Through the Ages is now on Steam.
This digital version of one of the
best boardgames ever came out for pads and phones some months ago but has now been ported well.
It’s hard to describe. It’s a competition game where you produce two kinds of resources and have two kinds of action points. So you try to get more action points and resources, but that takes actions and resources, so there is never enough to everything you want, - but at least your opponents are in the same situation.
I have enjoyed discovering the many small design decisions that indicates that this game has been made by people loving the original game. E.g. it will keep track of cards future event cards you have played and tell if you can deduce what will happen.
The AI doesn’t cheat, but it plays very well. I’ve only had two games yet, where one was lost to a beginner AI. (I’m currently being decimated by two medium AIs). It can be played quite fast with a full game in about 1½ hour.
To give us limited humans a change the game do give you warnings if you are about to end your turn while there is something you may have forgotten (e.g. Ocean liner service), and there is an undo functionality that let you roll back your action phase.
Two of my friends have had good experience with the asynchronous multiplayer, where the rules have been tweaked slightly (the auction for colonies has been replaced with a onetime bid, - highest wins).
http://store.steampowered.com/app/758370/Through_the_Ages/It even has a significant launch discount 16EUR -> 10EUR until April 2.
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