![]() ![]() This is amazing if you prefer playing against real people but just don’t have that many Monopoly fans in your social circle. Providing you’re a paying member of Nintendo Switch Online ($20 a year for an individual membership) then you can play online against friends or just random players. Online playĪnother great reason to buy the Switch version of Monopoly is the online play. ![]() So essentially, Monopoly for Nintendo Switch is your family board game on the TV and your perfect travel Monopoly for yourself or playing with friends – with no fiddly pieces that can get lost in transit. ![]() There are another 12 tokens you can unlock by completing objectives through the game, such as a Tortoise, Roller Skate, Gold Ghost, and more. You start with the standard 8 tokens included in modern Monopoly: Scottie Dog, T-Rex, Top Hat, Car, Duck, Cat, Penguin, and Battleship. You also get to choose which token you use. You can also set the difficulty by choosing how good the AI is – from Very Easy through to Hard. So, you can choose a one-player game and add one to five AI players, or six humans, or a mix of multiple human and AI-controlled players. Up to six people can play Monopoly on Switch at once, and you can use computer AI to fill any gaps too. I won’t cover them all here, but you can read about them in full in this post about the Monopoly for Nintendo Switch instructions. Once you’ve chosen your board, it’s time to set the rules – there are loads of options, from classic, to speed dice and action cards, or to specific goals. None of the boards change how you play, but it’s nice to have a little variety to keep things fresh. Living Board: Haunted Theme – The second board with new spaces, these are all ‘spooky’ properties such as Ogre’s Den, The Haunted Corner, and so on, with the board having an overall Halloween-esque graphical theme.Living Board: Amusement Theme – The first of the boards to change the properties, this whole board is amusement park-themed, with graphics and properties related to rides and attraction.The City Theme uses the same properties and just has a lot of city-related items to liven up the look of the board. Living Board: City Theme – The Living Boards work in the same way as the Classic ones but have much more going on graphically in the middle of the board itself.It’s purely a cosmetic change – the properties and cards are named exactly as they are in Classic Monopoly but there are pictures of Rabbids on spaces. Rabbids Board – Exactly the same as the Classic board but with a Rabbids theme from the Rayman offshoot Rabbids franchise.Classic Board – Your original Monopoly board, with all the same spaces and design you’d expect if you bought the physical standard Monopoly game.There are five different boards you can choose when setting up your game of Monopoly: ![]() You can have up to three games on the go at any time, with games autosaving at the end of each turn – perfect if you have a family game you want to play, as well as a solo one and one with your partner. Then you’re at the main menu, where you can either play a game locally, set up or join an online game, view the Objectives, or look at the options. There are 11 languages to choose from, each of which has its own custom board and voiceover too – a nice bit of attention to detail. Except it’s not just language, you’re also choosing your region here, which is why you’ve got the American and British flags on screen – you can make sure you have the right properties, whether you’re gunning for Boardwalk or Mayfair as the final dark blue space. ![]()
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