This page lists board and card games, wargames, miniatures games, and tabletop role-playing games published in 1982. For video games, see 1982 in video gaming.
Games released or invented in 1982
- Ant Wars
- Battle Damage: Code Red
- By the Sword!
- Continuo
- Dawn Patrol
- Fields of Action
- Fighting Fantasy
- Fringeworthy (role-playing game)
- FTL:2448 (role-playing game)
- Gangbusters (role-playing game)
- Man, Myth & Magic (role-playing game)
- Phase 10
- Sequence
- Survive!
- Star Frontiers (role-playing game)
- Star Trek: The Role Playing Game
- Starfleet Voyages (role-playing game)
- Swordbearer (role-playing game)
- True Dough Mania
- Wizards
Game awards given in 1982
- Spiel des Jahres: Enchanted Forest (German title is Sagaland)
Significant games-related events in 1982
- Trivial Pursuit published, becoming the first trivia game.
- TSR, Inc. purchases assets of Simulations Publications, Inc. following its bankruptcy.