Of all our picks, this is the one that feels the most like a modern multiplayer board game but pared down to work perfectly with two players. You play the game over the course of three rounds.

Checkers: Casual Style is a classic 2-player board game perfect for casual play. Players aim to capture their opponent's pieces or block their moves. With simple rules but endless tactical ...

Canasta for Two is a 2-player version of Canasta with endless fun. Create melds of 7 cards of the same rank, and earn points as you aim to "go out" by exhausting your cards. It's a game of ...

whether it's your first time building a rail empire or an old favorite NUMBER OF PLAYERS AND AVERAGE PLAYTIME: This family and adult board game can be played with 2 to 5 players. The average ...

The best board games for two players need to function so that playing them as a duo takes away nothing from the experience. Normally when we think of tabletop games, we think of a whole group of ...

All these games have local two-player modes, where two players share the same screen – you just need two controllers. Some of them also have online multiplayer, which we’ll mention when relevant.

Back in May I remarked how board game ... sprawling miniatures games. Dune: War for Arrakis is no different, offering a two-hour epic battle for control of Arrakis. One player takes on the role ...

Choosing any of these games will set you up for an evening or afternoon of enjoyment. Whichever you pick, grab it fast as ...

It's unclear yet how the Switch successor will approach backward compatibility, but Nintendo is promising details at a later ...

In The Magic Labyrinth players have to figure out how to retrieve objects from the game board while navigating a maze concealed underneath. The game board has two layers: On the bottom layer ...

Whether you’ve got antsy kids at home or in the classroom, a good board game can keep the little ones entertained for hours — not to mention help strengthen their critical-thinking skills.

Eve Online is next up to try it thanks to the team at Titan Forge, but CEO Roman Lakomiak tells me it took a bit of pestering ...