Goat Lords, Most Addicting Card Games for Families, Teens, and Kids Ages 7+

My husband, son, and I love this card game. Not only is the art work cute but the Action Cards help give the game a little extra strategy. It’s great when you know someone has a Chuck Norris or Leonardo de Caprio stack with several 25 and/or 50 wild cards and you have three action cards to help you steal it from them: play the action card where you ask the player to your left for their highest wild card until you get to someone who has a wild card to give you (players should be honest about it or why bother playing?), plus one more action; that action is to play the card where you pick a player to put a stack of your choice to the top of their stack plus one action; the plus action would be to play another action card, especially the one where it tells you to steal the top stack of any player and now you can steal the big points stack you just had someone bring up to the top of their big stack AND you get one more action; the last action would be to put another two matching goat cards on top of your own goat stack to “protect” your new, just stolen goat stack! I’m not sure why some of the 1-3 Star reviews had issues with the rules as they are pretty straight forward and the action cards are self explanatory. There were also some 1-2 star reviews from people saying Goat Lords is a blatant rip off of Uncle Becks Cover Your Assets but I don’t agree. This game has the action cards which help add some strategy to your play as I outlined above. Plus the art work makes this game so much more pleasant to look at. This game is much more fun to us than Cover Your Assets and the action cards and art work play a big part in that assessment. I think it’s completely wrong for people to accuse Gatwick Games of stealing Uncle Becks Cover Your Assets game and simply switching it up by giving it a goat theme. Cover Your Assets is an updated knock-off of a couple of games going back 50 years! And there’s absolutely nothing wrong with that just as there’s nothing wrong with Goat Lords being similar to Cover Your Assets. It’s all a matter of whether you want to play a game with action cards and cute and funny art work or a more streamlined similar mechanic game like Cover Your Assets. This game has been such a hit with everyone we’ve played it with that we end up giving away our copy of the base game as well as the expansion as soon as we finish playing to the people we just played it with because they loved it so much! We end up buying another copy of both and end up giving them away each time! I’ve bought four copies of Goat Lords and the expansion after giving away our other copies to two teen girls in college, a couple in their late 20s, and my in-laws who are in their late 70s and play card games with other elderly couples in their building. Anyhow, everyone is entitled to their own opinion and their own review but I don’t think accusations of stealing are the way to deal with that opinion. But the game and decide for yourself. And if you’ve never played Cover Your Assets, get that one too and decide for yourself. I’m in no way shape or form related to nor do I know the creator of this game or anyone at Gatwick Games. I just think this is a very fun card game if you just want a casual game night.

Excellent

I run a board game club at my high school. Often I have then students test out new games to learn how they work and to have a good time. I had 4 boys sit down to try this one and here's some highlights: 1. The game was quick to learn and the gameplay loop was fun. 2. I think they need more variety of goats (I told then about the expansions and they thought that was good) 3. Thus would be a fun game to play with my family and little brothers. 4. We really like the artwork too. So overall the game was a hit with the high schoolers and they thought my own children (5-6 years old) could learn the game and have fun too. A great game for you to consider for your own family.

Goat Lords is a fun, entertaining game. There's a bit of a learning curve at first due in part to the wide variety of very creative action cards which add a lot of twists and turns to game play. The instructions sometimes lacked enough information to be clear on how to proceed in some situations, so we had to decide what we thought worked best. That's the reason for the 4-star review rather than 5-star. But, it was really no big deal as it actually allows you to customize the game a bit to suit your own preferences, which -- face it -- many of us do that anyway. Still, it would be nice to know exactly how the game was intended to be played, and we spent a lot of time combing through the instructions for information that wasn't there. And, unfortunately, information we found online actually contradicted some of the written instructions, so it was confusing at first. But, once we got a handle on it all, we had a great time playing the game. We added the celebrity expansion pack to the base game to allow for two an additional players and felt the goat celebrities made the game even more fun.

Fantastic fun game. We played this multiple times during the holidays. Great family game or for adults if you want a lot of fun. Age range: 8-adult, maybe younger if the child has experience playing games and is a good sport if his pile gets blown up or stolen. This is not a serious game, but a game to play if everyone wants a good time. Play time is 15-30 minutes depending on number of players.

This game was played repeatedly during a family gathering over the holidays with age ranges down to 10. We had heard great things and bought together with the expansion pack. That allowed us to go beyond the recommended group limit a few times to 8-9 players with no noticeable downside. What I love about the game is how quickly family members could watch one or two rounds and jump in successfully. The game is simple to pick up the basics but there is much deeper strategy that you can employ depending on the size of the group. That being said, it still has a lot of luck to it allowing the younger crowd to be amazingly successful with enough frequency to keep them engaged even with some pretty serious (maybe obnoxiously so at times) adults at the table. I like that one person can seemingly be on the top of the world and then a series of action cards completely flips the table. Its a great game too with a small footprint allowing it to be brought along to other venues (the celebrities expansion pack fits into the base games box even). I think this game will be a perennial game that will stay at the top of our stack of games in the cabinet for years to come.

This is a well made game with a lot of thought and love put into it. The art is great, the captions are snarky and hilarious, the gameplay is easy to pickup (especially if you watch the videos), and we play it with kids from 6+ at our house. It's light-hearted and fun, and games last 15-20 minutes or so once folks get going at a good pace. Beware! The atomic goat may cause younger children to cry dejectedly when their stack of 300 points worth of Fire Breathing Dragon Goats they stole from their dad gets blown to smithereens. See also their other versions of this game -- lots of fun!

My friends sometimes bring their kids over for Sunday dinner and a round or two of board games. Their favorite is Exploding Kittens. But this game is just too much. The basic premise of the game is that you try to build a bigger goat herd than everyone else. This is fine but the best way to do that is to steal cards from other players goat herd. This is what creates the biggest herds. Unfortunately this also sort of encourages picking on a player. I do not recommend playing with with kids unless they can deal with being targeted. The ones I played with have rejected this game outright. And the youngest one (9) got bored middle of the game and walked away. So I think that this will be an adults only game in my house. That having been said, it is fun with adults especially if you can play fast. Mechanics are pretty easy to pick up though the action cards are a bit confusing text wise.

Bought this for my son, but it quickly became a hit with the whole family. It’s easy to learn, fast-paced, and packed with silly goat-themed fun. The gameplay mixes light strategy with hilarious moments, making it perfect for casual game nights. Everyone gets involved, and the rounds move quickly enough to keep younger players engaged. Definitely one of those games that’s simple to pick up but hard to put down.

This game is fun. My daughter loves it - she’s 7. It’s unique . Nice to find something totally different

We buy new games every year, some are ok, nothing to rave about, some terrible and some fantastic. Goat Lords definitely falls in the fantastic category, we bought for Christmas and have played countless times. Even the most picky in the family loves this game. I leant this to neighbours who are now also raving about this game. We have now ordered the Celebrity pack and can't wait to get this.

Really fun to play with a group of friends as it's fast paced and even when it's not your turn you have to watch out for other people stealing your goats. As people have mentioned it's a bit like Cover Your Assets but there are some action cards which give it a fun twist. I think it's the action cards that make it faster paced and it's more entertaining because of them. I only have played it with adults but I can imagine it being great for a family too. It doesn't take too long to learn to play which is great too. The artwork is fun and the goat theme makes it entertaining to say the least. Great game!

I bought this for my husband for Christmas because he loves the Exploding Kittens game and this looked similar, it took us a while to get to grips with the rules but everyone who played enjoyed the game. Bonus that the cards and pictures are fun!