It's not always easy to gather enough friends to play your favorite board games, but luckily PC gaming has provided a solution. Many of the best board games around—Catan, Carcassonne, Twilight Struggle, to name a few—are getting digital editions worthy of their name, making it easier than ever to play at the drop of a hat with friends, AI, and strangers alike. While there are plenty of great physical, and games like Civilization or Armello bring a board game style experience to your computer, these are some the best existing games full of dice rolls and that you can now play online. It's often hard to translate the appeal of a physical game to the PC, but this list full of awesome games with great digital recreations—or just games so good it doesn't matter how you play them. Colt Express. If you would rather simply try some classic MS-DOS games inside your browser. Topics: DOS games, Vintage computer games, Board games. Classic PC Games. Multiplayer: Local and online Colt Express puts you in the shoes of train robber, trying to predict your opponents' actions to get the drop on them and steal money. Part of the appeal of the physical game was the 3D cardboard train cars that acted as the board. Somewhat ironically, that part isn't quite as novel when the game is digital and the train is rendered normally like every other video game. Still, it's a fun game with some customizable perks added to its digital release. Twilight Struggle. Multiplayer: Local and online Currently the third highest rated game on (it was in the top spot until a couple years ago) Twilight Stuggle is a 1v1 game where players control either the US or the Soviet Union during the height of the Cold War. It's full of political espionage and complex strategy, and the PC recreation has been rated nearly as highly as the physical version. A nice perk is the inclusion of asynchronous multiplayer, which lets you start a game with someone and then let it play out over a long period of time, each player taking their turns whenever they have the time to do so. Ticket to Ride. Multiplayer: Local and online Ticket to Ride is an easy-to-learn game about building railroads across america. You try to complete specific routes given to you while competing to lay down those tracks before your opponents. An interesting part of Ticket to Ride's digital edition is that there are eight different DLC packs you can buy set in other countries around the world. This mirrors Ticket to Ride's actual expansions and alternate editions, making it one of the few digital board games to reproduce itself so comprehensively. The Witcher Adventure Game. Multiplayer: Local and online The Witcher Adventure Game is the video game adaptation of the board game adaptation of The Witcher video game which is an adaptation of The Witcher book series. You take control of one of four Witcher characters—including Geralt himself—and travel across the game's world fighting monsters and completing quests. The digital version can be played with up to four players either locally or online. There's also singleplayer against AI, but apparently it's not very challenging in that regard. Small World 2.
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