Dear Reader:
Digital board game Carcassonne coming to Switch this Winter
Carcassonne is a modern classic tile-placement game based on the award wining game in which the players draw and place a tile with a piece of southern French landscape on it. The tile might feature a city, a road, a cloister, grassland or some combination thereof, and it must be placed adjacent to tiles that have already been played, in such a way that cities are connected to cities, roads to roads, et cetera. The player can then decide to place one of his followers, so called Meeples, on one of the areas on it: on the city as a knight, on the road as a robber, on a cloister as a monk, or on the grass as a farmer. When that area is complete, that meeple scores points for its owner. Each new game is a new experience thanks to the ever-changing landscape.
“Carcassonne is the first Asmodee Digital title of many to follow on Nintendo’s platforms. This partnership is based on Nintendo’s need for new user experiences and Asmodee Digital’s continued goal of bringing great board game IPs to new platforms.
Expanding our roadmap of digital board games on Nintendo Switch is a great opportunity to reach a broader audience of players.
Our focus is to make the best adaptation of Carcassonne for the Switch and bring a complementary experience to the Switch players who know Carcassonne through the analog game, the mobile or the PC version.” - Pierre Ortolan, CEO of Asmodee Digital
“Bringing Carcassonne to the Nintendo Switch platform is an opportunity to enlarge the success of this iconic game.” - Moritz Brunnhofer, managing director at board game publisher Hans im Glück