Scythe: Digital Edition (2018)

Developer: The Knights of Unity
Platforms: Windows, macOS
Genres: Strategy
Rating: 4.5 of 5, 3,804 player ratings
Typical playtime: about 8.1 hours
Where to get it: Steam

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How it feels

A coldly strategic board game adaptation where you slowly build territory and resources while mechs plod across the hex-grid map.

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What players say

Players appreciate it as a faithful digital version of the board game that helps learn the rules, but note the lack of expansions and future content updates, and some find the interface annoying or the base game stale without the modular board.

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