The best games by Jarratt Gray 🇳🇿👨 2026
Looking for a really great game by Jarratt Gray? Here is the list of the best Jarratt Gray games 2026.
Who is Jarratt Gray?
Jarratt Gray is a New Zealand game designer — together with Carl de Visser he forms the design duo behind the Endeavor series (Endeavor, Endeavor: Age of Sail, Endeavor: Deep Sea). Endeavor: Deep Sea won the Kennerspiel des Jahres in 2025; the original Endeavor (released in German as Magister Navis) appeared back in 2009. Outside the Endeavor series, he has co-designed The Hobbit: An Unexpected Party, among others.
Jarratt Gray as a game designer
The first game by Jarratt Gray in our database is Endeavor from 2009 – Jarratt Gray has been designing games for over 17 years. His most well-known game is Endeavor: Age of Sail.
How good are games by Jarratt Gray?
There are 3 games by Jarratt Gray in our Top-1000 games list – making Jarratt Gray #64 of the best game designers out of 12777 designers in our database.
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List of the best games by Jarratt Gray 2026
In this list you'll find the best board, card & dice games by Jarratt Gray that you can buy 2026.
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Endeavor: Deep Sea
+1Connoisseur Game of the Year
Cooperative
Solo Mode
Nature & Farming
Exploration
Campaign
+27 more
- SdJ2025🇩🇪
- SPIEL'24🎡
- Board Games with Corals
- Corals, Jellyfish & Anemones
- Dolphins
- Board Games with Engineers
- Board Games with Researchers
- Board Games with Sharks
- Board Games with Turtles
- Board Games with Whales
- Deutscher Spielepreis🇩🇪
- Carl de Visser 🇳🇿👨
- Cranio Creations🇮🇹
- Jarratt Gray 🇳🇿👨
- Gamefound
- Map grows🗺
- Recovering Actions
- Action Points🎬
- Tech Tree
- Grid-Movement
- Kennerspiel des Jahres Award🇩🇪
- Nautical🚢
- New Release🆕
- Spiel des Jahres Award🇩🇪
- Submarines
- BGG Top100🥇
- Top 100⭐
- 👥 1 - 4 Players
- ⏱️ 60 - 120 Minutes
- 🧒 10+ years old
- 🧩 Medium difficulty
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Endeavor: Age of Sail
Golden Geek (nominated)
Area Control- Exploration
Renaissance
Strategy Game
Drafting
Endeavor: Age of Sail invites players to navigate the high seas and earn glory for their empires. Set during the age of exploration, players sail from Europe and the Mediterranean, establishing shipping routes and occupying cities across the globe, all while building their industrial, cultural, financial, and influential power.
Nominated for 3 awards.
More details for Endeavor: Age of Sail- 👥 2 - 5 Players
- ⏱️ 60 - 90 Minutes
- 🧒 13+ years old
- 🧩 Medium difficulty
Video reviews for Endeavor: Age of Sail
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Endeavor
Meeples Choice Award- Area Control
- Exploration
- Renaissance
- Strategy Game
- Drafting
Endeavor is a strategic board game set during the age of exploration and expansion, where players represent growing empires vying for global dominance through various means such as exploration, colonization, and war.
Nominated for 9 awards and won 1.
More details for Endeavor- 👥 3 - 5 Players
- ⏱️ 90 Minutes
- 🧒 12+ years old
- 🧩 Medium difficulty
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The Hobbit: An Unexpected Party
Worker Placement
Push Your Luck
Licensed / IP
Variable Powers
+1 more
More details for The Hobbit: An Unexpected PartyStumpy knives, bent forks, broken bottles, and burnt corks are what Bilbo Baggins despises! In this fast-paced, action-based tabletop game for 2 to 4 players, you take on the role of dwarves causing chaos at Bag End while singing lines from "The Things Bilbo Hates." The game ends when all 15 lines are sung or when Thorin arrives, and the player with the most points wins by stirring Bilbo's curiosity without crossing the line. Enjoy an hour inside Bag End and host your own unexpected party!
- 👥 2 - 4 Players
- ⏱️ 40 - 60 Minutes
- 🧒 10+ years old
- 🧩 Easy to learn
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