Asmodee Digital's got an exciting year in store for us with these cracking digital board games

What's that about board games? Oh, we love board games! Uh-huh... yes, yes that's interesting...!

Well, after conversing with - er - absolutely no one, today we found out that Asmodee Digital has a lot of titles on the way across mobile, Switch, and your usual PC dabblings. Yes, we're including PC releases too because maybe these'll come to mobile eventually.

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• The Lord of the Rings: Living Card Game (Fantasy Flight Games) - Steam - Q4 2018
  • Lead a fellowship of three heroes through a series of narrative campaigns across Middle-earth and face off against the dark forces of Sauron. Players will forge their own fellowships and build decks comprised of ally, event, and equipment cards to face challenges that test their spirit, lore, tactics, and leadership. Launching onto Steam Early Access on August 28, 2018


• Scythe: Digital Edition (Stonemaier Games) - Steam - Q3 2018
  • Engine-building game set in an alternate history 1920s period where players attempt to earn fortune and claim their faction’s stake in the land around a mysterious factory. Currently available on Steam Early Access.


• Terraforming Mars (Fryx Games; US Publisher: Stronghold Games) - Steam, iOS, and Android - Q3 2018
  • A Spiel des Jahres nominee set in the 2400s, The taming of the Red Planet has begun! Corporations are competing to transform Mars into a habitable planet by spending vast resources and using innovative technology to raise temperature, create a breathable atmosphere, and make oceans of water.


• Pandemic (Z-Man Games) - Steam - Q3 2018 (already available on Android & iOS)
  • Work cooperatively to stop the spread of four diseases and cure them before a pandemic occurs. Each player gets a role and must work with -- not against -- the other players before any of the game-ending conditions are met.


• Onitama (Arcane Wonders) - iOS and Android - Q3 2018
  • An elegant and simple two player, abstract strategy game where you take on the role of a Master, guiding your monk followers, in an attempt to defeat your opponent. Armed only with a handful of moves, your cunning, and your wits, do you have the skill to be victorious?


• Bang! (dV Giochi) - Steam, iOS, and Android - Q3 2018
  • A Wild-West-themed social deduction game in which players recreate an old-fashioned western shootout with each player receiving a random character for special abilities and a secret Role card to determine their goal.


• Bananagrams (Bananagrams) - iOS and Android - Q3 2018
  • Fast and frantic anagram game where players build crosswords without pen, paper, or a board. Perfect for families, multiplayer, or solitaire, and finally making its digital debut.


• Gloom (Atlas Games) - Steam, iOS, and Android - Halloween 2018
  • A competitive deck-building game that challenges its players to outmatch their opponents in a depressive spectacle, vying to undergo the most miserable mishaps while sabotaging the competition with happy occasions.


• Five Tribes (Days of Wonder) - Steam, iOS and Android - Q4 2018
  • A worker placement game where the workers have already been placed, players must carefully cleverly maneuver workers over villages, markets, oases, and sacred places to carve a pathway to victory and control the Sultanate.


• Ticket To Ride (Days of Wonder) - PlayStation 4 with Playlink - Q4 2018
  • A cross-country train adventure where players collect cards of various types of train cars that enable them to claim railway routes connecting cities in various countries around the world. Ticket to Ride will be one of the first games to utilize Sony’s Playlink which will allow players to use their phones to privately view their hands, plan their moves, and make actions.


• Carcassonne (Hans im Glück) - Nintendo Switch - Q4 2018
  • Multi-awarded tile-matching game made digital, including solo vs. AI, pass-and-play and online multiplayer modes. Carcassonne will be one of the first Asmodee Digital titles to debut on the Nintendo Switch with more on the way.