Amazon Prime Day’s board game sale is the best we’ve seen in years

The board games that are included with Amazon Prime Day always feel a little unnecessary. This time, it’s not so. Amazon’s second Prime Day of 2022 is bringing the heat with an excellent selection of critically acclaimed modern board games. There’s also a solid assortment of older titles to refresh the family game closet. Here’s our picks for the very best games available this week.

• 7 Wonders — one of the most influential board games of the decade — is available for $29.99, a 50% discount. So to is it’s recently-released two-player iteration, 7 Wonders DuelThe price is very reasonable at $19.59 or 35% off
• Both AzulAt $22.49., you can save 44% on this excellent game of tile-laying that makes the table look beautiful.
• Gloomhaven – Jaws of the LionIt’s now $37.95 and a 24% Discount. It’s an abbreviated take on GloomhavenThe box contains the hugely popular and influential role-playing system. It has transformed the world of board gaming in the past five year. Instead of 20-pounds, you get a box that holds nearly as much stuff. Jaws of the LionThis is an easier game for beginners. Make sure you click on the box to play the base game and not the one that is displayed. Forgotten Circles expansion.
• Legends of the Dark: DescentAt $97.99, you save more than 40% It’s another campaign with high-concept, and it also comes with an assortment of beautiful cardboard scenery. Even if you’re not interested in the game (which is excellent, mind you), this is still a decent price for some fun tabletop terrain and exotic figures to try your hand at miniatures painting.

• Dune, from Gale Force Nine, is down to $39.98 (20% off), and I can’t recommend it enough. This is a remaster of the 1979 strategy classic using fan-made art and I’m still sour that I spent more than $300 building my own a decade ago. Remember to select the base game only, and not the expansion.
• Mansions of Madness IInd Edition20% Discount at $87.99 App-enabled, this game can be compared to digital Dungeon Master and it is an ideal next step. House on the Hill: Betrayal.
• Mysterium, a game about holding a séance for a ghost, You also get a discounted price just in time to celebrate Halloween. It’s down more than 50% to $27.29.

Mysterium

These prices were correct at the time of publication.

It’s a creepy communication game in which players make surreal art to unravel a mystery.

Two game series are also heavily discounted in this sale Disney Villainous CatanYou can save up to 50% on your purchase of a number of titles Here’s a quick list of the titles going on sale:

Catan

Disney Villainous

We’ll update this story throughout the day as prices change, or when more board games are added to the promotion.