Sagrada
A few months ago, my roommates got me hooked on the physical version of this board game, and we absolutely couldn’t get enough. As a Birthday gift, a friend sent me a copy of the digital game we’d all been contemplating getting. After playing a few rounds online, including crossplaying with friends on mobile, I can say this is one of the best digital board games I’ve found to date.
The campaign is realistically just more Sagrada for you to play, but some of the later boards do have some difficult to navigate board/color situations that no one would normally pick, leading to the player having to take interesting and unique lines they wouldn’t normally while playing with friends.
– Real player with 43.7 hrs in game
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This is both an excellent game and an excellent development! No bugs whatsoever, which is a very rare find these days. Congrats to the developers! :-)
It has a good Tutorial and lots of solo content through a Campaign Mode or Solo Mode.
The Campaign is very well designed. It also works as a simple and inviting way to learn more advanced strategies. I learned about all its features by playing it this way. You can replay it as many times as you want and you get rewarded by that. Upper levels get unlocked only after achieving certain goals.
– Real player with 23.3 hrs in game
Ticket to Ride
Ticket To Ride has been my favourite board game for about ten years now, and this addaptation is totally worth getting!
For those unfamiliar with the board game; the game has a perfect mix of luck and strategy, making each game challenging yet fun. Your goal is to finish destination tickets (e.g. New York to Los Angeles) by claiming routes on the board that eventually let you have a path going from one city to the other city on your ticket. To claim routes you need to collect train cards in the colours needed, picking your choice from the face up cards or the face down deck if no colours are available you could use. It’s pretty straight forward and you get the hang of it very fast.
– Real player with 386.8 hrs in game
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The PC adaption (and iPad/iPhone versions too, for that matter) of Ticket to Ride is a very faithful recreation of the classic board game, where the only gameplay differences between it and the physical version are fast and accurate scoring and the fact that enraged board-flipping is no longer a possibility. (Not to mention the bonus of the game + DLC being cheaper than their physical counterparts, and is significantly easier to play with people on the other side of the world!) So, for people who have played the board game before, I think this should be a no-brainer.
– Real player with 142.6 hrs in game
Eight.Domino.Heart
Eight.Domino.Heart is a minimalist logic puzzle game about fitting dominoes into the interlocking slots of the board.
The rules of Eight.Domino.Heart are very simple.
All dominoes must link together, either ⊕
≤ Corner to Corner ≤ the new domino’s side is less than or equal to the old domino’s side
= Top to Bottom = the new domino’s end is equal to the old domino’s end
With 100+ levels and a variety of puzzle challenges to complete in each one, Eight.Domino.Heart is a deeply satisfying and thoroughly relaxing single-player spin on the classic game of dominoes.
🁬 Puzzle fans, treat your mind to Eight.Domino.Heart! 🁶
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The Witcher Adventure Game
This is a good realization of the board game. It is playable as hot-seat or online and may give you many hours of enjoyable experience.
But there are some flaws that need to be fixed to make the game perfect:
1. When a player have to do a choice, he/she can’t access to the game map and/or any player hero sheet and resources including his/her own. This may easily lead to wrong decisions and waste fun. The board game is obviously free from this limitation. So, the possibility to “minimize” the choice and take look at the game state will make the game much comfortable.
– Real player with 1345.7 hrs in game
This game is technically solid. There’s good music, there’s a nice atmosphere, the encounters are cool and the interaction is nearly well excecuted. It’s a very well thought out board game, with minor flaws and weird ‘fast travel’ systems that just robs you of your money.
With nearly well, I mean that the AI is A) dumb as hell, B) cheats.
As for the dumbness - the AI tends to just spend all their development cards for 1 fight, while s/he should only need 1. Then there’s the endless ‘fast travelling’ that they’re doing and making things harder for themselves.
– Real player with 53.3 hrs in game
Small World
I don’t own the boardgame of this yet but a couple of my friends and I spent several hours playing last night and well play many more in the future. A charming game that is much deeper than its whimsical appearance may suggest with a lot of replayability despite the (at least currently) singular map.
I would love to see more expansions for it, especially the modular map, to come to the PC version and more races and powers means more options and crazy combos. Some of these combinations were laugh out loud funny (flying ghouls, peace-loving barbarians, etc.) so even more of these would enhance the game immensely.
– Real player with 408.6 hrs in game
TL;DR: It’s broken
You don’t have 165 hours in this, all single player. Nobody does. Why would you?
So here’s a review from a person who is deep in this game.
The boardgame is amazing, this is it.
Until a month ago, it worked great. It had a few glitches (Leprechauns would get slowdown issues while fast forwarding through their gold collection, etc.) that weren’t game breaking. Maybe every twentieth hour there’d be a game-breaking non-reproduceable bug that you’d never see again.
Not anymore. After purchasing the Royal Bonus DLC, I had 6 drops tonight. Reloaded, dropped from the game again. No error message, nothing. There’s a race that when selected… the game just stopped. Twice for me, tonight. Crazy.
– Real player with 170.2 hrs in game
Animated Puzzles
Animated Puzzles is an enjoyable game for all levels- ranging from an easy puzzle with only a few pieces to 800+ pieces. Each puzzle has a “pull out” tray which stores the unplaced pieces but it still allows you to lay pieces onto the puzzle “board” without placing them, which is similar to a real jigsaw puzzle.
This game allows the player to choose from many included puzzles (several levels of difficulty), plus the workshop has even more high quality, user created puzzles to download for free.
