17 Epic Travel-Themed Board Games & Card Games For Your Next Game Night

You’ll collect matching cards and use them on the board in order to claim railway routes by connecting iconic cities like Chicago or Boston together across the United States.

The person with the highest number of points wins!

When you connect cities, make sure to keep an eye on your train tracks route or else you may find yourself at a dead end. Earn bonus points by completing Destination Tickets and be careful not to leave any incomplete tickets because they will cost negative points!

It has Alexa “Echo” device compatibility, so you don’t even need the rule book to learn gameplay! And if you’ve got no one to play against, you can challenge Alexa to a game instead!

Passport To Culture

• Players: 2-6
• Age: 10+
• Where To Buy: Get it on AMAZON

Do you want to travel across the world and learn about the different cultures?

This game packs a lot of educational fun into just one box. Players have to use their knowledge and fill out an entire passport for each country before moving on to the next stop. The first player or team to complete their passports wins.

The questions are tricky, which is why it is better played with older kids and adults, but it will certainly challenge your brain with fun facts about world cultures!

The best part about this game is that each player has a chance to participate at all times. With other games, you can get bored waiting for your turn but not in Passport To Culture!

Each player votes on their answer and has the chance to earn themselves a passport stamp. The board itself features different possible routes across, much like Trivial Pursuit, with just enough twists and turns along the way so that no two paths are alike!

Continent Race Board Game

• Players: 2-4
• Age: 7+
• Where To Buy: Get it from AMAZON

Continent Race was created by a kid, for kids! The award-winning board game is an easy-to-learn, fast-paced card game that allows players to race around the globe and collect countries from each continent.

Explore the world with the 205 vibrant country cards that challenge children and adults alike, while playfully developing problem-solving, critical thinking, and communication skills while learning geography.

Trekking The National Parks

• Players: 2-5
• Age: 10+
• Where To Buy: Get it on AMAZON

Trekking The National Parks second edition game is perfect for learning about America’s national parks.

The award-winning travel-themed board game was created by National Parks enthusiasts along with their board game developer son, to allow families everywhere a new way of enjoying the beauty of the National Parks together.

It includes the national treasures in America from Acadia’s rocky coastline and Hawaii’s palm tree-lined beach, to Yellowstone’s geysers or Yosemite Valley! The Winner Of The Mensa And Parent’s Choice Awards has been popular with players around the world

The game is set up uniquely each time, altering the gameplay so no two rounds are ever the same, as players travel through every region of the country answering questions about geology, wildlife and history found in all 59 parks.

With more than five million acres of the most beautiful national parks, America’s beauty is beautifully captured in this game.

Catan Board Game

• Players: 3-6
• Age: 10+
• Where To Buy: Get it on AMAZON

While Catan might not be a typical board game about travel, it does still appeal to anyone with a curiosity mindset! Catan is one of the most popular strategy games.

Catan can be played by three to six players in around 60 to 90 minutes. Previously called Settlers of Catan, players can swap cards by trading, building and settling the Island of Catan in this fun strategy board game.

Players control their own civilization and aim to create new settlements across the hex board for victory points. The variability in the playing board also makes this a great game for replaying, each time bringing a new outcome and experience.

This fun game would appeal to fans of the Civilisation computer game as well!

Carcassonne Board Game

• Players: 2-5
• Ages: 7+
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This is a quintessential travel game, inspired by the medieval fortress city in Southern France, of the same name. Carcassonne has players build a landscape made up of tiles from their personal board.

It gets bigger as more people play their tiles, making for an engaging challenge each time you play.

This award-winning tile placement game introduces children to medieval European history with its focus on castles and other architectural structures like monasteries.

There are several expansion bundles you can add on if you want to expand your game further, such as The Big Box Bundle or Inns & Cathedrals. This will keep gameplay ever-evolving.

Pandemic Board Game

• Players: 2-4
• Age: 8+
• Where To Buy: Get it from AMAZON

Pandemic board game is a cooperative game that centres around the eradication of four virulent diseases from across the globe.

Players play as members of an elite disease-fighting team and must travel in order to find cures for illnesses before they get too out of control!

Travel the world to treat local populations and collect sets of City cards to complete your essential research. But make sure you contain the spread along the way – too many outbreaks will have you losing the game!

This game is one that is very close to home in the current world but one that is sure to provide plenty of entertainment and strategy.

Check out the many expansion packs available as well, with Pandemic: On The Brink and Pandemic: The Hot Zone North America. There are heaps of others too!

7 Wonders

• Players: 3-7
• Age: 13+
• Where To Buy: Get it on AMAZON

The 7 Wonders board game is a global wonder of its own, bringing the magic of travel to life in creative ways, highlighting the wonders of the ancient world.

It’s an award-winning game for all ages that uses cards to tell the story of ancient civilizations building their empires, with players taking on different roles and constructing buildings like the Parthenon or Great Wall of China by stacking hexagonal tiles in competitive rounds.

The board game is designed for three to seven players or teams , and can be played in a variety of ways. It’s travel-friendly too, with its compact size making it easy to bring on trips anywhere.

7 Wonders is a little more advanced game play, for board game pros or for those with the patience to spend time learning but it’s well worth the effort.

Sagrada

• Players: 1-4
• Age: 14+
• Where To Buy: Get in on AMAZON.

