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 2005, courtesy of Funagain Games:
Game of the Year
Abstract Strategy
Advanced Strategy
- Tahuantinsuyu
- Goa
- Princes of the Renaissance
- Age of Mythology: The Boardgame
- Dos Rios
- Power Grid
- Railroad Dice: The First Rails
- Saint Petersburg
- Magna Grecia
- Logistico
- WildLife
Family Games
- Vanished Planet
- Gulo Gulo
- Ticket to Ride
- Vampire
- King Me!
- The Ark of the Covenant
- Carcassonne: the Castle
- Sleuth
- Hoity Toity
- Secrets of the Tombs
- Lawless
- Cronberg
- Fantasy Pub
- Balancing Aliens
- Ricochet
- Tuchulcha
- Arena Maximus
- Mutiny!
- Artifact
- Catch the Match
- Timeline
- Tongiaki: Journey into the Unknown
- Crocodile Pool Party
- I'm The Boss!
- Phoenix
- War & Sheep!
Family Card Games
- Victory and Honor
- Scream Machine
- Die Fugger
- Adam & Eva
- Spooks
- Die sieben Siegel
- Four Dragons
- Flaschenteufel
- Relationship Tightrope
- High Society!
- Lucky Loop
- Atlas & Zeus
- Spy
- Saga
- FBI
- Turn the Tide
- 20th Century Time Travel Card Game
- Oh, Pharaoh!
- Balloon Cup
- Queen's Necklace
- Canal Grande
Family Strategy Games
- Alexandros
- Hansa
- Oasis
- Finstere Flure
- Maharaja
- Santiago
- Sunken City
- Pirate's Cove
- Attika
- Maya
- Anno 1503
- Senjutsu
- Dork Tower
- New England
- O Zoo le Mio
- Nautilus
Party Games
Word Games
Historical Simulation Games
- Memoir '44
- Wings of War: Famous Aces
- Gringo!: The Mexican War, 1846-48
- Lightning: Midway
- Axis & Allies: D-Day
See Also: Other Award-Winning Board Games, Games 100 Winners for Other Years
