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I'm curious if people have any recommendations for good strategy iPad games based on board games. Catan is good. Carcassonne is good. Monopoly is painful.

What others do people play regularly?

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  - Puerto Rico
  - Race for the Galaxy
  - Splendor
  - Lords of Waterdeep
  - Agricola
  - Le Havre

I don’t exactly recommend them, because I think they’re hard to understand if you haven’t played in real life, but also:

  - Terra Mystica
  - Steam

I picked Patchwork the board game recently, and then tried PC game -- very good. You can play both against a good computer player and against online players (with ELO rating) -- as many games asynchronously as you want. Its a cute-looking, relaxing game.

I very much recommend ‘Through the Ages’. It’s the board game app I’ve played the most.

It’s very well polished and has a very good tutorial.

Ticket to Ride is good.

My roommate and I play weeks long games of twilight struggle. I like the asynchronous play better than real life, as I have the time to really strategize my hand. The AI also makes it way easier to spin up new people as you need to play a lot of games to start memorizing the cards & it seems easier to do this against a robot.

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