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Earlier, I spent a couple hundred words complaining about the state of mobile gaming and probably coming off like some sort of horrible combination of a whiny baby and an old man shaking his fist at the youngsters congregating on his lawn. I fear, more than anything, that a post that is composed of paragraph after paragraph of complaints and warnings and doomsaying makes me sound like I’m down on mobile gaming…because I’m not. At all! I love mobile gaming! I’m just a little picky. I would say “Maybe you should be a little picky too since it would help you find and enjoy better games,” but that sounds really snobby and elitist and I actually want you to keep reading as I endorse some of my favorite mobile games and encourage you to throw money at them.

So, without further ado, here are a few games that I’ve sunk more money into than I have most others…and I don’t feel bad about it at all.

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The App: Ticket to Ride

The Device: iPhone 4

The Price: $1.99 for the iPhone, $6.99 for the iPad

The Basics: We’ve covered a lot of mobile board game adaptations on Tapsauce and for good reason: no genre of app is as consistently polished, entertaining and tested. Think about it. In the case of Ticket to Ride, the game had to be designed and tested for tabletops, an already lengthy and involved process. It then had to survive the gaming marketplace and become a success. In order to make it to your phone in the first place, Ticket to Ride had to excel in a completely different field. There’s a reason why every board game doesn’t have an iOS version — developers are only going to bother with the cream of the crop…and Ticket to Ride is at the top of the pack.

The Review: This is my favorite mobile game of all time. No question. Seriously.

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