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Hanging out with @gamegrumps and playing #billionroad with them 🥰 saw episode 1 and I knew I HAD to get it 😩👌🏻 #videogame #nintendoswitch #game #youtube https://www.instagram.com/p/CDxJufnjFeI/?igshid=1q27zqo3r86ah

My relationship with Billion Road has certainly had its ups and downs. I began playing with detached bemusement, playing catch-up in the single-player "tournament" campaign because I was unfamiliar and uncomfortable with the rules. Then I started to enjoy crushing my opponents with long-term property investments. By the end of the tournament's 30 in-game years (which took me 13 hours), I had some complaints about the CPU's behavior, but something I can only describe as Stockholm syndrome had since set in. I know that the tournament is too long. I know that the CPU opponents sometimes cheat. I remember all of the times I lobbed frustrated profanity at the screen after a sudden Mario Party-esque reversal of fortune. Billion Road's gameplay is really entertaining at the end of the day, though, and that's just the single-player—Billion Road's local and online multiplayer modes capture that mercurial Monopoly spirit that'll have someone flipping the board over and storming off in no time. It's probably not possible to figure out my go-to strategies from my gallery of 2,264 3840x2160 .png files, but they're colorful and pretty either way. Read the full article

Billion Road plays like a cross between Monopoly and Mario Party, eschewing the latter's minigames while marrying its controller-throwing randomness with the long-term planning of the former. Right now I'm only qualified to speak about Billion Road's tournament mode, which is a single-player mode where you take on the computer over 30 years. Each turn is a month, so a year can take between 10-45 minutes depending on how many times you have to quit out and restart from its start. Billion Road is prone to the same wild shifts of fortune that make Mario Party a fantastic way to end a friendship, and while the underlying gameplay seems perfectly suited to multiplayer with friends (which I plan on trying), the underlying randomness and cheating CPU opponents become such a consistent problem in the single-player that restarting often becomes the only viable option. You're not going to want to risk losing 9 hours of progress in the tournament to something you had no control over. Read the full article