Tile Placement Games
Tile Placement games feature placing a piece to score VPs or trigger actions, often based on adjacent pieces or pieces in the same group/cluster, or keying off non-spatial properties like color, "feature completion", cluster size etc.
A classic example is Carcassonne, where a player randomly draws a tile, places it next to other tiles (along with a meeple), in order to complete map features. - from Board Game Geek
Sorted by location in the store - Casual Games | Cooperative Games | Heavyweight Games | Middleweight Games | Value Games
Updated August 30, 2025
Casual Games:
Acquire: 60th Anniversary - 2-6 Players
Economic, Tile Placement, Hand Management
AQUA - 1-4 Players
Drafting, Kids, Tile Placement, Puzzle, Animals
Azul - 2-4 Players
Abstract, Set Collection, Drafting, Base Game, Tile Placement, Puzzle
Azul Duel - 2 Players
Abstract, Pattern Building, End Game Bonuses, Set Collection, Drafting, Layering, Open Drafting, Base Game, Tile Placement, Puzzle
Azul Queen’s Garden - 2-4 Players
Abstract, Set Collection, Tile Placement, Puzzle
Azul Stained Glass of Sintra - 2-4 Players
Abstract, Set Collection, Drafting, Kids, Tile Placement, Puzzle
Azul Summer Pavilion - 2-4 Players
Abstract, Set Collection, Drafting, Tile Placement, Puzzle
Azul Summer Pavilion Mini - 2-4 Players
Abstract, Set Collection, Drafting, Tile Placement, Puzzle
Babylon - 2-4 Players
Drafting, City Building, Tile Placement
Between Two Cities Essential Ed - 1-6+ Players
Solo Mode, Set Collection, Drafting, City Building, Tile Placement
Caldera Park - 1-4 Players
Solo Mode, Set Collection, Tile Placement, Puzzle, Animals
Calico - 1-4 Players
Solo Mode, Abstract, Set Collection, Drafting, Tile Placement, Puzzle, Animals
Carcassonne - 2-5 Players
Staff Pick 2022, Kids, City Building, Tile Placement
Carcassonne Big Box - 2-5 Players
Staff Pick 2022, Kids, City Building, Tile Placement
Cascadia - 1-4 Players
Solo Mode, Variable Player Powers, Tile Placement, Animals
Charcuterie: The Board Game - 2-6 Players
Set Collection, Tile Placement
Clank! Catacombs - 2-4 Players
Variable Player Powers, Push Your Luck, Drafting, Deckbuilding, Player Elimination, Tile Placement, Dungeon Crawler, Fantasy
Destinies - 1-3 Players
Solo Mode, Dice, Fighting, Base Game, Tile Placement, Miniatures, Staff Pick 2024, App Based, Fantasy
Diatoms - 1-4 Players
Pattern Building, Tile Placement, Puzzle
Dice Manor - 2-4 Players
Dice, Tile Placement
Divinus - 2-4 Players
Dice, Variable Player Powers, Tile Placement, Fantasy
Dorfromantik: Sakura - 1-6 Players
City Building, Cooperative, Tile Placement, Puzzle
Dragon Castle - 1-4 Players
Abstract, Variable Player Powers, Drafting, Tile Placement
Dreadful Meadows - 1-4 Players
Solo Mode, Economic, Variable Player Powers, Worker Placement, Base Game, Tile Placement
Dungeon Decorators - 2-4 Players
Set Collection, Drafting, Tile Placement, Fantasy
Factory Funner - 1-6 Players
Solo Mode, Tile Placement
Faeries & Magical Creatures - 2-4 Players
Drafting, Card Games, Take That, Tile Placement, Hand Management, Fantasy
Foundations of Metropolis - 2-4 Players
Economic, City Building, Tile Placement
Fountains - 1-5 Players
Rondel, Open Drafting, Tile Placement
Four Corners: Galaxy - 1-6 Players
Tile Placement, Puzzle
Galaxy Trucker (2021) - 2-4 Players
Dice, Staff Pick 2021, Dexterity, Science Fiction, Tile Placement
