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Art-Themed Board Games

Art-themed board games encompass a unique space where the world of gaming meets the aesthetic and historical aspects of art. These games often strive to integrate the creativity and context of the art world into engaging gameplay, while also providing educational value.

Characteristics

Visual Design: Artistic board games commonly boast high-quality visual components that reflect their theme, including board artwork, card illustrations, and player pieces.
Educational Value: Many art-themed games aim to teach players about art history, famous artworks, and renowned artists, often incorporating trivia or storytelling.
Engagement: The theme of art often encourages players to tap into their creative thinking and decision-making skills.
Game Mechanics: The core mechanics might include set collection, auctioning/bidding, pattern building, or creative puzzle-solving.

Notable Examples

The Gallerist: A deep strategic game that places players in the role of gallery owners, curating collections and promoting artists.
Vincent: A card-driven game where players collect sets of paintings from famous artist Vincent Van Gogh.
Modern Art: An auction-based game that requires players to buy and sell paintings, predicting market trends to maximize their profits.

These games often serve as a bridge between art enthusiasts and board game players, fostering a greater appreciation for the arts. As both a tool for entertainment and education, art-themed board games present a rewarding experience for a wide range of players.

Art themed games illustrated by Chris Quilliams

Junk Art (2018 Edition)

Azul: Crystal Mosaic Expansion

Azul Summer Pavilion - Glazed Pavilion Expansion

Azul - Stained Glass of Sintra

Azul: Queen's Garden

Azul - Summer Pavilion

Art themed Action Points games

Finish One Of Bob Ross’s Masterpieces Before He Does To Win “Chill” Status.Earn “chill points” by painting landscape features like Happy Little Trees and Almighty Mountains using colors and brushes from your hand of cards. Keep your eye on what other...

Trickerion is a competitive Euro-style strategy game set in a fictional city inspired by the late 19th century urban life and culture, where players take on the role of rival stage illusionists.Players strive to become the city’s greatest Magician by...

"Weather Machine" is a complex strategy game where players become scientists in a futuristic lab. The objective is to create a weather-controlling machine that can modify weather patterns beneficially, without causing inadvertent global issues. Gameplay...

Art themed Deck, Bag, and Pool Building games

For some, collecting fine art is a hobby. For a select few, it's a cutthroat world of buying, selling, and manipulating the market. Can you stay one step ahead of the other collectors and build the most valuable collection?Art Decko is an artistic new...

Show off your collection of avant-garde art! Each turn, play a sequence of cards from your hand matching colors or numbers. Attract unique patrons with the cards you play to activate special abilities. Earn awards to win this fast and fun deckbuilding...

Art themed games published by Sugorokuya

Art Robbery

Share the LootAfter the Art Robbery comes the distribution of the spoils. Keep your eyes on the prize while collecting enough alibis or be eliminated. Mechanisms:• Hand Management• Take That

mostly positive, 71%

Burglary and Heists

Hand Management

Art themed games published by Gém Klub Kft.

You are an art connoisseur trying to impress your peers by putting together the most fashionable art collection of them all!Bid on the hottest works of art, then arrange them on your drawing room wall into a tastefully curated gallery that's the envy...

For countless years, the Café de Paris has offered moments of carefree relaxation and a wonderful opportunity to pause and breathe amid a bustling city. Unfortunately, the café most close for emergency renovation.You have been asked to redesign the valuable...

Paint from a new perspective! In Canvas: Reflections, the artistic puzzle has a new layer - Mirror Cards! These reversible cards add deeper strategy, and also give you increased flexibility to string together combinations of Elements. Additionally, the...

From the mind behind the Turing Machine game comes a fresh deduction experience! Step into the role of an investigator like never before with Kronologic and explore the strange occurrences haunting the Paris Opera.Gather clues on the whereabouts of key...

Art themed games published by GateOnGames

In Canvas, you play as a painter competing in an art competition. Players will collect art cards, layering 3 of them together to create their own unique Painting. Each card contains a piece of artwork as well as a set of icons used during scoring. Icons...

The gallery is seeking new masterpieces! In Canvas: Finishing Touches, complete your works of art and show them off to the world with the new Frames! These Frames add a layer of interaction as players compete to have their work displayed on the gallery...

In Florenza, the players are the heads of the most powerful families in Florenza during the Renaissance period. The goal of the game is to become the most famous patron of the arts by hiring the most famous artists of the period and financing their ...

The grand Parisian painters’ studio, le Bateau-Lavoir in Montmartre, has declared a friendly competition to determine who will be the top painter, whose name could become as renowned as those of your illustrious predecessors: Cezanne, Monet, Renoir,...

