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 | Middleweight Games | Value Games | Heavyweight Games

Updated May 4, 2025

Casual Games:

Acquire: 60th Anniversary -  2-6 Players
  Economic, Hand Management, Tile Placement

AQUA -  1-4 Players
  Animal-themed, Drafting, Puzzle-like Elements, Tile Placement

Azul -  2-4 Players
  Drafting, Puzzle-like Elements, Set Collection, Tile Placement, Best Seller

Azul Duel -  2 Players
  Drafting, Puzzle-like Elements, Set Collection, Tile Placement, Best Seller

Azul Queen's Garden -  2-4 Players
  Puzzle-like Elements, Set Collection, Tile Placement

Azul Stained Glass of Sintra -  2-4 Players
  Drafting, Puzzle-like Elements, Set Collection, Tile Placement

Azul Summer Pavilion -  2-4 Players
  Drafting, Puzzle-like Elements, Set Collection, Tile Placement

Azul Summer Pavilion Mini -  2-4 Players
  Drafting, Puzzle-like Elements, Set Collection, Tile Placement

Babylon -  2-4 Players
  City Building, Drafting, Tile Placement

Between Two Cities Essential Ed -  1-6+ Players
  City Building, Drafting, Set Collection, Solo Mode, Tile Placement

Caldera Park -  1-4 Players
  Animal-themed, Puzzle-like Elements, Set Collection, Solo Mode, Tile Placement

Calico -  1-4 Players
  Animal-themed, Drafting, Puzzle-like Elements, Set Collection, Solo Mode, Tile Placement

Carcassonne -  2-5 Players
  City Building, Tile Placement, Best Seller, Staff Pick

Cascadia -  1-4 Players
  Animal-themed, Solo Mode, Tile Placement, Variable Player Powers

Charcuterie: The Board Game -  2-6 Players
  Set Collection, Tile Placement

Clank! Catacombs -  2-4 Players
  Deckbuilding, Drafting, Fantasy-themed, Player Elimination, Push Your Luck, Tile Placement, Variable Player Powers

Destinies -  1-3 Players
  Dice, Fantasy-themed, Fighting, Miniatures, Solo Mode, Tile Placement, Staff Pick

Diatoms -  1-4 Players
  Tile Placement

Dice Manor -  2-4 Players
  Dice, Tile Placement

Divinus -  2-4 Players
  Dice, Fantasy-themed, Tile Placement, Variable Player Powers

Dorfromantik: Sakura -  1-6 Players
  City Building, Cooperative, Puzzle-like Elements, Tile Placement

Dragon Castle -  1-4 Players
  Drafting, Tile Placement, Variable Player Powers

Dreadful Meadows -  1-4 Players
  Economic, Solo Mode, Tile Placement, Variable Player Powers, Worker Placement

Dungeon Decorators -  2-4 Players
  Drafting, Fantasy-themed, Set Collection, Tile Placement

Factory Funner -  1-6 Players
  Solo Mode, Tile Placement

Faeries & Magical Creatures -  2-4 Players
  Card Game, Drafting, Fantasy-themed, Hand Management, Take That, Tile Placement

Foundations of Metropolis -  2-4 Players
  City Building, Economic, Tile Placement

Four Corners: Galaxy -  1-6 Players
  Puzzle-like Elements, Tile Placement

Galaxy Trucker (2021) -  2-4 Players
  Dice, Sci Fi-themed, Tile Placement, Staff Pick

Gardlings -  1-4 Players
  Fantasy-themed, Push Your Luck, Puzzle-like Elements, Tile Placement

Gnome Hollow -  2-4 Players
  Fantasy-themed, Set Collection, Tile Placement, Worker Placement

Habitats -  1-5 Players
  Animal-themed, Drafting, Puzzle-like Elements, Tile Placement

Hive -  2 Players
  Animal-themed, Tile Placement

Hutan Life in a Rainforest -  1-4 Players
  Animal-themed, Puzzle-like Elements, Tile Placement

