Welcome to our Toy Man® Global - "Top 10" 2025 GAMES page.. This page is dedicated to featuring the Top Ten award winning games that were selected this year for 2025.
It's important to understand that our selections do not follow the rest of the herd and select the titles that are the latest trend of other company's opinions, each and every game here has been seklected after carful study of consumer, corporate buyers, and retail store information and most important of all, the compilation of information gained from our readers.
To ensure no inflection of bias, we do not provide a link to purchase any of these games. We only provide a link to a source where the game is available and further info on the product can be found. It's time to Play! Happy gaming! |
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| CATAN |
SRP $54.99 USD
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| Players 3-4 Age 10+ Time 60-90 Minutes |
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CATAN - Catan is seen as a classic "gateway game" that balances strategy with luck, though it's important to know that the use of dice in the game is a vital element in playing the game. We found that the modular board of the game proved to be essential as well as satisfying due to the logical probability of high re playability and its social, interactive gameplay. hexagonal tiles design, ensures a unique map with each game.
Despite the game design being considered by some rather old-school, the fundamental structure ensures simple to understand gameplay for new players while still retaining diversity in game plan strategy development and implementation. While some people see the use of dice making the game more easily controlled by savvy players, we found it more of an important element that ensures variability of chance. More seemly put, evening the playing field for all players. You always have the unexpected just waiting to occur. |
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| Monopoly |
SRP $19.99 USD
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| Players 2-6 Age 8+ Time 60+ Minutes |
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Monopoly - Learn by doing is probably the most effective way to describe how to play the game. Official printed rules are always the norm, but more often than not, most players learn how to play from others, never actually using the printed instructions. The gameplay itself is so simple. Players assume the position of being land owners on the board, attempting to buy and then develop their land.
The really interesting part is how income is gained by other players visiting their properties and money is spent when they visit properties belonging to other players. The biggest challenge in the game is when a player's financial resources start to get limited, players may have to mortgage their properties to raise cash for fines, taxes and other misfortunes.
This game is a gem as a family game with the way it generates excitement, challenge, strategic thinking and a hilarious time of competitive frenzy. It may be a classic yet it still retain full engagement by the players with noone feeling left out. |
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| A Daily Cloud - The Game |
SRP $26.95 USD
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| Players 3-6 Age 8+ Time: 25 Minutes |
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"A Daily Cloud" is best defined as an ingenious yet so simple card game, where game card images of clouds are used to combine the creation of creative writing and image captions. These creations, in turn, are used to develop challenges for points.
It is essential to remember that this game fosters levels of imaginative thinking and group interaction that surpass those of the average card game. It guarantees stimulation for greater competitive play with every drawing and caption created, ensuring no repetition.
One of the primary elements that demonstrates the value of this game is the never-ending stimulation of creative skill development. Now, combine an insane level of fun with an innovative learning experience in every game, and you have a total knockout of success! |
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The Lord of the Rings
Fellowship of the Ring
Trick Taking Game |
SRP $26.95 USD
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| Players 1-4 Age 10+ Time: 20 Minutes |
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The Fellowship of the Ring: Trick-Taking Game is a highly praised cooperative game, blending familiar trick-taking mechanics (like The Crew) with a strong, story-driven Lord of the Rings theme, offering beautiful art, simple rules, and engaging puzzles that evolve through campaign chapters, making it great for families and experienced gamers alike, though some find it easier or slightly too similar to The Crew. Reviewers love its thematic integration, character variety, and satisfying challenge, recommending it as a must-have for Tolkien fans and trick-taking enthusiasts.
As in past episodes, each chapter of The Fellowship of the Ring: Trick-Taking Game provides the players with a variety of characters to choose from, each of whom has a specific victory condition that must be met in order for the team to succeed. The 18 chapters of this game hold true to Fellowship and introduce loads of characters and plenty of trickery to give it a fresh new slant of capturing your attention from start to finish. |
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| Telestrations |
SRP $19.95 USD
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| Players 4-6 Age 10+ Time: 30 Minutes |
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Telestrations - The award-winning party game Telestrations will get your family and friends laughing as they draw what they see, then guess what they saw for hours of hilarious miscommunication. All players simultaneously sketch, pass and guess while revealing laugh out loud and unpredictable outcomes!
We can guarantee you that Telestrations is one heck of a hilarious, party game and it's so simple to learn. A key point to consider is how it bridges age generations. A game that older adults are failiar with was called "Telephone" where the first person in a line says a phrase to the person next to them then that continues on from person to person. By time it gets to the last person, It's nowhere close to what the first person said.
