Tabletop games that are also worth playing digitally.

Board games are a separate kind of leisure. When video games get boring and annoying, you think of them. But there are a lot of board games. You have to understand the range and pick something for yourself or listen to the advice of consultants. But what if the pace of life does not allow to spend 1-4 hours on the game, and sometimes do not have anyone to play? There is a way out. These days, board games are carefully adapted into a video game format. Now you can roll the dice at one table from all over the world. We have compiled a list of 4 board video games:

• Monopoly Plus - Let's start with the classics. It's all the same Monopoly, but with a difference.

Before you start the game you make a display choice: "Live Board" - then you will play on a full 3D model with animations of figures, cubes and field - a city that lives its own life. "Classic" - a copy of the cardboard version for those who do not recognize visual innovations. The game is made in a colorful cartoon style.

The rules are still the same, only now you can change them to suit you. It's easy to understand the game, and everything is intuitive. However, as a video game Monopoly Plus is significantly inferior to its counterparts in the industry, so will only suit fans of the game on the cardboard. In addition, the electronic version does not convey the main feature of Monopoly: heated arguments over in-game money, as if they were real.

• Talisman: Digital Edition - Another classic, but now not about economics, but about pure fantasy. Have you ever seen how funny board game geeks are portrayed? These are the guys who argue that Dragon of Fury has 18 points of defense and has an evasion spell on it, so even the Great Sword of Asteroidon can't take down the monster. I'm exaggerating a bit here, but in Talisman: Digital Edition a similar argument could break out. In the story of the vanilla game, we choose a character and go in search of the Crown of Omnipotence. The map is divided into regions, with the central one being the most dangerous. There lies the proverbial treasure. Choose a character (eg a warrior or elf) and walk the map by rolling dice. On the way we will meet different objects, events and enemies - all the classic. However, the vanilla game quickly gets boring, and the additions are expensive. But the variety of content in Talisman strikes: dozens of characters, more than a thousand cards, a huge playing field, random events and bosses. It is difficult to understand Talisman: Digital Edition if you connect all the add-ons at once.

Another thing is if you gradually learn the game. The PC version is no different from the cardboard version. We'll see all the same models, the same board, the same dice. But unlike the cardboard version, the add-ons in the digital version cost much less. A nice bonus of the video game is the musical accompaniment. There's a soulful ambient playing in the background, somewhat reminiscent of the music from Diablo 2.

• Armello - This board game is probably the closest thing to a video game... because it is a video game. Armello is a role-playing RPG with strategy in a board game wrapper. Armello was originally only in video game format, and then the creators started working on transferring their creation to cardboard. The plot of Armello tells the story of the kingdom of beasts, where grief has occurred. The Lion King went mad and became possessed by Rot. The rot is evil in its purest form: madness, plague, curses, and witchcraft. With each passing day, the Lion King fades and loses one 1 point of health at dawn. At night, the King becomes more and more insane, with bad thoughts creeping into his head at night. We play as one of the animals, they are divided into clans. Our task is to become the next King, but first we have to either kill the King, or "cure" him of the rot (in quotes, because the King will die from such treatment anyway), or wait until the King-lion with the highest prestige dies, then the crown will be inherited by you.

Armello is one of the most flexible games in terms of character progression. In one game, you can start out thinking you'll be fighting with a cold weapon and end up as a renegade dark mage.

By the way, not only the King is prone to rot, everyone can catch this disease. After 5 points of rot the player goes to the side of evil and competes with the King for the title of the main villain of the kingdom. Of the disadvantages of Armello are the skin boxes, which are annoying. Fortunately the skins do not give any advantage, and have to spend money only on add-ons, and even then at will. Armello addictive and, most importantly - the game is quite easy to get used to. Of the significant drawbacks: sometimes the game is too low online.

• Arkham Horror: Mother's Embrace - What's without Lovecraft? According to the plot of Arkham Horror: Mother's Embrace, the player will take control of one of the detectives. The detectives are destined to go to Arkham in 1926. There occurred eerie and mystical incidents. The player will have to clean it all up, at the same time stop the invasion of the Dark Gods. The plot begins when we receive a letter from one Wilhelmina Tiligans, a professor of astronomy. In her teachings, she has learned things she would have been better off not knowing. It's all in the Lovecraftian canon: If your characters see horrible things, they lose their minds.

Collect clues, kill monsters and investigate. Judging by the gameplay, we have a mix of quest and turn-based strategy with a role-playing game. The cardboard board game is the same, but the adaptation shows the action clearly. Some controversial points in the gameplay are simplified, so owners of the cardboard version of the game may not like the video game adaptation. Overall, the game consists of searching for items and fighting monsters. We start each day with a new quest, recruiting companions to the team. Each of the companions is strong in some task: some are good fighters, some are skilled burglars, and some are skilled psychologists. Social skills help keep the rest of the squad from going off the rails. Arkham Horror: Mother's Embrace doesn't go far from the cardboard version, but the video game is easier to understand and comprehend the essence of what's going on.