The best games set on the continent of North-America 🌎 2026
Looking for a really good game on the continent of North America? Then we have just the thing for you: the list with the best North America games 2026.
What are North America games🌎?
In this list you will find games, expansions, promos, etc. that thematically or playfully represent the North American continent (not just one country).
North America is bordered by the Arctic Ocean to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the east, the Pacific Ocean to the west and south, and South America and the Caribbean Sea to the southeast.
In English, by the way, "North America" is called "North America."
It can also be considered a subcontinent of the Americas (see Wikipedia entry for North America for a full definition).
Examples of games set on the continent of North America:
A good example of a North America🌎 game is Ticket to Ride.
List of the best games 2026 set on the continent of North America:
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Ticket to Ride Legacy: Legends of the West
BGG Top 100
Family Game
Route Building
Push Your Luck
Legacy
Trains & Rail
+40 more
- Spiel des Jahres 2024🇩🇪
- SPIEL'23🎡
- Route Building
- Contracts
- End Game Bonuses
- Black Friday 2025💰
- Board Game Quest Awards🇺🇸
- 2-4 players
- 2-5 players
- 3-5 players
- 2020s
- Campaign Games🗺️
- from 11 years
- from 12 years
- Alan R. Moon🇬🇧👨
- Matt Leacock🇺🇸👨
- Rob Daviau🇺🇸👨
- Days of Wonder🇺🇸/🇫🇷🏢
- Hobby Japan🇯🇵🏢
- Drafting
- Nominated for Spiel des Jahres Award🇩🇪
- 2023📆
- USA🇺🇸
- North America🌎
- Route Building
- Connections
- Contracts
- Bonus at the End🏅
- Campaign
- Set Collection🧺
- Trains🚂
- Hand Management
- Kennerspiel des Jahres Award🇩🇪
- Legacy
- Medium Weight⚖️
- New Release🆕
- Push your Luck🍀
- Ticket to Ride Series🚂
- BGG Top100🥇
- Top 100⭐
Players embark on twelve journeys through North America as 19th-century pioneers. Starting on the East Coast, they face challenges while aiming to complete ticket objectives and develop new skills to overcome unexpected events and rivals. As the campaign progresses, players unlock new rules and content, creating a uniquely tailored experience that evolves with their choices, resulting in a game that can be enjoyed for a lifetime.
Nominated for 6 awards.
⭐️ Nominated for Kennerspiel des Jahres 2024
💰 5% cheaper on Amazon than at other retailers
More details for Ticket to Ride Legacy: Legends of the West- 👥 2 - 5 Players
- ⏱️ 20 - 90 Minutes
- 🧒 10+ years old
- 🧩 Medium difficulty
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Ticket to Ride (Spiel des Jahres 2004 winner)
+11Game of the Year
Family Game
Route Building
Push Your Luck
Trains & Rail
Drafting
+23 more
- As d'Or 2004🇫🇷
- As d'Or🇫🇷 winners
- Deutscher Spielepreis 2004🇩🇪
- Spiel des Jahres 2004🇩🇪
- Hunter & Cron Award 2022🇩🇪
- Remote📱
- Årets Spel🇸🇪
- As d'Or🇫🇷
- As d'Or🇫🇷 - Main prize.
- for Girls👧
- boardgame.tips top 100🥇
- Diana Jones Award for Excellence in Gaming🇺🇸
- ❤️Spiegel-Online
- 2004📆
- USA🇺🇸
- North America🌎
- Hra roku🇨🇿
- Juego del Año🇪🇸
- Nederlandse Spellenprijs🇳🇱
- Origins Award🇺🇸
- Spiel des Jahres Award🇩🇪
- Tric Trac awards🇫🇷
- Vuoden Peli🇫🇮
Ticket to Ride offers a delightful and accessible gaming experience that can be grasped in under 15 minutes, making it perfect for both newcomers and seasoned gamers. Designed by the renowned Alan R. Moon, this board game revolves around a railway adventure across North America.
Nominated for 18 awards and won 12.
