Pattern Building is a board game mechanic where players create specific configurations or arrangements to meet objectives. It's crucial for strategic depth and player engagement.
Characteristics of Pattern Building:
- Objective: Players aim to construct patterns to score points or achieve goals.
- Player Interaction: May involve direct or indirect competition for space or components.
- Strategy: Involves planning, foresight, and sometimes tile drafting or hand management.
Common Games:
- Azul: Players draft tiles to create patterns on their board.
- Patchwork: Players select and place oddly shaped pieces on a personal grid.
- Sagrada: Players draft dice to create patterns on a stained glass window.
Solo / Solitaire Game with Pattern Building
Pattern Building and Set Collection games
Pattern Building games published by Devir Games
Pattern Building and Enclosure games
Pattern Building games published by White Goblin Games
Pattern Building games published by Giochi Uniti
Fantasy themed games with Pattern Building
Pattern Building and Scenario / Mission / Campaign Game games

Tamashii, a cyberpunk adventure board game, immerses players in a post-apocalyptic world where survival and achieving objectives require navigating both a physical realm filled with merciless humans and a virtual world plagued by vicious viruses. In...
Tamashii - Chronicle of Ascend
$137.95
$62.00

Tumble Town is a town and engine building spatial puzzle game for 1-4 players that plays in about 45 minutes. Each building you construct gives you either dice manipulation, engine building, a one time bonus, or end game scoring conditions.
Tumble Town
$38.00
$32.00
Pattern Building games published by Hobby Japan
Pattern Building games published by Boardcubator
Pattern Building games published by Origames
Pattern Building games published by Maldito Games
Pattern Building games published by (Self-Published)

Agueda: City of Umbrellas
-28%
$49.99
$35.99
Decorate the city streets of Ćgueda with colorful umbrellas in this quick-playing family game.As an artist, you will need to balance the requests of the city, shops, and tourists to create the most stunning arrangement of umbrellas. 1. Place umbrellas...
mixed, 68%
10 y/o +
1 to 5 players
20 to 40 minutes
Light
Card Game
Pattern Building
Tile Placement
Worker Placement
Pattern Building games published by Hexy Studio

Star Scrappers - Orbital
-60%
$34.95
$14.00
Star Scrappers: Orbital by Jacob Fryxelius, the designer of Terraforming Mars, is based on his Space Station card game, which has been mechanically streamlined, updated and re-themed to fit the Star Scrappers universe - a space western setting created...
mixed, 59%
10 y/o +
1 to 5 players
60 minutes
Relaxed
Card Game
Science Fiction
Space
Hand Management
Pattern Building
Worker Placement
Pattern Building and Drawing games

Knock, Knock, Knocking . . . for Better ScoresIn this exciting card game, whoever as the least, has the most! Each player must arrange and share their cards, all while keeping an eye on their opponents'.The goal: have the least points possible. Enjoy...
Allegra
$14.99
$11.99

How do you fit all that "stuff" in your head? How do you organize it in a fun and fulfilling way, without it being stressful? The dice (much like life) are going to throw things at you, but you arrange your pursuits and priorities (polyominos) in your...
Mind Space
$32.23
$17.95
Pattern Building games developed by Jamie Perkins

Devil May Cry - Bloody Palace
$88.95
Style counts for everything in this fast-paced hack ānā slash board game for 1-4 players. Take control of an iconic Devil Hunter ā Dante, Nero, Trish, or V ā and build impressive attack combos as you face down waves of increasingly powerful monsters...
mostly positive, 77%
14 y/o +
1 to 4 players
60 minutes
Relaxed
Strategy Game
Horror
Video Game Theme
Pattern Building
Push Your Luck
Pattern Building games published by Tranjis Games

Spectacular
-80%
$150.00
$29.95
In Spectacular, you are creating and developing your own animal park for vulnerable species. In order to preserve the species, you must ensure breeding within each habitat.During the game, you select animal tiles and dice, where the dice represent food...
mostly positive, 72%
10 y/o +
3 to 7 players
120 minutes
Relaxed
Dice Game
Animals
Environmental
Dice Rolling
Hexagon Grid
Open Drafting
Pattern Building