{"id":3095,"date":"2013-12-20T13:15:06","date_gmt":"2013-12-20T18:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/?p=3095"},"modified":"2013-12-23T13:23:04","modified_gmt":"2013-12-23T18:23:04","slug":"ios-games-on-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/20\/ios-games-on-sale\/","title":{"rendered":"iOS games on sale."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are a number of iOS boardgame apps on sale right now through Christmas (and sometimes beyond), so rather than tweet a bunch of links I figured I&#8217;d list the ones I recommend here. If you&#8217;re looking for recent content, my <a href=http:\/\/klaw.me\/1bfANne>Top Chef recap<\/a> went up Thursday night and contains links to everything I&#8217;ve written this week.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/small-world-2\/id364165557?mt=8&#038;uo=4&#038;at=11l9Rw\" target=\"itunes_store\">Small World 2<\/a>, on sale for $4.99 right now. I love this game and app and gave the pre-update version <a href=https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/20\/small-world-app\/>a very positive review<\/a>.\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/reiner-knizias-tigris-euphrates\/id471458190?mt=8&#038;uo=4&#038;at=11l9Rw\" target=\"itunes_store\">Reiner Knizia&#8217;s Tigris &#038; Euphrates<\/a>, just $0.99 right now, as are all Codito titles except Puerto Rico. I <a href=https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/15\/tigris-euphrates-app\/>liked this one<\/a> from the start, but the update to the graphics earlier this year made it much easier on the eyes.\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/le-havre-the-harbor\/id517685886?mt=8&#038;uo=4&#038;at=11l9Rw\" target=\"itunes_store\">Le Havre<\/a>, also $0.99 as it&#8217;s another Codito title. It&#8217;s from the designer of Agricola but brings in elements of Caylus; I think it&#8217;s the most complex boardgame I&#8217;ve ever played, and it works way better in an app version than it did tabletop because of all of the pieces involved. My <a href=https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/22\/le-havre-boardgame-app\/>review from June 2012<\/a> is from the original release.\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/agricola\/id561521557?mt=8&#038;uo=4&#038;at=11l9Rw\" target=\"itunes_store\">Agricola<\/a>, down to $4.99 from $6.99, but now with the I and K card decks available as in-app purchases. If you haven&#8217;t played the physical game, those decks come standard and offer a lot more occupations and opportunities for interaction with other players. You can read <a href=https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/15\/agricola-ios-app\/>my review of the base game<\/a> from July.\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/caylus\/id486202473?mt=8&#038;uo=4&#038;at=11l9Rw\" target=\"itunes_store\">Caylus &#8211; Big Daddy&#8217;s Creations<\/a>, down to $2.99 from $4.99. My <a href=https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/04\/caylus-ios-app\/>original app review<\/a> came before some minor bug fixes, and this probably still has the best, brightest graphics of any game app in the field.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/baldurs-gate-enhanced-edition\/id515114051?mt=8&#038;uo=4&#038;at=11l9Rw\" target=\"itunes_store\">Baldur&#8217;s Gate: Enhanced Edition &#8211; Beamdog<\/a>, down to $6.99. It&#8217;s not a board game, but a classic RPG that has been adapted to iOS. I&#8217;ve played <a href=https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/23\/baldurs-gate-for-ipad\/>and reviewed it<\/a>; it&#8217;s very good, especially after a recent update included many of the features that originally appeared in the Throne of Bhaal sequel to BG2.\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/sid-meiers-pirates!-for-ipad\/id438635005?mt=8&#038;uo=4&#038;at=11l9Rw\" target=\"itunes_store\">Sid Meier&#8217;s Pirates!<\/a>, down to $0.99. Also not a boardgame, just another PC classic ported to iOS. My <a href=https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/30\/sid-meiers-pirates-app\/>original review<\/a> is from September of 2011; I liked it, but didn&#8217;t love it, because it becomes monotonous after an hour or two &#8211; but you&#8217;ll get your 99 cents&#8217; worth.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are a number of iOS boardgame apps on sale right now through Christmas (and sometimes beyond), so rather than tweet a bunch of links I figured I&#8217;d list the ones I recommend here. If you&#8217;re looking for recent content, my Top Chef recap went up Thursday night and contains links to everything I&#8217;ve written [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[579,60,190],"class_list":["post-3095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-apps","tag-boardgames","tag-links","entry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3095"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3107,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3095\/revisions\/3107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}