Category: Game Ideas

I decided that my theme will be Ghosts.

1. “The Haunt” is a board game in which players must compete to posses a human and escape a house of trapped souls using strategies to learn their victim’s identity.
   
2. “Ghost hunters” is a card game where players must evade capture by world renowned ghost hunters using the tools they come across to win.
   
3. “Spirit’s Revenge” is a collaborative board game where players collaborate to hunt down a mysterious and elusive spirit using the clues found around the location.
   
4. “Battle of the Boos” is a strategy game where players compete to be the head of the house using the clues of this opponents identities.
   
5. “Ghost Stories” is a card game where players must compete by building the best ghost story using the cards they draw and pass to others.

1. The Barista’s Brew is a puzzle/time management game in which the baristas collect all the necessary ingredients and techniques to craft the ultimate gourmet coffee by using an organized inventory system, a variety of grinders and brewing machines, and a customer order list.
2. The Cure for Common Nonsense is a collaborative deduction game in which a group of scientists work together to collect “Clue” cards to develop a “Cure” for an illogical and growing problem (ex. “The Case of the Talking Teapots”) by using a hand of “Trait” cards to make the most logical (or illogical) argument to persuade their teammates.
3. The Alchemist’s Collection is a cooperative puzzle game in which a team of alchemists work together to collect a set of five matching magical ingredients to complete a powerful potion by using a hand of color-coded “Ingredient” cards and a hidden role (ex. The Herbalist, The Scribe) to perform actions and prevent a disaster.
4. Ghostly Gala is a party/memory game in which teams of players compete to collect a complete set of Ghostly Guests by matching their hidden identities to their haunted pasts by using a series of question cards, deduction skills, and a shared memory board to track their progress.
5. The Great Costume Seance is a collaborative deduction game in which a team of trick-or-treaters work together to collect and correctly match a Major Arcana Costume Card (ex. The Empress/Witch, The Fool/Clown) to its corresponding “Meaning Token” by using a series of Minor Arcana cards as clues drawn from the deck and a six-sided die roll to restrict how many clues they can reveal per turn.

Format: [Game name] is a [category of] game in which [the players or their avatars] [do or compete or collaborate for some goal] by [using tools the game provides them].

• Orchard King is a board/card game in which players are to collect or pick blueberries, strawberries, and peaches and can end the game by either obtaining all of one fruit or completing x amount of objective cards. The tools used in the game is cards and a board game.

• Preserve and Conquer is a card game in which players have strawberry, blueberry, and peaches cards along with different spices. Their goals is get as many jam recipes (combining the spices with the fruits) and each recipes is worth various amount of points. The game ends when players go through the whole deck, and then they will round up their points to see who wins. The tools needed is cards.
• Cup Luck is a board/card/cup game in which the player has to flip the cup and land it in order to move up on the board. The first person to get to the end wins by using the tools of two cups and a game board with game pieces and cards. The player has the opportunity to level up their turn which can allow them to pull a card that will benefit them or push their opponent back.
• Car Jam is a board game in which the players are competing against each other and try not to let the other players let their cars escape the parking lot (blocking them in). The players with the most cars escaped wins by using the board game and mini cars.
• Grass Jam is a board game in which you are racing your opponent and you are trying to mow the most grass as you endure different setbacks/jams (ex: a wrench in the grass that breaks your mower). You have to fix these setback/jam before you move forward in the game. The tools used in the game is a board, two-four mini mowers, cards, and a dice.

1. Literary Legacy is a drafting card game like Sushi Go in which players curate a collection of fantasy books and their authors, acting as the Wasabi card or Chopsticks to gain prestige points by selecting cards from a rotating hand to create sets and combinations that score points.
2. Tale Weavers is a collaborative storytelling game, with cards that you might find in Apples to Apples or Cards Against Humanity, in which a group of players builds a narrative by drawing from a deck of character, setting, and plot cards to create and build a story amongst players.
3. The Bookkeeper’s Apprentice is a puzzle-solving game in which the player must solve magical riddles and mysteries by sorting through words and phrases from a grimoire to cast spells and defeat the ogre.
4. Literary Labyrinth is a trading and hand-management game similar to Bonanza, in which players navigate a variety of genres to write their next book series hit by collecting and trading cards of different book genres.
5. The Canon is a competitive set-collection game in which players compile collections of literary classics, such as romanticism, dystopian, and naturalism, by drafting, trading, and completing sets of classic book cards from different genres.

1. A tornado chaser game where your all working together to “diffuse” the storm in a sense before it reaches you are town.
2. Trying to work together to get the same hand but you can’t see your own or a version that you can but can take turns looking at different peoples cards
3. building some sort of structure in game form
4. A memory game but you can’t do it on your own, you help each other out by giving clues but I’d have to come up with another mechanic for it to be more complicated
5. Like Ticket to Ride but creating food dishes and in a collaborative way, not simply trying to complete “routes” by yourself but in a team dynamic

1. Chef Check is a collaborative cooking game in which players take on the roles of unique chefs who must collaborate to prepare a full 3 course dinner by collecting ingredients, spices, and kitchen tools while protecting their supplies from mice that roam the kitchen and steal food/supplies. 

2. Virus is a collaborative takeover game in which players take on the roles of different illnesses and work together to infect the patient and overwhelm their system before the doctor can cure them, using germs, infections, and other methods of spreading disease.

3. Evolve is a collaborative evolution game in which players take on the roles of early homosapiens, each with unique knowledge and ideas, and must work together to develop tools, share discoveries, and advance society in order to create an evolved world before extinction from disease, climate, or other threats.

4. Witches is a collaborative survival game in which players take on the roles of witches who must work together to survive and ultimately overcome the men trying to burn them at the stake by creating potions, casting spells, and crafting magical tools.

5. Wonderland is a collaborative adventure game in which players take on the roles of characters from Alice in Wonderland exploring the whimsical and chaotic aspects of Wonderland, and must work together to navigate strange characters, challenges, and shifting landscapes by using riddles, knowledge, and tools the game provides them.