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Top Board Games of 2025

The polls have closed, the votes are in, and the tallies are complete! The overwhelming winner for the 2025 Board Game of the Year is:

Galactic Cruise
Board Game of the Year 2025

Galactic Cruise

From 353 board gaming content creators' aggregated "Best of 2025" lists.

Galactic Cruise was on 90 "Best of 2025" lists in total and received 486 total points overall, 163 more points than the runner-up. It was the "BGotY" on 33 lists and was ranked within the top-three in 55 lists. Congratulations to designer T.K. King, artist Ian O'Toole and publisher Kinson Key Games for this remarkable victory!

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Galactic Cruise
1

Galactic Cruise

Hello, and welcome to Galactic Cruise. Here, we offer our guests something special: the comfort of a luxury cruise with the innovation of space travel. As the first company to offer extended-stay space vacations, we a…
486
90
1-4
90-150
The Lord of the Rings: Fate of the Fellowship
2

The Lord of the Rings: Fate of the Fellowship

As members of The Fellowship and the allies who rise to aid them, you must embark on a journey that may either save or doom Middle-earth. Navigate a world beset by shadow, where every choice forges a new path. The thr…
323
89
1-5
60-150
Hot Streak
3

Hot Streak

Hot Streak is a game for hard luck gamblers who love to bet on and scream at the racers, who in this case happen to be mascots who may (or may not) keep running in the right direction. At the start of the game, set u…
288
69
2-9
20
Vantage
4

Vantage

Vantage is an open-world, co-operative, non-campaign adventure game that features an entire planet to explore, with players communicating while scattered across the world. With nearly eight hundred interconnected…
284
66
1-6
120-180
The Elder Scrolls: Betrayal of the Second Era
5

The Elder Scrolls: Betrayal of the Second Era

The Elder Scrolls: Betrayal of the Second Era is a cooperative tabletop adventure set during Tamriel's Second Era – specifically during the events of the Planemeld, as the Order of the Black Worm plots to secure…
241
44
1-4
120-240
Moon Colony Bloodbath
6

Moon Colony Bloodbath

Cities on the moon! This will be humanity's crowning achievement. At last, no longer bound to the Earth — the moon, a stepping stone to the stars. The rockets are loaded with supplies and colonists; the robots a…
225
59
1-5
45-90
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