Each year since 1980, GAMES Magazine has published a Buyer's Guide to Games in their year-end holiday issue. The article lists and reviews one hundred games each year, and is therefore known as the "Games 100". The list features the very best games published in the last year.
This is a list of the games selected by Games Magazine for the year 2004, courtesy of Funagain Games:
Game of the Year
- New England (Uberplay Entertainment / Goldsieber)
Abstract Strategy
- Clans (Rio Grande / Venice Connection)
- TAMSK (Rio Grande / Schmidt Spiele)
- Octiles (Out of the Box Publishing / Pin International)
- Cityscape (Out of the Box Publishing / Pin International)
- Fire and Ice (Out of the Box Publishing / Pin International)
- Atlanteon (Fantasy Flight Games)
- Steam Tunnel (Cheapass Games)
- Dvonn (Rio Grande / Don and Co)
- Pueblo (Rio Grande / Ravensburger Germany)
- Blokus (Educational Insights)
Advanced Strategy
- WildLife (Uberplay Entertainment / Clementoni)
- Mammoth Hunters (Rio Grande / Alea)
- Amun-Re (Rio Grande / Hans im Gluck)
- Fresh Fish (Plenary Games / 2F Spiele)
- Age of Steam (Warfrog / Winsome Games)
- Domaine (Mayfair Games / Kosmos)
- Krone & Schwert (Queen)
- Puerto Rico (Rio Grande / Alea)
Family Games
- I'm The Boss! (Face 2 Face Games)
- Freeloader (Cheapass Games)
- Light Speed (Cheapass Games)
- Mystery of the Abbey (Days of Wonder)
- Carcassonne: Hunters and Gatherers (Rio Grande / Hans im Gluck)
- Pick Picknic (Rio Grande / Zoch)
- Fish Eat Fish (Out of the Box Publishing)
- Wheedle (Out of the Box Publishing)
- Gold Digger (Out of the Box Publishing)
- X-Bugs: Set 1: Flyborgs vs. USArthropods (yellow / blue) (Steve Jackson Games)
- X-Bugs: Set 2: Flyborgs vs. USArthropods (purple / white) (Steve Jackson Games)
- X-Bugs: Set 3: Chitinians vs. Sovietoptera (red / green) (Steve Jackson Games)
- X-Bugs: Set 4: Chitinians vs. Sovietoptera (black / light green) (Steve Jackson Games)
- Chez Grunt (Steve Jackson Games)
- Magdar (Fantasy Flight Games)
- Cave Troll (Fantasy Flight Games)
- King's Gate (Fantasy Flight Games)
- Quicksand (Fantasy Flight Games)
- War & Sheep! (Eurogames Descartes USA)
- Tony & Tino (Eurogames Descartes USA)
- Drake & Drake (Eurogames Descartes USA)
- Phoenix (Eurogames Descartes USA)
- Nodwick: The Card Game (Jolly Roger Games)
- Ice Lake (Live Oak Games)
- Hocus Focus (Gamewright)
- Sambesi (Adlung Spiele)
Family Card Games
- Queen's Necklace (Days of Wonder)
- King's Breakfast (Rio Grande / Abacus)
- Flea Circus (R&R Games)
- The Bucket King (Rio Grande / Kosmos)
- The Mother Lode of Sticky Gulch (Dogtown Games)
- Bid-It! (Enginuity)
- Loco (Fantasy Flight Games)
- Mystery Rummy Case No. 4: Al Capone and the Chicago Underworld (US Games Systems)
- Castle Lords (Clash of Arms / Tilsit)
- Lord of the Fries (Cheapass Games / James Ernest Games)
- Coloretto (Abacus)
- Korsar (Nurnberger Spielkarten / Heidelberger Spieleverlag)
- Zahltag (Ravensburger Germany)
- Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (Bambus Spieleverlag)
- Bayon (Adlung Spiele)
Two-Player Card Games
- Balloon Cup (Rio Grande / Kosmos)
- Odin's Ravens (Rio Grande / Kosmos)
- Canal Grande (Adlung Spiele)
- Richelieu (Ravensburger Germany)
- Bakerstreet (Ravensburger Germany)
Family Strategy Games
- ZooSim (Cwali)
- O Zoo le Mio (Rio Grande / Zoch / Gigamic)
- Nautilus (Mayfair Games / Kosmos)
- The Settlers of the Stone Age (Mayfair Games)
- Moderne Zeiten (Jumbo International)
- The Penguin Ultimatum (Eight Foot Llama)
- Lord of the Rings (Fantasy Flight Games)
- Lord of the Rings: Friends & Foes (Fantasy Flight Games)
- Lord of the Rings: Sauron (Fantasy Flight Games)
- Alhambra (Queen)
- Fische Fluppen Frikadellen (2F Spiele)
- Fische Fluppen Frikadellen (2F Spiele)
- Fische Fluppen Frikadellen (2F Spiele)
- Fische Fluppen Frikadellen (2F Spiele)
- Ad Acta (Bewitched)
- Basari (Out of the Box Publishing)
- Message to the Czar (Rio Grande / Winning Moves Germany)
- Paris Paris (Rio Grande / Abacus)
- Bean Trader (Rio Grande / Amigo)
- Dante's Inferno (Twilight Creations)
- Edel, Stein & Reich (Alea)
Historical Simulation Games
- Hammer of the Scots (Columbia Games)
- Medieval (GMT Games)
- The Napoleonic Wars (GMT Games)
- Corsairs & Hellcats (GMT Games)
- Lock 'n Load (Shrapnel Games)
- Millennium Wars: Six Pack (One Small Step)
- Millennium Wars: Iraq (One Small Step)
- Millennium Wars: Kashmir (One Small Step)
- Millennium Wars: America (One Small Step)
- Millennium Wars: Ukraine (One Small Step)
- Millennium Wars: Korea (One Small Step)
- Millennium Wars: Air War (One Small Step)
Party/Trivia Games
- Dibs (Tolany LLC)
- VisualEyes (Buffalo Games)
- Smarty Party! (R&R Games)
- Telepaths (Outset Media)
- Stampede! (Gamewright)
- Nanofictionary (Looney Labs)
- Skribble (TDC Games)
- Buzzword (Patch Products)
- Stop It! (Schmidt Spiele)
- Don't Quote Me (Wiggles 3D)
Puzzles
- River Crossing (Binary Arts)
- Boats (Kadon Enterprises)
- X Puzzle: Act I: The Great Outdoors (Buffalo Games)
- X Puzzle: Act II: Ye Olde Worlde (Buffalo Games)
- Mythic Mazes: Escape from Merlin's Dungeon (Masterpiece Puzzle Company)
- Mythic Mazes: Escape from the Haunted House (Masterpiece Puzzle Company)
- Mythic Mazes: Escape from Alcatraz (Masterpiece Puzzle Company)
Word Games
- Crossword Pyramids (CardChess International)
- Play on Words (Winning Moves)
- Word Sense (ThinkFun / Binary Arts)
See Also: Other Award-Winning Board Games, Games 100 Winners for Other Years
