Summer Pavilion
Draft tiles to create beautiful patterns and score points strategically.
Medium
Betrayal at House on the Hill (3rd Edition)
Explore a haunted house until one of you turns traitor: 50 scenarios of gloriously chaotic B-movie horror.
Medium
Calico
Quilt-pattern puzzle. Solo plays beautifully. Adorable, harder than it looks.
medium
Carcassonne
Tile-placement game where you build a medieval landscape to score points.
Medium
Catan
The trade-and-build classic. Five expansions deep if anyone catches the bug.
medium
Cryptid
Deductively search for the mysterious creature with your unique clues.
Medium
Dune: Imperium - Uprising
Deck-building meets worker placement on Arrakis, now with spies, sandworms, and a real six-player team mode.
Medium
Endeavor: Deep Sea
Dive crews, sonar pushes, and a gorgeous ocean board: a Kennerspiel winner that packs real strategy into a friendly hour.
Medium
Obsession
Run a Victorian estate. Hire staff, host events. Underrated and beautiful.
medium
Paleo
Work in teams to survive and thrive in a prehistoric world.
Medium
Pandemic
Cooperative classic. Save the world together. The game that converts non-gamers.
Medium
Rebirth
Knizia at his cleanest: place a tile, score it, draw again, and somehow the whole map becomes a knife fight.
medium
Res Arcana
Compete as mages harnessing ancient artifacts and summoning creatures.
medium
Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition
Strategically build and develop Mars faster than your opponents.
medium
The Castles of Burgundy
Acquire and manage estates in Medieval France to accumulate wealth.
medium
The Crew: The Quest for Planet Nine
Complete challenging missions cooperatively in this trick-taking card game.
Medium
The Lord of the Rings: Fate of the Fellowship
Leacock's richest Pandemic System design: shepherd Frodo past the Nazgul while shadow armies press every haven at once.
Medium
The Quacks of Quedlinburg
Push-your-luck bag-builder. Tense, joyful, scales clean to four.
Medium
Vantage
A crashed ship, a planet of 800 locations, and every player seeing a different world. Nothing else on your shelf plays like this.
medium
Viticulture Essential Edition
Run your own vineyard by planting vines and harvesting grapes.
Medium
Wingspan
Birds, engine-building, exquisite art. Plays light enough for casual nights, deep enough for repeat play.