Classic Board Games You Can Now Play Online

Always been something of a board game enjoyer, but found that it’s been harder and harder to get a group together to play, lately. Whether people are becoming busier with their kids or we’re still a little less comfortable about getting together in groups after the pandemic, it’s important to find that time to spend with friends, but did you know you can just as easily indulge your taste for video games online? Here are a few that have been adapted to the digital world.

Chess

Teach your children how to start playing chess, one of the most classic board games of all time, and you will see them kept busy for hours on end, provided they’re able to get into it. There’s no shortage of online chess apps that you can access for free, not to mention a whole slew of chess-themed video games, too.

Backgammon

Chess isn’t for everyone, and some people like a game that’s just as strategic, but not quite as complex with all of the different piece moves. To that end, there are plenty of online sites and apps like christmas backgammon that can allow you to play one of the oldest known games to man. Using a mixture of strategy and luck, backgammon sees you rolling dice to try and move all of your pieces to the end of the board before your opponent does the same.

Risk

The classic game of military might, Risk involves using little plastic soldiers to take over as many territories as possible and is, without fail, one of the loudest and shoutiest board games you can play with friends. It has had a host of digital adaptations over the years, with Risk: Global Domination being one of the most recent, allowing you to even play on your smartphone.

Carcassone

Now, getting into the slightly more niche options. Carcassone, named after the city in France, is much like Monopoly in some ways, where the aim of the game is ownership of the city. Only, players are tasked with putting down tiles to create the city before placing units to claim it, making it a game of double-layered strategy, and the Carcassone video game has been out for a while now.

Catan

Once known as Settlers of Catan, this game is often thought of as the game that people ‘graduate’ to once they want to try something a little more complex than Monopoly, Risk, the Game of Life, and the like. It’s all about moving colonists to settle an island in competing groups, involving not just moving pieces, but playing cards, as well. This very strategy and ever-changing game now has its own videogame form, which can be played against AI-controlled bots, or against real people online.

The examples above are just a very small helping of the many games that have been adapted to online form. If you Google for your favorite popular board games, it’s very possible you will find an online or at least a digital version of it.