- BGG rank
- BGG #14,809
- BGG rating
- 7.3
Age of Muskets Volume I: Tomb for an Empire
2–6 players20–6000 min2008
Complexity 3.9/5
Best board games for 5 players
Find standalone games recommended for 5 players, with rules assistance and available scenario narration. Selection follows the BoardGameGeek community player-count poll; order follows overall BoardGameGeek rank.
9,154 games
Ranked games appear first, followed by games without a BGG rank.
Games
- BGG rank
- BGG #14,810
- BGG rating
- 6.2
Capital City
3–6 players30–50 min2017
Complexity 2.0/5
- BGG rank
- BGG #14,814
- BGG rating
- 6.7
Dice Cup
2–6 players15–20 min2022
Complexity 1.4/5
- BGG rank
- BGG #14,824
- BGG rating
- 6.5
Traffic Jam
3–8 players10–20 min2019
Complexity 1.4/5
- BGG rank
- BGG #14,827
- BGG rating
- 7.0
Waroong Wars (Second Edition)
3–5 players30–45 min2018
Complexity 1.3/5
- BGG rank
- BGG #14,832
- BGG rating
- 6.5
Mouton Mouton
3–9 players20 min2025
Complexity 1.0/5
- BGG rank
- BGG #14,835
- BGG rating
- 6.5
Orconomics (Second Edition)
2–5 players25–40 min2022
Complexity 2.2/5
- BGG rank
- BGG #14,840
- BGG rating
- 6.3
Kezao
2–6 players20–30 min2020
Complexity 1.0/5
- BGG rank
- BGG #14,848
- BGG rating
- 6.8
Absolute Balderdash
4–99 players2007
- BGG rank
- BGG #14,853
- BGG rating
- 5.9
Whitewater
2–6 players45–60 min2012
Complexity 1.5/5
- BGG rank
- BGG #14,861
- BGG rating
- 6.3
Spinner
2–8 players30 min1983
Complexity 2.9/5
- BGG rank
- BGG #14,865
- BGG rating
- 6.2
Pigasus
2–8 players20 min2019
Complexity 1.0/5
- BGG rank
- BGG #14,867
- BGG rating
- 5.9
Maus au Chocolat
2–6 players30 min2009
Complexity 1.3/5
- BGG rank
- BGG #14,871
- BGG rating
- 6.6
Task Team
3–18 players20 min2024
Complexity 1.0/5
- BGG rank
- BGG #14,874
- BGG rating
- 6.9
Salami
3–6 players15–60 min2025
Complexity 1.0/5
- BGG rank
- BGG #14,878
- BGG rating
- 6.8
Brute Force: The War in the West, 1940-1945
1–6 players360 min2003
Complexity 3.1/5
- BGG rank
- BGG #14,881
- BGG rating
- 6.2
Z3BRA
2–5 players20 min2023
Complexity 1.0/5
- BGG rank
- BGG #14,885
- BGG rating
- 6.2
Ohio
2–5 players30 min1998
Complexity 1.6/5
- BGG rank
- BGG #14,888
- BGG rating
- 7.1
Story Box: Adventures
2–8 players10–20 min2024
Complexity 1.5/5
- BGG rank
- BGG #14,897
- BGG rating
- 8.2
The von Reisswitz Kriegsspiel: The Prussian Army Wargame
2–99 players300 min1824
Complexity 3.7/5
- BGG rank
- BGG #14,898
- BGG rating
- 7.3
Nuevo Mundo
2–5 players90 min2014
Complexity 2.2/5
- BGG rank
- BGG #14,899
- BGG rating
- 6.5
Open Ocean
1–5 players20–30 min2020
Complexity 1.3/5
- BGG rank
- BGG #14,902
- BGG rating
- 6.9
Rolling Empires
2–6 players60–120 min2017
Complexity 3.0/5
- BGG rank
- BGG #14,912
- BGG rating
- 7.5
Twilight Sparkle's Secret Shipfic Folder
2–5 players30 min2014
Complexity 1.7/5
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