What is a Rondel?
A rondel is a game mechanic where a circular or wheel-like chart is used to offer players a limited selection of actions they can take on their turn. Typically, a marker moves along the spaces of the rondel, and on a player's turn, they move their marker a few spaces forward and perform the action where they land.
Purpose of the Rondel
The purpose of the rondel is to:
- Introduce strategic planning: Players must anticipate future turns.
- Limit choices: Players can only pick actions ahead of their current position.
- Add constraints: The cost often increases for moving further on the rondel.
Games with Rondel Mechanics
Notable games that feature rondels include:
- Imperial: Players govern major powers and a rondel dictates the actions they can finance.
- Navigador: Players explore, colonize, and trade in the age of discovery, using a rondel to select actions.
Solo / Solitaire Game with Rondel
Rondel and Variable Player Powers games
Rondel and Worker Placement games
Strategy Game with Rondel
Rondel games published by Hobby World
In New York Zoo, you are constructing an animal park. Build animal encounters, introduce new animals and raise their offspring. The first player to cover all the construction spaces on their zoo board with Enclosure Tiles and Attractions wins the game...
New York Zoo
$39.95
$31.99
Before winter makes its appearance, a particularly warm fall bathes the forest in a golden shimmer. During the Indian Summer, New England blossoms one last time. Treetops are ablaze with countless colors — a living rainbow, from green to orange to red...
Indian Summer
$49.95
$35.00
Spies / Secret Agents themed games with Rondel
Watch
-40%
$49.95
$30.00
You have just started working at a Soviet watch factory that you’ve discovered used to be a World War II era munitions factory. You’ve been sent there to produce gears, which you can sell for money, but you also need those gears to disguise the munitions...
mixed, 64%
14 y/o +
1 to 4 players
60 minutes
Involved
Spies / Secret Agents
Rondel
Rondel games published by Skellig Games
Nautical themed games with Rondel
Rondel games designed by Scott Almes
Roman Empire themed games with Rondel
Rondel games designed by Rubén Hernández Santillán
Patzcuaro
-27%
$30.00
$21.99
Every November 2nd in a magical land called Mexico, families build wonderful monoliths decorated with stories and tradition. With their memories, meals and favorite objects altars are decorated in honor of the memory of their loved ones who rest in peace...
mostly positive, 76%
8 y/o +
2 to 4 players
25 minutes
Light
Card Game
Hand Management
Rondel
Set Collection
