Ticket to Ride®

I’m a long time fan of the board game and own almost every expansion. I wanted so bad to get it for tablet, but held off due to all the reviews saying the graphics were painful and the turn prompter infuriating. Well, I finally downloaded this based on the latest reviews saying all that was fixed, and I’m here to confirm it’s true! This app is now everything a board game port should be — faithful to the original in appearance and style, with added QOL features that only a digital version can provide. The game looks beautiful, plays fast and flawlessly, and allows the player to choose the map, the ruleset, the route set, even the look of your train pieces! I was overjoyed to find my favorite maps already available, including Nordic, India, and Europe (all card sets). Even the original U.S. map, which was ugly as sin in the board game, is alive and pretty here. Most of all, the app absolutely delivers the board game experience, with frosting on top 😊 And that includes single player. It is genuinely heartwarming to see a developer paying such serious attention to prior complaints and making everything right. Boy, did they. If you love Ticket to Ride, this app has it all. Hesitate to download no more!

Writing to say that I was going to give it three out of five stars as an improved score from my first rating when it opened up. I changed my rating to a four star due to the significant improvements in the development of this game. With that said, I am writing the review now because my game shows that I have two games out there that are just spinning as if I was the only player out there. I was in the midst of playing a four person online game and only my name was on the screen INI like it does when you’re seeing who gets to go first. Hopefully this is going to be fixed soon because I am now enjoying the game again. I am still having difficulty with the colors on the screen and have a hard time seeing where trains are put down on the colored tracks. It would be nice if the tracks were pastel with the trains being brighter, perhaps? The light wave that goes through the trains makes it even harder to distinguish so if I’m glancing over the board and a wave was going over it sometimes I have thought that the train wasn’t there and then when I look back it is, I am not sure if that is necessary and it does not enhance the game. I am happy to be able to play competitively against other people again and to see the European board up.

Overall, I like this game, but it still needs improvements. Note: I was an avid player of the previous version and I primarily played it on my iPad. Likes: — I like that I know how many cards are available in each pile. — I like the card shuffling animation Improvement suggestions: — Need to make maps like Nordic Countries to switch and auto expand in portrait position. I can move my iPad from landscape/horizontal position to portrait/vertical position. This feature would make these maps easier to see. Or just make them in portrait/vertical position like the old game did. — Overall, I found the maps in the old game easier to see. I did not always have to manually expand them to see them better. — Need to add points ranking system so players can see how we do against other players not just the person(s) we immediately played against. — Need to add filter system so we can determine what kind of opponent’s we want to play against. May want to compete only against opponents closest to our ranking. And may want to add opponents to a Friend pool or an Ignore pool. This was available in old game. — I find the AI for games against the computer as predictable as the old game. Instead of drawing only 2 cards, it draws 3 and never draws any more. One of the selling points of this game is that the AI was going to use strategies of the best players. — Could use more character types. — Would like the routes highlighted when I click on my destination card. It would make these routes easier to see. The pushpins are hard to see on an iPad. This is all I can think of right now.