Tabletop games like Ticket to Ride aren't for everyone; they're not even for everyone who loves tabletop games! This is because games like Ticket to Ride are strategy-heavy and require a lot more thinking than most card games or even video games. However, these games can offer plenty of wiggle room for creativity and blazing your own path to victory in a way other games might not.

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For those who like the mental exercise Ticket to Ride and games like it require, here's a list of ten more road-building tabletop games for you to enjoy.

10 Carcassonne

Carcassonne is a popular tabletop game for anyone who prefers strategy games over games of chance or luck. Since its publication in 2000, Carcassonne has gained steady popularity. It's named after a real-life medieval town in France famous for its fortified walls, and various tiles in the game feature cities with similar walls.

The object of the game is to build the longest roads and biggest cities. At the game's end, which occurs when all the tiles have been drawn, players count up points for their roads, cities, cloisters, and each completed city bordering fields throughout the map.

9 Risk

Risk isn't just a game of strategy, it is a game of diplomacy. Built for two to six players, this game gives players the chance to rule their own portions of a world map divided by political boundaries. The goal is to occupy every region on the board, which often means eliminating other players standing in your way.

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Like Ticket to Ride, a match can be lengthy, though Risk can take up to a few days depending on how players want to approach gameplay. European versions offer secret missions for players to complete as well.

8 Acquire

Acquire is kind of like Risk for people who are more interested in real estate than conquering the world. You also have the chance to work with fellow players rather than forcing them out of areas they already occupy, so it's perfect for those who aren't that competitive.

Acquire has been around since the sixties, so the hotel architecture and game design itself are both pretty mid-century, but the game is so timeless that it's the only 3M bookshelf game series still published in the U.S.

7 Settlers of Catan

Settlers of Catan is one of the most well-known strategy tabletop games in the industry, and for good reason. It's an easy enough game to set up and learn, and it is just so satisfying to lay down the cards, acquired by carefully managing settlements and resources, to build that road or city you've been saving up for.

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The object of the game is to reach ten victory points first, which happens by building enough roads, settlements, boats, and cities, or by the use of specialized cards.

6 Azul

Unlike a lot of the games on this list, Azul is still very new. It was published in 2017 and is a bit more abstract than some of the other games seen here.

As the goal is to be the first to fill an entire row with tiles, Azul is somewhat similar to Tic-tac-toe or Connect Four. That said, Azul still belongs on this list because it does take some strategy and may require blocking or denying other players the tiles they need to complete their own boards.

5 Pandemic

Pandemic is a more cooperative game than some of the others on this list, and the topic centers around saving the world rather than conquering it. Two to four players play as six different possible specialists to discover all four cures for four diseases before the game ends.

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Even though the players work together rather than against each other, Pandemic still requires plenty of strategizing. Players use cards to take their turns, during which they can make a variety of choices that affect the outcome of the match.

4 Axis & Allies

There are a variety of versions under the Axis & Allies brand, but all of them revolve around the same general idea: World War II strategy gaming. It's a very successful game that was inducted into the Adventure Gaming Hall of Fame, and for good reason.

Axis & Allies is easy to play and each side of the war has an equal chance of winning, which makes it good for those who are competitive or laidback. Players employ strategies to complete their list of objectives before other players.

3 Survive: Escape from Atlantis!

Anyone who played this game before 1986 might know it better as Survive! The objective is to escape the fictitious city of Atlantis before it sinks into the ocean, and this can be accomplished in a variety of ways (swimming, walking, boating, or riding helpful dolphins), all of which require some strategy.

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Each turn has three phases for the players to complete: Moving, sinking, and spinning. The game ends when all players have reached coral islands, all the players have died, or the volcano piece is flipped over.

2 Scythe

Scythe is like Risk for steampunk fans who want to take over an alternate-history 1920s Europe rather than a modern version of today's political world. It's a game you can even play on your own - or with up to four other people- and the goals are to produce resources, build economies, and use giant war machines called mechs to defeat enemies and control territory.

Scythe brings a little more punk rock to the typical road-building tabletop game, and it's perfect for people who don't necessarily want to play a board game with other people.

1 Roads & Boats

Roads & Boats is a bit of a commodity, unlike the rest of the popular and well-known games on this list. While a great network/road-building game, Roads & Boats is actually quite rare and, consequently, expensive.

The purpose of the game is to earn more wealth points than enemy players, which is accomplished by acquiring gold, coins, and stock bonds. Everything acquired sits on the transports, so there is a lot of player interaction, as the competitors are constantly trying to stop each other from gaining wealth points while trying to gain some of their own.

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