Strategy games gifts for 13 to 15 year olds

In the far-off future, the solar system is inhabited by three races: Humans, Robots, and Animods. Civilization runs off Zenithium, a clean and renewable energy source, but coexistence is a struggle. Your goal: unite the planets to gain control of...

Place your cards at the right time to outwit your opponent and rule over the city! 2 Players  |  15+ Mins  |  Ages 9+ Theme: Card Game In gratitude for her liberation, a mighty djinn created the wondrous city of...

Players work together to pass multiple tests and beat the clock. 2-4 Players | 30 Mins | Ages 10+ Features: Communication Limits, Cooperative Game, Multiple Maps, Scenario / Mission / Campaign Game Theme: Card Game, Puzzle Take Time is a...

While empires rise and fall in Eastern Europa, the rest of the world takes notice. Two distant factions, Albion and Togawa, send emissaries to scout the land and employ their own distinct styles of conquering.This expansion to Scythe adds 2...

Arcs is a sharp sci-fi strategy game for 2–4 players, set in a dark yet silly universe. Ready yourself for dramatic twists and turns as you launch into this galactic struggle. Seize the initiative:Take actions with multi-use cards. Copy the leader,...

Magnetic Chess Set (8")

In the 2400s, mankind begins to terraform the planet 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 environment is habitable. In Terraforming...

Expansion for Carcassonne. Spot hidden thieves and use towering watchmen to control the land. 2-6 Players  |  45+ Mins  |  Ages 7+ Features: Area Majority / Influence, Tile Placement Theme: Expansion for Base-game, City Building, Medieval, Territory Building Description: In this expansion...

Gravel sprays out from under your tires and your car gives a sickening lurch as it begins to spin out. 1–7 Players  |  30-60 Mins  |  Ages 10+ Clutch. Shift. Gas. Your engine roars and your car leaps into the next...

Create the most prosperous winery in Italy from the Tuscan vineyard you've inherited.  1-6 Players  |  45-90 Mins  |  Ages 13+ Features: Contracts, Hand Management, Solo / Solitaire Game, Turn Order: Auction, Victory Points as a Resource, Worker Placement, Worker...

Murder Mystery Party Case Files: Mile High Murder invites you to solve the intriguing murder of Marisa Tower, who was killed during an overnight transatlantic flight from San Francisco to London. It’s up to you to unravel the mystery of...

Only one bunny can rule the burrow by making smart builds. 2 Players  |  30 Mins  |  Ages 10+ Features: Area Majority / Influence, Grid Coverage, Open Drafting, Tile Placement, Variable Set-up, Worker Placement Theme: Animals, City Building, Territory Building Become the leader of one of the two most powerful...

2-4 Players | 45-60 Mins | Ages 8+ A community of witches lives on a small, lush planet with a large enchanting moon in the sky. In this light strategy game, you’ll collect ingredients, learn new recipes, and form puzzles...

Crimes happen in the city! Players: 1-4 | Ages 12+ | 15-45 mins With the view for details you'll be searching for facts: Look for the scenes that provide you with the correct facts to solve the crime cases. The...

A light-security prisoner is trying to escape through tunnels starting underneath his cell. Will you be able to join forces and cards to stop him? Bandido is a cooperative game of strategy and observation for the entire family.

Are you ready for a new Dorfromantik campaign? 1-4 Players  |  20-40 Mins  |  Ages 8+ Dorfromantik: Light Luggage is a stand-alone lighter version of Dorfromantik – the popular cooperative tile-laying game – that provides new challenges.  It comes in...

Expansion for Forest Shuffle. Explore the Alps by adding more species to the game. 2-5 Players | 60 Mins | Ages 10+ New cards are shuffled into the base game for even more diversity in Forest Shuffle adding even more...

Horrified: Dungeons & Dragons is a cooperative, thematic board game from Ravensburger that brings iconic D&D monsters to the established Horrified mechanics. The game is designed for 1-5 players (ages 10+) and generally features a playtime of 45-60 minutes.

Use your caballeros to control regions of medieval Spain, keeping clear of the King! 2-5 Players  |  90+ Mins  |  Ages 12+ Features: Action Drafting, Area Majority / Influence, Area Movement, Auction / Bidding, Hand Management, Interrupts, Memory, Open Drafting, Selection...

The otherworldly artefacts known as Talismans have once more descended onto the mortal plane, signalling the dawn of a new era—and the need for a new ruler! In Talisman: The Magical Quest Game – 5th Edition, set forth on an...

The standalone sequel to Tales of the Arabian Nights is finally here, with mechanics and gameplay based on the acclaimed classic! As a Knight of the Round Table, you will meet legendary figures, encounter fabled creatures, battle mighty enemies, take on challenging...

