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.
Pattern Building and Dexterity games
Pattern Building and Area Majority / Influence games
Pattern Building and Deck, Bag, and Pool Building games
Pattern Building games published by White Goblin Games
Pattern Building games illustrated by Stephen Kerr
In the dark corners of Kulbak Prison, away from the prying eyes of the construct guards, inmates play a game of Goblin Vaults in secret. . .Goblin Vaults is a strategy card game for 1-5 players featuring bidding, card placement, and scoring patterns....
Goblin Vaults
$24.99
$17.00
As a student of dungeon-crafting, you must carve your own perilous labyrinth into the base of the Stonespine Mountains. 1. Draft chamber cards to expand your dungeon 2. Arrange cards carefully to accomplish scoring goals 3. Map a path through traps and...
Stonespine Architects
$44.95
$31.99
Pattern Building and Pattern Recognition games
Pattern Building games published by Hobby Japan
Pattern Building games illustrated by Pavel Richter
Pattern Building games illustrated by Sarah Lafser
Dive deep to build your own ecological network in Ecosystem: Coral Reef, a card-drafting game of marine competition. Players choose, pass, and arrange cards representing a diversity of organisms found in the Great Barrier Reef, including coral, clownfish...
Ecosystem: Coral Reef
$10.90
Be on the prowl in Ecosystem: Savanna, a Serengeti-inspired card-drafting game. Players choose, pass, and arrange cards representing a diversity of organisms found in an African grassland, including zebras, elephants, cheetahs, and lions. Earn points...
Ecosystem: Savanna
$16.99
Pattern Building and Square Grid games
Pattern Building games published by Magellan
Pattern Building games designed by Kevin Russ
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
$49.95
These are the special double-sided promo cat scoring tile and four additional cat tokens from the Kickstarter! These cats add 'largest pattern group' and 'longest pattern line' scoring options, giving you more ways to play!
Calico - Kickstarter Promo Cats
$25.00
Pattern Building games edited by Michael S. Lee
The Black Plague and Hussite Wars have overcrowded the graveyard. Help the Bone Collector, a half-blind monk, by exhuming graves and arranging the skulls inside the crypt.You are novice monks, competing to create the best arrangement of skulls. Dig ...
Skulls of Sedlec
$22.00
$10.00
You are novice monks, competing to create the best arrangement of skulls. Dig up graves from the graveyard to reveal cards, take cards into your hand to collect skulls, and arrange the cards from your hand into a stack. Whoever better honors the deceased...
Skulls of Sedlec - Crown of Bones Expansion
$10.00
Abstract Game with Pattern Building
Sewing / Knitting / Cloth-Making themed games with Pattern Building
Space themed games with Pattern Building
Anime / Manga themed games with Pattern Building
Assume the role of one of Earth's most powerful Heroines as you settle their disputes with each other through excessive firepower! Use your actions to form patterns, clear your board of bullets, and assault the opponent! Keep up dealing with the curtain...
Bullet Heart
$39.99
$31.99
Assume the role of the universes' most powerful heroines as you settle their disputes with excessive firepower! Use actions to form patterns, clear bullets from your sight, and bombard the opponent! Deal with the curtain of bullets coming at you each...
Bullet Star
$39.99
$22.00
Strategy Game with Pattern Building
Pattern Building and Network and Route Building games
Play as Mika the Mole, a furry adventurer with a love for treasure and juicy worms in this flip & write board game. Strategically tunnel across flower-filled meadows by rotating, and flipping tunnel tiles to expand your molehill home. Make connections...
Molehill Meadows
$0.00
Sol is a race against time, carefully balanced with a fresh engine-building mechanic uniquely rooted in mutual benefit and competition. Each game of Sol begins as an open starscape, ripe for emerging interdependent networks and careful planning at every...
Sol - Last Days of a Star
$95.00
Pattern Building games designed by Nate Jenne
Finest Fish, The
$44.95
The Finest FishFishkeeping is a competitive hobby! Every fish owner wants to wind the coveted Best in Show award at the national goldfish competition. But, to have the most attractive pet you’ll need to carefully plan its colors and design patterns ...
mostly positive, 76%
8 y/o +
2 to 4 players
30 minutes
Light
Family Game
Animals
Pattern Building
Set Collection
Tile Placement