In the Footsteps of Darwin -  2-5 Players
  Animal-themed, Drafting, Tile Placement

Isle of Skye From Chieftan King -  2-5 Players
  Economic, Set Collection, Tile Placement

Kutna Hora: The City of Silver -  2-4 Players
  Card Game, City Building, Economic, Hand Management, Tile Placement, Variable Player Powers

Leaf -  1-4 Players
  Solo Mode, Tile Placement

Lords of Vegas Revised -  2-4 Players
  City Building, Dice, Economic, Tile Placement

Luna Capital -  1-4 Players
  City Building, Drafting, Sci Fi-themed, Set Collection, Tile Placement

Maps of Misterra -  1-4 Players
  Drafting, Solo Mode, Tile Placement

Monkey Palace -  2-4 Players
  Animal-themed, Drafting, Tile Placement

Neuroshima Hex 3 : Year/ Moloch -  1 Player
  Fighting, Hand Management, Player Elimination, Puzzle-like Elements, Sci Fi-themed, Tile Placement, Variable Player Powers

Overboss: A Boss Monster Advent -  1-5 Players
  Drafting, Fantasy-themed, Set Collection, Solo Mode, Tile Placement

Picture Perfect -  2-4 Players
  Memory, Puzzle-like Elements, Tile Placement

Planet Unknown -  1-6 Players
  City Building, Route Building, Puzzle-like Elements, Sci Fi-themed, Tile Placement, Variable Player Powers

Pollen -  2-4 Players
  Animal-themed, Tile Placement

Power Plants Deluxe -  1-5 Players
  Fantasy-themed, Puzzle-like Elements, Solo Mode, Tile Placement

Rebirth -  2-4 Players
  Fantasy-themed, Sci Fi-themed, Tile Placement

River Valley Glassworks -  1-5 Players
  Animal-themed, Drafting, Tile Placement

Savannah Park -  1-4 Players
  Puzzle-like Elements, Set Collection, Solo Mode, Tile Placement

Shake That City -  1-4 Players
  City Building, Puzzle-like Elements, Tile Placement, Variable Player Powers

Small Islands -  1-4 Players
  Push Your Luck, Solo Mode, Tile Placement, Staff Pick

Snack Happens -  2-4 Players
  Animal-themed, Puzzle-like Elements, Tile Placement

Stamp Swap -  1-5 Players
  Drafting, Tile Placement

Superstore 3000 -  2-4 Players
  Tile Placement

Takenoko -  2-4 Players
  Animal-themed, Dice, Set Collection, Tile Placement, Best Seller, Staff Pick

The Night Cage -  1-5 Players
  Cooperative, Fantasy-themed, Horror-themed, Tile Placement

Tribes of the Wind -  2-5 Players
  Card Game, Drafting, Hand Management, Set Collection, Tile Placement

Tsuro -  2-6+ Players
  Hand Management, Player Elimination, Tile Placement, Staff Pick

Tsuro of the Seas -  2-6+ Players
  Dice, Hand Management, Player Elimination, Tile Placement

Tsuro: Phoenix Rising -  2-6+ Players
  Hand Management, Set Collection, Tile Placement

Village Rails -  2-4 Players
  Card Game, Tile Placement

World Wonders -  1-5 Players
  Solo Mode, Tile Placement

Zombie Princess Maze Board Game -  2-5 Players
  Fantasy-themed, Tile Placement

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
  City Building, Cooperative, Puzzle-like Elements, Tile Placement, Variable Player Powers

Ingenious  -  1-4 Players
  Hand Management, Tile Placement

Mists Over Carcassonne  -  1-5 Players
  Tile Placement

Paint the Roses  -  2-5 Players
  Cooperative, Fantasy-themed, Puzzle-like Elements, Tile Placement

Robinson Crusoe: Collector’s Edition  -  1-4 Players
  Cooperative, Dice, Fighting, Solo Mode, Tile Placement, Variable Player Powers, Worker 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.