Box Two is a thrilling new adventure in the best-selling series by Neil Patrick Harris and produced by theory11. Your first choice in Box Two will change everything! Dive into a mysterious world filled with puzzles, secret codes, and unexpected...

The Bordeaux alternative board expansion to Viticulture offers players a starting boost, four full worker placement seasons, a wake-up chart full of benefits, a major new “expert” action that permanently upgrades an action for you, revisions to existing actions, a...

Garden Variety 2-5 Players | 10-15 Mins | Ages 7+ This quirky card game is so easy to learn, you’ll be having fun before you know it! You’ll use strategy and a little bit of luck to gather as many...

Dungeons & Dragons Campaign Case: Terrain contains everything a Dungeon Master needs to construct encounters for your wilderness, dungeon, and city adventures. This includes a set of double-sided adventure tiles and a collection of illustrated adventure clings to customise your...

Raise your banner above the vast wasteland before you. As the Great Houses of the Landsraad marshal their forces and their spies, whom will you influence, and whom will you betray? A tyrannical Emperor. The secretive Bene Gesserit. The shrewd...

Calico is a puzzly tile-laying game of quilts and cats! In Calico, players compete to sew the coziest quilt as they collect and place patches of different colours and patterns. Each quilt has a particular pattern that must be followed, and players...

A legendary strategic tabletop game from the creators of Here to Slay and Casting Shadows. 2-4 Players | 60 Mins | Ages 10+ Features: Events, Variable Player Powers, Variable Set-up Theme: Card Game Description: It’s so hard to feel seen...

Two legendary sports icons duke it out in the Unmatched Lee VS Ali universe. 2 Players  |  20 Mins  |  Ages 9+ Features: Action Points, Campaign / Battle Card Driven, Card Play Conflict Resolution, Hand Management, Line of Sight, Point...

In this strategic duel for two players, your mission remains the same: manoeuvre your toy troops and cleverly use their effects to gain the upper hand over your opponent. To win the battle, you must capture the enemy headquarters or...

Professor Puzzle Shut the Box is a classic wooden dice‑rolling game combining luck and strategy. Players roll dice and then “shut” numbered tiles corresponding to the total rolled, aiming to close all tiles and achieve a score of zero. The...

Expansion for: Coffee Rush A cake with my coffee? Sweet! Welcome back! Your café is expanding, and drinks are no longer enough. Thankfully, you can now serve cakes to keep your customers happy. Hire staff and use their skills to...

The tile-laying favourite is back in a duel version!  2 Players | 45 Min Play | Ages 10+ Features: Tile Laying, Pattern Building Description: Of all the tile-laying artists who have decorated the walls of King Manuel’s palace in Azul, two artists...

The timeless Knizia auction-game is back in Allplay’s signature box and shine! Bid to acquire number and multiplier cards, trying to avoid the pitfalls of wealth (negative and divisor cards). Careful—the player with the least money can’t win! In High...

Plan, trade, and build your Burgundian estate to prosperity and prominence.  1-4 Players  |  70-120 Mins  |  Ages 12+ Castles of Burgundy is a legendary Board Game design created by Stefan Feld. In this 1-4 players tabletop experience, you will take...

The play's the thing, with Shakespeare and his creations fighting in the Globe. 2-4 Players | 20-40 Mins | Ages 9+ Features: Action Points, Campaign / Battle Card Driven, Card Play Conflict Resolution, Hand Management, Line of Sight In battle,...

Following our bestselling Kyoto Escape Room game, this is our second city themed escape room title. This time the action takes place in the back streets of Marrakesh, in a game that will challenge and delight your customers. The concept...

Ready the welcome wagon! The Sims Board Game is here! 2-5 Players | 15+ Min Play Time | Ages 12+ Features: Video Game Theme, Adventure, Character Building Descsription: For decades The Sims has brought imaginative storytelling to life. Now craft...

Insert compatible with 7 Wonders (Second Edition), including Armada, Cities and Leaders second edition expansions. The design provides both efficient storage and improved game play. Many of the trays can be utilised during the game, and they greatly aid set-up...

Do unto others...! Both dwarves have to choose: Will they build their tunnel together or will they try on their own? In either case, you will have to try to sabotage your opponent at the right time. Play a broken...

In the most distant reaches of the world, magic still exists, embodied by spirits of the land, of the sky, and of every natural thing. As the great powers of Europe stretch their colonial empires further and further, they will...

The Great Houses of the Imperium live and die by their lineage. Plots unfold over generations as Emperors build dynasties, and the Bene Gesserit weave prophecy into reality. As alliances rise and fall, leaders face a single question: How far...

