1978 in games

This page lists board and card games, wargames, miniatures games, and tabletop role-playing games published in 1978. For video games, see 1978 in video gaming.

Games released or invented in 1978
• Adventures in Fantasy

• Battle-Sphere

• Black Hole

• (This Game is) Bonkers!

• The Campaign for North Africa

• Cyborg

• Dawn of the Dead

• Empire

• Gamma World (tabletop role-playing game)

• G.E.V.

• High Fantasy

• Ice War

• It

• John Carter, Warlord of Mars (role-playing game)

• Junta

• King Arthur's Knights

• Magic Realm

• Mayday

• The Next War

• Olympica

• Pente

• Privateer

• Quad-Ominos

• Quest

• RuneQuest (tabletop role-playing game)

• The Sorcerer's Cave

• Spellmaker

• Star Fighter

• Star Trek: Adventure Gaming in the Final Frontier (tabletop role-playing game)

• Starfleet Wars (Superior Models, Inc.)

• Starships & Spacemen

• Stomp!

• Strike Team Alpha

• Strange New Worlds

• Swords & Sorcery

• To the Green Fields Beyond

• War in the Ice

• Wizard