– Real player with 242.5 hrs in game
This is the definitive jigsaw puzzle game. There are plenty of puzzles across 3 levels of difficulty with a half dozen piece shapes to choose from which can further tailor your difficulty level. The music is relaxing. The interface is easy to use. The pieces can be rotated. Once you have placed connecting pieces together they stay together. The images are varied and nice to look at. The animated backgrounds actually make the puzzles a little easier. The only downside to this game is that it ends when you finish the puzzles, which will take quite a while to do. But even that has an upside in Workshop support with plenty of puzzles to choose from. This is really a great game. It contains all the joy of putting together puzzles without the physical space requirements or missing pieces.
– Real player with 93.5 hrs in game
BAO
As a Tanzanian local who grew up playing this game I am glad that the game now has a good and accurate representation on Steam. The game has a lot more strategic options and variations than most mancala like games.
– Real player with 13.2 hrs in game
Like chess, this game requires that the players think a few steps ahead; however, while chess has a few set of rules and a few kinds of pieces, Bao has only one kind of piece and a complex system of rules to govern them. In chess, you take time to set up your pieces. In Bao, you work through two different phases of the game, and watch your work chain react (the flow to this is hard to explain, but satisfying to experience). Those looking for a popular, simple game may find this hard to warm up to (that said, this game does come with a tutorial, and will highlight legal possible moves). Those looking for a fresh mental exercise, or perhaps wanting to learn about other cultures may be interested to give this a shot.
– Real player with 3.0 hrs in game
Eight-Minute Empire
It’s very well done port of the Red Raven Games' board game of the same title. I played the analog version and I have to say that the digitized brother is more enjoyable. Things like glows, and victory point sum-ups are pretty obvious.. but now I can see how much this stuff works and it really does! Now I can tell who is winning and why - when playing board game it was always kind of mystery ;-)
Due to factions' leaders characters, soldiers, and soundtracks it’s much more climatic than board version (I have never supposed I can tell such a thing).
– Real player with 15.1 hrs in game
I Beta tested this for a few weeks. I never tried online play, only local. It was rock solid when played locally. I found only one minor bug, and it was fixed before I reported it (someone else had reported it the day before).
I wasn’t even going to try it out, because this is (I thought) not the kind of board game I like. Well, I couldn’t have been more wrong! Highly addictive, very fun, and super fast. My favorite play is versus 2 AI characters (you can play locally against 1-4 others, any combo of AI and humans). There’s some luck, but a lot of tactics (some strategy, but it’s often overshadowed by luck, so it’s mostly tactical). There are 3 levels of AI. I’ve lost to all 3, I’ve beaten all 3, but generally the AI levels accurately reflect their ability. I played only about 3 dozen games, so perhaps I’ll get to a point where the AI doesn’t provide enough of a challenge. But even if so, this definitely seems worth the money to me.
– Real player with 12.5 hrs in game
Hitman GO: Definitive Edition
Information
Title: Hitman GO: Definitive Edition
Developer(s): Square Enix Montreal
Publisher(s): Square Enix
Genre(s): Puzzle
Game Engine: Unity
Release Date: 23 Feb, 2016
Mode(s): Single-player
Review
+ Merits:
The PC definitive version of the game witnessed the removal of microtransactions, minor graphical improvements, and the touch screen is now replaced with the mouse. The game’s puzzles are smart and can be a bit challenging if the player seeks to complete the bonus objectives in each level. There is a wide variety of tactics to be considered while playing each board game, as each board has a unique theme with different tools and routes.
– Real player with 20.4 hrs in game
(I got this game for free from a friend)
Isn’t it strange when you come across a mobile game that doesn’t actually suck… but is instead fun and challenging? That’s what my experience with Hitman GO was like.
I vividly remember playing Hitman: Absolution a few years ago and feeling like the guy from this Youtube clip: $https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31g0YE61PLQ (you’ll have to copy and paste the url without the $ at the start because embedded Youtube videos tend to freeze the Steam client). Ok, it wasn’t that bad. But while both Hitman: Absolution and Hitman GO are not true Hitman games… the latter’s better for it. Unlike Hitman: Absolution, Hitman GO is a solid title that confidently knows what it wants to be and because of this it can stand strong on its own two feet.
– Real player with 17.5 hrs in game
Steam: Rails to Riches
Would I recommend this game? Perhaps, but if it has to be a binary answer, I tend to say “no”. Once you figured out how to play this game, it is some fun if you like strategic board games. But the in-game tutorial wasn’t any helpful to me. In the end, I watched a video on YouTube explaining the physical edition of this game, and figured out the rest by observing the AI and trying out stuff, taking a couple hours untill I finally knew what I’m doing.
There are also some glitches. Rotating track pieces, or changing the piece after you accidentaly picked the wrong one, feels quite clumsy. Undoing an action requires redoing the whole phase. You cannot always zoom out, which is in particular a problem when moving goods. If you accidentally attempt to do an illegal move a warning pops up and you have to wait until it disappears by itself, which is quite annoying. Some elements (like the action cards) are unnecesserily small, so unless you know where you have to click, you don’t have an idea what you are doing (in particular when playing from the couch).
– Real player with 23.0 hrs in game
Some of the physical map expansions don’t seem available (yet? ever?) but it’s a good implementation of the boardgame. Fully cross-compatible between Steam and iOS – I’ve had two games going at a time for a while, and I can play my turns on either platform. Game servers have had a tendency to randomly go down on occasion during my several weeks playing so far, but only delays playing for some hours or overnight. Touch play on iOS phones can be a little finicky in dragging and dropping hexes; the undo button can certainly be your friend! Animations could use an option to speed up. (UPDATE CORRECTION: such an option already exists under the options menu, and the fastest version is handy for me.) I’ve turned off the repetitous and somewhat shrill sfx.
– Real player with 16.3 hrs in game