This page lists board and card games, wargames, miniatures games, and tabletop role-playing games published in 2002. For video games, see 2002 in video gaming.

Games released or invented in 2002

• 1313 Dead End Drive • 30 Seconds • A Game of Thrones collectible card game • Age of Steam • Apples to Apples - Expansion Set #4 • Apples to Apples Junior • Arimaa • BattleDragons (role-playing game) • Brain Chain • The Burning Wheel (role-playing game) • Car Wars (5th Edition) • Carcassonne - Hunters and Gatherers • Carcassonne - Inns and Cathedrals • Cartoon Action Hour (role-playing game) • Chez Greek • Children of the Sun (role-playing game) • Clans • d20 Modern (role-playing game) • Deadlands: Lost Colony • Demon: The Fallen (role-playing game) • Diceland (tile game) • Diceland - Deep White Sea • Donjon (role-playing game) • DragonStrike • Dread: The First Book of Pandemonium • Dungeons & Dragons: The Fantasy Adventure Board Game • Dust Devils (role-playing game) • Engel (role-playing game) • EverQuest Role-Playing Game • Fairy Meat - Wicked Things • Farscape Roleplaying Game • Fightball • Flames of War (first edition) • Frag Fire Zone • Frag PVP • Freeloader • The Game of Life Card Game • A Game of Thrones • Give Me the Brain (full color "Special Edition") • Godlike (role-playing game) • Great War at Sea: Great White Fleet • Great War at Sea: U.S. Navy Plan Red • Hammer of the Scots • HeroClix • I Ain't Been Shot, Mum! • InSpectres (role-playing game) • Jadeclaw (role-playing game) • The Judge Dredd Role-playing Game • Killer Bunnies and the Quest for the Magic Carrot • Lord of the Rings Roleplaying Game • Lord of the Rings - Sauron • MechWarrior: Dark Age • Mexica • Munchkin 2: Unnatural Axe • Mutants & Masterminds (role-playing game) • Nanofictionary • NBA Showdown • Night Wizard! (role-playing game) • Paladin (role-playing game) • Panzer Grenadier: Afrika Korps - The Desert War • Panzer Grenadier: Arctic Front • Panzer Grenadier: Battle of the Bulge • Pirate's Cove • Puerto Rico • The Riddle of Steel (role-playing game) • RollerCoaster Tycoon • Rome at War II: Fading Legions • Save Doctor Lucky on Moon Base Copernicus • The Settlers of Canaan • The Settlers of the Stone Age • Silver Age Sentinels (role-playing game) • Sorcerer (role-playing game) • Spaceship Zero (role-playing game) • Star Hero (role-playing game) • Star Munchkin (role-playing game) • Star Trek Roleplaying Game (Decipher, Inc. version) • Star Wars Trading Card Game • Terra Primate (role-playing game) • Transhuman Space (role-playing game) • Trias • Trollbabe (role-playing game) • Universalis (role-playing game) • Wallenstein • Xactika • Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading Card Game (English version) • Zombies!!! 2: Zombie Corps(e)

Game awards given in 2002

Significant games-related events of 2002

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