Telestrations is essentially a a drawing version of the Telephone game. where fun actually that same game only way better, and even more funny because you aren't just hearing, but are actually seeing the crazy interpretations of what is being shared. |
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| Goliath Don't Wake Daddy |
SRP $14.99 USD
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| Players: 2-6 | Age: 4+ | Time: 00 Minutes |
Don't Wake Daddy - Tiptoe past the clanging toys, barking dog, and creaky floorboards—but whatever you do, Don’t Wake Daddy! This classic surprise-action board game brings laughter, tension, and thrills to your game nights. Kids roll the die, move around the board, and press Daddy’s alarm clock button the number of times shown on the space they land on. But watch out—if Daddy wakes up, it’s back to bed for you! Perfect for kids ages 4 and up, Don't Wake Daddy is easy to learn and endlessly fun to replay. Whether you’re introducing it to the next generation or reliving childhood memories, this game delivers excitement and suspense in every round. Are you sneaky enough to reach the fridge for a midnight snack without getting caught?
At the end of the game, the player with the most points wins and is found to have their head in the clouds! Perfect for family game night, breaking the ice at parties or simply adding a dash of fun to any gathering, this game encourages players to think quickly and laugh freely, igniting a lively atmosphere that's contagious. Easy to learn and fun for players of all artistic skill levels, it's an invitation to engage, laugh and connect! |
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| Bomb Busters |
SRP $36.40 USD
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| Players: 4+ | Age: 10+ | Time: 60+ Minutes |
Bomb Busters -Bomb Busters is a bit different than many other games we have been considering for selection. It is quite different than most and is referred to as a "cooperative deduction" game, ( a game where you work as a team working for a collective win rather than competing against each other. ) In Bomb Busters, your team works as a bomb squad, swiftly cutting wires until the bomb is defused.
This is the ultimate of a guessing game! Just imagine players mixing up 48 wires, with four each in values ranging from 1-12. Players attempt to cut all the wires by looking for pairs. If the active player has a 5, and thinks you have a 5, they just point to whichever wire they think is a 5 on your stand, and ask, “Is that a 5?” If you say yes, then both of you each reveal your tiles. If you say no, the bomb moves one step closer to avoiding an explosion.
There are some important points that need to be made. a) This game is NOT designed to be played with any less than 4 players, due to the fact that it is a cooperative deduction ( co-op game ). b) There are scad of other details, tools, and things majigs involved in this game but it would be impossible to cover all that in a concise manner. Let's just say if players on your team are good at making logical deductions, you will have an added edge in the gameplay. Rest assured this game will keep everyone fully enagged with plenty of excitement! |
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| Tip-Off Basketball |
SRP $39.99 USD
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| Players: 2 | Age: 6+ | Time: 15-20 Minutes |
Tip-Off Basketball - With Tip-Off Basketball, you can improve your hand-eye coordination, answer basketball trivia, and take on physical challenges, all while competing with family and friends. This game combines the thrill of basketball with engaging board game mechanics. In today’s fast-paced world, finding activities that the whole family can enjoy together can be challenging. This game provides a fun and engaging way for families to spend quality time together.
While it's important to hear the incredible feedback from the game players, what we found the most powerful was the dedication and drive that the creator of this game has. This is a game that no matter where it is played, it will bring people together, get them away from their cell phones and get them engaged with the challenge of the game. |
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| Ticket To Ride |
SRP $29.99 USD
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| Players: 2-5 | Age: 8+ | Time: 30-60 Minutes |
Ticket To Ride- Ticket to Ride is a popular, award-winning board game where players collect colored train car cards to claim railway routes connecting cities across a map (usually North America in the base game), aiming to complete secret Destination Tickets for points, balancing route claiming with drawing cards and fulfilling tickets, making it easy to learn but strategically deep for families and gamers.
First thing you will notice is how easy it is to setup the game and learn how to play it. Players quickly develop a connection with trains with the experience of connecting cities with trains. Nice visual peal with the board and game pieces and easy to learn to develop simply strategies to compete in a progressive manner with repetitive Play. |
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| Brass: Birmingham - an Economic Strategy Game |
SRP $79.99 USD
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| Players: 2-4 | Age: 14+ | Time: 60-140 Minutes |
Brass: Birmingham - an Economic Strategy Game - Explore a richly detailed economic strategy game for 2–4 players set in England’s Industrial Revolution. Build industries, trade resources, and expand your network through carefully planned decisions. Manage coal, iron, and beer as key resources driving your progress. Each choice affects the market, creating layers of tactical depth and engaging interaction among players.
It is important to remember that this is an excellent strategy game that is built on a progressive development curve of game play. It is especially useful in learning through repetitive Play, how to establish, build and grow a business, creating and developing a reliable network that requires quick thinking and careful planning. The game requires a serious level of attention and dedication to detail. The board itself is visually gratifying and works seamlessly with the playing pieces giving it a strong influence with the game.
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