Print and play games are a perfect cost-effective way to add board games to your collection check out this extensive list of free games to get you started.

What are Print and Play Games?

A Print & Play versions of a game is a game that is not published in a physical form. Instead, the rules and components are available in a digital format, and players are able to then print them off at there home or at a print shop and assemble them themselves.

Using tools like binding spray to make cards, corner rounders to round cardboard, laminators and guillotines Often, some additional, non-printable components are required as well like dice and wooden cubes and meeples but can be purchased from Amazon or other sites for cheap. (Amazon links included on the names of the products to get you started and help you support this page)

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101 Free Print and Play Games

Please note: You will need to click on the title of the game to download the files.

  1. KILL DOCTOR LUCKY
    The first Cheapass Games title, published in 1996. You and your fellow players are bloodthirsty killers on a quest to murder an old man in his house.
  2. BEFORE I KILL YOU, MISTER SPY…
    You’re a supervillain! Capture hapless spies in your secret lair, and then either kill them right away so they don’t escape or taunt them first for extra points.
  3. BEN HVRT
    You’re an aristocrat in Ancient Rome with a hundred Ducats burning a hole in your pocket, and you’re going to gamble them on chariot races—including your own chariot, outfitted with deadly weapons.
  4. BLEEDING SHERWOOD
    You’re a traveling salesman, following Robin Hood through Sherwood Forest. He gives money to the poor, and then you sell them a bunch of expensive crap they don’t need.
  5. SPREE!
    You’re useless teenagers looting a shopping mall in the middle of the night. Like ya do. Lovingly illustrated by Phil Foglio.
  6. GET OUT
    You’re a listless teenager living in your parents’ basement. Your goal is to get a job, get an apartment, and perhaps even get a life.
  7. HUZZAH!
    You’re a performer at Ye Merrie King James Faire, determined to entertain the crowds better than everyone else, so you can keep your job. There’s only one catch: The faire director hates everything the audience likes.
  8. NEXUS
    A simple puzzle game, with cards depicting various collections of nodes and connecting lines. Players take turns playing cards and capturing nodes, trying to control the most valuable nexuses.
  9. THE VERY CLEVER PIPE GAME
    One of James Ernest’s only pure abstract games. Create enclosed sets of your pipe color and score the cards in that section.
  10. GIVE ME THE BRAIN
    You and your colleagues are zombies working at a fast food restaurant, and you have only one brain to pass around.
  11. LORD OF THE FRIES
    It’s pretty hard to get anything done around here, since everyone is dead. But don’t let that worry you. As strange as it sounds, the dead can still assemble combo meals.
  12. PARTS UNKNOWN
    Ever wonder what it was like to manage a body parts retail store in the age of mad science? Of course not! But it was probably exactly like this.
  13. DEVIL BUNNY BUNNANZA
    A hostile bunny, saltwater taffy, and falling off skyscrapers for the sake of a ham. Includes Devil Bunny Needs a Ham and Devil Bunny Hates the Earth.
  14. RENFIELD
    Mmm, Bugs. You can’t eat just one. We suspect the gravediggers from Parts Unknownplay this game from dawn to dusk.
  15. THE BIG CHEESE
    You’re all managers at a huge company of rats. Your goal is complete projects by assigning your people to them, but the more people you assign, the longer the projects take. Just like in real life.
  16. FIGHT CITY
    Story? What story? It’s a city, and they fight. Inspired by the early trading card games, Fight City is a fast-playing card game with the potential for endless variety in deck construction.
  17. ESCAPE FROM ELBA
    You’re Napoleon, and so is everybody else, in this escape-themed board game where you build words out of trash.
  18. SAVE DOCTOR LUCKY
    It’s a cold night in the North Atlantic. The ship they called “Unsinkable” is going down by the head. And you and your despicable friends want to go down in history by being seen saving Doctor Lucky
  19. THE GREAT BRAIN ROBBERY
