The 2030 SDGs Game is a multiplayer, in-person, card-based game that simulates taking the “real world” into the year 2030. Players have goals and run projects that advance their goals and affect game state (economy, environment, society).

AfroRithms from the Future is a collaborative, design thinking, storytelling game that centers Black and BIPOC perspectives. You are travelers of the multiverse exploring possible futures and creating exciting new artifacts to send back out to all other parallel worlds.

Quickly generate future scenarios through stakeholder, tech, and situation cards. Then, explore them through a series of prompts.

Dreams and Disruptions is a scenario-building game that uses time horizons, drivers of change, leadership and movements, as well as disruptors to create a stress-tested, anti-fragile vision of the future. The game incorporates inclusion and diversity of voices in emerging dreams of the future and overcoming/transcending disruptions. Values and ethics, ethnicity, cultural, and spiritual aspects are integrated into the game to arrive at holistic and anti-fragile scenarios.

A large scale cooperative play platform where the core action is posting and replying to Tweet-length ideas

A board game that explores the disruptions caused by new interventions.

Future Geoscientists is a pair of games to allow anyone to imagine the future of geoscience through randomly paired prompts.

A framework for quickly creating foresight games, developed by the United Nations. Used for exploring risks and opportunities around elections as well as many other topics.

The game uses people’s assumptions about what the future may look like to generate conversations, negotiations and collaborations. It allows participants to explore new power relations while offering spaces for critical reflections and deliberations. It uses participants’ hopes and expectations about the future to think strategically about future policy proposals and learn about the implications of today’s decisions. It generates structured conversations that can examine multiple viewpoints on a given policy and examine the landscape of socio-political actors.

A lightweight game for envisioning possible tech trends and societal outcomes across the next decade. Players start with provocative headlines from 2030 and then fill in the blanks for how we get there from today.

Imagining Health Futures is a foresight game in which participants explore the future of health in 2035, from adolescent perspectives. Designed in support of UNICEF’s Office of Innovation.

A serious board game that teaches you to think critically and imaginatively about emerging technology and the future of society. Participants take on professions of the future and navigate change in order to achieve their character’s preferred future state.

Matrix games are structured narrative games widely used for facilitating foresight discussions in defence, intelligence, and public policy development. The Matrix Game Construction Kit contains everything you need to design and run your own matrix games.

A game run at Mozilla's Mozfest that had players explore the future of money. It uses a frame story of a cyberpunk dystopia where players work to overthrow a powerful megacorporation by coming up with interventions that involve monetization, currencies, payments, and more.

Our Futures, is meant to inspire and provoke new, and sometimes unusual, ways to unlock public imagination about alternative futures: how might emerging technologies be used in combination with participatory futures approaches and how might they help us find new ways to involve citizens in tackling 21st century challenges?

Peek is an entertaining game for exploring the complexities and twisted narratives of the future. Players can be smaller (2-4) or larger groups (6-12). For ages 12 and up, due to some adult themes (but you can always remove those cards if you wish).

A 4-hour workshop designed for the World Economic Forum to explore positive visions for the future in a world transformed by artificial intelligence. We led 90 economists, technologists, and sci-fi authors through a series of 5 games that built out different possible futures.

“Present from the Future” is a card game for 2 to 5 players, inspired by a field of design called Futures Thinking. In addition, this game stimulates other positive and useful skills for the present and for the future: creativity, empathy and optimism, when developing future solutions to present problems.

The SES is future simulation tool to explore scenario-based possible paths towards the future in relation to a selected topic. It is a solution-oriented approach that applies to any issue to stimulate engagement with stakeholders. It is used to make scenarios come to life in relation to any topic of interest to the participants. It is well-suited to policymaking and teaching environments but is applied widely.

In this board game, focused around the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), primary school students must both collaborate and compete to learn about balancing personal goals with the needs of the planet as a whole.

An RPG, designed on the spot with stakeholders, and leveraging a multi-agent model and spatial data, to negotiate land use between factions in Senegal.

Shocks to the System: Fast Forward to 2028 is a 30 – 40 min cooperative game for 2-5 people about time travelers making decisions that will determine the trajectory of the future. This game was a joint project between Forum for the Future, an international sustainability nonprofit, and ClimateWorks, a philanthropic platform innovating and accelerating climate solutions that scale.

Game of problematization, ideation, and tactical tailoring for communities (neighbors, organizational collaborators, teachers, students, etc.) The process includes the analysis of cracks, human and non-human actors, ideation of scenarios in different formats, and tailoring tactics in the face of the possibilities. The model was developed at CENTRO, a higher education institution focused on creativity, with the collaboration of Design for Social Innovation and Futures Studies departments.

Players explore different attitudes about the future and about their own agency by spreading out into quadrants and having discussions.

The Thing From The Future is an award-winning imagination game that challenges players to collaboratively and competitively describe objects from a range of alternative futures.

A brainstorm game focused on how bad actors might use technology to manipulate the 2020 election. Commissioned by a major tech company and run for internal and external experts.

An in-person game where participants will explore the future by walking through a neighborhood and using the sights as inspiration.

A scenario planning game, involving a custom-made deck of cards to help explore different economic, social, political and technological trends. Run to investigate how the future of work might play out and to inspire a volume of sci-fi stories that further explore these scenarios.