Ask HN: Board Games Online?
I want to play online board games with my friends, have you used platforms to do this? What do you like about them - can you create private lobbies? What games can you play on them?
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I’ve made a list of online boardgame platforms:
https://wiki.alcidesfonseca.com/blog/online-boardgames-platf...
Boardgamearena and yucata have the largest collection and the best user interface in 2D. Tabletopia and tabletopsimulator are 3D and (mostly) paid.
https://wiki.alcidesfonseca.com/blog/online-boardgames-platf...
Boardgamearena and yucata have the largest collection and the best user interface in 2D. Tabletopia and tabletopsimulator are 3D and (mostly) paid.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22967716 has some good resources.
I have played some Steam games which support Remote Play Together (sharing screen and inputs from one device), so only one player needs to buy the game.
I have played some Steam games which support Remote Play Together (sharing screen and inputs from one device), so only one player needs to buy the game.
My friends and I have been playing board games (Coup, 7 Wonders, Stone Age) on boardgamearena.com. It has a nice interface, and looks like there's a lot of other board games too. But to play these games, one person in the group needs to have a premium account.
That took a surprising number of clicks to get to how much a premium account costs, which usually indicates a very high price. I was surprised at the end to find it's just €24/year, that's extremely reasonable.
Great! Thanks for sharing! I'll look into this
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