I miss the old version!
Mon Mar 08 2021 DigitalGamer31415I’ve had this app for over a year and enjoyed playing it — until now. The new update with the new 2nd edition graphic design SHRUNK all the icons, making them hard for me to see. And all the text is gone too, so I can no longer tell at a glance (i.e., without having to hover over the card to see the pop up text) what a card is and what its chaining benefits are. Instead, players have to memorize all the illustrations and/or pictorial icons to remember what a card is, what its chaining benefits are, and what abilities those chained cards will give you.
I also miss the text because it added a lot of thematic flavor for me. I liked being able to say, “hey, I’m going to build the Agora!” Or the Pantheon, etc. Right now, I feel like I’m just pushing around a bunch of tiny icons.
To the developers: I would love to have the option to go back to the “classic” version instead. But if that’s impossible, then having a “low-vision” option with BIGGER icons would be wonderful. It seems silly to have so much empty wasted space when I’m playing this game on a large iPad Pro screen!
Errors in scoring
Tue Aug 07 2018 Casualboardgamer1937After the most recent update this week, there are errors in military scoring. This bug was not present prior to the update.
Revised - I’ve also noticed the science calculation was off once as well. Not sure how often that happens. The one time I noticed it was after selecting science as the last card through the Halikarnassos special action. So hopefully that will be fixed as part of the next release as well. Thanks.
Revised 2 - I know what the specific bug is now. It does not occur often in standard play, which is why it was hard to pin down. The issue is this. If playing Halikarnassos, and the very last play is to use your wonder ability that enables a search through the cards, if you choose either a military card or a science card, that card value will be doubled. So, a 3 military will count as 6, and a science card will count that symbol twice. But, again, it is only if that is the very last (18th) turn. I’ve now been able to replicate it, so pretty sure this is the issue. Hopefully, you can get you QA team to review. Thanks.
Player count issue
Fri Dec 29 2017 BeelzebozoThis is a pretty decent digital adaptation of my favorite tabletop game, all things considered. I mean, sure it’s pretty bare bones right now, but they can always layer ranking and stats on top of a solid foundation. One thing that is an absolute travesty though is the way quick match places you in an open table. It asks how many players you want to play with, and then if it can find that in fifteen seconds it just puts you in whatever. If you back out you’re banned from matchmaking for three minutes. No. I do not ever want to play this with more than 3 players ever. It’s a completely different game at larger player counts and a much, much worse one. I will wait ten minutes for a 3 player match before I will play with more. Please, please, please give me this option. As it stands now, the fact that it asks me for a preference at all just adds insult to injury.
Decent Adaption
Sat Nov 25 2017 28monty28ALL RIGHT. Fourth time writing. Learning curve is finally taking effect. Did the tutorial again and some of my frustration is gone. I’ve played the board game many times and find the speed of this game disconcerting. Hopefully, my understanding of the nuances will grow. Started out with one star, changed to three, now give it four.
Ok. Third time I’m writing. I am totally frustrated with this game vi play all the way through, get to last move. I have two cards left and have to choose one to play. However, neither is playable, I don’t have what’s needed. So, the game just sits there, keep telling me to choose a card and drag it into place, WHICH IT WON’T LET ME. So, the game is stuck, impossible to move on. Great. I’m liking it less and less and am removing a star from my review.
One of my favorite board games. Game play is incredibly fast - really too fast. It would be better for me while playing against AI to see each players actions one at a time. It’s easy to lose track of their moves.
Great Game!
Sat Dec 30 2017 Amwilliams14I almost gave it a 4 bc I do see room for improvement but moved to 5 because you guys did an excellent job making this.
Pros-
•game is super fast to play ! You can get a game done in 5-10 min!
• very easy to play if familiar with actual game. I saw a previous review and I don’t know how you can be confused if you are familiar with the game prior to playing the app.
•very clear and easy to see what you have and other players.
Room to improve when you upgrade?
• I don’t think you should be able to pick your playing board and side. It takes away the ability to strategize on the spot. I have improved by practicing the different boards.
• notification ability to hurry along a slow player
•allow a lobby room for people to join a game vs. automatically placed into games at random. A lobby room would allow you to add a password and play online with people you know.
