1997 in games

This page lists board and card games, wargames, miniatures games, and tabletop role-playing games published in 1997. For video games, see 1997 in video gaming.

Games released or invented in 1997

• Aliens vs. Predator Collectible Card Game
• American Megafauna
• Babylon 5 Collectible Card Game
• Bohnanza
• Checkpoint
• Close Action
• Colossal Arena
• Dark Eden
• Delta Green (role-playing game supplement)
• Dune Collectible Card Game
• Dzikie Pola (role-playing game)
• Fluxx
• Imajica
• In Nomine (role-playing game)
• LionHeart (Strategy, Wargame)
• Monster Collection
• Multiverser (role-playing game)
• Primordial Soup
• Rat-a-Tat Cat
• Shadowrun: The Trading Card Game
• Spaceopoly
• Tigris and Euphrates
• Trinity (role-playing game)
• Warlords
• Werewolf: The Wild West (role-playing game)

Game awards given in 1997

• Spiel des Jahres: Mississippi Queen - Werner Hodel, Goldsieber
• Games: Quoridor

Significant games-related events in 1997

• Eden Studios, Inc. founded by George Vasilakos and M. Alexander Jurkat.
• TSR, Inc., the owner of the Dungeons & Dragons tabletop role-playing game, was acquired by Wizards of the Coast.

Deaths

Date	Name	Age	Notability
January 30	Ulrich Kiesow	47	German RPG designer
October 18	William Rotsler	71	Artist and gamebook author

See also

• 1997 in video gaming