Midnight joeboy.
Are there any iOS board games with local multiplayer over Bluetooth? I know Ticket to Ride used to be able to do that and I assume it still does, but are there any others?
Fortnite. Iāve avoided this a long time because if something is popular with the kids I tend to avoid it like the plague. Iāve actually been having a good time. I appreciate that the map has so many things to do, from NPCs to meet to animals to hunt toā¦fishing!
Iāve played the solo battle royale 4 time now and interestingly Iāve won every single one of them. Iāve also never built so much as a single wall. Iām not sure what the strategy is supposed to be, but it seems like avoiding early fights while slowly moving to the center of the storm has paid off. Iāve had a couple good snipes with a sniper rifle but Iām no shooter expert. I think patience is the name of the game, at least so far.
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Have you played other battle royale games? The formats popular because it is good fun
Iāve tried CoD and enjoy it as well, but am pretty terrible. All Iāve played is solo. It is a great format in general even if the market is going to oversaturate it into oblivion.
I think part of the appeal is that they are really good solo games, but theyāre also an absolute blast when played with friends.
I am greatly enjoying Cards of Terra on iOS. It is a fairly simple solitaire-esque game where the goal is usually simply to clear the cards. The twist is that many of the cards have special abilities. There is nothing all that deep here, but it is very addicting. The game has a campaign that introduced new cards as you play and has a number of bosses to beat. In addition, there is a puzzle mode where you need to beat a pre-set puzzle and the mode that I canāt seem to put down - draft mode. In this mode you select cards two at a time to add to your deck and then need to progress through a series of levels with these cards. As you play you can unlock new cards that may show up in your draft.
The game is completely free to play with no sort of currencies or timers of any sort. There are ads every 5-or-so campaign levels that you can pay $3 to remove but I never encountered any ads in there other modes. Check it out!
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Agree 100% on Cards of TerraāI havenāt played in a while, but I went through the campaign a while back and have at least tried all the other modes. Itāll stay on my phone for a while, as itās very easy to just play a couple of rounds and then get away from if I want.
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Finally did the tutorial for Gloomhaven. What are people playing? The Campaign or Guildmaster?
Playing the campaign on easy, after being totally humiliated on a higher level 
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Playing campaign on standard difficulty (gets easier after first couple of scenarios and when you get comfortable with the systemā¦. But never easy)
Retired about 6 toons so far I think?
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Ok, I will try it again. I kept mis-clicking and then had to start over and I was getting frustrated. They really need an āundoā button for when you have not changed the state of the game.
Pushing the Esc button will give you a menu from which you can restart a round. That really helps in the beginning when misclicks and misinterpretation of card descriptions are common.
At the moment Iām playing with a party of 3. That seems to be the sweet spot for team size vs difficulty.
Yeah, I will try again, I rage quit over the weekend after miss-clicking near the end of the first campaign scenario.
I was playing with the Brute, Scoundrel and Mind Thief.
The party size of 3 is my sweet spot too. I had 4, but struggled to balanced damage / flex. It might have been also because I added a new hero and didnāt understand him.
Each hero has their own little learning curve - itās great!
Someone mentioned Dark Mist on here recently. I picked it up on the Steam Sale for $4.49. What a cool concept and twist on the genre. You canāt build too thin of a deck, because your life is your deck. Neat. I think it is on iOS too, but I wanted it on PC.
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It is on iOS and was recently on sale. I bought it and enjoyed the bit that I played but I have other games Iād like to finish before I give it more time.
I also discovered that it is technically a sequel. The first game was called Blood Card and Dark Mist is actually subtitled Blood Card 2. I havenāt played the original but it seems to have good reviews as well.
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Still on sale, just picked it up for $6.
Iāve been trying to play Axis & Allies on iOS with some friends and it is really rough. The game looks nice and the menus are clean, but performance is painful. First, there are no notifications, which is mind-boggling this day and age. There are also no turn replays, which is criminal for a dudes on a map game. There is a turn log, which will tell you helpful things like āJapan successfully attacked Zone 54ā¦.ā And you can click each log entry to see it happen, but why it takes multiple menus and 4 separate loading screens to see what happened between your turns is beyond me. The game also crashes sometimes, but at least it loads right back to where you were when it crashed.
Overall, I was hoping for a far better experience. The game isnāt even a favorite and we were giving it a go for nostalgia reasons more than anything but the app is letting me down.
One big positive is that you can set up a multiplayer game with just about any mix of players and AI. Of this were a war game made by, oh, letās just randomly say HexWar, it would simply be a 1v1 experience.
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