•a way to rate players on wins and also if they stay loyal to a game that r if they bail early. (Game ticket to ride has some of these features that I feel works well for an online game)
•maybe on offline mode you could create objectives to make it more challenging
For Example
• win a game with no blue cards or maybe no guild cards
• win a game with having # of science combos.
Overall wonderful and addicting I’ve probably have played it 40 times in the past 10 days!
Wonder-ful digital adaptation
Thu Sep 06 2018 MkyvcdhkvddI’m a huge fan of the board game, and I think you guys did a great job on the digital format.
My feedback:
There is a bug where Halikarnossus counts the card collected by its wonder twice sometimes. I’ve had it happen a couple times, but people abuse this in online play occasionally if they know how to exploit it.
I would like to see more records kept in game, maybe like a stats page tied to your account (win-rate, number of games played, highest score, wonder win percentages, etc.). Doesn’t have to be too fancy, but this could be a really cool feature that a lot of us more nerdy players would really appreciate.
The user interface is great and I can usually find what I’m looking for, but looking through the card selection history it can be difficult to tell which card was taken. If you held your finger over the icon and it showed the card that would be awesome.
The tutorial was very good and was a nice touch for beginners to learn enough to get started and veteran players to learn the controls.
The games flow very well and are the right pace. It doesn’t feel bogged down by clunky controls or interface. I like the timer in online play and the matchmaking screen is clean and easy to understand.
Great game, could use minor improvements
Fri Mar 23 2018 Tor-BjornI love the tabletop version of this game, and the app is true to the original. I did the quick tutorial, and it was really simple to figure out, but I can see how it might be frustrating to jump in without the tutorial. So far I have only played the AI, and I’m disappointed that I can’t increase the difficulty level. I’m consistently winning, so I foresee growing bored with AI (unlike Carcassonne, where different AI players have vastly differing strategies and skill levels - I’ll never get tired of that!). I guess I’ll have to try the online version. The display is good, but I’d really like to be able to easily see cost of wonders and military win/loss tokens of opponents, and to see opponents’ cards when playing with >3 players (without dragging down). Overall, though, I’m really enjoying it - and it plays so fast!
Math Problems
Sat Mar 17 2018 CDomboskiAfter falling in love with the tabletop version of this game, buying this was a no-brainer. The app is fun and well done. As they continue to tweak it with updates, I can only imagine it will become a staple on most gamers iPads.
My problems (and reason for the 3 stars) are 2 major issues. I’ve noticed when passing cards that the player I pass to will have somehow have accessed a card that I did not pass them. For example, I’ll be sure to tuck the one green science card left in the hand under my board to complete a wonder and the next round, they will somehow play a green (and did not have access to the discard pile).
My even bigger issue is it doesn’t seem to be calculating points correctly. I’ll have 9 military shields but will lose the military combat because it only credited me with 6. It will also, frequently, miscount my victory points from guild cards.
First update is an improvement
Fri Nov 24 2017 ^^****^^The game works, it is 7 wonders, it looks good but... it is hard to tell what is going on. There is no indication of when neighbors buy resources or who you need to pay for a resource (unless you have the option to pay either neighbor). You can see what card your neighbors have but it would have been nice to see a short animation of their decisions to make it more noticeable. Heck the game plays in 3 minutes so slowing it down would not be a problem. Speaking of animations, a few could have been thrown in to spice up the game, it feels pretty clinical now. There is no option to select ai difficulty. The first update did address the biggest issue with the game... needing an internet connection to launch. At least now the game can be played while off WiFi.
Fine
Mon Jul 09 2018 SamsunRoThis is a fun game. I love the art and design. Maybe Im just an idiot, but its very hard to win a game. Ive played about a hundred times and have won 6 times. I cant for the life of me figure out what the strategy or goal is supposed to be or how I’m supposed to use my knowledge of what the players next to me are doing to adapt my approach. It seems pointless because apparently you’re supposed to adapt your card choice based on what those around you are doing, but that just leaves you jumping from goal to goal without completing or collecting anything meaningful by the end of Age III, resulting in a loss. This is not the developers fault or anything wrong with the app, just my own personal frustration with the design of the game itself and this is from someone who has played a lot of board games.
