Anyway, here\u2019s a quick summary of the mobile games that kept me entertained over the holiday period.<\/p>\n
Plague Inc.\u00a0(iOS Universal<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Android<\/a>)<\/h3>\nProbably the game I spent the most time with, I actually wasn\u2019t planning on playing this at all except a friend of mine happened to be playing it when he came to visit between Christmas and New Year. He\u2019d downloaded the free version and convinced two of my other friends to get it, which then prompted me to bust out my game that I\u2019d bought a couple of years ago but hadn\u2019t played in a while.<\/p>\n
![\"plague](\"http:\/\/www.sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/twelve-games-of-christmas.png\" "\\"\\"")
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I seemed to have lost what little progress I had made last time I played the game seriously, so I was back to starting from scratch with me friends. We had a good time going through the various plagues, swapping strategies and knowledge\u2026 I remembered more than I thought I would, so I raced through the early plagues, getting slowed and slightly stuck only on Nano Virus and Bio Weapon. To my shame, I had to look up a guide for Bio Weapon as I just couldn\u2019t figure out where I was going wrong. It taught me some more secrets about infection strategies that I\u2019ll try and use on my Brutal playthroughs.<\/p>\n
It just shows how robust Plague Inc.<\/em> is, to still be interesting and playable after all these years, but I think the flaws are starting to come through. They\u2019ve done well with their more creative or special edition plagues, but a lot of the base plagues require the same patient strategy, which detracts from the experience over-all. Still, it was a good blast from the past, and despite our significant others getting extremely annoyed at us all sitting on our phones, it was an oddly social experience.<\/p>\nTicket to Ride\u00a0(iOS Universal<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Android<\/a>) (Review<\/a>)<\/h3>\nMy wife plays a lot of mobile games. A lot more than me\u2026 the problem is, she\u2019s cheap. Like, VERY cheap, so to my shame the only games she actually ends up playing are the F2P trash that remains a blight on this industry.\u00a0<\/p>\n
![\"offline](\"http:\/\/www.sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/twelve-games-of-christmas.jpg\" "\\"\\"")
<\/p>\n
She has an actual process \u2013 she will binge a free game as far as she can, conserving what free premium currency she has and spending it on the most optimum things, before the game finally overtakes her with its freemium nonsense, and then she moves on. She\u2019s played everything form Farmville<\/em>, to some game about Cats and Towns. Her most recent beau is some kind of Caf\u00e9 running game.<\/p>\nI\u2019ve finally, FINALLY managed to convince her to buy an actual, bona-fide mobile game. We play a lot of physical boardgames together as a couple. Since Asmodee Digital was recently running a winter sale, she ended up picking up Ticket to Ride<\/em>. We have the Nordic physical game which she enjoys, but we\u2019ve stuck with the base USA map that the main app comes with.<\/p>\nIt\u2019s been great and proved a great app to bust out when there\u2019s nothing else to do \u2013 we\u2019ve played it in the car as we were being taken to the sea-side, we did a big five-player pass-and-play session with our friends before the left, and we even played it together in our hotel room over Christmas, both huddled in the dark and whispering as our baby daughter slept in her cot nearby.<\/p>\n
The potential of digital board games has always been a theoretical concept for me before now, but I think Ticket to Ride<\/em> has us both hooked. We\u2019re looking for more games with pass-and-play, and I\u2019m personally keen to avoid any we\u2019re already got the physical version of \u2013 perhaps games we\u2019re interested in playing but not interesting in buying for real.<\/p>\nFinal Fantasy Tactics: War of the Lions\u00a0(iPhone<\/a>|iPad<\/a>\u00a0&\u00a0Android<\/a>)<\/h3>\nI was really excited when I saw this had gone on sale – \u00a32.99 for a fully fledged Final Fantasy Tactics<\/em> game on mobile seemed like a steal and a great game to draw out my latent mobile gamer potential. I had found memories of playing Final Fantasy Tactics Advance<\/em> on my GBA, and I was very much looking forward to discovering that game again\u2026\u00a0<\/p>\n![\"Final](\"http:\/\/www.sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/twelve-games-of-christmas-1.png\" "\\"\\"")
<\/p>\n
\u2026 what I somehow failed to realise (do your research, folks) is that Final Fantasy Tactics: War of the Lions<\/em> is not, in fact, Final Fantasy Tactics Advance<\/em>. It\u2019s a re-release of Final Fantasy Tactics<\/em>, which is also not Final Fantasy Tactics Advance<\/em>. Oops.<\/p>\nI tried not to be perturbed by this fact, but so far, I\u2019m finding the game to be extremely clunky compared to the Advance version, so I haven\u2019t played as much as I was planning too. Besides the basics of combat, the game doesn\u2019t actually explain itself that well at all \u2013 I don\u2019t know what all the choices and character options are in terms of customisations, jobs etc\u2026 I don\u2019t know what the special abilities do half the time and rotating the map around is a real chore.<\/p>\n
