This page lists board and card games, wargames, miniatures games, and tabletop role-playing games published in 1996. For video games, see 1996 in video gaming.

Games released or invented in 1996

• Age of Renaissance • Air Baron • Ani-Mayhem • Arcadia • Battle Cattle: The Card Game • BattleTech Collectible Card Game • Before I Kill You, Mr. Bond • Bitin' Off Hedz • Blood Dawn (role-playing game) • Cashflow 101 • Conspiracy X (role-playing game) • Deadlands (role-playing game) • The Doctor Who Collectible Card Game • Doctor Who: Invasion Earth • Entdecker • Equate • Fading Suns (role-playing game) • Feng Shui (role-playing game) • Fischer random chess • Five Crowns • Give Me the Brain • Great War at Sea: The Mediterranean • Highlander: The Card Game • Iron Dragon • Kill Doctor Lucky • Knightmare Chess • Loaded Questions • Lunch Money • Mastermind for Kids • Monty Python and the Holy Grail Collectible Card Game • Mortal Kombat Kard Game • Mystery of the Abbey • Mythos (collectible card game) • Netrunner (collectible card game) • Star Trek Collectible Card Game • Stargrunt II • The Very Clever Pipe Game • The X-Files Collectible Card Game • XXXenophile (collectible card game) • Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading Card Game

Game awards given in 1996

Significant games-related events of 1996