My City by Reiner Knizia App Review

Andrew Lynch

I’m not big on apps for board games. I always think it’s a great idea. “If only there were an app for Spirit Island, I’d play it all the time,” he said, before there was an app for Spirit Island, which he rarely if ever plays. Games without people and/or tactility are not, it turns out, of much interest to me.

But, look. Everybody poops, right? Everybody needs to zone out for five or six minutes on the subway, or in line at the Trader Joe’s. These brief windows of time, moments that used to be filled with idle thoughts, with the random burst of neurons that lead to thinks like the polio vaccine and the theory of relativity, need to be filled with something. For that we have apps.

And thank god. I have poured hours or possibly days of my life, minutes at a time, into Race for the Galaxy, into Tichu, into Lost Cities. And now we have My City, a natural fit for the app treatment. Games play in a matter of minutes even in real life, there isn’t much that needs to fit on the screen, and what player interaction there is is limited to overhearing someone mutter, “Oh, [redacted]” under their breath.

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