Holiday Gift Guide

Brandon Robins

The Ultimate Screen Free Games Holiday Gift Guide 2025!

Hand Picked by The SFG Team for Guaranteed Epic Game Nights!

The holidays are here! Ditch the screens and play a game. Our entire staff picked their single favorite game from easy party hits to deeper strategy fun. This is our essential list of games guaranteed to bring the fun this season.

Party Games: 

  • Horrible Therapist (Gus's Pick): Players pitch ridiculous solutions to equally ridiculous problems, and the "Client" chooses which awful therapist deserves their money.

  • Telestrations (Alex's Pick): The classic game of telephone meets Pictionary, where you sketch what you see, then guess what you saw, resulting in hilarious misinterpretations.

  • Just One (Rob's Pick): A cooperative party game where players secretly write down a single word clue to help the guesser discover the Mystery Word, but any identical clues get erased.

  • Ultimate Werewolf (Brandon's Pick): A social deduction game of lies and accusations where villagers must work together to find the hidden werewolves before they eliminate everyone in town.

  • Hues and Cues (Ridge's Pick): Players give one or two-word clues to get others to guess a specific color on the massive, 480-color board, testing how well you understand each other's color interpretations.

Family Games: 

  • Taco Cat Goat Cheese Pizza (Nathan's Pick): A fast-paced, high-energy card game where players frantically slap the central pile when a spoken word matches the card being played.

  • Mysterium (Allison's Pick): One player takes on the role of a ghost who uses illustrated vision cards to communicate cryptic clues to psychic mediums to help them solve the mystery of their murder.

  • Happy Little Dinosaurs (Heiro's Pick): A lighthearted, card-based game where players try to survive natural disasters and emotional meltdowns while collecting points for their dinosaur.

  • Exploding Kittens (Averie's Pick): A highly strategic, kitten-powered version of Russian roulette where players draw cards until someone pulls an Exploding Kitten and loses the game.

  • Munchkin Deluxe (Son's Pick): A dungeon-crawling, role-playing parody game where players race to level 10 by fighting monsters and betraying their friends for better gear.

Strategy Games: 

  • Wingspan (Mack's Pick): A beautiful, engine-building game where players attract and collect different species of birds to their wildlife preserves to gain points and powers.

  • Dice Throne Deadpool (Darius's Pick): A fast, fun dice-rolling game of tactical combat where each character has their own unique abilities and dice set, battling until only one remains.

  • Scythe (Sean's Pick): An engine-building game set in an alternate-history 1920s Eastern Europe where players conquer territory, gather resources, and build massive mechs.
  • Terraforming Mars (Joseph's Pick): Players take on the role of corporations working together to raise the planet's temperature, oxygen level, and ocean coverage to make Mars habitable.

  • Brass Birmingham (Anthony's Pick): A deep economic strategy game where players establish and develop industries in 19th-century England to build the most efficient network of canals and rails.