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 October 25, 2025
Casual Games:
A Gentle Rain: Bloom Edition - 1 Player
Pattern Building, Solo/Solitaire Game, Tile Placement
AQUA - 1-4 Players
Pattern Building, End Game Bonuses, Variable Set-up, Drafting, Kids, Open Drafting, Nautical, Tile Placement, Puzzle, Animals
Azul - 2-4 Players
Abstract, Set Collection, Drafting, Base Game, Tile Placement, Puzzle
Azul Stained Glass of Sintra - 2-4 Players
Abstract, Set Collection, Drafting, Kids, 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
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
Clank! Catacombs - 2-4 Players
Variable Player Powers, Push Your Luck, Drafting, Deckbuilding, Player Elimination, Tile Placement, Dungeon Crawler, Fantasy
Divinus - 2-4 Players
Dice, Variable Player Powers, Tile Placement, Fantasy
Flutter - 2-5 Players
Rondel, Abstract, Open Drafting, Tile Placement, Matching, Environmental, Animals
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
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
Ice and Idols - 2-4 Players
Pick-up and Deliver, Action Points, End Game Bonuses, Set Collection, Variable Player Powers, Modular Board, Tile Placement, Network and Route Building, Events, Square Grid
Knitting Circle - 1-4 Players
Rondel, Market, Abstract, Pattern Building, End Game Bonuses, Variable Set-up, Set Collection, Scenarios, Open Drafting, Chaining, Tile Placement, Puzzle, Campaign Game, Matching, Contracts, Animals
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
Minecraft: Builders & Biomes - 2-4 Players
Action Points, End Game Bonuses, Deck, Bag, and Pool Building, Variable Set-up, Layering, Grid Movement, Tile Placement
Moon Bunny - 1-4 Players
Solo Mode, Set Collection, Solo/Solitaire Game, Grid Movement, Tile Placement, Fantasy, Animals
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
Railroad Tiles - 1-4 Players
Pattern Building, Map Addition, Connections, Tile Placement, Trains
Rebirth - 2-4 Players
Science Fiction, Tile Placement, Fantasy
SHALLOW SEA - 1-4 Players
Pattern Building, End Game Bonuses, Variable Set-up, Set Collection, Solo/Solitaire Game, Open Drafting, Grid Coverage, Tile Placement
Square One - 1-4 Players
Abstract, Drafting, Tile Placement
Stamp Swap - 1-5 Players
Drafting, 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
Timber Town - 2 Players
Variable Set-up, Territory Building, Connections, Open Drafting, Tile Placement, Slide / Push, Animals
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
Twinkle Twinkle - 1-4 Players
Solo Mode, Pattern Building, Map Addition, Variable Set-up, Set Collection, Space Exploration, Connections, Open Drafting, Grid Coverage, Tile Placement, Turn Order: Claim Action, Square Grid
Urban Insanity Cities&Suburbs - 2-4 Players
City Building, Tile Placement
World Wonders - 1-5 Players
Solo Mode, 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:
Ingenious - 1-4 Players
Team Based, Kids, Competitive, Tile Placement, Hand Management
Mists Over Carcassonne - 1-5 Players
Medieval, Cooperative, 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:
Middleweight Games:
A Feast for Odin - 1-4 Players
Solo Mode, Dice, Economic, Push Your Luck, Worker Placement, Tile Placement, Puzzle
Ahoy - 2-4 Players
Pirate, Variable Player Powers, Worker Placement, Tile Placement, Fantasy
Ark Nova - 1-4 Players
Solo Mode, Economic, Variable Player Powers, Drafting, Base Game, Tile Placement, Staff Pick 2024, Animals
Beyond the Horizon - 2-4 Players
Civilization, Worker Placement, 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 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
Saltfjord - 1-4 Players
Dice, End Game Bonuses, Variable Set-up, Set Collection, Variable Player Powers, Income, City Building, Open Drafting, Worker Placement, Nautical, Tile Placement, Farming
