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What are your thoughts about Video Game to Boardgame adaptations? (feddit.de)
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In recent years the trend to adapt video games into boardgames is just increasing.

Games like Stardew Valley, Civ, This war of mine and many more coming like Terraria or Call of Duty.

Some of these games like Civ are extremely complex games and I always wondered how well these translate into a boardgame. The production value of these games is often high, but I have my reservation that Stardew Valley the boardgame really captures the same "magic" as the video game did.

What are your thoughts on them? Any really good ones out there worthy checking out (lets exclude Dorfromantik here)?

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[–] birdcannon 1 points 1 year ago

I’m not a fan, though I’m surely not the target demographic. Board games are social activities for me, and the kind of games that get converted are not the kind that would work for me.

I have 1k+ hours in slay the spire, and who knows how many hours in other roguelike deckbuilders on PC/mobile, but any time I play a board game pve deckbuilder it feels like a slog. People take too long, I don’t care what they’re doing, why are we here id rather just do this by myself on the computer.

Same with Dorfromantik. 100%ed on pc and greatly enjoyed, but what does adding coop add to the gameplay other than having to wait for someone to take their turn? Would rather play anything else.