2004 in games

This page lists board and card games, wargames, miniature games, and tabletop role-playing games published in 2004. For video games, see 2004 in video gaming.

Games released or invented in 2004

• A/state
• Allegiance: War of Factions
• Axis & Allies (fourth edition, originally released in 1984)
• Axis & Allies: D-Day
• Babylon 5:A Call to Arms
• Battlestations
• Beer Money
• Betrayal at House on the Hill
• Blue Moon
• Boomtown
• BuyWord
• Call of Cthulhu Collectible Card Game
• Candamir: The First Settlers
• Carcassonne: The City
• Castles & Crusades (role-playing game)
• Chez Goth
• d20 Future (role-playing game supplement)
• D6 Space (role-playing game)
• Dark Champions (role-playing game)
• Destination London
• Digimon card game
• Dogs in the Vineyard (role-playing game)
• Doom: The Boardgame
• Dragonball GT Trading Card Game
• Duel Masters Trading Card Game
• Dungeon Twister
• Ex Machina (role-playing game)
• Familienbande
• Friedrich
• Gettysburg
• Great War at Sea: Cruiser Warfare
• Great Wat at Sea: Dreadnoughts
• Ingenious
• InuYasha Trading Card Game
• Jambo
• Landslide
• Mechamorphosis (role-playing game)
• Memoir '44
• Memoir '44 - Overlord
• Monastyr (role-playing game)
• Niagara
• Omlevex (role-playing game supplement)
• Panzer Grenadier: Beyond Normandy
• Panzer Grenadier: Desert Rats
• Panzer Grenadier: Jungle Fighting
• Piranha Pedro
• Pirates of the Spanish Main
• Power Grid
• Reef Encounter
• Risk Godstorm
• Russian Rails
• Saint Petersburg
• San Juan (a card game based upon the board game Puerto Rico)
• The Shadow of Yesterday (role-playing game)
• Star Wars Miniatures
• Super Scrabble
• Swipe
• Third Reich/Great Pacific War Player's Guide
• Tibet: The Roleplaying Game
• Ticket to Ride
• War of the Ring
• WARS Trading Card Game
• Wings of War

Game awards given in 2004

• Gamer's Choice Award (Origins Awards): Babylon 5: A Call to Arms
• International Gamers Award: Memoir '44
• Schweizer Spielepreis: Ingenious
• Spiel des Jahres: Ticket to Ride (German: Zug im Zug)
• Games: BuyWord

Deaths

Date	Name	Age	Notability
February 23	Samuel Edward Konkin III	56	Philosopher and frequent contributor to RPG publications
April 27	Alex Randolph	81	Board game designer
September 4	Bruce Quarrie	57	Wargaming author
December 12	Perry Grant	80	Screenwriter who also designed board games

See also

• 2004 in video gaming