If nothing else, you can’t see the expression of rage on an AI’s face as you block their route from St Petersburg to Barcelona with a single train. Years ago I bought the Ticket To Ride port - reviewed it on this very blog, in fact - and by removing the physicality of it and reducing it to a set of raw mechanics it was exposed as a rather shallow experience. That being said, you’ve got to pick the right kind of boardgame for one of these ports. This is why I’m quite cheered to see a few of the iThing ports of popular boardgames making their way onto Steam, as it makes them rather more accessible than they would be otherwise - and this accessibility can more than compensate for the loss of that experience of playing with other people, if the port is done right. Strictly speaking I never really left them – I play games all the time and I’m not particularly bothered what format they come in so I was always playing them on and off, but the overhead required to get a bunch of people together in a room to mess with a bunch of physical cards and playing pieces is always going to make them a more infrequent pastime than just booting up Into The Breach for a hour-long session. I’ve been somewhat getting back into boardgames recently after a five-year hiatus.
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