2018 in games

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This page lists board and card games, wargames, miniatures games, and tabletop role-playing games published in 2018. For video games, see 2018 in video gaming.

Games released or invented in 2018

Game awards given in 2018

  • Lisboa won the Spiel Portugal Jogo do Ano.{{cite web | url=https://www.spielportugal.org/jogo-do-ano | title=Jogo do Ano | publisher=Spiel Portugal | accessdate=1 September 2021}}

Deaths

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! Date

NameAgeNotability
January 31{{cite web|url = http://nthfh.com/tribute/details/1959/William-O-Connor/obituary.html |title = Obituary of William O'Connor | year = 2018 | accessdate = February 3, 2018 | publisher = Nolan & Taylor-Howe Funeral Home, Inc.|df=mdy }}

|William O'Connor

|47

|Artist for Dungeons & Dragons and Magic: The Gathering

April 2

|Laura Roslof

|69

|Illustrator for Palace of the Silver Princess

June 25

|Garry Spiegle

|72

|Co-founder of Pacesetter Ltd

September 12{{cite web |title=Carl Lynwood Sargent |url=https://www.funeralzone.co.uk/obituaries/53734 |website=Funeral Zone |accessdate=19 November 2018}}{{cite web |title=Carl Sargent (1952–2018) |url=https://officialfightingfantasy.blogspot.com/2018/11/carl-sargent-1952-2018.html |website=Fighting Fantasy Gamebooks |accessdate=19 November 2018}}{{cite web |title=Carl Sargent (1952–2018) |url=https://www.spr.ac.uk/news/carl-sargent-19522018 |publisher=Society for Psychical Research |accessdate=16 November 2018}}

|Carl Sargent

|65

|Game designer on Fighting Fantasy and Greyhawk

June 25

|Layman Allen

|72

|University professor who designed the game WFF 'N PROOF

September 29{{Cite web|url=https://madison.com/news/local/obituaries/seifried-bruce-duke/article_16a5d5d7-317f-55bc-8d7c-8f83422bc014.html|title=Seifried, Bruce "Duke"|website=madison.com}}

|Duke Seifried

|83

|Miniatures sculptor

October 11{{Cite web|url=https://www.chaosium.com/blogvale-greg-stafford-1948-2018/|title=Vale Greg Stafford (1948–2018)|author=Michael O'Brien|website=Chaosium company blog|date=October 12, 2018|accessdate=October 12, 2018|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20181012165915/https://www.chaosium.com/blogvale-greg-stafford-1948-2018/|archivedate=October 12, 2018|url-status=live}}

|Greg Stafford

|70

|Game designer and founder of Chaosium

See also

References