This page lists board and card games, wargames, miniatures games, and tabletop role-playing games published in 1979. For video games, see 1979 in video gaming.

Games released or invented in 1979

• 4th Dimension • Asteroid Zero-Four • The Awful Green Things from Outer Space • The Beastlord • Belter • Bloodtree Rebellion • Cerberus • Cheops • Chinese Farm (2nd edition) • Circus Maximus • Colony Delta • The Creature That Ate Sheboygan • Darkover • Demons • Divine Right • Double Star • Dune • Earth Game • The Farming Game • Freedom in the Galaxy • Godsfire • Guess Who? • Holy War • Hot Spot • Invasion of the Air-eaters • John Carter: Warlord of Mars • King Arthur • Knights and Knaves • The Legend of Robin Hood • MAATAC • The Mad Magazine Card Game • The Mad Magazine Game • Magic Realm • Magic Wood • Marine: 2002 • Napoleon at Leipzig • Prochorovka: Armor at Kursk • Sigma Omega • Snapshot • Space Future • Sqwurm • Star Fleet Battles • Star Quest • Starfall • Starfire • StarGate • Streets of Stalingrad • Survival / The Barbarian • Swordquest • Time War • Titan Strike! • Trivial Pursuit • Vector 3 • Villains and Vigilantes (tabletop role-playing game) • War of the Sky Cities • Wizard's Quest • Zargo's Lords

Games awards given in 1979

Significant games-related events of 1979