I\u2019ve also found it\u2019s not as friendly for drop in\/drop out play as I can\u2019t seem to save in the middle of a match, and also, an undo button would be super, super helpful, especially for movement. I\u2019ll stick with it, but It\u2019s not the game I\u2019d hoped it would be so far.<\/p>\n
Cat Lady\u00a0(iOS Universal<\/a>\u00a0&\u00a0Android<\/a>)<\/h3>\nBefore my wife discovered Ticket to Ride, I tried introducing her to Cat Lady as I had it on my phone still from a previous Weekender update. She didn\u2019t really take to it but it did lead to a conversation about other mobile board game conversions, and it wasn\u2019t long after that she decided to dive into Ticket to Ride.<\/p>\n
We\u2019ve said this before \u2013 it\u2019s a neat little card game with some tactically meaningful mechanics, but you have to really like cats for it to truly win you over. I\u2019ll probably delete it the next time I think about it.<\/p>\n
What games did you end up playing over the holiday period? Let us know in the comments!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ok, I\u2019m going to level with you right away\u2026 there\u2019s only three apps. Maybe four. I\u2019m a sucker for a catchy title and I had made an endeavour to play more mobile games over the holiday period. It turns out I only managed to really dabble in a handful. I blame my wife. Fun fact: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73139,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobile-game-releases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\u00a0<\/p>\nTicket to Ride\u00a0(iOS Universal<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Android<\/a>) (Review<\/a>)<\/h3>\nMy wife plays a lot of mobile games. A lot more than me\u2026 the problem is, she\u2019s cheap. Like, VERY cheap, so to my shame the only games she actually ends up playing are the F2P trash that remains a blight on this industry.\u00a0<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
She has an actual process \u2013 she will binge a free game as far as she can, conserving what free premium currency she has and spending it on the most optimum things, before the game finally overtakes her with its freemium nonsense, and then she moves on. She\u2019s played everything form Farmville<\/em>, to some game about Cats and Towns. Her most recent beau is some kind of Caf\u00e9 running game.<\/p>\nI\u2019ve finally, FINALLY managed to convince her to buy an actual, bona-fide mobile game. We play a lot of physical boardgames together as a couple. Since Asmodee Digital was recently running a winter sale, she ended up picking up Ticket to Ride<\/em>. We have the Nordic physical game which she enjoys, but we\u2019ve stuck with the base USA map that the main app comes with.<\/p>\nIt\u2019s been great and proved a great app to bust out when there\u2019s nothing else to do \u2013 we\u2019ve played it in the car as we were being taken to the sea-side, we did a big five-player pass-and-play session with our friends before the left, and we even played it together in our hotel room over Christmas, both huddled in the dark and whispering as our baby daughter slept in her cot nearby.<\/p>\n
The potential of digital board games has always been a theoretical concept for me before now, but I think Ticket to Ride<\/em> has us both hooked. We\u2019re looking for more games with pass-and-play, and I\u2019m personally keen to avoid any we\u2019re already got the physical version of \u2013 perhaps games we\u2019re interested in playing but not interesting in buying for real.<\/p>\nFinal Fantasy Tactics: War of the Lions\u00a0(iPhone<\/a>|iPad<\/a>\u00a0&\u00a0Android<\/a>)<\/h3>\nI was really excited when I saw this had gone on sale – \u00a32.99 for a fully fledged Final Fantasy Tactics<\/em> game on mobile seemed like a steal and a great game to draw out my latent mobile gamer potential. I had found memories of playing Final Fantasy Tactics Advance<\/em> on my GBA, and I was very much looking forward to discovering that game again\u2026\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\u2026 what I somehow failed to realise (do your research, folks) is that Final Fantasy Tactics: War of the Lions<\/em> is not, in fact, Final Fantasy Tactics Advance<\/em>. It\u2019s a re-release of Final Fantasy Tactics<\/em>, which is also not Final Fantasy Tactics Advance<\/em>. Oops.<\/p>\nI tried not to be perturbed by this fact, but so far, I\u2019m finding the game to be extremely clunky compared to the Advance version, so I haven\u2019t played as much as I was planning too. Besides the basics of combat, the game doesn\u2019t actually explain itself that well at all \u2013 I don\u2019t know what all the choices and character options are in terms of customisations, jobs etc\u2026 I don\u2019t know what the special abilities do half the time and rotating the map around is a real chore.<\/p>\n
I\u2019ve also found it\u2019s not as friendly for drop in\/drop out play as I can\u2019t seem to save in the middle of a match, and also, an undo button would be super, super helpful, especially for movement. I\u2019ll stick with it, but It\u2019s not the game I\u2019d hoped it would be so far.<\/p>\n
