The Best Area Control Board Games

This collection filters for BGG\'s area majority and influence mechanic, rated 6.5 or higher. War games have their own collection and are excluded, keeping this list focused on area control as a mechanic rather than a theme.

You will find Viking invasion games where rage fuels your armies, galactic senate games where political influence is the weapon, fantasy conquest games where monsters clash over territory, and abstract designs that distill area control to its competitive essence. Some reward aggressive expansion, others reward patient positioning. The best create boards where every region matters and no position is ever truly safe.