The Best Board Games with Cockroaches 2026

Cockroach Poker Royal (Kakerlakenpoker Royal) elevates the art of bluffing to a royally entertaining level. This game, a twist on the original Kakerlakenpoker, swaps the traditional poker deck for one festooned with critters like cockroaches, rats, and stink bugs, emphasizing bluffing over traditional poker hands.

Cockroach Poker is a lighthearted and engaging card game focused on bluffing and reverse set collection. It features various critters like cockroaches, rats, and stink bugs, and the aim is to trick others into collecting these undesirable creatures.

Cockroach Salad is a fast-paced card game where players work together to create a salad but not always truthfully. With 128 cards representing different vegetables and the dreaded "taboo" vegetables with cockroaches, the aim is to deceive your way to victory. The game becomes a test of quick thinking and deception as you navigate through the rules of when to tell the truth and when to lie about the vegetables you're adding to the salad.

There’s a pesky little bug in the kitchen, a HEXBUG® nano® scuttling across the board. Players rotate utensils like knives, forks, and spoons to trap the bug. Roll the dice to see which utensils can be turned, catch the bug, and earn tokens; the first player to collect five tokens wins.

Kakerlaken Sushi combines lies and seafood in a fast-paced, real-time game. Players must navigate through chaos while trying to outwit their opponents.

Players work together to create a soup made from leeks, peppers, carrots, and mushrooms, but they won't always reveal the ingredients they add! The game features a deck of 128 cards, including vegetable cards and "Taboo" cards showing cockroaches that may require special actions. If a player makes a mistake or hesitates too long, they must pick up all previously played cards, and the first player to run out of cards wins.

In Kakerlacula, a vampire cockroach scurries through the hallways of a haunted castle. Children work together to drive it away by turning on the lights in each room, but encountering the cockroach costs them a piece of their precious garlic. If they can launch the vampire cockroach to the moon, fresh garlic will be catapulted to them, but they must illuminate the castle before their supply runs out.

Cockroaches are ready to hit the dance floor in this lively game. Players take turns playing their dance cards and must perform the correct—or completely wrong—dance moves and sounds while naming the dance style.

Embark on an enchanting adventure in Mice and Mystics, where players, loyal to the king, find themselves transformed into mice in a bid to escape the clutches of the nefarious Vanestra. As cunning field mice in a castle now twenty times larger, the perilous journey involves racing through the expansive fortress, braving Vanestra's minions, rats, cockroaches, spiders, and the formidable housecat, Brodie. Choose from characters like nimble Prince Collin, burly smith Nez Bellows, wise mouse Maginos, or former healer Tilda, each with unique abilities.

Kakerlaloop is a spin-off of Kakerlakak featuring a different game board, including loops, for added excitement.

Players face each other across the game board, which features four cockroaches arranged in four rows. On their turn, a player places stones in front of them, one per row, while the opponent reveals one or more of these stones. The goal is to mislead the opponent into making the wrong choice and to be the first to lure a cockroach to their side of the board.

Players control a cockroach and guide it through the kitchen to tasty snacks, all while avoiding the chef’s gaze. Each player has a "treat stick" indicating four treats to collect in order, moving the cockroach on a 6x6 grid filled with utensils that block paths. Players roll dice to move and manipulate the utensils, striving to reach all their targets before the chef appears. The first to collect all four treats and reach the kitchen hole wins.