are chests to ransack, and barrels to
hide in that replenish your stealth
points. Some enemies steal your
gold, and others move
around, as if the cards
they’re housed in are alive.
Collect enough swag and
you can spend it on power-
ups, giving you a fighting
chance of higher scores
during subsequent games.
With plenty of depth
and superb visuals, even its
slightly repetitive nature
can’t take the edge off
Card Thief. Start playing
and it’s guaranteed to steal plenty
of your time.- Catan Classic
Price: £4.99
Graphically, this is a faithful
rendition of Klaus Teuber’s superb
and deservedly idolised tile-based
island conquest game. Having the
iPad handle those tiresome banking
duties and victory point calculations
makes things far more fast-paced
than the board game, and you can
view statistical tables at the end of
the bout.
The computer players can be
absolute swines – they’ll merrily gang
up on you in a way that most human
players would consider beyond the
pale – but hardcore gamers may even
consider this a plus. And the original
12.13.