1976 in games

This page lists board and card games, wargames, miniatures games, and tabletop role-playing games published in 1976. For video games, see 1976 in video gaming.

Games released or invented in 1976
• Atlantis - 12500 B.C.

• Battle for Andromeda

• Bay of Pigs

• Bunnies & Burrows (tabletop role-playing game)

• Caesar at Alesia (2nd edition)

• Conquistador

• Cosmic Wimpout

• Dixie

• Godsfire

• Invasion America

• Metamorphosis Alpha (tabletop role-playing game)

• Mind War

• Monsters! Monsters! (role-playing game)

• Outreach

• Panzergruppe Guderian

• Plan Táctico y Estratégico de la Guerra

• Rift Trooper

• The Russian Campaign

• Starfaring (tabletop role-playing game)

• Starship & Empire

• Starship Troopers

• Starweb

• Terrible Swift Sword

• UFO: Game of Close Encounters

• War at Sea

• War in Europe

• War of the Ring: The Game of Middle Earth

• War of the Sky Galleons

• Warriors of the Green Planet

Significant games-related events of 1976

 * TSR, Inc. publishes the first issue of Dragon magazine.