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Ancestree is a collecting and sequencing game where you compete to build the strongest family tree. You select and link tiles, building your family person by person, scoring points for marriages, wealth and continuous generations. It is a strategic game about carefully using shared resources to grow your heritage, whilst stopping others from doing the same.

Unfortunately, Ancestree is not available on Android, Mac, PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S or iOS. However, we recommend the following games that offer a similar experience or theme:

Ancestree

Game Details

Release Date: 01/01/2017

Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds

Players: 2-6

Genres: Sequencing, Strategy and Collecting

Accessibility: 33 features

Components: Placeables, Score Board and Tokens

Developer: Calliope Games (@CalliopeGames)

Costs: Purchase cost

6 Similar Games Short List

Here are our hand-picked short list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Ancestree. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Ancestree.

Fantastic Factories

Release Date: 01/01/2019, updated in 2021

Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds

Fantastic Factories is a strategy game where you race to build the most efficient set of factories. You collect blueprints, train workers and spend your dice to manufacture as many goods as possible. It's an unusual combination of resource collection,...

Carcassonne

Release Date: 27/06/2007

Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds

Components: Bag, Figures, Placeables and Tokens

Carcassonne is a strategy game where you lay tiles to create a medieval landscape of farms, rivers and cities. Each new tile must match the roads, rivers, farms and cities of those around it. As you place it you can claim one of these elements that...

7 Wonders

Release Date: 01/01/2010, updated in 2020

Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds

Components: Cards, Placeables and Tokens

7 Wonders is a card collecting game where players compete to build one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. You play by collecting and playing cards to perform different actions. It is a strategic game of building and trading, where you need to...

ShipShape

Release Date: 01/01/2019

Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds

Components: Cards, Placeables and Tokens

ShipShape is a collecting and sequencing game where you compete to create the highest-scoring ship full of loot. You bid for hole-ridden Crate pieces, then carefully stack them in order to form your Hold. It is part auction, part puzzle where you have...

Jaipur

Release Date: 01/01/2009, updated in 2019

Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds

Components: Cards and Tokens

Jaipur is a two-player collecting and trading card game where you compete to become the wealthiest merchant in an Indian market. You collect and swap cards to build combinations so that you can trade them for valuable commodities. It is about trading at...

Dragomino

Release Date: 01/01/2020

Skill Rating: 4+ year-olds

Components: Cards, Figures and Tokens

Dragomino is a matching and collecting tile game similar to Kingdomino but tuned for really young players. You take turns to pick and add a domino Land card to your growing grid, and earn dragon eggs. It works for youngsters with...

11 Similar Games Long List

Here are our hand-picked long list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Ancestree. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Ancestree.

Kingdomino

Release Date: 01/03/2017

Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds

Components: Figures and Placeables

Kingdomino is a kingdom-building game where you place domino tiles to match terrain types and score points. As you play, you build a territory in a grid that requires careful consideration of where dominoes are placed to maximise points. What makes this...

Sushi Go!

Release Date: 01/09/2014

Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds

Components: Cards

Sushi Go! is a sushi-themed card game where you collect combinations of cards to complete sushi dishes and score points. The different dishes require a varying number of cards and related scores based on the complexity of the recipe. But there's a...

Bohnanza

Release Date: 01/01/1997

Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds

Components: Cards

Bohnanza is a trading card game where you plant and harvest bean cards to earn coins. The twist is that you can't reorder the cards in your hand and because you have to plant the first card in your hand each go, trading isn't just about what you swap...

Miyabi

Release Date: 01/01/2019

Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds

Components: Placeables, Score Board and Tokens

Miyabi is a world-building brain game where you build elegant Japanese gardens. You place Tetris-shaped garden tiles in your garden matching different flowers, stones and trees with scoring columns. Because the garden tiles are awkward shapes and only...

Scout

Release Date: 01/01/2019

Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds

Components: Cards and Tokens

Scout is a sequencing card game where you must play sets of increasing value from a hand you can't reorder. This ordering restriction is cleverly offset by being able to insert cards from the table to prepare runs and sets for your next go. This, and...

Mass Transit

Release Date: 01/01/2020

Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds

Components: Cards and Figures

Mass Transit is a cooperative card game where you build transit routes to deliver six commuters safely home from work. You place cards around a hub to build routes or discard them to move the commuters forwards. It is a game about unintended...

Happy City

Release Date: 01/01/2021

Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds

Components: Cards

Happy City is a city building collecting card game where you buy buildings to attract Residents and increase their Happiness. You do this by purchasing cards that generate short-term Coins as well as add those long-term benefits. As you race to build...

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Release Date: 01/01/2019

Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds

Components: Dice and Pen and Pad

Bloom is a roll-and-write game where you compete to become the most successful flower seller. You roll dice and mark off colour combinations of flowers to score points. You need to balance allotting dice to individual bouquets or a larger volume of...

Love Letter

Release Date: 01/01/2012, updated in 2019

Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds

Components: Cards and Tokens

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Shifting Stones

Release Date: 01/01/2020

Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds

Components: Cards and Tokens

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Tacocat Spelled Backwards

Release Date: 01/01/2021

Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds

Components: Cards, Score Board and Tokens

Tacocat Spelled Backwards is a silly battle game played with palindrome-themed numbered cards. Battles are won by placing a higher card from your hand than your opponent. But you win by having the lowest card at the end of a hand to score a point. It...

1 Easier Skill Rating than Ancestree

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1 Board Game Like Ancestree Based on Genre

These are games of a similar genre mix to Ancestree. This includes games from the Collecting, Sequencing and Strategy genres. We pick out games of a similar PEGI rating to further hone these generated suggestions.

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