Middleweight Games:

A Feast for Odin -  1-4 Players
  Dice, Economic, Push Your Luck, Puzzle-like Elements, Solo Mode, Tile Placement, Worker Placement

Acquire -  2-6 Players
  Economic, Hand Management, Tile Placement

Ahoy -  2-4 Players
  Fantasy-themed, Tile Placement, Variable Player Powers, Worker Placement

Arborea -  1-5 Players
  Animal-themed, Fantasy-themed, Solo Mode, Tile Placement, Worker Placement

Ark Nova -  1-4 Players
  Animal-themed, Drafting, Economic, Solo Mode, Tile Placement, Variable Player Powers, Staff Pick

Bamboo -  2-4 Players
  Tile Placement

Barcelona -  1-4 Players
  City Building, Tile Placement, Worker Placement

Beyond the Horizon -  2-4 Players
  Tile Placement, Worker Placement

Castles of Burgundy Special Edition -  1-4 Players
  Dice, Set Collection, Solo Mode, Tile Placement

Castles of Mad King Ludwig -  1-4 Players
  Puzzle-like Elements, Set Collection, Tile Placement

City of the Living -  2-4 Players
  Drafting, Economic, Tile Placement

Dinosaur Island -  1-4 Players
  Animal-themed, Dice, Set Collection, Tile Placement, Worker Placement

Dinosaur World -  2-4 Players
  Animal-themed, City Building, Dice, Economic, Sci Fi-themed, Tile Placement, Worker Placement

Earth -  1-5 Players
  Animal-themed, Card Game, Hand Management, Solo Mode, Tile Placement

Escape From New York -  1-4 Players
  Bluffing, Card Game, Hand Management, Take That, Tile Placement

Hickory Dickory -  1-4 Players
  Animal-themed, Set Collection, Tile Placement, Worker Placement

Honey Buzz -  1-4 Players
  Animal-themed, Drafting, Economic, Memory, Solo Mode, Tile Placement, Worker Placement

Huang -  2-4 Players
  Hand Management, Set Collection, Tile Placement

Isle of Cats -  1-4 Players
  Animal-themed, Drafting, Puzzle-like Elements, Set Collection, Solo Mode, Tile Placement

Life of the Amazonia -  1-4 Players
  Animal-themed, Puzzle-like Elements, Set Collection, Solo Mode, Tile Placement, Variable Player Powers

Northgard: Uncharted Lands -  2-5 Players
  Dice, Fantasy-themed, Miniatures, Tile Placement, Variable Player Powers

Oros -  1-4 Players
  Puzzle-like Elements, Solo Mode, Tile Placement, Worker Placement

Tapestry -  1-5 Players
  Dice, Drafting, Hand Management, Push Your Luck, Solo Mode, Take That, Tile Placement, Variable Player Powers

Terraforming Mars -  1-5 Players
  Drafting, Economic, Hand Management, Sci Fi-themed, Solo Mode, Take That, Tile Placement, Variable Player Powers, Best Seller

Wayfarers of the South Tigris -  1-4 Players
  Drafting, Set Collection, Solo Mode, Tile Placement, Worker Placement

Whistle Mountain -  2-4 Players
  Tile Placement, Variable Player Powers, Worker Placement

Wild Tiled West -  1-5 Players
  Animal-themed, Dice, Drafting, Solo Mode, Tile Placement

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, Tile Placement

A Gentle Rain -  1 Player
  Solo Mode, Tile Placement

Akropolis -  1-4 Players
  City Building, Drafting, Tile Placement

Beacon Patrol -  1-4 Players
  Cooperative, Solo Mode, Tile Placement

Botanik -  2 Players
  Drafting, Set Collection, Take That, Tile Placement

Captain Flip -  2-5 Players
  Memory, Push Your Luck, Tile Placement

Castellion -  1-2 Players
  Cooperative, Fantasy-themed, Puzzle-like Elements, Solo Mode, Tile Placement