Expansion for Carcassonne. Guide your flock through lush pastures, but beware—the wolf is always near. 2-6 Players  |  45+ Mins  |  Ages 7+ Features: Area Majority / Influence, Tile Placement Theme: Expansion for Base-game, Medieval, Territory Building Description: In this expansion for...

Ark Nova: Zoo Map Pack 1 contains the two new zoo maps #9 (Geographical Zoo) and #10 (Rescue Station).Expand your collection of Zoo Maps in Ark Nova with the Ark Nova: Zoo Map Pack 1!Conatining 2 double-sided Zoo Maps, each side...

Upgrade your game with these deluxe Flamecraft: Wooden Resources - 2nd Printing! Crafted by the dragons of Flamecraft, these custom-painted and silk-screened goods will enchant your town! CONTENTS: - A set of 210 wooden tokens each in clear resealable bags.-...

Expansion for CATAN. Delve deep into CATAN! 2-4 Players  |  60-120 Mins  |  Ages 10+ Features: Auction / Bidding, Dice Rolling, Hand Management, Memory, Modular Board, Network and Route Building, Trading, Voting Theme: Expansion for Base-game, Negotiation, Transportation Description: In CATAN: Traders...

Fans of classic games? This magnificent board game allows the most skilled to play the three quintessential board games: chess, checkers, and backgammon.  Little ones can enjoy long afternoons of entertainment. This type of game is ideal as it encourages...

You are the proud owner of a team of eight racing marbles. 2-6 Players  |  10+ Mins  |  Ages 8+ Features: Racing, Roll / Spin and Move Theme: Dexterity, Family Game, Party Game, Humour Description: You must try to get...

Expansion for Carcassonne. Join the traveling circus, stack daring artists, and dazzle with your ringmistress’s flair. 2-6 Players  |  45+ Mins  |  Ages 7+ Features: Area Majority / Influence, Tile Placement Theme: Expansion for Base-game, Medieval, Territory Building Description: In this expansion...

Expansion for Earthborne Rangers. 1-4 Players  |  60-240 Mins  |  Ages 12+ Features: Card Play Conflict Resolution, Cooperative Game, Deck Construction, Hand Management, Move Through Deck, Narrative Choice / Paragraph, Role Playing, Scenario / Mission / Campaign Game, Solo /...

Expansion for 7 Wonders. Armadas become part of building one of the seven wonders of the world. 3-7 Players  |  40+ Mins  |  Ages 10+ Features: Hand Management, Open Drafting, Set Collection, Simultaneous Action Selection, Team-Based Game, Variable Player Powers Theme: Expansion...

Rescue as many cats as you can in this head-to-head version of The Isle of Cats. 2 Players  |  30 Mins  |  Ages 8+ Features: Grid Coverage, Pattern Building, Set Collection, Square Grid, Tile Placement Theme: Animals, Fantasy, Nautical, Puzzle...

Behold, Andromeda's Edge: A dazzling, uncharted region of space on the edge of the Andromeda Galaxy. Littered with the modular debris of the precursor civilization, patrolled by malicious extragalactic raiders, and bordered by dense nebulae, The Edge is a last...

Attack and capture the flag! 2 Players | 45 Mins | Ages 8+ Over 40 million games have been sold around the world since 1958 under the Stratego brand. Do you have the skill, strategy and courage to outwit your...

The most talented architects in ancient Greece stand ready to achieve this goal. 2-4 Players  |  25 Mins  |  Ages 8+ Build housing, temples, markets, gardens and barracks, so you can grow your city and ensure it triumphs over the...

Part puzzle, part game. Play as either Land or Sea (or the Cartographer in a 3 player game). Each player plays with 2 double-sided hex tiles containing a mix of land and sea shapes. They take turns placing a tile...

Build your galaxy to score points in hundreds of unique ways. 1-5 Players | 15-30 Mins | Ages 10+ Features: End Game Bonuses, Market, Open Drafting, Pattern Building, Set Collection From the team that brought you the smash hit card...

A deceptively cute, deceivingly challenging & SPOOPY abstract strategy game for two players. Every time you place a kitten on the bed, it goes “boop.” Which is to say that it pushes every other kitten next to it one space...

Embark on a new Quoridor adventure with this exclusive edition! 2-5 Players   |   15 Mins   |   Ages 8+ Features: Connections, Grid Movement, Square Grid Theme: Abstract Strategy, Maze, Video Game Theme Gigamic's Special Edition Quoridor PAC-MAN...

