Review: Carcassonne (Steam)

The official adaptation of the famous board game Carcassonne! A modern classic tile-placement game based on the award-winning game in which the players draw and place a tile with a piece of southern French landscape on it. The player can then decide to place one of his followers, so-called Meeples.

Pros:

• Nice big chunky graphics.
• 90MB Download size.
• How to play section.
• Optional tutorial.
• Has its own achievements.
• Connect Asmodee account to play online but also get the Abbot DLC for FREE.
• Stats screen.
• Karma rating on a 1-5 scale.
• Text chat channel.
• Offline- 1-6 against AI or 1-6 local multiplayer. You can set settings like dead tiles, Play with fields amd remaining tiles list.
• Three difficulties- Easy, Fierce and risk taker.
• Online leaderboard.
• Online multiplayer- Private and public.
• Public multiplayer- Set options- Min karma, Min rank, Online autoplay and duration 15 minutes to 15 days. You can save the game in between so fear not.
• Players online counter.
• 3D play pieces and you can zoom in and zoom out and move around.
• Easy to get into.
• Simple controls.
• Cross-platform multiplayer.
• A good way to learn the game.
• Carcassone is a game where you take turns in placing tiles, Create towns and place your Meeples on roads and Chapels to score points. Highest wins.

Cons:

• Graphics options are limited. Quality slider, Resolution and windowed.
• No Steam achievements.
• No trading cards.
• UI is fine and all but kind of looks a bit mobile phone basic, Big fonts and bad scaling.
• Few random hard crashes.
• Quitters ruin the experience.
• No way to customise the whole experience at all.