1977 in games

This page lists board and card games, wargames, miniatures games, and table-top tabletop role-playing games published in 1977. For video games, see 1977 in video gaming.

Games released or invented in 1977

• After the Holocaust
• Air Assault on Crete
• Air War
• Alpha Omega
• Arab-Israeli Wars
• Arduin (role-playing game)
• BattleFleet Mars
• Chitin: I
• Chivalry & Sorcery (role-playing game)
• CirKis
• Cosmic Encounter
• Down Styphon!
• Elric: Battle at the End of Time
• The Emerald Tablet
• Entropy
• Gondor: The Siege of Minas Tirith
• Hexagony
• Highway to the Reich
• Imperium
• Lords & Wizards
• Lords of Valetia
• Machiavelli
• Melee
• Middle Earth
• Nomad Gods
• Obsession
• Ogre
• Pente
• Professional Wrestling (role-playing game)
• Quazar
• Rail Baron
• Rivets
• Rummikub
• Sauron
• Skirrid
• Snit's Revenge
• Space Marines
• Space Quest (role-playing game)
• Squad Leader
• Star Empires
• StarSoldier
• Starwars
• Traveller (role-playing game)
• Victory in the Pacific
• War of the Ring
• The Warlord Game
• WarpWar

Significant games-related events of 1977

• Playboy Enterprises, Inc. publishes first issue of Games magazine.
• Games Workshop publishes first issue of White Dwarf magazine.

Deaths

Date	Name	Age	Notability
November 10	Dennis Wheatley	80	Writer who also designed board games

See also

• 1977 in video gaming