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The game has been widely popular since its release, with many finding one or two games they enjoy playing either by themselves or with their friends. There are a ton of games to choose from, but there are some that are vastly underrated and are worth giving a try.
10 Hare And Hounds
“Hare and Hounds” is based on a popular strategy game that was played in 19th century northern Europe. One player takes control of three hounds while another is the hare. The goal for the hounds is to trap the hare from being able to escape, but they are unable to move backward. The hare, meanwhile, must try to elude the hounds by getting to the other side of the board without getting trapped. The game is one of the shorter ones in the collection but has lots of replayability.
9 Slide Puzzle
Slide puzzles are difficult, but they are even harder when players need to deal with an animal walking around the puzzle. The goal is to guide the motorized animal along the paths to collect gems. The more gems players collect, the more points they will have. However, if the animal runs out of places to walk or walks off the board, it’s game over. The game has two modes: one with a motorized turtle that gives players more time to think, and one with a motorized rabbit that increases the challenge & stress levels.
8 Slot Car Racing
This game will have players longing for the days of playing with their toy cars as kids. A two-player game, racers can choose three different courses or compete in a three-track circuit. The goal of the game is to maintain a fast enough speed to win the race while carefully taking turns. If players are going full throttle, their car will derail and they will have to start again. This game lacks a deep roster of tracks, but it’s a fun game to practice.
7 Chinese Checkers
A classic game for three players, the goal is to move all the pegs from one corner to another on the opposite side while trying to navigate the board with two other players. Chinese Checkers allows players to move their pegs one slot at a time, with the exception of available jumps.
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As long as there is a jump available, players can jump as many pegs as they can in a single turn. Clubhouse Games makes it easy to see if there is a path available to go as far as possible, so expect a lot of crazy jumping around.
6 Gomoku
A game that originated in Japan during the Meiji Restoration era, Gomoku uses black and white stones known as Go pieces, with two players trying to get five-in-a-row with their color. The board has plenty of squares for players to place stones on, so it is important to have eyes everywhere in case the opponent has a five-in-a-row building that is hard to spot. Clubhouse Games gives a lot of options to players to customize their experience, including classic Gomoku rules of three-and-three, four-and-four, and overline.
5 Carrom
Carrom is an Indian tabletop game that is similar to billiards in which each player has a specific colored-disc that they must shoot into the holes in the corners of the board. In this game, there is a queen puck that either player needs to get in the hole before they down their last puck. The problem is, immediately after they put the queen into a hole, they must then “cover the queen” in which they have to successfully shoot any remaining puck into a hole. If they don’t, the queen puck returns to the board. The first person to sink all their pucks wins.
4 Bowling
While many players are enjoying the virtual tabletop games that have been presented to them in Clubhouse Games, NDcube also included some mini-games that are based on actual sports, like bowling.
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Just a simple bowling game that is reminiscent of the Wii Sports days, bowling uses motion controls while the Switch is in the dock. In handheld mode, players can use the touch screen to bowl. Other than that, there is nothing else that is majorly different from the average bowling game, but that’s okay.
3 Hex
Hex is a strategy board game that pits two players against each other to try to make it to the other side by filling out hexagons. This game dates back all the way to the 1940s created by mathematicians and made its debut in Denmark. The game is known for insane strategies, many of which revolve around understanding the Brouwer fixed-point theorem. Players can try to cut pathways to their opponents, but one bad move will result in a runaway victory that can’t be stopped.
2 Dots And Boxes
Speaking of runaway victories, there are plenty of those in Dots and Boxes. Animated to look like participants are playing on an actual notepad with colored pencils, Dots and Boxes pits two players against one another in order to claim more boxes than the other. In order to do that, players must take turns connecting dots with lines. Whoever completes the last line of a box gets to claim that box. Their turn won’t end until the player draws a line that doesn’t complete a box, so one turn can result in half the board becoming claimed.
1 Hit And Blow
If Hit And Blow may not sound familiar, people may know it better as Mastermind. The game gives players eight chances to guess the color and order of pegs that are locked away. Players can choose from a small list of potential pegs. If players get a correct color in their guess, a light will indicate that they are on the right track. A different color light will indicate if that color is in the right spot. The goal is to guess the correct combination of colors before players are out of guesses. This can be played alone or with a friend.
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