Gnome Hollow - 2-4 Players
Set Collection, Worker Placement, Tile Placement, Fantasy
Habitats - 1-5 Players
Drafting, Tile Placement, Puzzle, Animals
Hive - 2 Players
Abstract, Base Game, Tile Placement, Animals
Hutan Life in a Rainforest - 1-4 Players
Tile Placement, Puzzle, Animals
In the Footsteps of Darwin - 2-5 Players
Drafting, Kids, Tile Placement, Animals
Isle of Skye From Chieftan King - 2-5 Players
Economic, Set Collection, Auction, Tile Placement
Kutna Hora: The City of Silver - 2-4 Players
Economic, Variable Player Powers, City Building, Card Games, Tile Placement, Hand Management
Leaf - 1-4 Players
Solo Mode, Tile Placement
Lords of Vegas Revised - 2-4 Players
Dice, Economic, City Building, Tile Placement
Luna Capital - 1-4 Players
Set Collection, Drafting, Kids, City Building, Base Game, Science Fiction, Tile Placement
Maps of Misterra - 1-4 Players
Solo Mode, Drafting, Tile Placement
Monkey Palace - 2-4 Players
Drafting, Tile Placement, LEGO, Animals
Neuroshima Hex 3 : Year/ Moloch - 1 Player
Team Based, Variable Player Powers, Fighting, Player Elimination, Science Fiction, Tile Placement, Puzzle, Hand Management
Overboss: A Boss Monster Advent - 1-5 Players
Solo Mode, Set Collection, Drafting, Kids, Tile Placement, Fantasy
Pergola - 1-4 Players
Set Collection, Tile Placement
Picture Perfect - 2-4 Players
Memory, Deduction, Auction, Tile Placement, Puzzle
Planet Unknown - 1-6 Players
Variable Player Powers, City Building, Science Fiction, Tile Placement, Puzzle, Route Building
Pollen - 2-4 Players
Abstract, Tile Placement, Animals
Power Plants Deluxe - 1-5 Players
Solo Mode, Abstract, Kids, Tile Placement, Puzzle, Fantasy
Railroad Tiles - 1-4 Players
Pattern Building, Map Addition, Connections, Tile Placement, Trains
Rebirth - 2-4 Players
Science Fiction, Tile Placement, Fantasy
River Valley Glassworks - 1-5 Players
Drafting, Tile Placement, Animals
Savannah Park - 1-4 Players
Solo Mode, Abstract, Set Collection, Kids, Tile Placement, Puzzle
Shake That City - 1-4 Players
Variable Player Powers, City Building, Tile Placement, Puzzle
Small Islands - 1-4 Players
Solo Mode, Staff Pick 2022, Push Your Luck, Tile Placement
Square One - 1-4 Players
Abstract, Drafting, Tile Placement
Stamp Swap - 1-5 Players
Drafting, Tile Placement
Superstore 3000 - 2-4 Players
Tile Placement
Takenoko - 2-4 Players
Dice, Set Collection, Tile Placement, Staff Pick 2024, Animals
Tea Witches - 2-4 Players
Push Your Luck, Worker Placement, Tile Placement, Fantasy
The Night Cage - 1-5 Players
Horror, Cooperative, Tile Placement, Fantasy
Tribes of the Wind - 2-5 Players
Set Collection, Drafting, Civilization, Card Games, Tile Placement, Hand Management
Tsuro - 2-6+ Players
Abstract, Staff Pick 2022, Kids, Player Elimination, Tile Placement, Hand Management
Tsuro of the Seas - 2-6+ Players
Abstract, Dice, Kids, Player Elimination, Tile Placement, Hand Management
Tsuro: Phoenix Rising - 2-6+ Players
Abstract, Set Collection, Kids, Tile Placement, Hand Management
Urban Insanity Cities&Suburbs - 2-4 Players
City Building, Tile Placement
World Wonders - 1-5 Players
Solo Mode, Tile Placement
Zombie Princess Maze Board Game - 2-5 Players
Zombies, Tile Placement, Fantasy
Staff Picks and Best Sellers
Azul
Azul is an award-winning board game that challenges players to create stunning tile mosaics while making strategic decisions and competing for high scores.
