Ask HN: Board Games Online?

Posted by bobblywobbles on Monday May 18, 2020 @02:44PM
from the ask-hn dept.

I want to play online board games with my friends, have you used platforms to do this? What do you like about them - can you create private lobbies? What games can you play on them?

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Re:Ask HN: Board Games Online? by alcidesfonseca on Monday May 18, 2020 @07:05PM (#23229411)

I’ve made a list of online boardgame platforms:

https://wiki.alcidesfonseca.com/blog/online-boardgames-platf...

Boardgamearena and yucata have the largest collection and the best user interface in 2D. Tabletopia and tabletopsimulator are 3D and (mostly) paid.

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Re:Ask HN: Board Games Online? by ujki1 on Monday May 18, 2020 @04:04PM (#23227686)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22967716 has some good resources.

I have played some Steam games which support Remote Play Together (sharing screen and inputs from one device), so only one player needs to buy the game.

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Re:Ask HN: Board Games Online? by vortex_ape on Monday May 18, 2020 @02:50PM (#23226801)

My friends and I have been playing board games (Coup, 7 Wonders, Stone Age) on boardgamearena.com. It has a nice interface, and looks like there's a lot of other board games too. But to play these games, one person in the group needs to have a premium account.

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Re:Ask HN: Board Games Online? by freehunter on Monday May 18, 2020 @09:33PM (#23230419)

That took a surprising number of clicks to get to how much a premium account costs, which usually indicates a very high price. I was surprised at the end to find it's just €24/year, that's extremely reasonable.

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Re:Ask HN: Board Games Online? by bobblywobbles on Monday May 18, 2020 @03:00PM (#23226924)

Great! Thanks for sharing! I'll look into this

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Re:Ask HN: Board Games Online? by rahimnathwani on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @03:22AM (#23244209)

Free online Codenames: https://www.horsepaste.com/

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Re:Ask HN: Board Games Online? by Kdog77 on Tuesday May 19, 2020 @01:31PM (#23237597)

https://colonist.io/# for settlers of catan

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