1976 in games

This page lists board and card games, wargames, miniatures games, and tabletop role-playing games published in 1976. For video games, see 1976 in video gaming.

Games released or invented in 1976

• Atlantis - 12500 B.C.
• Battle for Andromeda
• Bay of Pigs
• Bunnies & Burrows (tabletop role-playing game)
• Caesar at Alesia (2nd edition)
• Conquistador
• Cosmic Wimpout
• Dixie
• Godsfire
• Invasion America
• Metamorphosis Alpha (tabletop role-playing game)
• Mind War
• Monsters! Monsters! (role-playing game)
• Outreach
• Panzergruppe Guderian
• Plan Táctico y Estratégico de la Guerra
• Rift Trooper
• The Russian Campaign
• Starfaring (tabletop role-playing game)
• Starship & Empire ^[1]
• Starship Troopers
• Starweb
• Terrible Swift Sword
• UFO: Game of Close Encounters
• War at Sea
• War in Europe
• War of the Ring: The Game of Middle Earth
• War of the Sky Galleons
• Warriors of the Green Planet

Significant games-related events of 1976

• TSR, Inc. publishes the first issue of Dragon magazine.

References

1. "Starship & Empire". Boardgamegeek. 1976. Retrieved 8 December 2025.

See also

• 1976 in video gaming