Great Western Trail

In Great Western Trail, you and up to three other friends move cattle from Texas to Kansas City; taking turns to add to your herd, construct buildings along the way, or contracting cowboys, engineers, craftsmen, and more. As you're building the best deck of cattle cards, or hiring helping hands at the right time, each turn will bombard you with a huge array of loosely connected options…and, more often than not, total analysis paralysis. Definitely one of the best pure-strategy games of the 2010s, Great Western Trail will have you using the phrases "herding cattle" and "taking part in an ultimate test of strategic mettle" interchangeably.