Cat Lady\u00a0(iOS Universal<\/a>\u00a0&\u00a0Android<\/a>)<\/h3>\nBefore my wife discovered Ticket to Ride, I tried introducing her to Cat Lady as I had it on my phone still from a previous Weekender update. She didn\u2019t really take to it but it did lead to a conversation about other mobile board game conversions, and it wasn\u2019t long after that she decided to dive into Ticket to Ride.<\/p>\n
We\u2019ve said this before \u2013 it\u2019s a neat little card game with some tactically meaningful mechanics, but you have to really like cats for it to truly win you over. I\u2019ll probably delete it the next time I think about it.<\/p>\n
What games did you end up playing over the holiday period? Let us know in the comments!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ok, I\u2019m going to level with you right away\u2026 there\u2019s only three apps. Maybe four. I\u2019m a sucker for a catchy title and I had made an endeavour to play more mobile games over the holiday period. It turns out I only managed to really dabble in a handful. I blame my wife. Fun fact: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73139,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobile-game-releases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
<\/p>\nI\u2019ve finally, FINALLY managed to convince her to buy an actual, bona-fide mobile game. We play a lot of physical boardgames together as a couple. Since Asmodee Digital was recently running a winter sale, she ended up picking up Ticket to Ride<\/em>. We have the Nordic physical game which she enjoys, but we\u2019ve stuck with the base USA map that the main app comes with.<\/p>\n It\u2019s been great and proved a great app to bust out when there\u2019s nothing else to do \u2013 we\u2019ve played it in the car as we were being taken to the sea-side, we did a big five-player pass-and-play session with our friends before the left, and we even played it together in our hotel room over Christmas, both huddled in the dark and whispering as our baby daughter slept in her cot nearby.<\/p>\n The potential of digital board games has always been a theoretical concept for me before now, but I think Ticket to Ride<\/em> has us both hooked. We\u2019re looking for more games with pass-and-play, and I\u2019m personally keen to avoid any we\u2019re already got the physical version of \u2013 perhaps games we\u2019re interested in playing but not interesting in buying for real.<\/p>\n I was really excited when I saw this had gone on sale – \u00a32.99 for a fully fledged Final Fantasy Tactics<\/em> game on mobile seemed like a steal and a great game to draw out my latent mobile gamer potential. I had found memories of playing Final Fantasy Tactics Advance<\/em> on my GBA, and I was very much looking forward to discovering that game again\u2026\u00a0<\/p>\n \u2026 what I somehow failed to realise (do your research, folks) is that Final Fantasy Tactics: War of the Lions<\/em> is not, in fact, Final Fantasy Tactics Advance<\/em>. It\u2019s a re-release of Final Fantasy Tactics<\/em>, which is also not Final Fantasy Tactics Advance<\/em>. Oops.<\/p>\n I tried not to be perturbed by this fact, but so far, I\u2019m finding the game to be extremely clunky compared to the Advance version, so I haven\u2019t played as much as I was planning too. Besides the basics of combat, the game doesn\u2019t actually explain itself that well at all \u2013 I don\u2019t know what all the choices and character options are in terms of customisations, jobs etc\u2026 I don\u2019t know what the special abilities do half the time and rotating the map around is a real chore.<\/p>\n I\u2019ve also found it\u2019s not as friendly for drop in\/drop out play as I can\u2019t seem to save in the middle of a match, and also, an undo button would be super, super helpful, especially for movement. I\u2019ll stick with it, but It\u2019s not the game I\u2019d hoped it would be so far.<\/p>\n Before my wife discovered Ticket to Ride, I tried introducing her to Cat Lady as I had it on my phone still from a previous Weekender update. She didn\u2019t really take to it but it did lead to a conversation about other mobile board game conversions, and it wasn\u2019t long after that she decided to dive into Ticket to Ride.<\/p>\n We\u2019ve said this before \u2013 it\u2019s a neat little card game with some tactically meaningful mechanics, but you have to really like cats for it to truly win you over. I\u2019ll probably delete it the next time I think about it.<\/p>\n What games did you end up playing over the holiday period? Let us know in the comments!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ok, I\u2019m going to level with you right away\u2026 there\u2019s only three apps. Maybe four. I\u2019m a sucker for a catchy title and I had made an endeavour to play more mobile games over the holiday period. It turns out I only managed to really dabble in a handful. I blame my wife. Fun fact: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73139,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobile-game-releases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Final Fantasy Tactics: War of the Lions\u00a0(iPhone<\/a>|iPad<\/a>\u00a0&\u00a0Android<\/a>)<\/h3>\n
<\/p>\nCat Lady\u00a0(iOS Universal<\/a>\u00a0&\u00a0Android<\/a>)<\/h3>\n