Carcassonne
A very simple, yet deep game that can be played as gentle or cutthroat as you like. - Eric C.
Destinies
You can play solo, up to three player or team play 2v2. It's an app-board game hybrid that has a ton of fan-made scenarios along with the regular ones. - Kat
Tsuro
It's a fast, simple game that is the perfect mix of strategy and chance. I love getting to lead people to their doom! - Alia
Cooperative Games:
Dorf Romantik - 1-6 Players
Variable Player Powers, Kids, City Building, Cooperative, Tile Placement, Puzzle
Ingenious - 1-4 Players
Team Based, Kids, Competitive, Tile Placement, Hand Management
Mists Over Carcassonne - 1-5 Players
Tile Placement
Paint the Roses - 2-5 Players
Deduction, Cooperative, Tile Placement, Puzzle, Fantasy
Robinson Crusoe: Collector’s Edition - 1-4 Players
Solo Mode, Dice, Variable Player Powers, Fighting, Cooperative, Worker Placement, Tile Placement
Ingenious
A Reiner Knizia classic - players take turns placing colored domino-style tiles on a game board, scoring for each line of colored symbols that they enlarge. The trick, however, is that a player's score is equal to their worst-scoring color, not their best, so they need to score for all colors instead of specializing in only one or two.
Heavyweight Games:
Elden Ring: Stormveil Castle - 1-4 Players
Adventure, Fighting, Cooperative, Tile Placement, Miniatures, Fantasy
Mage Knight Ultimate Edition - 1-5 Players
Solo Mode, Variable Player Powers, Fighting, Drafting, Deckbuilding, Cooperative, Card Games, Tile Placement, Hand Management, Fantasy
Middleweight Games:
A Feast for Odin - 1-4 Players
Solo Mode, Dice, Economic, Push Your Luck, Worker Placement, Tile Placement, Puzzle
Acquire - 2-6 Players
Economic, Tile Placement, Hand Management
Ahoy - 2-4 Players
Pirate, Variable Player Powers, Worker Placement, Tile Placement, Fantasy
Arborea - 1-5 Players
Solo Mode, Worker Placement, Tile Placement, Fantasy, Animals
Ark Nova - 1-4 Players
Solo Mode, Economic, Variable Player Powers, Drafting, Base Game, Tile Placement, Staff Pick 2024, Animals
Bamboo - 2-4 Players
Tile Placement
Barcelona - 1-4 Players
City Building, Worker Placement, Tile Placement
Beyond the Horizon - 2-4 Players
Civilization, Worker Placement, Tile Placement
Castles of Burgundy Special Edition - 1-4 Players
Solo Mode, Dice, Set Collection, Tile Placement
Castles of Mad King Ludwig - 1-4 Players
Set Collection, Tile Placement, Puzzle
City of the Living - 2-4 Players
Economic, Drafting, Tile Placement
Crafting the Cosmos - 2-4 Players
Rondel, Map Addition, End Game Bonuses, Variable Player Powers, Income, Astronomy theme, Automatic Resource Growth, Science theme, Tags, Tile Placement, Track Movement, Movement Points, Contracts
Dinosaur Island - 1-4 Players
Dice, Set Collection, Kids, Worker Placement, Tile Placement, Animals
Dinosaur World - 2-4 Players
Dice, Economic, City Building, Worker Placement, Science Fiction, Tile Placement, Animals
Earth - 1-5 Players
Solo Mode, Card Games, Tile Placement, Hand Management, Animals
Emberleaf - 1-5 Players
Solo Mode, Variable Set-up, Set Collection, Variable Player Powers, City Building, Tile Placement, Puzzle, Contracts, Fantasy, Animals
Escape From New York - 1-4 Players
Card Games, Take That, Bluffing, Tile Placement, Hand Management
Hickory Dickory - 1-4 Players
Set Collection, Racing, Worker Placement, Tile Placement, Animals
Honey Buzz - 1-4 Players
Solo Mode, Economic, Memory, Drafting, Worker Placement, Tile Placement, Animals
