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Just to add another suggestion, Tabletop Simulator on Steam is pretty great and on sale now [1]. My friends and I used it to play our first online game of Cata

Just to add another suggestion, Tabletop Simulator on Steam is pretty great and on sale now [1]. My friends and I used it to play our first online game of Catan on Saturday night, we used Discord for voice chat. We all have the boxed version but obviously we can't get together... [1] https://store.steampowered.com/app/286160/Tabletop_Simulator/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/286160/Tabletop_Simulator...

rblatz 7y ago
How does that compare to playing Catan via Catan Universe? I enjoy the multi-platform (Mac, PC, iOS, Android, Browser, Steam) aspect of it, but it does have some rough edges.
- exhilaration 7y ago
  One of my friends tried Catan Universe yesterday and says he prefers Tabletop Simulator. He also said that Catan Universe limits the number of players in the game; we had 5 players over the weekend and may have another friend join soon.
- jvm___ 7y ago
  Colonist.io
pbhjpbhj 7y ago
Some of my younger family wanted to play Monopoly: as only a couple were remote (only one in the end) we decided to host it locally on a board, and have people join by webcam (https://meet.jit.si/ https://meet.jit.si/). Worked quite well. I asked a related question about playing boardgames via webcam here https://boardgames.stackexchange.com/questions/50797/what-house-rules-modifications-have-you-adopted-to-make-a-board-game-work-well-o https://boardgames.stackexchange.com/questions/50797/what-ho... and have a self-answer about our experience. They're planning on Risk next, but I fancy Catan with multiple boards (not sure how to work it; we only have the base game). We'd considered Table-Top Simulator, but webcam gave us more human interaction which seemed more important for the kids (they chose the real board over the virtual one). They already have lots of video gaming time which might have influenced the decision. (FWIW there's an unofficial mod for Monopoly on T-TSim.)
- jvm_ 7y ago
  colonist.io
- exhilaration 7y ago
  My buddies and I play Risk on http://landgrab.net http://landgrab.net and it's very nice, tons of different boards to choose from. We do 24 hour turns so it's different than playing live, it's more like correspondence chess.

rblatz 7y ago

How does that compare to playing Catan via Catan Universe? I enjoy the multi-platform (Mac, PC, iOS, Android, Browser, Steam) aspect of it, but it does have some rough edges.

exhilaration 7y ago
One of my friends tried Catan Universe yesterday and says he prefers Tabletop Simulator. He also said that Catan Universe limits the number of players in the game; we had 5 players over the weekend and may have another friend join soon.
jvm___ 7y ago
Colonist.io

pbhjpbhj 7y ago

Some of my younger family wanted to play Monopoly: as only a couple were remote (only one in the end) we decided to host it locally on a board, and have people join by webcam (https://meet.jit.si/ https://meet.jit.si/). Worked quite well. I asked a related question about playing boardgames via webcam here https://boardgames.stackexchange.com/questions/50797/what-house-rules-modifications-have-you-adopted-to-make-a-board-game-work-well-o https://boardgames.stackexchange.com/questions/50797/what-ho... and have a self-answer about our experience. They're planning on Risk next, but I fancy Catan with multiple boards (not sure how to work it; we only have the base game). We'd considered Table-Top Simulator, but webcam gave us more human interaction which seemed more important for the kids (they chose the real board over the virtual one). They already have lots of video gaming time which might have influenced the decision. (FWIW there's an unofficial mod for Monopoly on T-TSim.)

jvm_ 7y ago
colonist.io
exhilaration 7y ago
My buddies and I play Risk on http://landgrab.net http://landgrab.net and it's very nice, tons of different boards to choose from. We do 24 hour turns so it's different than playing live, it's more like correspondence chess.