    A cadre of wild zombies have decided to rob a train full of brains. It took them a while to figure out that any train filled with passengers is also a train full of brains. But now here we are.
  20. AGORA
    Agora is the Greek word for marketplace. It’s what you’re afraid of when you have agoraphobia.
  21. THE DOCTOR LUCKY AMBIVALENCE PACK
    Suppose you have a Doctor Lucky, and you can’t decide whether to kill him or to save him. The Doctor Lucky Ambivalence Pack contains an expansion board for either option.
  22. WITCH TRIAL
    Do your best to persuade an unpredictable jury in dozens of hard cases. Of course, it doesn’t really matter who lives and who dies; like everything else, it’s all about the money.
  23. UNEXPLODED COW
    Two problems with a common solution: Mad cows from England and unexploded bombs in France.
  24. U.S. PATENT NO. 1
    You’re all scientists who have invented time travel, each from a different point in history. But it really doesn’t matter when you started, because now you’re all racing to the day the patent office opens, July 30, 1790, to secure US Patent No. 1.
  25. CAPTAIN PARK’S IMAGINARY POLAR EXPEDITION
    Adventure! Excitement! These are the things about which you’ll be lying through your teeth, in this non-daring romp that never sets foot outside London.
  26. FREELOADER
    The best things in life are other people’s things. Freeloader is a game about mooching off others. Wander the streets trying to “borrow” food, clothing, and shelter, and maybe score a few points with the finer things.
  27. ONE FALSE STEP FOR MANKIND
    It’s the California Gold Rush, and your little corner of the world is so rich that you’ve decided to engage in a race to the Moon! What good is being rich if you can’t launch a few poorly-made moon rockets?
  28. JACOB MARLEY, ESQ.
    Long before Scrooge and Marley became the best of friends, young Jacob Marley ran an efficient little money lending firm in the heart of Dickensian London. The second best banking game you will ever play.
  29. SECRET TIJUANA DEATHMATCH
    You’re a wrestling promoter, luring bankrupt American businessmen into back-alley fights south of the border. You’ll pay your marks a million dollars if they win five fights, so your hope is that they only win four.
  30. ENEMY CHOCOLATIER
    You’re a disgruntled employee of the world’s most famous chocolate maker. You will take your secret family recipe, escape, and start your own factory as soon as you collect enough chocolate, sugar, nuts, and love.
  31. CHIEF HERMAN
    Enjoy Chief Herman’s Holiday Fun Pack and Chief Herman’s Next Big Thing, two packs of over two dozen games each!
  32. Ninjitsu is a card game for 2-5 sneaky ninjas, suitable for players of all ages. A stand-alone sequel to the hit game Scuttle!, this game of devious bluffing and subterfuge will keep the whole family entertained for hours.
  33. BURGER UP Burger Up is a fantastic card matching puzzle game focused around the art of burger making. Published by Australian based publisher Rule & Make and designed by Allen, Alister, Matt & Stephen.
  34. MINT WORKS Mint Works is a light and straightforward worker placement game. Its compact size makes it easy to put in your pocket and take it anywhere. Its simple rules make it easy to introduce new players to the genre of worker placement.
  35. MINT DELIVERY Mint Delivery is a mint tin-sized, a pick-up-and-deliver board game designed to be quick-to-play and easy-to-learn.
  36. MINT COOPERATIVE The “big game in a tiny tin” Mint Series continues with Mint Cooperative, a co-op game that fits in a mint tin!
  37. RUSTY INDUSTRY The Industrial King wants Rusty Kingdom to be the economic supremacy of the World! He invented a grading system to increase competition between ventures in Rusty Kingdom. The venture that scores the highest mark will get a heavy bag of shiny gold coins.
  38. Welcome to Dino World Build and manage your own dinosaur park in this strategic roll and write game for 1 or more players. Roll dice, draw pens and try not to let any dinosaurs escape!
  39. Utopia Engine Utopia Engine is a free print-and-play dice game for one player. … You must recover the machine’s six parts from six dangerous regions and assemble the Utopia Engine before the world ends
  40. Torpedo Dice In this interactive roll-and-write game, players draft dice and shoot torpedoes at their enemy submarine
