Tile-based game

Question

How to translate "tile-based game" into Russian correctly?

Answer 1

If you mean tile-based video games, the word tile here has no russian counterpart, so it is usually translated as игры с тайловой графикой or тайловые игры. If you mean just tile-based games, then it can be translated like:

• Настольные игры с использованием игральных костей.
• Настольные игры с игральными костями.

In order to reduce tautology these often reduced to игры с костями (sounds pretty ominous out of context, doesn't it) or even игры в кости.

Also, as Quassnoi had mentioned, кости in russian stands for both dice and tile games.

For example,

Игра "1000 на кубиках" относится к одной из самых азартных и увлекательных игр в кости. Везение помноженное на мастерство и точный расчет - вот главное условие выигрыша, как, кстати, и в большинстве игр подобного рода.

is about dice game.

It is worth to mention that in some games there is a tendency to call tiles just тайлы. For example, in official rules of Mahjong in Russian, you will find only "кости". But de-facto it is common to many russian players to use "тайлы".

For mor popular tile-based games it is not the case. You'll probably never hear "домино с тайлами из слоновой кости" :)

Yet, there is derivative form of кости, костяшки, which are more likely to be associated with tiles.

Answer 2

I think English tile-based game means board games with tiles, like Carcassonne or Forgotten Island. This case tile is a piece of land or map, so nearest Russian equivalent should be Настрольная игра, there are no specific word for tile. usually it's called same тайл or участок.