Monopoly Deal takes Monopoly’s best traits and distills them into a simple, quick, and streamlined card game. If your family loves Monopoly but wants something quicker and more streamlined, Monopoly Deal fits the bill perfectly. But it shares a lot of great traits with Monopoly and is an extremely popular choice. This is one of the lengthier games on our list and will be better for older kids as it still has a reasonable learning curve. My son loved this game when he was around 10 and used to play it repeatedly, it was one of the games that got him interested in board games.
Each tile offers different economic value depending on the resource it represents and the number that triggers it on dice rolls. There are plenty of opportunities to wheel and deal by trading resources with other players.Ĭatan is all about expanding your hold on the island and its resources by building your network of roads, settlements, and cities. The difference here is that instead of claiming streets in a big city you are building settlements and cities on the island of Catan.
In Catan you are claiming land and income is at the mercy of dice just like Monopoly. Our first entry in our Monopoly-like games list is a real classic and has won numerous awards.