Set and avoid traps, collect supplies, and try to outwit your rival bear spies! 1-6 Players | 15-30 Mins | Ages 10+ Features: Closed Drafting, Deduction, End Game Bonuses, Hot Potato, I Cut, You Choose, Push Your Luck, Set Collection,...

In Kinfire Delve: Scorn's Stockade, a tactical and cooperative card game for 1-2 players, you will fight your way through the well deck of challenge cards to reach Scorn, the Master of the Well, and face them in an epic...

In Kinfire Delve: Callous' Lab, a tactical and cooperative card game for 1-2 players, you will fight your way through the well deck of challenge cards to reach Callous, the Master of the Well, and face him in an epic...

This Dal Rossi walnut chess set showcases traditional craftsmanship with its finely inlaid wooden board. Measuring 30cm, it’s the perfect size for tabletop play while remaining compact enough for easy storage. The contrasting wood tones highlight the board’s precision detailing,...

Turtle power takes down Shredder or Krang in the Unmatched system. 1-4 Players | 40+ Mins | Ages 9+ Features: Action Points, Card Play Conflict Resolution, Cooperative Game, Hand Management, Line of Sight, Multi-Use Cards, Point to Point Movement, Solo...

Defeat enemies and unlock rewards over 12 missions. 1-4 Players | Ages 12+ | 30-45 Min Play Time The follow-up to Regicide, the game rated by Shut Up & Sit Down as one of the top 5 card games of 2021....

Players confront each other with word-images association and risk management choices. 3-6 Players | 30 Mins | Ages 8+ Features: Deduction, Push Your Luck Theme: Card Game, Party Game Stella Dixit Universe invites starseekers to explore the sky and bring...

Vantage is an open-world, cooperative, roguelike adventure game for 1-6 players designed by Jamey Stegmaier. Vantage features an entire planet to explore, with players communicating while scattered across the world. With nearly 800 interconnected locations on cards and over 900...

Using the central board in A Feast for Odin, players have to hunt, gather basic materials, refine those materials, develop their production-buildings, build/buy ships, and raid settlements. The resulting earnings are placed on the players' board in the best possible pattern...

You don't have to be a history buff to play! 2-6 Players | 15 Mins | Ages 8+ Features: Cooperative Play, Hand Management, Card Placement, Memory Theme: Card Game, Family, Trivia, Celebrities Description: In this refreshed edition, players team up,...

EXPANSION FOR: DIXIT A new set of image cards for Dixit. 3-6 Players | 30+ Mins | Ages 8+ Features: Simultaneous Action Selection, Storytelling, Voting Themes: Bluffing, Card Game, Deduction, Expansion for Base-game Delve even deeper into the imagination with...

Expansion For: Dixit A new set of image cards for Dixit. 3-6 Players | 30+ Mins | Ages 8+ Features: Simultaneous Action Selection, Storytelling, Voting Themes: Bluffing, Card Game, Deduction, Expansion for Base-game   Myths come alive and masks fall...

In King of Tokyo, you play mutant monsters, gigantic robots, and strange aliens—all of whom are destroying Tokyo and whacking each other in order to become the one and only King of Tokyo. 2-6 Players  |  30 Mins  |  Ages...

Vision flickers… blink? maybe. The void stretches out in front, behind, under, above. You see the nothing for what it is for the first time. What is time? The depth and breadth of recorded knowledge that sparks in you something...

Return to the wilderness with Aspens, the strategic forest-growing game! Each round, players take turns rolling the Sun and Wind dice to plant trees. Grow your forest UP to increase your odds of planting trees in future rounds or OUT...

A campaign expansion, includes a full playset over 250 new Ranger and Valley cards and 1 campaign guide. Legacy of the Ancestors features a new story arc that utilizes both the cards and map from the core set as well as...

Embark On A Tour Of One Of The Most Densely Populated And Colorful Countries Of The World With Ticket To Ride India, Volume 2 Of The Ticket To Ride Map Collection.

Tend to your sheep on the South Island of New Zealand.  1-4 Players  |  75-150 Mins  |  Ages 12+ Description:In Great Western Trail: New Zealand, you are a runholder — that is, the owner of a sheep station — on the South...

Will the Merchants get their goods past the Sheriff? The bustling market in Nottingham is filled with goods from all over the kingdom. Most of it is entirely legal; however, Prince John is looking to ensure no contraband gets sold....

A new addition to the Holdson Traditional Games range, backgammon is one of the oldest board games known. 2 Players  |  30 Mins  |  Ages 8+ In a two player game the object of the game is to be the...

Thunder Road: Vendetta is a revved-up restoration of the classic 1986 game of mayhem on the asphalt. Grab your crew, roll your dice, race your cars, shoot your guns, and try not to get wrecked. This new version features exciting...