2025 was a great year for Board Game Arena. Every table played, every game discovered, every friend and every late-night session added up to something truly amazing. Looking back at 2025, one thing is clear: you made the year unforgettable.
Countless Hours, Shared Moments
Together, you spent over 69 million hours playing in 2025. That is more than 7876 years of games in just one year... Victories or defeats, new or old games, whether you jumped in for a quick session or played for hours with friends. It all amounted to a whole lot of fun!
Just over 78 million tables were completed in real-time mode and 17.5 million in turn-based mode.
Players From All Around the World
In 2025, players joined in from all over the world, turning BGA into a truly global experience. From Brazil to Italy to India, to many, many, more countries- our community crossed borders, time zones, and languages: all connected by the same love of play.
Speaking of languages, there were over 355k translations done in 2025. A whopping 298 new tutorials were created to help the Community with new games. And last but not least, 227 new games were added to BGA in 2025. These are impressive numbers. A huge shout out to those of you who contributed in making these available to everyone on BGA whether you are a game developer, a translator, or a content creator. You can be proud of yourselves, and we bow to you! Let's not forget the moderators who spend hours browsing the forums and investigating reports to make sure BGA is a safe place.
In 2025, we dabbled in new ways to share games with you: we had a blast being part of the Twitch Plays Catan event. We are looking forward to renewing and expanding on such experiences.
At some point this year, more than 6.3k real-time tables were opened at the same time. Turn-based tables were a hit and we reached a peak of 316k on-going games in 2025.
The Games You Loved Most
When looking at the number of distinct players, one title led the way: 6 Nimmt!, closely followed by Azul and Catan. If we look at the time spent on a game, Ark Nova clearly stole the show with 7.1 million hours played. Catan and Terraforming Mars were close when it comes to the time spent on games.
Whether you choose long expert games or prefer short energetic ones, each game creates moments you will not forget.
BGA is Competitive
Even if it is all fun and games, Board Game Arena also offers some competition. You organized, and finished, almost 80k tournaments in 2025. Altered saw the largest number of registered participants for a single tournament with over 1.2k who joined.
The games that saw the most tournaments being organized are none other than Carcassonne with 6.5k tournaments, Can’t Stop with 5k, and Azul with 4k tournaments organized in 2025.
The Arena also got a lot of interest, and the top three Arena games are Azul, Ark Nova and Ticket to Ride. These 3 games combined gathered over 4 million tables created in Arena in 2025.
A Year of Growth and Improvements
We know everything is not perfect on BGA and we are constantly trying to improve.
In 2025, we proposed enhanced tools for developers to help them improve their games’ quality and hopefully make their role easier. We worked hard, behind the scenes, to allow our platform to keep growing and support more players, more games, and to make sure you can share our common passion for them.
We hired new people to facilitate the above, to better follow games under development, as well as our internal development's, and to facilitate the conversation with you. We met many of you during physical events such as SPIEL ESSEN in Germany, Cannes in France, or PAX Unplugged in Philadelphia, to only name a few.
We still have a long way to go in 2026, and we want to improve the community’s experience on BGA. It is all worth it, as long as we keep bringing players together to discovering new games, making friends and being part of this wonderful community.
Thank You for Playing
These stats are not just numbers, they are stories. They represent friendships formed, skills improved, and communities built. Every hour played and every country represented is part of what makes Board Game Arena feel like home.
None of this would be possible without you. We are excited to keep building, improving, and playing together. If 2025 showed us anything, it is that the best part of gaming is you, the players.
Next week, we will start the BGA Awards, where you will get to choose your favorite new games of 2025. So, keep your eyes open and do not forget: take care and play fair!
