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This page lists board and card games, wargames, miniatures games, and tabletop role-playing games published in 1998. For video games, see 1998 in video gaming.

Games released or invented in 1998

Alpha Blitz
Alternity (role-playing game)
Aquarius
Bosworth
CORPS (role-playing game system)
Cranium
Crimson Skies
Deadlands: Hell on Earth (role-playing game)
Devil Bunny Needs a Ham
Doomtown
Elfenland
The Extraordinary Adventures of Baron Munchausen (role-playing game)
Falling
Filthy Rich
GIPF
Great War at Sea: US Navy Plan Orange
Great War at Sea 2: The North & Baltic Seas
Guillotine
Knightmare Chess 2
Legend of the Burning Sands
Lord of the Fries
Lotus
Panzer Grenadier
Reminiscing:The Millennium Edition
Return to the Tomb of Horrors (for 2nd Edition AD&D)
Revelation (role-playing game)
Samurai
Star*Drive (role-playing game)
Star Trek: The Next Generation Role-playing Game
TAMSK
Through the Desert
Tribe 8 (role-playing game)
Twisted Golf
Warhammer 40,000 (third edition, originally published in 1987)
Warhammer Ancient Battles
War of Resistance, China Theater 1937-1941 (Game Research/Design)

Game awards given in 1998

Spiel des Jahres: Elfenland - Alan R. Moon, Amigo Spiele
Games: Fossil

Significant games-related events in 1998

Hasbro purchases the name "Avalon Hill", back inventory of that company, and rights to Avalon Hill titles for US$6 million.
Rio Grande Games founded.

Deaths

Date	Name	Age	Notability
April 19	Armand Jammot	76	Television producer and game designer

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1998 in video gaming

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