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Best Windows 8, 10 App This Week: Carcassonne, the Popular Board Game
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Updated onOctober 4, 2023
updated onOctober 4, 2023
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Another week is starting and we have already presented the latest edition of the Windows 8 Red Stripe Deals. Now, it’s time to have a look at what we consider to be the best new Windows 8 app from the Windows Store for this week – the popular Carcassone board game.Last week, we kickstarted a new series of Windows 8 apps roundups – one that was describing only a singlebest Windows 8 app or gameand another one that was enlisting the best Windows 8 games and apps for each Month. Last week we featured Georama, one of thebest Windows 8 travel apps, and this time we’re going to talk about Carcassone, yes, that popularboard gamethat you were probably playing as a kid. Filed in the Windows 8 strategy games category, it has a pretty small size of around 44 megabytes, so it won’t take up too much of your storage space.
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Play the classic Carcassone board game on your Windows 8 tablet
Turn by turn, theplayerscreate a landscape by placing tiles with roads, cities, fields, and cloisters. Theplayersdeploy their followers – knights, monks, thieves, or farmers – to earn points. Theplayerwith the most points after the final scoring wins thegame. The ever-changing landscape makes eachgamea new experience. You can play against clever AI opponents or with up to 5 other players in a local multiplayer match.
Since a board game can’t be played on your own, theWindows 8 version of Carcassonnecomes with local multiplayer mode for up to 6 players. However, if you’re alone, you can still enjoy thegame, battling against slick AI opponents that have their own strategies. Thegameisn’t quite cheap, as you will have to get 5 bucks out of your pocket to download and install it on your Windows 8 tablet, but if you’re a true lover of the Carcassone game, then this won’t be a problem.
There’s also a free trial option available, so you can try it out and see whether thisgameis worth buying or not. I’ve played around with it for a few good hours and I can recommend it. Playing it on a Windows 8 tablet makes it even more enjoyable, as the good old board game suddenly feels more interactive and fun to play.
Download Carcassone game for Windows 8
Carcassone for Windows in 2018 [update]
It is very important for Carcassone players or those who want to play it that thegamewill soon run out of license. You will be not able to buy thegameonMicrosoft Storeanymore. This is not a problem for those who already purchased thegameand want to redownload and reinstall it on another Windows device. Also, you are still able to buy expansion packs for the next few months and play online as the servers are still available.
In case Carcassone does not work on your computer and you are not able to play it anymore, no matter what you do, you can switch to othergamesfrom Store. You can check the list of best30 games from the Storeorbest 100+ Store gamesthat you can try to play on your Windows 10 PC this year. Be sure that you will find a good replacement to Carcassone in case it does not work.
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Radu Tyrsina
Radu Tyrsina has been a Windows fan ever since he got his first PC, a Pentium III (a monster at that time).
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Prior to founding Windows Report, this particular curiosity about digital content enabled him to grow a number of sites that helped hundreds of millions reach faster the answer they’re looking for.
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