Not sure if the community is interested in deal posts and digital implementations so why not try both?
The Steam Summer Sale is on and it includes a bunch of digital boardgame implementations. Unfortunately the “boardgame” and “tabletop” user tags are a bit polluted so have to wade through the noise. Here are some standouts I see (USD prices), please add yours in the comments.
- Aeon’s End - $1.94
$14.99 - One Deck Dungeon $0.99
9.99 - Scythe - $7.99
$17.99 - Sentinels of the Multiverse $0.99
9.99 - Spirit Island $12.48
24.99(all time low I believe) - Tabletop Simulator - $9.99
$19.99 - Wingspan $9.99
19.99
Note that some publishers do matching sales on mobile so for example One Deck Dungeon is on sale on Android too.
Edit: relevant BGG forum post with some more
Good list.
Railroad Ink - $3.19 $7.99
Oh man I didn’t even know Aeons End had a digital app! And it’s steam deck verified! I just found what I’m playing on my flight tomorrow, thanks :D
oh the temptation! I was not aware that spirit island and scythe also are available digitally. Is it any good?
Over several iterations the Spirit Island app became good enough. However, as much as I love the game, it is immensely difficult to play in digital. Even when on my large monitor, I cannot show everything at the same time and I need to switch between maps and cards and I find it makes for much added difficulty. I have stopped playing the digital version. I have not played Scythe enough to be able to say anything about that app.
Thanks so much for sharing. I think spirit island is already complicated enough, might be really detrimental to try the digital version to see if I like the game.
there were some really decent TTS mods when I Last used TTS. in any case I highly recommend finding someone to teach you the game if you don’t know it already. I have more than once encountered people saying they didn’t enjoy the game only to change tune after getting a teacher. It is not even that the rulebooks are bad. It is just a lot of moving parts.
Ngl… That Twilight Struggle app got me through a large chunk of covid. (edit: whether it’s currently on sale or not is unknown to me at the moment)
Last year I had the extremely annoying situation that the Android version of Spirit Island required internet access to play anything beyond the demo version. I had bought a month’s worth of pro access, started a game at the airport then mid transatlantic flight i was done and couldn’t start another.
Other than that I’ll echo that it’s doable but cumbersome to play multiple spirits on a single screen.