⭐️ Spiel des Jahres 2004
More details for Ticket to Ride (Spiel des Jahres 2004 winner)- 👥 2 - 5 Players
- ⏱️ 30 - 60 Minutes
- 🧒 8+ years old
- 🧩 Easy to learn
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Ark Nova
+12BGG Top 100
Tile-Laying
Solo Mode
Nature & Farming
Heavyweight
Animals
+24 more
- As d'Or 2023🇫🇷
- As d'Or🇫🇷 winners
- Deutscher Spielepreis 2022🇩🇪
- Spiel des Jahres 2022🇩🇪
- Hunter & Cron Award 2022🇩🇪
- SPIEL'21🎡
- Increase Value of Unchosen Resources
- As d'Or🇫🇷 - Expert game.
- Expert game
- Deutscher Spielepreis🇩🇪
- Feuerland Spiele🇩🇪🏢
- Africa🌍
- Asia🌏
- Europa🇪🇺
- North America🌎
- South America🌎
- Increase Value of Unchosen Resources📈
- Income
- Random Events
- Goblin Magnifico🇮🇹
- Jogo do Ano🇵🇹
- Jogoeu User's Game (J.U.G.)🇵🇹
- BGG Top100🥇
- Top 100⭐
Ark Nova is a strategic board game where players take on the role of zoo planners, aiming to build and manage the most successful modern zoo.
Nominated for 25 awards and won 13.
More details for Ark Nova- 👥 1 - 4 Players
- ⏱️ 90 - 150 Minutes
- 🧒 14+ years old
- 🧩 Hard to learn
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Zombicide: Undead or Alive
Cooperative
Solo Mode
Horror
Campaign
Miniatures
Combat
More details for Zombicide: Undead or AliveThe harsh landscapes of the West test a person's courage with threats from cattle rustlers, bandits, and deadly creatures. Now, the recently deceased rise from their graves to attack the living, turning the town into chaos. This version introduces new survivor types like the gunslinger and the townfolk, each with unique rules, alongside fresh mechanics like balconies and trains to challenge players in exciting ways.
- 👥 1 - 6 Players
- ⏱️ 60 Minutes
- 🧒 14+ years old
- 🧩 Easy to learn
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10 Days in the Americas
Family Game
Exploration
Bring your sunglasses, snowshoes, and insect repellent—it's time to travel to new destinations across America! Players use destination and transport tiles to chart a course through North, Central, and South America as well as the Caribbean, using airplanes, cruise ships, or by foot. With a bit of luck and strategic planning, you can outmaneuver fellow travelers and be the first to form connections for a complete ten-day journey!
Nominated for 1 award.
More details for 10 Days in the Americas- 👥 2 - 4 Players
- ⏱️ 20 - 30 Minutes
- 🧒 10+ years old
- 🧩 Immediately playable
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Pandemic: Hot Zone – North America
Cooperative
Family Game
Variable Powers
Set Collection
More details for Pandemic: Hot Zone – North AmericaPandemic: Hot Zone – North America is a streamlined, cooperative board game that condenses the thrilling experience of the classic Pandemic into a quicker and more portable format. In this version, players unite to combat the spread of three deadly diseases across North America, racing against time to prevent outbreaks and find cures.
- 👥 2 - 4 Players
- ⏱️ 30 Minutes
- 🧒 8+ years old
- 🧩 Easy to learn
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Caldera Park
Tile-Laying
Solo Mode
Animals
Puzzle
Set Collection
More details for Caldera ParkWelcome to the wilderness of North America! Breathtaking mountain views and spectacular geysers await, with vast forests and prairies providing habitat for native animals. Your task is to group animals of the same type into large families while ensuring they have access to water sources and avoiding bad weather.
- 👥 1 - 4 Players
- ⏱️ 30 - 40 Minutes
- 🧒 10+ years old
- 🧩 Easy to learn
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Power Grid Deluxe: Europe/North America
Route Building
Economy & Trade
Strategy Game
Large Groups
More details for Power Grid Deluxe: Europe/North AmericaPower Grid Deluxe: Europe/North America is a standalone game in the Power Grid universe, commemorating the 10th anniversary of the original Power Grid game. This deluxe edition boasts a double-sided game board featuring maps of Europe and North America, newly designed wooden components, and a completely new deck of power plants, including some that use natural gas. The game also introduces an enhanced two-player experience called “Against the Trust” and new overview cards for resource refills.
