Guards! Guards! A Discworld Boardgame(2011)
Games like Guards! Guards! A Discworld Boardgame
Looking for games like Guards! Guards! A Discworld Boardgame? It's a strategy game with real decisions on every turn — built on the constant fight to control more of the board than your rivals and pushing your luck against the roll. This page rounds up 12 of the closest alternatives, scored on mechanical overlap with the original (45%), complexity match (35%), and player-count fit (20%), then weighted by BoardGameGeek community ratings so every pick is one players genuinely rate. The strongest matches come first; the further down you go, the more a game trades exact overlap for a fresh take on the same core appeal.
12 recommendations · scored by ISO
Byzantio(2013)
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Leningrad '41(2017)
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Risk: Star Wars – Original Trilogy Edition(2006)
Shares Area Majority / Influence + 3 more
Dixie: Shiloh(1994)
Shares Area Majority / Influence + 3 more
Holdfast: Pacific 1941-45(2017)
Shares Area Majority / Influence + 3 more
Swords & Sails(2019)
Shares Area Majority / Influence + 3 more
Small World Underground(2011)
Shares Area Majority / Influence + 2 more
Deadlands: The Battle for Slaughter Gulch(2009)
Shares Area Movement + 3 more
Time War: A Game of Time Travel and Conflict(1979)
Shares Area Movement + 3 more
Ikusa(1986)
Shares Area Majority / Influence + 3 more
Richard III: The Wars of the Roses(2009)
Shares Area Movement + 3 more
Edgar & Lucien(2017)
Shares Area Majority / Influence + 2 more
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