Review anarchistica 3/5 · Nov 11, 2020
Solid Adaptation For Kids
Intro
Ticket To Ride is a boardgame takes place on a map on which various places in Europe/The US are connected by tracks of different lengths and colours. Players draw randomly coloured trains and routes. A route requires you to connect two places, like Amsterdam and Rome. You do this by placing enough trains of the correct colour on tracks …
Intro
Ticket To Ride is a boardgame takes place on a map on which various places in Europe/The US are connected by tracks of different lengths and colours. Players draw randomly coloured trains and routes. A route requires you to connect two places, like Amsterdam and Rome. You do this by placing enough trains of the correct colour on tracks between those places.
There are a limited amount of tracks between each place, so you can be blocked by other players. In addition to getting points for completing routes you also get points for completing the first east-west route (like Dublin-Moscow). The first players with 6 points wins.
Review
First Journey is a digital version of the game with some features removed. It's nice and colourful, and each city has an object that does a cute animation when a completed route passes through it. You can play solo, local or with Steam friends. The AI is good so even solo is fun. The game relies too much on luck to be really good, but it's still fun.
Since i'm contractually obliged to say something negative: There are only 2 continents and you can't change the portraits of the players. That feels a little cheap.