  41. Doctor Who: Solitaire Story Game (Second edition) A solitaire paragraph-booklet adventure game where the player assumes the role of the intrepid Time Lord himself – the Doctor!
  42. Pin-up Rummy In Pin-up Rummy, you are a vintage pin-up painting collector, and you want to have the very best collection that no one ever had.
  43. Paiko A 2 player strategy game designed to encourage changing tactics and dynamic strategy to adapt to the other players moves. Perfect information.
  44. 1849: The Game of Sicilian Railways A deep 18XX. All material in the files section.
  45. ROOT Root is an asymmetric game of adventure and war for 2-4 players.
  46. Valor & Victory This is very much “Squad Leader Lite”, and I mean that in a positive way. Lots of WWII squad-level fighting without all the cruft that a certain Advanced game 
  47. Secret Hitler The “official” PnP is B/W only, however, if you look around there are other versions floating around.
  48. Rainbow Deck If you are interested in short filler card or board games, or portable boardgames to bring along on travel trips, then the Rainbow Deck is for you! It is basically a 100-games-in-1 cardgame system.
  49. VAST The latest Print and Play files for Vast: The Crystal Caverns second printing are available
  50. Bloc by Bloc: The Insurrection Game In Bloc by Bloc: The Insurrection Game, each player controls a faction of revolutionaries
  51. Mint Control  is designed to provide a small footprint introduction experience to the Area Control and Action Selection genres of gaming that is fun and rewarding to play even for seasoned gamers.
  52. Two Rooms and a Boom In this social game of hidden roles and deduction, players are divided into 2 different rooms.
  53. Funemployed   is the crazy party game where each player is handed four random Qualification Cards to “build their resume.”
  54. Dice Throne  is a game of intriguing dice, tactical card play, powerful heroes, and unique abilities.
  55. Unfair Build the city’s greatest theme park, whatever it takes! Mix your favourite themes, from Pirate, Robot, Vampire, Jungle, Ninja, and Gangster.
  56. Herding Cats with Goblins is a quick and chaotic arena-based card game designed for Concrete Canoes’ and The Game Crafters’ “Hook box challenge”.
  57. Draculas Feast is a Free Print & Play logical deduction game for 4-8 players. Suitable for ages 10 and up, it plays in 10-15 minutes.
  58. Lady and The Tiger The Lady and the Tiger is a Board Game with a Twist with five different games in one!
  59. Evolution  is an awesome card-driven strategy game that has a couple of Print and Play releases for you and your friends to try out.
  60. MONIKERS  is a Dumb Party Game that Respects your Intelligence Where, Players have 60 seconds to get their team to guess as many names as possible from the deck by giving clues about the person’s identity.
  61. Brexit The Team from bad hipster has released the most intriguing board game themed around Brexit
  62. Unlock Asmodee has released Five Free Escape Games for Players to Print and Play these free Escape games are called 5th Avenue, The Elite, Doo-Arans dungeon, Temple of Ra & A Tutorial game.
  63. Karmaka a competitive card game that plays out over multiple lives available for you to Print & Play.
  64. Mottainai  a successor in the Glory to Rome line, you use your cards for many purposes as you try not waste time
  65. Agent Decker is a mission-based deck-building game for one player in which you acquire gear and skills by facing obstacles
  66. Bohnanza The object of the game to make coins by planting fields (sets) of these bean cards Heiko’s (not very) secret redesign addiction version check it out here 
  67. RoboDerby:Express This game seeks to be a slimmed-down PnP version of RoboRally, craftable with a small set of sticker dice and playable with 2 players in under 45 minutes.
  68. Puerto Rico  This is a Heiko’s (not very) secret redesign addiction version check it out here 
  69. Soft Landing Heiko’s (not very) secret redesign addiction version is a trade and resource management game, but the trick is, different players are going to be trying to end the game different ways
  70. Tiny Epic Western   This is a tiny game of Poker meets a worker-placement Board Game
  71. Tiny Epic Zombies Fast-paced, portable, and tons of replayability. Play as the survivors or the Zombies
