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ONLINE BOARD GAME PLATFORMS BOARD GAME APPS FOR ANDROID & IOS TRIVIA
These platforms house multiple games all together. You need to sign up and create an account to play, this generally isn’t much of an obstacle to overcome. Some examples of QuizWitz
paid games
Board Game Arena Board Games on Steam Tabletopia 7 Wonders $8.50 Host signs up and streams screen,
UNO! Fluxx Skip-Bo Werewolf and Mafia Chess.com Agricola $8 players connect their devices to catlab.tv.
This website has 175 different board Steam is a free gaming platform. When Has over 800 board games! The games $44 to play with more than 6. Can create your
Other apps available Also on web Carcassonne $8
games. The games are well set up and simple to online, everyone needs the same game, so if it aren’t set up and run for you, instead it provides own quizzes. Various question types.
follow. Very good site! Some games include: Castles of Burgundy $9
costs money all need a paid copy of the game. you with a simulator that has all the pieces you Evolution Free*
• 6 Nimmt! • Quarto & Quoridor Some free games: need for the game on a virtual table. You need to Exploding Kittens $2.90 Jeopardy Labs
• Colt Express • Perudo actively move, turn over, and shuffle all Galaxy Trucker $6.50
• Simply Chess components of the game yourself (which takes a Classic Games Host just needs to stream screen and other
• French Tarot • Red 7 For the likes of Backgammon, Reversi, Go, Catan Universe Catan Classic Game of Life $4
• Hanabi • Stone Age • Catan Universe bit to learn). Just interacting with pieces can take Istanbul $12 players watch and play along. Don’t have to
Chess, etc. Search for the developer Free, but glitchy Roughly $8 per sign up. Can create your own jeopardy games.
• Hive • Saboteur • (A bit glitchy, also on mobile) a little while as well. Can play some games locally “al factory ltd” also on Steam person, also glitchy Monopoly $6
There are better games • Risk: Global Domination on the same computer. Some games require the Pandemic $8
available for Premium • ($18.50 to remove wait times. Also on mobile) premium account. Tabletopia has lots of lesser Puerto Rico (iOS only) $4 Protobowl
known games, including: Race for the Galaxy $10
members (roughly $6.50 Some paid games: Small World $8 Create room and share link. “Buzz in”
per month). Only one • Euphoria • Scythe Splendor $8 and type answers to the questions being read.
You can get most of these games cheaper on Houseparty Risk Trickster Hive
person in the party needs mobile. Prices usually range from $10-$25 • Santorini • Spyfall Video chat app with a few Free to play, pay $18.50 Cards Android only, Terra Mystica $14
premium for all to play. • Puerto Rico excluding sales. Games include: • Viticulture • Stockpile games - Trivia, Heads Up, to play without wait iOS only, uses BGA Terraforming Mars $12 Kahoot
Premium games include: • Cluedo • Wingspan • Sub Terra Pictionary, Apples to Apples times. Also on Steam also on web account Ticket to Ride $9.50
• Sushi Go! • Axis & Allies 1942 • Evolution • Pandemic Host signs up on Kahoot.com and
• 7 Wonders • Kingdomino • Roll for the Galaxy • Terra Mystica • Secret Hitler Through the Ages $15
• Galaxy Trucker • Terra Mystica • Scythe This list is considerably sparse. There are so many options, search a game and there’s
*$8.50 for ∞ multiplayer games
streams screen, others connect with their
• Carcassonne • Love Letter • Terra Mystica • Quips about Christianity probably an app for it! Most decent games either cost money, or exist as glitchy knock-offs. devices to Kahoot.it. Can create your own
• Coup • Lost cities • Werewolf • Game of life • Ticket to Ride • Stockpile
• Labyrinth: W.O.T. • Terraforming Mars quizzes. Used a lot for education, but does
• Monopoly Plus • Roll for the Galaxy Boîte à Jeux feature general trivia. Usually multiple choice.
Tabletop Simulator Translates well into English. Pay premium OTHER Quizizz
for a few features like hosting
Costs around $30, but has an excellently vast games only friends can join. Jackbox Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes Host signs up on Quizizz.com. Others
selection! Over 30 thousand various games and 61 games including: Agricola, connect with their devices to joinmyquiz.com.