Art themed Set Collection games

Starving Artists

Magnificent, The

Atelier - The Painter's Studio

Fresco Expansion - Modules 4, 5, and 6

Florenza - The Card Game

Chamber of Wonders

Sunset Over Water

Fresco (Revised Edition)

Mandala Stones - Harmony

Museum: People's Choice Expansion

Art themed Tile Placement games

Museum Rush is a competitive thieving game where players race against time to steal treasures from a museum while avoiding cameras, guards, and greedy rivals. Luckily, these dastardly robbers have an array of items to help them get the better of the...

Experience the golden age of the Renaissance from your lofty position in the Italian nobility! Use your resources to support builders, artists, and scholars in their creative pursuits. As a patron of great works, your generosity and diplomacy will elevate...

A New Moon, a new beginning...Nova Luna is a game for building connections. In every round of this tile-laying game, you must optimize your choice and plan for the future based on the dwindling supply of tiles available on the moon wheel. And with every...

Welcome to Noxford, a timeless city in perpetual construction that extends continuously following the rhythm of the gears that hold it. Each player leads a crime syndicate and relies on their lieutenants and henchmen to become the most influential around...

Painting and Art themed games

Art themed Modular Board games

Art themed Area Movement games

City Building and Art themed games

Florenza (2nd Edition)

In Florenza, the players are the heads of the most powerful families in Florenza during the Renaissance period. The goal of the game is to become the most famous patron of the arts by hiring the most famous artists of the period and financing their ...

Worker Placement

Art themed games published by Muduko

A.R.T. Project, The

In the A.R.T. Project, communication is key as players form an art rescue team working together to recover stolen works of art as they fight against “The White Hand,” an evil corporation that is responsible for these thefts around the globe.Contents...

mostly positive, 72%

Cooperative Game

Burglary and Heists

Card Play Conflict Resolution

Moving Multiple Units

Art themed games published by Reflexshop

1840: In Kanagawa, the great bay of Tokyo, the Master Hokusai decided to open a painting school to share his art with his disciples. You are one of these disciples, and more than anything, you want to prove yourself worthy of the “crazy, old artist”...

Formed and smoothed by the flow of a gentle river, and enchantingly pattered by human hands, Mandala Stones reflect tranquility and beauty! Together with your friends you must influence artists, positioning them cleverly on the board to collect colorful...

THE STUDIO IS HAUNTED!With this expansion, bring more choices and tension to Kanagawa! On top of new families of elements to add to the original (kites, paper lanterns, and parasols), three mischievous yokaï, Japanese demons, appear!They will be very...

Art themed games published by CrowD Games

The Gallerist: The Age of Art and Capitalism has created the need for a new occupation - The Gallerist. Blending the talents of an Art Dealer, Museum Curator, and Artists’ Manager, you are about to take on that job! You will promote and nurture artists...

As a skilled artisan, you will use tools-of-the-trade and careful planning to construct a stained glass window masterpiece in the Sagrada Familia.Players will take turns drafting glass pieces, represented by dice; carefully choosing where to place each...

Barrage is a resource management and strategic placement game in which players compete to build their majestic dams, raise them to increase their storing capacity of precious water, and deliver all the potential power through pressure tunnels connected...

Art themed Variable Set-up games

Art themed games illustrated by Nicholas Kory

The Fourth Darkness Has BegunThe shambling armies of Waiqar the Undying clash with the servants of Dragonlord Levirax, all while the Uthuk Y'llan horde spreads as if guided by an unseen hand. As Terrinoth threatens to collapse, it falls to our heroes...

Descent: Legends of the Dark – The Betrayer's War

Terrinoth is in peril. The demon-tainted Uthuk Y'llan barbarians stalk the realm and the undead servants of Waiqar the Undying venture beyond their borders for the first time in memory. The leaders of Terrinoth are divided and fractious, unable to unite...

Descent: Legends of the Dark

Art themed Push Your Luck games

Biblios Dice

God does not play dice, but his monks do! In this dice version of Biblios, players continue their quest to build the most prestigious scriptorium. The game is for 2-players and combines an interesting dice drafting mechanic with auctions and fluctuating...

Constrained Bidding

Art themed Team-Based Game

Before you is a painting to be made. To win the order, you'll have to be the one to add the final touch...If you don't have the right color, you can always ruin the painting! Mechanisms:• Bluffing• Hand Management 25 Masterpiece Cards 60 Touch of Color...

This voyage just got a lot more dangerous.In From the Abyss, a new expansion for Unfathomable, the SS Atlantica and its journey to Boston are submerged in even deeper peril. New, horrifying monsters emerge from the depths of the Atlantic Ocean to assail...

Horror on the High SeasThe steamship Atlantica makes way to Boston, but dark shadows trail the ship, staying just out of sight beneath the waves. Your fellow passengers seem unnaturally fixated, staring out to sea with a silent, desperate longing. Your...