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Pax Penning(2024)
Games like Pax Penning
Looking for games like Pax Penning? It strips theme away to leave a clean contest of position and tempo — built on deals, bluffs, and shifting alliances around the table and picking moves from a shared, ever-shifting pool of options. 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.
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SuperGang(1985)
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Churchill(2015)
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Wars of Religion, France 1562-1598(2022)
Shares Alliances + 2 more
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Discordia(2022)
Shares Action Drafting + 1 more
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Motor City(2023)
Shares Action Drafting + 1 more
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Castellans(2024)
Shares Action Drafting + 1 more
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Nova Era(2025)
Shares Action Drafting + 1 more
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Colosseum(2007)
Shares Dice Rolling + 1 more
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Age of Rail: South Africa(2011)
Shares Action Drafting + 1 more
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Kingmaker(2023)
Shares Alliances + 1 more
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Principes(2026)
Shares Alliances + 2 more
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Relic(2013)
Shares Dice Rolling + 1 more
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