The best games from Donald X. Vaccarino 🇺🇸👨 2026

Dominion: Intrigue is a stand-alone expansion to the original Dominion game, introducing new elements of strategy and card variety to the popular deck-building game.

Moon Colony Bloodbath by Donald X. Vaccarino sends families and gaming groups to a moon colony that was supposed to be perfectly planned. Supplies are packed, robots are ready, and the first buildings are in place, but life beyond Earth quickly proves unstable. This strategic card game is best suited to teens aged 14 and up and adults who enjoy science fiction, dry humor, and smart resource management.

The Kingdom Builder: Big Box includes the first four expansions: Nomads, Crossroads, Marshlands, and Harvest, along with three Queenies: Capitol, Caves, and The Island. Players create their own kingdoms by strategically building settlements to earn the most gold by the end of the game. With a variable board featuring nine different types of terrain, players play land cards and place settlements while aiming to fulfill specific conditions outlined by the game’s cards to maximize their gold earnings.

Become the best pirate by seeking the incredible treasure of the Golden Pineapple. As the captain of a pirate crew, you'll face other pirates while trying to piece together a map divided into four parts, scattered across the Caribbean Sea.

Players take turns drawing and placing game pieces, adding them to their own monsters or those of their opponents. The goal is to create monsters that are large, but not so large that they become unfinished.

In the card game, players act as crime lords, striving to accumulate more money than their opponents through strategic card play. Each player starts with a random hand of twelve cards from a deck of eighty, participating in rounds that involve drawing and playing cards to trigger unique effects. The game concludes after ten rounds, at which point players tally their cash along with the value of game tokens to determine the winner.

Nefarious is a fast-paced, competitive board game where players take on the roles of mad scientists vying for global domination by inventing various diabolical devices. The game captures the essence of frenetic invention and one-upmanship, as players race to create the most fearsome and powerful contraptions.

Gauntlet of Fools is a skill and luck adventure game for 2-6 players, lasting less than 30 minutes. Choose your hero from hundreds of combinations and engage in ridiculous boasting to secure the best one—though each boast comes with a price. Tackle fifty deadly encounters, roll dice, slay monsters, and claim their treasures. Die with the most gold to win.

Android: Infiltration immerses players in a high-stakes heist within the cyberpunk universe of Android. Set against the backdrop of New Angeles, players assume the roles of daring thieves infiltrating CyberSolutions Inc. to pilfer secrets while evading corporate mercenaries. With a facility layout that changes every game and a tension-filled mechanic that forces players to balance their greed against their need to escape, Infiltration offers a dynamic and suspenseful experience.

In some of the best versions of reality, Egyptians discover America, the industrial revolution begins early, and eventually, robots take control. As a time traveler, you manipulate history to maintain your reign while navigating the subtle details that could lead to utopia or anarchy. The game highlights possible historical paths and allows players to change events, generate resources, and gain power in order to dominate the final time period they return to.