The best games with limited communication 🤐 2021
Looking for a game that isn't all about communicating 🤐? Then we have just the thing: The 30 best games with limited communication.
How can games restrict communication between players?
Games can restrict players from openly communicating with each other. These restrictions can be absolute, as they relate to specific information, or they can restrict specific types of communication, such as speaking, hearing, or seeing.
Examples of this mechanism include Hanabi (players are not allowed to talk), Codenames (players are only allowed to communicate using a word and a number), or the 2020 connoisseur game: The Crew (players can only communicate using a marker on a single card as well as by playing cards).
List of best games 2021 in which communication between players is limited 🤐
Just One
3 - 7 Players
20 Minutes
8+ years old
Complexity: very easy
👍 Good price!16€ at
.deVideo reviews for Just One
Codenames
- 2 - 8 Players
- 15 Minutes
- 14+ years old
- Complexity: very easy
👍 Good price!15€ at.deCodenames: Duet
Nominated for 9 awards and won 4.
More details for Codenames: Duet- 2 - 99 Players
- 15 - 30 Minutes
- 11+ years old
- Complexity: very easy
👍 Good price!15€ at.deVideo reviews for Codenames: Duet
The Crew: The Quest for Planet Nine
Nominated for 20 awards and won 10.
Kennerspiel des Jahres 2020
More details for The Crew: The Quest for Planet Nine- 2 - 5 Players
- 20 Minutes
- 10+ years old
- Complexity: easy
👍 Good price!10€ at.deDecrypto
Nominated for 14 awards and won 7.
More details for Decrypto- 3 - 8 Players
- 15 - 45 Minutes
- 12+ years old
- Complexity: easy
👍 Good price!14€ at.deVideo reviews for Decrypto
Codenames: Pictures
Nominated for 3 awards and won 3.
More details for Codenames: Pictures- 2 - 8 Players
- 15 Minutes
- 10+ years old
- Complexity: very easy
🔥 Great price!14€ at.deVideo reviews for Codenames: Pictures
Time's Up!
Nominated for 5 awards and won 2.
More details for Time's Up!- 4 - 18 Players
- 90 Minutes
- 12+ years old
- Complexity: very easy
The Mind
- 2 - 4 Players
- 15 Minutes
- 8+ years old
- Complexity: very easy
When I Dream
Nominated for 6 awards and won 2.
More details for When I Dream- 4 - 10 Players
- 20 - 40 Minutes
- 8+ years old
- Complexity: very easy
Video reviews for When I Dream
Cahoots
Nominated for 1 award and won 1.
More details for Cahoots- 1 - 4 Players
- 20 Minutes
- 10+ years old
- Complexity: very easy
👍 Good price!8€ at.deVideo reviews for Cahoots
Witness
- 4 Players
- 15 Minutes
- 13+ years old
- Complexity: very easy
Video reviews for Witness
Mysterium
Nominated for 14 awards and won 6.
More details for Mysterium- 2 - 7 Players
- 42 Minutes
- 10+ years old
- Complexity: easy
Gloomhaven: Jaws of the Lion
Nominated for 6 awards and won 4.
More details for Gloomhaven: Jaws of the Lion- 1 - 4 Players
- 30 - 120 Minutes
- 14+ years old
- Complexity: hard
Hanabi
- 2 - 5 Players
- 25 Minutes
- 8+ years old
- Complexity: easy
Mysterium Park
Nominated for 1 award.
More details for Mysterium Park- 2 - 6 Players
- 30 - 45 Minutes
- 10+ years old
- Complexity: very easy
Fiesta de los Muertos
Nominated for 2 awards.
More details for Fiesta de los Muertos- 4 - 8 Players
- 15 Minutes
- 12+ years old
- Complexity: very easy
🔥 Great price!19€ at.deConcept
- 4 - 12 Players
- 40 Minutes
- 10+ years old
- Complexity: very easy
👍 Good price!24€ at.deThe Game
- 1 - 5 Players
- 20 Minutes
- 8+ years old
- Complexity: very easy
Gloomhaven
Nominated for 22 awards and won 10.
More details for Gloomhaven- 1 - 4 Players
- 60 - 120 Minutes
- 14+ years old
- Complexity: hard
👍 Good price!132€ at.deVideo reviews for Gloomhaven
Magic Maze
- 1 - 8 Players
- 15 Minutes
- 8+ years old
- Complexity: easy
🔥 Great price!17€ at.deVideo reviews for Magic Maze
The Grizzled
Nominated for 9 awards and won 2.
More details for The Grizzled- 2 - 5 Players
- 30 Minutes
- 14+ years old
- Complexity: easy
The Game + The Game on Fire
- 1 - 5 Players
- 20 Minutes
- 8+ years old
- Complexity: very easy
Muse
Nominated for 1 award.
More details for Muse- 2 - 12 Players
- 30 Minutes
- 10+ years old
- Complexity: very easy
Video reviews for Muse
Assembly
- 1 - 4 Players
- 10 - 20 Minutes
- 8+ years old
- Complexity: very easy
Sherlock: ¿Quién es Vincent Leblanc?
- 1 - 8 Players
- 60 Minutes
- 10+ years old
- Complexity: very easy
The Crew: Mission Deep Sea
- 2 - 5 Players
- 20 Minutes
- 10+ years old
- Complexity: easy
👍 Good price!12€ at.deQuirky Circuits
Nominated for 1 award.
More details for Quirky Circuits- 2 - 4 Players
- 15 - 30 Minutes
- 7+ years old
- Complexity: easy
🔥 Great price!51€ at.deFor the Queen
- 2 - 6 Players
- 30 - 120 Minutes
- 13+ years old
- Complexity: very easy
Codenames: Deep Undercover
- 4 - 8 Players
- 15 Minutes
- 18+ years old
- Complexity: very easy
👍 Good price!16€ at.deVideo reviews for Codenames: Deep Undercover
Obscurio
Nominated for 1 award.
More details for Obscurio- 2 - 8 Players
- 40 Minutes
- 10+ years old
- Complexity: easy
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