1991 in games

This page lists board and card games, wargames, miniatures games, and tabletop role-playing games published in 1991. For video games, see 1991 in video gaming.

Games Released or Invented in 1991

• Advanced Civilization
• Amber Diceless Roleplaying Game
• Car Wars: The Card Game
• Cosmic Encounter (Mayfair Games version, originally released in 1977 by Eon Games)
• Dark Conspiracy (role-playing game)
• Drunter und Drüber
• Falsies
• Formula Dé
• Greyhawk Wars
• HeroQuest Kellar's Keep (expansion)
• HeroQuest Return of the Witch Lord (expansion)
• History of the World
• Icehouse
• Midway
• Millennium's End (role-playing game)
• MindTrap
• More Dirty Minds
• Nightmare (later renamed Atmosfear)
• Outpost
• Rave
• Reich Star (role-playing game)
• Set
• Space Fleet
• Starship Command
• Tales from the Floating Vagabond (role-playing game)
• Tantrix
• Tichu
• Time Lord (role-playing game)
• Ultra Marines
• Vampire: The Masquerade

Game awards given in 1991

• Spiel des Jahres: Drunter und Drüber ^[1]
• Deutscher Spiele Preis: Master Labyrinth
• Origins Awards:
  • Best Roleplaying Rules: Vampire: The Masquerade
  • Best Pre-20th Century Boardgame: Blackbeard
  • Best Modern-day Boardgame: East Front
  • Best Fantasy or Science Fiction Boardgame: Cosmic Encounter
  • Best Roleplaying Supplement: GURPS Time Travel
  • Best Roleplaying Adventure: Horror on the Orient Express (for Call of Cthulhu )
• Games: Trumpet

Significant games-related events in 1991

• White Wolf, Inc. founded.

See also

• 1991 in video gaming

References

1. "Spiel des Jahres 1991". Spiel des Jahres e.V. 2025. Retrieved November 16, 2025.