I recently became hooked on Cartographers, which is a pretty popular board game. You start with a grid map and, over the course of four seasons, you fill the map with Tetris-like shapes representing forest, water, farms, and houses.
During each season, there are two Edict cards that tell you what kind of terrain the Queen wants built that season. For example, the Shoreside Expansion edict tells you to build farm and water spaces, but not next to each other or the edge of the map. The Borderlands edict tells you to fill entire rows or columns. The more you fulfill an edict, the more points you earn that season.
A key part of the strategy is knowing that some Edicts go into effect in later seasons. Sometimes you'll want to earn as many points as possible from the current season's Edicts, and other times you want to disregard the current Edicts and optimize your map for future seasons' Edicts.
With the physical board game, some people have a lot of fun making their map nice and colorful, almost like a map out of a fantasy book. With the app, the game does the drawing for you, and while it might not look very artistic it's still colorful and functional. And the app has the added benefits of doing all the scoring for you and showing where the current tetris piece will fit. I've never played the physical board game, and now that I've played the app, I don't think I'd want to; the app is just too convenient and efficient.
The app costs $3.99, and there's a $1.99 DLC that adds more Edicts, tetris pieces, and other things for added variety. There are also leaderboards in which everyone gets the same set of Edicts; despite having played about 90 times, I've yet to make it to the top 100. I've had a really good time with this app and recommend it if you're looking for a smartphone game.
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