Huang - 2-4 Players
Set Collection, Civilization, Tile Placement, Hand Management
Isle of Cats - 1-4 Players
Solo Mode, Set Collection, Drafting, Tile Placement, Puzzle, Animals
Life of the Amazonia - 1-4 Players
Solo Mode, Set Collection, Variable Player Powers, Tile Placement, Puzzle, Animals
Northgard: Uncharted Lands - 2-5 Players
Dice, Variable Player Powers, Tile Placement, Miniatures, Fantasy
Oros - 1-4 Players
Solo Mode, Abstract, Worker Placement, Tile Placement, Puzzle
Tapestry - 1-5 Players
Solo Mode, Dice, Variable Player Powers, Push Your Luck, Drafting, Civilization, Take That, Base Game, Tile Placement, Hand Management
Terraforming Mars - 1-5 Players
Solo Mode, Economic, Variable Player Powers, Drafting, Take That, Best Seller, Base Game, Science Fiction, Tile Placement, Hand Management
Wayfarers of the South Tigris - 1-4 Players
Solo Mode, Set Collection, Drafting, Worker Placement, Tile Placement
Whistle Mountain - 2-4 Players
Variable Player Powers, Worker Placement, Tile Placement
Wild Tiled West - 1-5 Players
Solo Mode, Dice, Drafting, Tile Placement, Animals
Ark Nova
Ark Nova is as close a board game gets to a "zoo tycoon" simulation. I love the huge variety of animal cards and the challenge provided by the action card system. Currently my #1 game of all time! I could play it over and over again. - Jed
Terraforming Mars
Giant corporations, sponsored by the World Government on Earth, initiate huge projects to raise the temperature, the oxygen level, and the ocean coverage until the Martian environment is habitable. Work together in the terraforming process, but compete for getting victory points through your contributions to the great work.
Value Games:
1001 Islands - 2-5 Players
Set Collection, Kids, Tile Placement
A Gentle Rain - 1 Player
Solo Mode, Abstract, Tile Placement
Akropolis - 1-4 Players
Drafting, City Building, Tile Placement
Beacon Patrol - 1-4 Players
Solo Mode, Abstract, Kids, Cooperative, Tile Placement
Botanik - 2 Players
Abstract, Set Collection, Drafting, Take That, Tile Placement
Captain Flip - 2-5 Players
Memory, Push Your Luck, Kids, Tile Placement, Pirates
Castellion - 1-2 Players
Solo Mode, Oniverse, Cooperative, Tile Placement, Puzzle, Fantasy
Donut Shop - 2-4 Players
Abstract, Set Collection, Kids, Tile Placement
Dragomino - 2-4 Players
Drafting, Kids, Tile Placement, Fantasy
Dragon Inferno - 2 Players
Abstract, Kids, Tile Placement
Festival - 2-4 Players
Abstract, Tile Placement
Floristry - 2 Players
Tile Placement, Puzzle, Real-time
Forbidden Island - 2-4 Players
Solo Mode, Set Collection, Variable Player Powers, Cooperative, Science Fiction, Tile Placement, Hand Management, Fantasy
Forbidden Jungle - 2-5 Players
Solo Mode, Set Collection, Variable Player Powers, Cooperative, Science Fiction, Tile Placement, Hand Management, Fantasy
Forbidden Jungle - Survive the wild - 2-5 Players
Solo Mode, Set Collection, Variable Player Powers, Cooperative, Science Fiction, Tile Placement, Hand Management, Fantasy
Garden Rush - 2 Players
Pattern Building, Gardening theme, Open Drafting, Take That, Hot Potato, Grid Coverage, Tile Placement, Farming, Square Grid, Animals
Gardlings - 1-4 Players
Push Your Luck, Tile Placement, Puzzle, Fantasy
Glasgow - 2 Players
Set Collection, City Building, Worker Placement, Tile Placement
I Heart Manatees - 2-4 Players
Cooperative, Take That, Nautical, Tile Placement, Environmental
Immortal: A Game of Final Arrangements - 2-6 Players