- 👥 2 - 6 Players
- ⏱️ 120 Minutes
- 🧒 12+ years old
- 🧩 Medium difficulty
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Mariposas
Family Game
Nature & Farming
Animals
Set Collection
More details for MariposasMariposas is a charming board game that captures the incredible journey of the monarch butterflies from Mexico across North America. It is a game of movement and set collection, where players experience the life cycle of these fascinating creatures.
- 👥 2 - 5 Players
- ⏱️ 45 - 75 Minutes
- 🧒 14+ years old
- 🧩 Easy to learn
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Age of Empires III: The Age of Discovery
+1Origins Awards Historical Board Game of the Year
Civilization
Area Control
Worker Placement
Exploration
Strategy Game
Age of Empires III: The Age of Discovery is a strategy board game designed by Glenn Drover, allowing players to dive into the era of exploration and colonization. This game offers a rich historical setting where players take on the roles of colonial powers competing for dominance in the New World.
Nominated for 11 awards and won 2.
More details for Age of Empires III: The Age of Discovery- 👥 2 - 5 Players
- ⏱️ 90 - 120 Minutes
- 🧒 10+ years old
- 🧩 Medium difficulty
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Empires: Age of Discovery
Civilization
Area Control
Worker Placement
Exploration
Strategy Game
Large Groups
More details for Empires: Age of DiscoveryExperience the age of exploration and discovery. Players take on the role of a colonial power seeking glory, honor, and wealth in the New World. As they progress through three ages, they embark on exploration expeditions, colonize regions, expand trade fleets, build capital buildings for unique national advantages, develop their economy, and declare war if necessary. This edition features the Empires: Builder Expansion, integrating its capital buildings and national advantage tiles into new player boards.
- 👥 2 - 6 Players
- ⏱️ 50 - 150 Minutes
- 🧒 10+ years old
- 🧩 Medium difficulty
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Wampum
Auction
Card Game
More details for WampumPlayers are traders in colonial America, engaging in commerce with Native American villages by exchanging goods like corn, tobacco, furs, weapons, and alcohol. In certain villages, players trade their goods for other items, while in others, they receive Wampum, shells and beads used as currency. Successful trading in the right village at the right time is essential for accumulating the most Wampum and winning the game.
- 👥 2 - 5 Players
- ⏱️ 45 Minutes
- 🧒 10+ years old
- 🧩 Easy to learn
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Go West!
Family Game
Area Control
Adventure
Exploration
Strategy Game
Action Points
+1 more
More details for Go West!In the late 18th century, the growing population in the emerging United States became increasingly interested in the Wild West. Millions of poor immigrants arrived from Europe, leading to a surge in eastern cities. Players take on the role of savvy entrepreneurs who capitalize on the constant movement of wagon trains heading westward across North America, which is divided into vast vertical regions.
- 👥 2 - 4 Players
- ⏱️ 45 Minutes
- 🧒 12+ years old
- 🧩 Easy to learn
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Conquistador: The Age of Exploration – 1495-1600
Military
Solo Mode
Economy & Trade
Campaign
Negotiation
Strategy Game
Players explore and conquer the New World (North and South America) during the 16th century, navigating the competition among European powers. The objective is to accumulate wealth, land, and prestige through discoveries; the player with the highest total wins. Originally published in 1976, the game accommodates one to four players and includes rules for different nationalities.
Nominated for 1 award.
More details for Conquistador: The Age of Exploration – 1495-1600- 👥 1 - 4 Players
- ⏱️ 360 - 420 Minutes
- 🧒 12+ years old
- 🧩 Medium difficulty
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Fatal Alliances: The Great War 1914-1918
Military
Heavyweight
Campaign
Nautical
Large Groups
More details for Fatal Alliances: The Great War 1914-1918Players take on the role of nations during World War I in a comprehensive simulation that captures all theaters and aspects of the conflict. They must navigate the complexities of international politics, managing both military and civilian fronts to secure victory. Strategic decisions regarding troop production and deployment will influence the course of the war, ensuring each game offers a unique experience.
- 👥 2 - 6 Players
- ⏱️ 240 - 1200 Minutes
- 🧒 16+ years old
- 🧩 Hard to learn
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