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Nab board games Carcassonne and Ticket To Ride free from the Epic Game StoreWe’ve got a ticket to ride, and we care
We’ve got a ticket to ride, and we care
Board games don’t belong on computers. They’re a refuge from the screens that bore into our eyeballs and our lives, a chance to bask in the musky glow of fleshy humans. But sometimes those humans are far away, and sometimes stores give digitised board games away for free. The Epic Games Store is handing out the tile-laying town-planning sheep-appreciatingCarcassonne, along with the railway-buildingTicket To Ride. Ticket’s fine, but Carcassonne is way better.
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Epic were originally going to give Pandemic away too, but issued a press release saying they’d scrapped those plans until “a later date”. Presumably someone rethought the optics of using a game about global infection to advertise their store during the ongoing coronavirus outbreak.
Both gamescanbe yoursif you download them from the Store at any point until February 13th.
Carcassonne is very chill. You’re building up the French countryside, adding roads and churches and towns one tile at a time. It’s nice and streamlined, where players take turns drawing a single tile and deciding where to put it. Points are scored for building long roads, surrounding churches with other tiles, or - often the juiciest play - finishing a town. You don’t want to give other players an opportunity to do that if you can help it, though. It’s very pure. Neat. Simple.
Next week’s freebies will be a double bill ofKingdom Come: DeliveranceandAztez. Epic plan to continue weekly giveawaysthrough 2020.