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
Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition - 1-4 Players
Market, End Game Bonuses, Variable Set-up, Set Collection, Variable Player Powers, Income, Tech Trees / Tech Tracks, Multi-use Cards, Tags, Variable Phase Order, Solo/Solitaire Game, Tile Placement, Track Movement, Follow, Simultaneous Action Selection, Hand Management
The Castles of Burgundy 20th Anniversary Edition - 1-4 Players
Pattern Building, Team Based, End Game Bonuses, Variable Set-up, Set Collection, Hexagon Grid, Solo/Solitaire Game, Grid Coverage, Tile Placement, Dice Rolling, Turn Order: Stat-Based
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
Akropolis - 1-4 Players
Drafting, City Building, Tile Placement
BANANAGRAMS Classic Game - 1-8 Players
Word Game, Tile Placement, Real-time, Race, Spelling
Chomp - 1-4 Players
Pattern Building, Value, Dinosaurs, Open Drafting, Tile Placement, Environmental, Animals
Cities - 2-4 Players
Pattern Building, Variable Set-up, Set Collection, Closed Drafting, City Building, Open Drafting, Worker Placement, Tile Placement, Turn Order: Claim Action, Contracts
Cosmolancer - 2-4 Players
Abstract, Medieval, Tile Placement, Fantasy
Donut Shop - 2-4 Players
Abstract, Set Collection, Kids, Tile Placement
Dragon Inferno - 2 Players
Abstract, Dragons, Enclosure, Kids, Area Majority/Influence, Tile Placement
Festival - 2-4 Players
Abstract, Tile Placement
Floristry - 2 Players
Tile Placement, Puzzle, Real-time
Forbidden Island - 2-4 Players
Solo Mode, Staff Pick 2025, Pick-up and Deliver, Action Points, Set Collection, Adventure, Variable Player Powers, Cooperative, Modular Board, Grid Movement, Science Fiction, Tile Placement, Map Reduction, Events, Square Grid, 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
Harmonies - 1-4 Players
Solo Mode, Pattern Building, Set Collection, Variable Player Powers, Hexagon Grid, Open Drafting, Chaining, Tile Placement, Environmental, Animals
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
Kingdomino - 2-4 Players
Staff Pick 2022, Medieval, Enclosure, Drafting, Kids, City Building, Territory Building, Open Drafting, Best Seller, Tile Placement, Puzzle, Turn Order: Claim Action
Labyrinth - 2-4 Players
Kids, Tile Placement, Puzzle
Labyrinth Minecraft - 2-4 Players
Maze, Map Deformation, Point to Point Movement, Kids, Modular Board, Tile Placement, Puzzle, Network and Route Building, Slide / Push, Square Grid
Life in Reterra - 2-4 Players
Drafting, Tile Placement
Light Speed: Arena - 1-4 Players
End Game Bonuses, Variable Set-up, Value, Variable Player Powers, Fighting, Electronic, Line of Sight, Area Majority/Influence, Elapsed Real Time Ending, Science Fiction, Tile Placement, Real-time, Party Game, Electronic
Link City - 2-6 Players
Staff Pick 2025, Cooperative, Tile Placement, Party Game
My Little Pony - 1-5 Players
Solo Mode, Abstract, Pattern Building, Set Collection, Tile Placement, Hand Management
Oddland - 1-5 Players
Pattern Building, Value, Layering, Connections, Exploration, Solo/Solitaire Game, Tile Placement, Environmental, Animals
Patchwork - 2 Players
Rondel, Economic, Income, Kids, Open Drafting, Grid Coverage, Tile Placement, Puzzle, Turn Order: Time Track, Square Grid, Victory Points as a Resource, Turn Order: Stat-Based
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
Ship Show - 2-6+ Players
Memory, Deduction, Cooperative, Card Games, Tile Placement, Puzzle
Solstis - 1-2 Players
Solo Mode, Abstract, Family, Modular Board, Tile Placement, Pieces as Map
Spot It! Connect - 2-8 Players
Pattern Building, Team Based, Pattern Recognition, Kids, Cooperative, Card Games, Tile Placement, Real-time, Matching, Speed Matching
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
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.