The best games with pigs 2026

The Castles of Burgundy: Special Edition revitalizes Stefan Feld's classic strategy game for 1-4 players, where participants embody aristocrats managing their princedoms. This special edition, a collaboration between Ravensburger and Awaken Realms, elevates the game with a full art redesign, premium materials, and enhanced components, offering a luxurious playing experience as players build their settlements, castles, and engage in trade.

It's race day in Quedlinburg, and with the right mix of food and luck, you ride your mount to victory and win the golden cauldron. Players build their own bag of tiles throughout the game, drawing them to advance on the race track. They will collect resources, gain bonuses, and strategize until someone crosses the finish line first.

The Castles of Burgundy is set in the medieval Burgundy region of France, where players assume the roles of aristocrats seeking to expand their princedoms. The game revolves around building settlements, constructing castles, engaging in river trade, mining for silver, and utilizing travelers' knowledge.

Players receive a set of cards numbered from one to fifteen. During each round, a price token is drawn randomly, which can have either positive or negative points. Players secretly choose one of their remaining cards and reveal them simultaneously; the highest card wins the prize if it's positive, while the lowest card wins if it's negative. However, if two players play the same highest or lowest card, they cancel each other out, and the prize goes to the next player.

My Little Scythe is a charming, family-friendly board game that offers a light and engaging experience inspired by the critically acclaimed Scythe. It's a game of adventure and whimsy, set in the enchanting Kingdom of Pomme, where players control delightful animal miniatures on a quest to earn trophies and achieve victory.

As a little piglet, your greatest wish is to build a strong and beautiful house to spend your long winter evenings in. You will only need dice to construct your dream home, while avoiding the roaming wolf who wants to blow your cozy house down.

Agricola: All Creatures Big and Small offers a specialized, two-player experience derived from the popular Agricola game, focusing exclusively on the aspect of animal husbandry.

Animals embark on a rafting tour each year on a wild river, and everyone wants to join the fun. Players lay out ten animal tiles around a raft and draw animal cards to see which creatures board. They secretly vote on whether there’s enough space for all the revealed animals, with points awarded based on correct predictions after six rounds.

Cards featuring various animal illustrations are stacked in six piles. One card is chosen by a player and placed in the center. Players then quickly select characteristics suitable for that animal by placing tokens on a list of possible traits.

A card game with an unusual scoring system involves players using sets of animal cards to knock over opponents' bucket pyramids. Each player starts with 12 cards from five colors, numbered 1-8, and must strategically attack or defend against opponents' moves.

The famous Master Fox is getting old and is searching for a successor among the brave forest bandits. This is your chance to prove your skills as a thief and take his place! To impress the old fox, you must complete missions and bring him the greatest loot from the nearby cabin.

Players control seven colorful piglets that love to run through meadows on narrow paths, often needing to stack on top of one another to pass. Using a special die numbered 1-4, players take turns moving their piglets; rolling a black number allows an extra move. If a player lands on the same space as another pig, they can carry the lower piglets in a piggyback style, aiming to reach the end of the track first to win.

The goal is to get rid of all your pigs by distributing them to other players. Players roll a six-sided die to place a pig in the corresponding numbered space on the board. If the rolled number is already full, they take all pigs from that space, and in the final round, they can roll the die as many times as they want, but must roll at least once.

Red Riding Hood and the pig family live peacefully in the village until a hungry wolf appears, eager to feast on them. Instead of giving in, they plan to trap the wolf and drive him away. In this game, the wolf player tries to eat other players to score points, while the prey players can earn points by catching the wolf. Players secretly choose cards to either rest or set a trap, and outcomes depend on their choices in a round-based system. The game concludes when a player reaches ten or more points, and the one with the most points wins.

Via Nebula is a strategic resource management game where players clear mists, harvest resources, and build structures in a mystical valley. The game combines cooperative and competitive elements, as players share paths and resources but pursue their own construction goals.

Will you find the golden truffle? Players take turns wearing a silly pig nose and hunting for the valuable mushrooms hidden in the earth. You must collect the pictured mushrooms on cards when it's your turn, while racing against the timer.

Have You Herd is a lively European dice game that gained popularity in Poland during the early 1940s. Players compete to collect each of the five farm animals: rabbit, sheep, pig, cow, and horse, while building and trading to complete their "herd." Be careful of the wolf or fox, as they will eat your herd! The American edition features simplified rules compared to the original Polish version.

While the mother pig relaxes in her wash tub, a glorious mud battle rages around her. Mud balls fly back and forth among the piglets, creating a fun atmosphere. Players need to be quick, as the mother pig might notice the antics at any moment, and the first to collect three "Wash Yourself" tokens will win.

Agricola is a strategic board game where players become farmers aiming to build thriving homesteads. Manage resources, expand your home, and feed your family to win.