People on the same wifi network can’t play with Collections of different party games. Fun co-op game that involves one person Can create your own quizzes. Used a lot for
each other unless someone in the game has a RPG’s! Can even create your own games on the Alchemists, Concordia, and Dixit. The host pays for it (ranges $12-$30 per
Steam workshop. Much like Tabletopia it just describing a bomb and others instructing education, but does feature general trivia.
premium account. Can currently bypass this if an pack, different per pack). Platforms include how to defuse. Platforms include Steam, Players can race and answer at own pace.
account is just initially created on a different IP provides a simulator for you to interact with the Steam and consoles. Someone with the game
Brettspielwelt mobile, and consoles. Only the host with the
network (e.g. create an account on mobile data). pieces. Just slightly harder than Tabletopia with streams. Other players don’t need to sign up or bomb buys the game (ranges $12-$22 depending
regards to understanding the functionality. Can
German site (doesn’t translate well, little harder buy anything, instead they simply watch and join on platform). Other players just need the bomb MultiplayerTrivia.com
play some games locally on the same computer. game with their devices to jackbox.tv. manual found at bombmanual.com. Anyone
to understand). 60 games including: Players need to sign up. Share link
Happy Meeple 7 Wonders, Catan, 3 versions of playing remotely can’t have turns with the bomb to join private game room. Simply laid out,
Board Space Carcasonne, Evolution, Stone Age, Town of Salem unless they also buy/install the game. but the site is still in beta and lacks features
Can play as a guest, must play a few games prior such as choice of categories.
to versing strangers online. 9 quick 2P Power Grid, and Puerto Rico.
Features 84 mostly abstract games, including Similar to Mafia/Werewolf. There’s a
games: Lost Cities, Hanamikoji, Level X,
Khet, Hive, Container, Euphoria, and
bit to understanding with how it runs. Online Tabletop RPGs There are many other trivia sites and apps,
Circle the Wagons, plus Raging Bulls.
Viticulture. Must download a game Vassal Was free, now costs $5-$10 depending
For virtual tabletops Roll20.net including QuizUp, Trivia Crack and Sporcle.com.
on platform (Steam, web, mobile). Classic Most sites, like RandomTriviaGenerator, don’t
client. There’s a small learning curve Old game client that simulates board games. Bit is free on mobile (limited free goes per day). is the most popular option. It’s free and features facilitate online multiplayer.
Yucata to knowing how to join others online. to learn with how to download the client and the likes of DnD and Pathfinders. Pay $50-$100 per
games, how to run games, and how to join with year for better features. D20Pro ($10 per month,
158 mostly lesser known games. Can play as a
others. Benefit to Vassal is that there’s over 2000 Air Console $30 for GM), Fantasy Grounds ($56 on Steam)
guest (joining little more complicated). Includes: Triqqy Astral Tabletop (free), and Foundry ($50 for GM)
It’s assumed that for most games you’d run a video or
games available, though many are removed due Website with many different knock-off board voice chat service simultaneously (e.g. Zoom, Discord).
• Red 7 • Terra Mystica Has 25 Euro and traditional games, to copyright. Used lots for playing Wargames. games and video games. Players join with their are other popular options. Tabletop Simulator also Prices mentioned are in AUD, and many games here
• Port Royal • Puerto Rico including: • Through the desert phone as a controller, going on the app or the site features RPGs. Some free options with fewer are not authorized implementations. This is not an
• Stone Age • Machi Koro There are plenty other platforms available, including airconsole.com. This site functions best with games and features include Tableplop, Let’s Role, exhaustive list, there are many more random sites that
• Castles of Burgundy • Lost Cities • Ra • Shipwreck Beyond Tabletop, Fabletop, TaleSpire, Rolisteam facilitate games! To play a specific game, either
• Tigris & Euphrates • Samurai Pogo.com, Tabletop Playground, Boardgamecore everyone in the same room, but if you can
• 2 versions of Carcassonne withstand the lag then the host can stream and Maptool. Each virtual tabletop has pros and research and discover if it exists online already, or get
and Little Golem. Board Game Arena is perhaps most creative, and say, work out how to play it over video.
the screen and others can join and play. cons, look up sites that compare in more detail.
A few other platforms are already mentioned above. PlayOK.com, CardzMania, FunNode.com, and others. accessible and has the most mainstream games. Happy Board Gaming! Notes collated by Evan Leed 2020