Donut Shop -  2-4 Players
  Set Collection, Tile Placement

Dragomino -  2-4 Players
  Drafting, Fantasy-themed, Tile Placement

Dragon Inferno -  2 Players
  Tile Placement

Festival -  2-4 Players
  Tile Placement

Forbidden Island -  2-4 Players
  Cooperative, Fantasy-themed, Hand Management, Sci Fi-themed, Set Collection, Solo Mode, Tile Placement, Variable Player Powers

Forbidden Jungle -  2-5 Players
  Cooperative, Fantasy-themed, Hand Management, Sci Fi-themed, Set Collection, Solo Mode, Tile Placement, Variable Player Powers

Forbidden Jungle - Survive the wild -  2-5 Players
  Cooperative, Fantasy-themed, Hand Management, Sci Fi-themed, Set Collection, Solo Mode, Tile Placement, Variable Player Powers

Glasgow -  2 Players
  City Building, Set Collection, Tile Placement, Worker Placement

I Heart Manatees -  2-4 Players
  Cooperative, Tile Placement

Kingdomino -  2-4 Players
  City Building, Drafting, Tile Placement, Best Seller, Staff Pick

Kingdomino Origins -  2-4 Players
  Animal-themed, City Building, Drafting, Tile Placement

Labyrinth -  2-4 Players
  Puzzle-like Elements, Tile Placement

Land vs Sea -  2-4 Players
  Route Building, Puzzle-like Elements, Tile Placement

Life in Reterra -  2-4 Players
  Drafting, Tile Placement

Link City -  2-6 Players
  Cooperative, Party Game, Tile Placement, Staff Pick

Middle Ages -  2-4 Players
  Set Collection, Tile Placement

Mining Colony -  1-4 Players
  Tile Placement

Moon River -  2-4 Players
  Drafting, Tile Placement

Patchwork -  2 Players
  Economic, Tile Placement, Best Seller

Patchwork Americana -  2 Players
  Drafting, Puzzle-like Elements, Tile Placement

Prehistories -  2-5 Players
  Card Game, Hand Management, Tile Placement

Qwirkle -  2-4 Players
  Hand Management, Tile Placement, Staff Pick

Qwirkle Cubes -  2-4 Players
  Dice, Tile Placement

Safari Splash! -  2-6 Players
  Animal-themed, Card Game, Party Game, Set Collection, Tile Placement

Setup -  2-4 Players
  Card Game, Hand Management, Puzzle-like Elements, Set Collection, Tile Placement

Ship Show -  2-6+ Players
  Card Game, Cooperative, Memory, Puzzle-like Elements, Tile Placement

Solstis -  2 Players
  Tile Placement

Square One -  1-4 Players
  Drafting, Tile Placement

Squid Inc. -  2-4 Players
  Animal-themed, Drafting, Take That, Tile Placement

The Architects of Amytis -  2 Players
  City Building, Tile Placement, Worker Placement

Tiny Epic Dungeons -  1-4 Players
  Cooperative, Dice, Fantasy-themed, Solo Mode, Tile Placement, Variable Player Powers, Staff Pick

Tranquility -  1-5 Players
  Card Game, Cooperative, Hand Management, Solo Mode, Tile Placement

Tranquility: The Ascent -  1-5 Players
  Card Game, Cooperative, Hand Management, Tile Placement

Vampire Village -  1-5 Players
  Drafting, Tile Placement

Zoomies -  2-4 Players
  Hand Management, Tile Placement

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

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.

Heavyweight Games:

Elden Ring: Stormveil Castle  -  1-4 Players
  Cooperative, Fantasy-themed, Fighting, Miniatures, Tile Placement

Mage Knight Ultimate Edition  -  1-5 Players
  Card Game, Cooperative, Deckbuilding, Drafting, Fantasy-themed, Fighting, Hand Management, Solo Mode, Tile Placement, Variable Player Powers