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.

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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

See also

• 1997 in video gaming