Sagrada is a beautiful game for two to four players. It’s based on the Sagrada Família church in Barcelona, built between 1882 and 1940—though it doesn’t take that long to play.

Sagrada is a dice-placement game where players draft dice, representing the colour and shade of glass.

The player must carefully construct their stained glass window by following the game restrictions, all while adding artistic flair so they may go down in history as an artisan master.

The rules of this game are simple, but the strategy gets more complex as you progress. Some colours cannot be next to each other and the same with numbers. That red spot on your board? You’re only allowed a red die there.

There are several ‘shared’ goals that players must work towards at the beginning of play, like collecting all dice types or making their boards match one another before they get too full up; plus an individual “secret” goal for every player too.

This is where the strategy really kicks in since you have to think about placement right from the start or regret it later when it becomes more challenging.

Planet Board Game

• Players:
• Age:
• Where To Buy: Get it on AMAZON

In this very unique game, you have the chance to take on an important role that will shape worlds!

Superbeings (that’s you) compete with creativity and imagination in order to create a perfect planet for wildlife to flourish.

Each player’s board is a 12-sided 3-dimensional planet core which you are tasked with placing landscape tiles – with oceans, deserts, mountains or frozen lands.

Assemble them to create the best ecosystems (i.e. creating an ideal habitat) while also fulfilling active “Natural Habitat” tasks given by other players over the course of 12 turns.

The most populated planet wins and its creator becomes one step closer to becoming ‘The Greatest Planet Creator Ever’.

Planet is an award-winning board game – 2019 Mensa Select winner, Spiel of Approval (The Spiel), Casual Game Revolution Recommended, Best Toys for Kids Award (ASTRA), The Dice Tower Seal of Excellence.

Imhotep Builder of Egypt 

• Players: 2-4
• Age: 10+
• Where To Buy: Get it on AMAZON

Imhotep Builders of Egypt board game is a cooperative board game for two to four players that allows you and your friends the chance to travel across Ancient Egypt as builders of one of its most iconic monuments.

Players must work together in order to build something magnificent while overcoming obstacles such as flooding, hungry crocodiles, thieves, or even death!

Players take on the role of ancient Egyptian architects in a game where they try to transport stone blocks over six rounds.

They must do this while also thwarting their opponents’ efforts and getting theirs into more valuable positions at five construction sites, all for the sake of being named the ‘greatest architect who ever lived’.

Mapominos: Europe

• Players: 2-5
• Age: 5+
• Where To Buy: Get it from AMAZON

Love Dominos? Try Mapominos! This geographical twist on the classic tile connecting game will challenge and expand your world knowledge.

You don’t need any geographical knowledge to play, making it an easy to learn game to play with kids, but you will learn along the way.

Build a map of Europe as you play, by connecting countries that share a border and race to be the first one to play all of your country cards to be the winner!

You need a large space to play this game so you might even want to consider setting up on the floor instead of a table!

The World Game – Geography Card Game 

• Players: 2-5
• Age: 5+
• Where To Buy: Get it from AMAZON

The World Game is one of the most popular travel-themed games in recent years. It’s a card game all about geography that blends simple rules with challenging play for adults and children alike.

Players take turns to answer correctly with questions themed around the world. The basic game is to compete with facts between World Countries (a bigger country beats a smaller one, etc.).

There are also 4 possible challenges: Flag, Location, Capital City and a Continent challenge, making it a fun trivia game for the whole family.

It’s a good travel game because it comes in a little box that packs up easily, but we also love its educational value and fun gameplay for families who are always on the go.

Itchy Feet Travel Themed Card Game

• Players: 2-6
• Age: 8+
• Where To Buy: Get it from AMAZON

If your family likes a good old-fashioned card game, this travel-themed card game is for you. With beautifully illustrated cards, it’s suitable for couples or groups with up to 6 players.

The aim of Itchy Feet is to visit countries by collecting three items – by picking cards, trading them or stealing them from other players.

The gameplay is easy enough that kids from around 8 can play too, and learn the rules fairly easily.

Once you have mastered the basic game, consider playing with extension packs that add enhanced gameplay. You will be able to experience a different variation every time you play because of these special cards which are part of this longer version.

Trivial Pursuit: National Park 100th Anniversary Game

• Players: 2-8
• Age: 12+
• Where To Buy: Get it from AMAZON

If your family loves Trivial Pursuit but want to instead focus on their North American landscape knowledge, this National Park-themed travel edition is the game for you!

The fun of Trivial Pursuit with the history of America’s national parks in a dice game. From Yellowstone to the Grand Canyon, you will get a real test of your knowledge in this travel card game.

There are over 600 questions spanning 100 years of National Parks history.

Roll the custom dice to pick from six card categories: Natural Wonders, Battlefields and Historic Sites, Cultural Heritage, Science and Nature, Wildlife and Wildcard. The winner is the first player to collect a card from all 6 categories! 

You can even hook the travel case onto your bag with the handy travel clip!

Flags Of The World

• Players: 2 or more
• Age: 8+
• Where To Buy: Get it on AMAZON

Flags of the World is a fun and educational travel card game that includes all the independent countries of the world.

The game helps you learn the different flags, locations and loads more interesting facts about each country to teach you something new.

It comes with 200 cards and a world map to help better understand where each flag originates. This one is great for packing in your suitcase as travel games or campervan games when you’re on the move.