The Pokemon Company has released another official Pokemon game onto Android today called Pokemon Duel. This particular title is more of a strategy board game where players will be able to craft their own deck of Pokemon characters before jumping into a match with other players to see who comes out on top.
Tag: board games
Use your influence to vie for the papacy in Avignon: Clash of Popes, now available from Google Play
Released by Semag Studio LLC, Avignon: Clash of Popes is a tabletop game that’s just been ported over to Android. Set in the 14th century, players assume the role of the purported next pope, only to see the job usurped by someone else.
Under the Radar: Hold off waves of hostile aliens to survive in XenoShyft, now available from Google Play
Based on the eponymous board game, XenoShyft is a deck building game that’s now playable on Android. In this game, players will assume control of the NorTec army, specifically those that are assigned to defending a particular base which housed a mining operation that’s in search of a dangerous fuel source called Xenosathem. This fuel tends to pervert and mutate life that’s exposed to it.
[Update: Game Released] Help psychics and a ghost solve a murder in Mysterium, coming to Andoid next month
The board game industry is a booming one, growing significantly over the last few years. With this uptick, I can’t say that I’m surprised to see physical board games being ported over to mobile and PC. Mysterium is the latest example of this trend. In this game, players will be helping to solve a murder mystery, with the help of the deceased.
In other board gaming news, Pandemic is currently on sale for a limited time. In this game, two to four players are doing everything they can to stop an outbreak of a pandemic disease from wiping out humanity. One of the many twists in this game is that there are multiple diseases that are all spreading concurrently, though in different regions of the globe. Players work cooperatively in this game, to try to kill off all four diseases and and hopefully avoid the multiple loss conditions that the game presents which include too man outbreaks, running out of player cards, and so on.
Twilight Struggle is one of the best board games ever to be created. Fortunately for us, it’s now been ported over to Android. In this game, players will be assuming control of either the US, or the Soviet Union, in a bid for global hegemony, during the Cold War. Players will work their way through rounds, that are focused on each of the four main decades that contained the Cold War.
The board game industry is a booming one, growing significantly over the last few years. With this uptick, I can’t say that I’m surprised to see physical board games being ported over to mobile and PC. Mysterium is the latest example of this trend. In this game, players will be helping to solve a murder mystery, with the help of the deceased.
Set in a post-pandemic world, Nyheim is a game about rebuilding and survival after most of humanity was wiped out. While the origin of the virus is unclear, a rat does become infected with it. Its symptoms within the rat include increased testosterone production, as well as heightened aggression, which inevitably leads to both it’s rampant spread among other rats, and eventually the transference of it to humans. Switch it to monkeys and you have the 28 Days Later movie.
Humble Bundle has started up a new mobile focused bundle this morning called the Humble Mobile Bundle Board Games edition. As you are probably guessing with this particular name, all of the games in this bundle are board games. Interestingly enough, this bundle also features a slightly adjusted 3 tier layout for the first time.
Popular board game Flash Point: Fire Rescue is getting a digital version and it’s heading to Android soon
One of the more recent popular physical board games is one that is called Flash Point: Fire Rescue. Developers RetroEpic have picked up the task of bringing this turn-based strategy game to the digital world by making a digital version of it. This will be arriving for Android devices in the near future.