Love this game, need suggestions for similar games

[Rocksteady]

Bought this game recently without knowing much about it. Fantastic game, love playing it, only have a few small gripes about it. That said, does anyone have any suggestions for similar games on Steam or iPad that are as fun as Twilight Struggle is?

[Narkulus]

There's nothing out there that I can think of that have mechanics quite like TS. But the following list are all great board game ports of top ranking Boardgamegeek listed games.

For Steam: Ticket to Ride and Small World 2.

For iOS: Agricola, Lords of Waterdeep, Stone Age, Brass, Caylus, Tikal, Galaxy Trucker, Puerto Rico, Eclipse, LeHavre, San Juan, Patchwork, Pandemic, Ticket to Ride, Small World 2, Tigris and Euphrates. I'm sure I'm missing a few, but those are all great board games I would recommend.

You can also find some great multiplayer board games at http://en.boardgamearena.com/. There are no computer opponents to play though, but they are free and most players will help you if you let them know you're new to any game.

[RotorHed]

There are a lot of games with mechanics similar to TS - TS wasn't even the first, but I think most agree it's the best.

If you want to "nerd-out" have a look at this list on boardgame geek which lists many card-driven wargames - that's the style of game TS fits into :

BBG List[www.boardgamegeek.com]

[Narkulus]

Originally posted by RotorHed:

There are a lot of games with mechanics similar to TS - TS wasn't even the first, but I think most agree it's the best.

If you want to "nerd-out" have a look at this list on boardgame geek which lists many card-driven wargames - that's the style of game TS fits into :

BBG List[www.boardgamegeek.com]

He was asking about Steam and iPad though, but I forgot to add Battlelore:Command and Memoir '44 on steam and iOS, both card driven war board games.

[G0ll0]

Gremlins inc... is a digital board game 2-4 players, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAHRlKttPM4
devs are very active in forums, they patch almost every day

[Narkulus]

Gremlins is more rng driven, but enjoyable if that's your cup of tea.

[G0ll0]

the thing is with every patch they make the game lest rgn.. but im new to TS and I see this game is 80% strategy and 20$ luck.. which is fine

[Narkulus]

I played Gremlins in early access, will have to try again soon since they made some changes. TS has most of my time taken up atm though.

[G0ll0]

Yeah TS is awesome, its my frist war board game, and gremlins is fun when u play 4 players

[GK GotKilled]

If you don't mind a lamer version of TS then US vs Them is an option. It has good ideas but with, I feel, poor execution.

[skarabath]

Originally posted by Narkulus:

There's nothing out there that I can think of that have mechanics quite like TS. But the following list are all great board game ports of top ranking Boardgamegeek listed games.

For Steam: Ticket to Ride and Small World 2.

And Memoir 44

[Narkulus]

Originally posted by skarabath:

Originally posted by Narkulus:

There's nothing out there that I can think of that have mechanics quite like TS. But the following list are all great board game ports of top ranking Boardgamegeek listed games.

For Steam: Ticket to Ride and Small World 2.

And Memoir 44

Yeah, I added that along with Battlelore in my other reply, although Memoir '44 is a pay to play scheme that keeps me away.

[FourSwordStyle]

Check out 'The War On Terror' for iOS. Also a boardgame conversion, it's way more tongue in cheek (as you can see from the trailer, lol), but still pretty deep. Almost a Risk style game, but there are other options, like sending terrorists to mess with your opponent.
war on terror trailer

[Solador78]

Here are some of my favorite ios games:

• Neuroshima Hex! (Sci-Fi, hex-based wargame)
• FTL (Star Trek, top-down, rogue-like simulator)
• Out There: Ω Edition (Star Trek, top-down, rogue-like solo boardgame)
• Eclipse: New Dawn for the Galaxy (Star Trek, 4x wargame)
• Papers, Please (cold war communist customs agent simulator)
• Ticket to Ride (family, railway boardgame)
• Agricola (family, farming boardgame)
• Lords of Waterdeep (family, AD&D boardgame)

Some of these are available on Steam.

[G0ll0]

FTL is epic... recommended 100%

[Twelvefield]

An RPG that plays out like a board game is Dangerous High School Girls In Trouble! Definitely wierd, but excellent writing, and a strong board-game theme.

There's also DEFCON, which plays out in "real" time but explores what happens if nuclear war is triggered. Sort of an appendix to TS.