App of the Week: Forbidden Island

The full board game of Forbidden Island was featured on Tabletop a month or two ago - I finally got around to catching up on this one, and love the look of the game. Whenever it is mentioned that a game like this has a mobile version (in this case, iPad), I always check it out, but the quality of these tends to be mixed.

Forbidden Island is a fantastic game - an excellent port, it would appear, of the original (though I haven't played it), supporting up to four players - single player if you control multiple players yourself. I'm always slightly skeptical about people's willingness to play these things multiplayer round a tablet (unless you're travelling or something), but it's a fun and mentally challenging game, even single-player. I can see there being a lot of replay value to this, and it's a reasonably quick and complete game.

Check out the Tabletop episode here: http://bit.ly/19K7o6x
Find the game on the App store here: http://bit.ly/13e4jgi

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Source: boardgamegeek