1977 in games

This page lists board and card games, wargames, miniatures games, and table-top tabletop role-playing games published in 1977. For video games, see 1977 in video gaming.

Games released or invented in 1977
• After the Holocaust

• Air Assault on Crete

• Air War

• Alpha Omega

• Arab-Israeli Wars

• Arduin (role-playing game)

• BattleFleet Mars

• Chitin: I

• Chivalry & Sorcery (role-playing game)

• CirKis

• Cosmic Encounter

• Down Styphon!

• Elric: Battle at the End of Time

• The Emerald Tablet

• Entropy

• Gondor: The Siege of Minas Tirith

• Hexagony

• Highway to the Reich

• Imperium

• Lords & Wizards

• Lords of Valetia

• Machiavelli

• Melee

• Middle Earth

• Nomad Gods

• Obsession

• Ogre

• Pente

• Professional Wrestling (role-playing game)

• Quazar

• Rail Baron

• Rivets

• Rummikub

• Sauron

• Skirrid

• Snit's Revenge

• Space Marines

• Space Quest (role-playing game)

• Squad Leader

• Star Empires

• StarSoldier

• Starwars

• Traveller (role-playing game)

• Victory in the Pacific

• War of the Ring

• The Warlord Game

• WarpWar

Significant games-related events of 1977

 * Playboy Enterprises, Inc. publishes first issue of Games magazine.
 * Games Workshop publishes first issue of White Dwarf magazine.