Abstract, Tile Placement, Hand Management
Ingenious Travel Edition - 1-4 Players
Team Based, Kids, Competitive, Tile Placement, Hand Management
Kingdomino - 2-4 Players
Staff Pick 2022, Drafting, Kids, City Building, Best Seller, Tile Placement
Kingdomino Origins - 2-4 Players
Abstract, Drafting, City Building, Tile Placement, Animals
Labyrinth - 2-4 Players
Kids, Tile Placement, Puzzle
Labyrinth Minecraft - 2-4 Players
Kids, Tile Placement, Puzzle
Land vs Sea - 2-4 Players
Tile Placement, Puzzle, Route Building
Life in Reterra - 2-4 Players
Drafting, Tile Placement
Link City - 2-6 Players
Staff Pick 2025, Cooperative, Tile Placement, Party Game
Middle Ages - 2-4 Players
Set Collection, Tile Placement
Mining Colony - 1-4 Players
Tile Placement
Moon River - 2-4 Players
Drafting, Kids, Tile Placement
My Little Pony - 1-5 Players
Solo Mode, Abstract, Pattern Building, Set Collection, Tile Placement, Hand Management
Patchwork - 2 Players
Economic, Kids, Tile Placement
Patchwork Americana - 2 Players
Abstract, Drafting, Tile Placement, Puzzle
Prehistories - 2-5 Players
Card Games, Tile Placement, Hand Management
Qwirkle - 2-4 Players
Abstract, Staff Pick 2021, Kids, Tile Placement, Hand Management
Qwirkle Cubes - 2-4 Players
Abstract, Dice, Tile Placement
Safari Splash! - 2-6 Players
Set Collection, Kids, Card Games, Tile Placement, Party Game, Animals
Setup - 2-4 Players
Team Based, Set Collection, Kids, Card Games, Tile Placement, Puzzle, Hand Management
Ship Show - 2-6+ Players
Memory, Deduction, Cooperative, Card Games, Tile Placement, Puzzle
Snack Happens - 2-4 Players
Kids, Dexterity, Tile Placement, Puzzle, Animals
Solstis - 1-2 Players
Solo Mode, Abstract, Family, Modular Board, Tile Placement, Pieces as Map
Squid Inc. - 2-4 Players
Drafting, Take That, Tile Placement, Animals
Tacta - 2-6 Players
Solo Mode, Abstract, Variable Set-up, Enclosure, Kids, Tug of War, Connections, Area Majority/Influence, Card Games, Tile Placement, Puzzle, Real-time, Matching
The Architects of Amytis - 2 Players
City Building, Worker Placement, Tile Placement
Tiny Epic Dungeons - 1-4 Players
Solo Mode, Staff Pick 2022, Dice, Variable Player Powers, Cooperative, Base Game, Tile Placement, Dungeon Crawler, Fantasy
Tranquility - 1-5 Players
Solo Mode, Kids, Cooperative, Card Games, Tile Placement, Hand Management
Tranquility: The Ascent - 1-5 Players
Kids, Cooperative, Card Games, Tile Placement, Hand Management
Vampire Village - 1-5 Players
Drafting, Tile Placement
Village Rails - 2-4 Players
Card Games, Tile Placement, Trains
Zoomies - 2-4 Players
Tile Placement, Hand Management
Kingdomino
Kingdomino is one of the best family games to come out in the past 5 years or so. It's fast, easy to learn, and can be replayed over and over again. I love it and so does my daughter! - Jed
Link City
In this cooperative party game, players create the biggest possible city in 6 exciting rounds, trying to have the most connections between the Location tiles and score points.
Why Nolan T. likes it:
Quick group game. Play in about 15 minutes once you know the rules. Fun to figure out some logic.
Qwirkle
Players begin the game with six blocks. The start player places blocks of a single matching attribute (color or shape but not both) on the table. Thereafter, a player adds blocks adjacent to at least one previously played block. The blocks must all be played in a line and match, without duplicates, either the color or shape of the previous block.