Rent Party compared

Rent Party or Board Game Arena?

A huge online board-game club: hundreds of licensed games, real-time or turn-based tables that can run for days, free to join with a Premium tier.

Last checked November 7, 2026.

What it costs to sit down

RivalBoard Game Arena

FreeFree accounts; only Premium members can create new tables for Premium games: $0
Premium monthly$5 or 5€ a month, unchanged in the 2025-07-01 price update: $5 a month
Premium annual$42 or 42€ a year from 2025-07-01: $42 a year

Prices from boardgamearena.com (opens in a new tab) · read November 7, 2026

Prices from forum.boardgamearena.com (opens in a new tab) · read November 7, 2026

Our deedRent Party

Free: Costs nothing
Pro: $2.99 a month
Family: $1.99 per seat a month

Every limit, plan by plan

Who's better off where

Better off at Board Game Arena

Choose Board Game Arena if your group wants hundreds of different board games over days, with real-time and turn-based tables already built for that.

Better off at Rent Party

Choose Rent Party if what you want is the property-trading night itself: pass and play on one phone, CPU characters, ranked games, and no plan needed to open a table.

Side by side

"Not stated on the pages we checked" means just that. It might be there. We couldn't find it on their own pages, so we won't say no for them.

At the table	Rent Party	Board Game Arena	Where we read it
Friendly games with friends in a private room	Rent Party Yes	Board Game Arena Yes	Their page (opens in a new tab)
Ranked games	Rent Party Yes	Board Game Arena Partly	Their page (opens in a new tab)
Pass and play on one device	Rent Party Yes	Board Game Arena Not stated on the pages we checked
CPU opponents	Rent Party Yes	Board Game Arena Not stated on the pages we checked
Turns over days, nobody has to be online together	Rent Party Yes	Board Game Arena Yes	Their page (opens in a new tab)
Pause a game and finish it later	Rent Party Yes	Board Game Arena Not stated on the pages we checked
Board, deed, token and avatar looks to collect	Rent Party Yes	Board Game Arena Not stated on the pages we checked
Make your own board	Rent Party No	Board Game Arena Not stated on the pages we checked
Plays in the browser, nothing to install	Rent Party Yes	Board Game Arena Yes	Their page (opens in a new tab)
Android app on Google Play	Rent Party No	Board Game Arena Not stated on the pages we checked
iOS app on the App Store	Rent Party No	Board Game Arena Not stated on the pages we checked
No third-party ads	Rent Party Partly	Board Game Arena Not stated on the pages we checked

What we don't have yet

Better you hear it from us.

No board editor. You can't draw your own board yet. Boards come from our city editions, and you can collect their looks.
Not on Google Play yet. There's no Android app to install today. Your phone's browser plays the whole game.
No iOS app. Nothing on the App Store. On an iPhone, you play in the browser.
One panel of our own. No third-party ads, but a small panel promotes our other apps on the home, results and Help pages and beside the lobby.

Check Board Game Arena yourself

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Free is the whole game.

Every mode and every house rule, on Free. Grab your crew, or a CPU character, and see how it rolls.

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