I believe the social aspect of the game is that when you land on the railroad, instead of visiting and stealing from a stranger, you get to do this to a friend. They offer Facebook integration to play with friends (no Google integration to play socially, but your progress can be saved via Google). Again, this can be advanced with diamonds (30 diamonds for an additional puzzle piece), but any gains from the vending machine are purely graphical. Collect enough of them and your themes get upgraded. Other than that, there's a vending machine on a square on the board that allows you to get a puzzle piece. In a way, I get it because game development requires time and money that needs to be recouped. The diamond cost to number of dice rolls seems a bit pricey, currently set at 10 rolls of 80 diamonds (packages range from 100 diamonds can be purchased for $1.99 to 7000 diamonds for $79.99). There isn't really much more to use that unless you're trying to reach the top of the leaderboard.ĭiamonds can be used to supplement your money when upgrading properties or can be used to buy more dice rolls. You get bunnies whenever you upgrade a property. Any money you steal from them becomes yours, but there isn't a way (at least one that I could find) to allow them to visit you back and steal their money back.īunnies are around from my understanding just to show your progress in the game. However, your only actions on their board are purely luck (dice roll again). I sometimes even wonder how "random" the dice rolls are, as the game requires an active internet connection to play, even in Guest mode.Ī nice integration is visiting a friend or strangers board via the train station, which is a square on the board. The main upside is the creative and bubbly graphics that gives the main board life. Therefore, BoardKings can be played by logging in once for about 15 minutes a day. To make matters worse, you only get 4 dice rolls per hour (hopefully the game developers at Jelly Button Games fix this). And the upgrades are not customizable, meaning I would not be surprised if all the boards look the same. You have the option to decide what properties to upgrade, but that's about it. To my surprised, BoardKings is mostly luck. In fact, my first 5-10 minutes of the game was so confusing I contemplated just deleting the game. Unlike the board game Monopoly and most other games with a high element of luck (roll of the dice), there is generally also a decision making step. Unfortunately, this game completely under whelmed. I was actually looking forward to the game because it was a refreshed version of Monopoly with updated graphics, social, and one that didn't look like required much time to continually play (similar to the Android game Landlord Real Estate Tycoon).Ībout a week ago, the game was finally released and I was excited to give the game a spin. The links in this post contain affiliate links and I will receive a small commission if you make a purchase after clicking on my link.īased on screenshots from the Google Play Store (also available on iOS), BoardKings was the first game was in Beta, but available to set a reminders to download once officially released.
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