  72. Tiny Epic Galaxies Beyond the Black Players have access to four new ships that they can upgrade their original ships to. To do this, they will need to hire specialized pilots.
  73. Rolling Seas Draw islands and known obstacles and choose a Home Port and set sail in this pirate-themed PnP
  74. Tortuga 1667 is a pirate game of mutiny, plunder, & deceit for 2-9 players.
  75. Squire for Hire Squire for Hire is a tile-based inventory management game for 1-2 players that takes about 20 min to learn and play.
  76. Shaolia: Warring States is a board game filled with deadly strategy, where you’ll grow your kingdom with countless possibilities
  77. Good Little Martian Good Little Martian is a cooperative survival game for 2 players (it can also be played solo)
  78. Good Little Gardens Good Little Gardens is a light drafting and tableau-building game for up to 5 players
  79. Tiny Epic Quest Players embark on a sandbox adventure. Each player controls a band of three elf heroes questing to save the world and the sacred mushroom folk from the intruding goblins
  80. Tiny Epic Dinosaurs Tiny Epic Dinosaurs is a 45 minute, 1-4 player game of dinosaur ranching, worker-placement and resource management.
  81. The Harbinger Project The Harbinger Project is a solitaire game using two 8-sided dice and two printed playsheets.
  82. Orchard  is a quick solitaire ’tile laying’ game that plays in under 10 minutes.
  83. Crystallo Crystallo is played with a deck of 54 illustrated cards and 18 gems, and runs about 20-30 minutes.
  84. Grazing Sheep A number of sheep (and four-leaf clover) are randomly placed in a field. Your task is to help the sheep eat as much grass as they can to keep them happy.
  85. Carbon City Zero Carbon City Zero is a deck-building game for 2-4 players, in which players develop a sustainable city
  86. The Artemis Project  is a dice (dis)placement and engine building game that has you fighting the planet as well as the other players.
  87. WARLINE: Tactical Fantasy Battles is a sandbox game of detailed maneuver warfare.
  88. Good Little Ninjas. In Good Little Ninjas, players become inhabitants of medieval Japan. 
  89. Sengoku: The Warring States The Warring States, players take the role of powerful Shoguns caught up in the infighting and power struggles of the Sengoku period
  90. Dungeon Ball This is a Kickstarter preview for Dungeon Ball. Download the print and play files to try out the game.
  91.  Guildhaven Cards You are a superhero during the Golden Age of comics called into action after the death of your family.
  92. Maquis You are a member of the Resistance, a small band of freedom fighters attempting to dismantle the Nazi Occupation
  93. Chain Mail: Base Game. Chain Mail is a 1-4 player, print and play adventure game that starts out with just a small handful of cards and a map, and grows with monthly expansions.
  94. World Championship Russian Roulette In this press-your-luck bluffing game of simultaneous play where no player has to wait for their turn, you play the part of a captain of a Russian Roulette team
  95. Do Not Forsake Me, Oh My Darling This is a solo game of high adventure in space using only 18 cards and no other components. Rules are included within the 18 card format.
  96. Under Falling Skies A 9-Card Print-and-Play Game was designed for the 2019 9-Card Nanogame P&P Design Contest.
  97. Pocket Landship is a solo 9 card wargame set in a World War I-ish world. Command a landship (the original British term for tanks) to clear a sector of enemy infantry, artillery, and landships.
  98. Deep Space:D6. The original print and play files for Deep Space D-6 as entered into the Solitaire PnP Contest 2015, and made available on the Kickstarter.
  99. One deck Galaxy One deck dungeon creators release one deck galaxy beta files!
  100. luzhanqi In this Chinese game, two opponents will lead armies to try and capture each other’s flag.
  101. Escape of the Dead Minigame Escape of the Dead is a solo game. In the game you are trying to fix the car while trying to defend yourself against hordes of zombies.
  102. Black Sonata is a solo hidden movement and deduction game. The design is very clever. I highly recommend this game. It is a bit confusing to learn but very satisfying.

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