This page lists board and card games, wargames, miniatures games, and tabletop role-playing games published in 1998. For video games, see 1998 in video gaming.

Games released or invented in 1998

• Alpha Blitz • Alternity (role-playing game) • Aquarius • Bosworth • CORPS (role-playing game system) • Cranium • Crimson Skies • Deadlands: Hell on Earth (role-playing game) • Devil Bunny Needs a Ham • Doomtown • Elfenland • The Extraordinary Adventures of Baron Munchausen (role-playing game) • Falling • Filthy Rich • GIPF • Great War at Sea: US Navy Plan Orange • Great War at Sea 2: The North & Baltic Seas • Guillotine • Knightmare Chess 2 • Legend of the Burning Sands • Lord of the Fries • Lotus • Panzer Grenadier • Reminiscing:The Millennium Edition • Return to the Tomb of Horrors (for 2nd Edition AD&D) • Revelation (role-playing game) • Samurai • Star*Drive (role-playing game) • Star Trek: The Next Generation Role-playing Game • TAMSK • Through the Desert • Tribe 8 (role-playing game) • Twisted Golf • Warhammer 40,000 (third edition, originally published in 1987) • Warhammer Ancient Battles • War of Resistance, China Theater 1937-1941 (Game Research/Design)

Game awards given in 1998

Significant games-related events in 1998