![]() ![]() Scroll to the bottom, and add each of your friends by their Steam profile name. In Steam, hover over your name and click “FRIENDS”. This step is not necessary if you are only playing Ticket to Ride, but if you want to play other games or if you want to have audio chat during the games, then you can friend the other folks. While it is installing add your Steam friends. Once you buy it, you’ll want to install it. ![]() You cannot use Steam Family Sharing because that only allows one person to play at a time. So, if the other players already have Ticket to Ride, then you shouldn’t need to buy it from Steam. Like I mentioned earlier, you can probably play against player on other platforms. Buy Ticket to Ride for each playerĮvery player needs to buy the Ticket to Ride game. Make sure you scroll to the bottom and click the “Save Changes” button. Then click the “Setup Steam Profile” button.Įnter your desired profile name, real name (if you want to), and a custom URL. In Steam, hover over your name, and click “PROFILE”. Setup Steam profileĮven though you have an account, you don’t yet have a profile setup. ![]() Once you have clicked on the “Create My Account” link in the email, then go back to the Steam app and choose an account name and password. They will send you an email to verify your account. When the app launches for the first time, click “Create a new Account” button. Go to the Steam site and create one for each player. Go to Steam’s website and click Install Steam, then click Install Steam again.Įvery player needs a Steam account. You’ll need the desktop app on each laptop. See “Withdraw” instructions at the bottom of this post. Something to keep in mind, for the sake of your fellow players, if you need to step away, then withdraw from the game - don’t just let it hang there at your turn. I have not been able to find a way to kick someone out of a game that has obviously stepped away. So, if you are playing with something that steps away, you have to wait until their timer runs out before you can move onto the next player. Also, something very annoying, is that there’s no “maximum time duration per turn” setting. As far as I can tell, there’s no way to extend your time once you have started the game. If any player’s time runs out, then they are kicked out of the game and replaced by a bot. Each player is assigned a number of minutes to play and a timer is running whenever they are the active player. One quick tip is about game duration and player time countdown. Plus I wanted to be able to keep track of scoring and play other random people online, which I don’t think is supported by Tabletop Simulator. You may also see reference to Tabletop Simulator, but I decided to not go that route because I couldn’t find an official version of Ticket to Ride for it. I decided to go with Steam because everyone in my family has laptops and we didn’t want to play on small phone screens. The Xbox Ticket to Ride game is local only against the computer. I have not verified this, so please comment below if you have done that successfully. For example, if your friend has the iOS app you should be able to play them from Steam. According to this post “Does Ticket to Ride have a “cross-platform” option ?”, the creators claim it is cross-platform, meaning you can play anyone regardless of their operating system or app type. Ticket to Ride has apps for Steam, iOS, Google Play, and Kindle Fire. It wasn’t exactly straightfoward, so I’m blogging everything you need to do to get it setup for you and your friends. ![]() So, I got home and looked into getting everything setup. I also have been wanting to try Ticket to Ride Europe, and other maps. I had heard you could play it online, but never looked into it. We’ve introduced it to many friends over the years and we recently saw some of them at social distancing safe birthday party (we all sat in our cars and honked and sang happy birthday as the birthday boy drove by), and realized we haven’t played in a while. To give you an idea of how serious we take this, we capture all of our scores, and use Power BI to analyize averages over time. You can usually see us carrying our Ticket to Ride box wherever we go…road trips, camping trips, and even Vegas. He’s now 9 years old and currently holds the family’s highest overall average, but I still have the family’s high score. I think we started my kid when he was 5 or so. If you haven’t played it before, you connect cities with trains and get points for connecting cities, number of trains, and longest route. We’ve been playing for years and like it a lot because it is easy to learn, has a good amount of both luck and strategy, and it is fun for all ages. Ticket to Ride is the “go to” board game for me and my family. ![]()
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