Great so far!
Mon Aug 08 2022 mrlincolnThe animations are great. Gameplay is great. This is one of my favorite board games and it works really well. Little worker critters are really cute. Music is great. The challenges are a great idea and excellent so far that I have tried. A nice way to give digital only content to keep it fresh for people play the physical board game a lot. Two areas for improvement i would suggest and plead for: 1) The meadow cards are too small for me to see. I’m on the biggest iPad and the zoom options don’t go in tight enough for me to see. Nice to be able to tap on the cards and enlarge, but the meadow just does not zoom in close enough for me. (UPDATE: THIS HAS BEEN FIXED AND IT VERY HELPFUL to have the bigger view! Thank you!) 2) Also need an undo button for mistakes. 2x in my first game, my navigating around the interface to look for things either played a card or placed a worker I did not intend just by moving around. Needs to be an undo button for that.
excellent design and timing of a mediator
Sat Sep 10 2022 Double Cross//This app was given a bit over a month prior to today. With the up and coming release of the Complete Collection a little over a year from now this game is such a joy in giving an opportunity to decide upon a $300 investment with an easy $10 one. I think the game is perfect currently despite its short time on the store-it has no perceived errors however I have not visited online play at this time.
I would highly recommend to any adolescent or adult who is looking for a future board game that they can have inherent skill in the knowledge of the game and secure a reliably good time for the people they surround themselves with. This game makes these things possible.
Touch Errors
Thu Oct 20 2022 zebracadabra20 October update: our game lasted maybe three weeks. It’s over and none of us have seen the final result. We were pretty sure we knew the final score but there was no way to confirm as the game simply went away. This was a total fail. Shame on Direwolf. They’ve had plenty of time to fix things.
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10 October update: still no fixes! In its present state, the game can be unplayable. It is ridiculously easy to move your character and drop it in an unwanted place, losing your turn in the process. THIS WAS A KNOWN ISSUE EARLY ON. I have sent three feedbacks describing bugs, all of which are still killing this game. Caveat emptor. If I had known it was this bad, I never would have bought it. ————- Touch errors, particularly in placing workers, is a HUGE problem. You can potentially ruin your game as there is no undo nor confirm buttons for placements. In fact, it has happened to me and it’s do so easy to Pisces a worker incorrectly, even when the objective lights up as a “target.” This MUST be fixed. This problem can make the game unplayable.
So frustrating
Thu Oct 03 2024 PlayapixieI love the board game, but the app is too frustrating to play. Even playing on the largest iPad, the screen is cluttered with too much information, the meadow cards are too hard to read without opening them one at a time, you can’t tell which cards are played in your city without opening them one at a time, the animations are distracting, the icons of the other players take up too much screen real estate. There is no back button for if you accidentally hit the wrong button or card, so sometimes you touch something to make it bigger to read it, and then you’re stuck with that as your choice to play. Some of the interface choices don’t make any sense; for example, when you select a worker to place, it becomes un-highlighted instead of highlighted. So confusing. The clunky awkwardness of the entire experience is far more frustrating and enjoyable. Super disappointing, given how much I love the board game experience.
Great Digital Rendition of the Tabletop
Tue Aug 09 2022 LyndeeJoThis game plays great as a tabletop (it can get very length though) but even better as a digital edition if you are wanting a quick round without all the setup and waiting on opponents to move.
I love the fact that the game shows you which cards you can play, which spaces are an option for you to move, how many points you are gaining based on the card contingency benefits and even tells you what you are missing if you are trying to achieve a special event.
I would prefer to be able to select which animal is my player markers - I find it confusing since typically I will play as the same animal each time on the table top game and when my animal changes each game I actually forget which marker is mine and where I have went on the board - I keep having to remind myself of which animal I am for that game.
Amazing graphics!
Fri Jul 29 2022 Everdell FanLove this games! Great graphics. I agree with other reviews about placing a card by mistake. There needs to be a confirm button. Also when you use one of the forest locations for trading cards to play the meadow card it isn’t let me play the meadow card. It also is controlling which production cards you play when copying a production from an opponent. It doesn’t see me to activate all production cards when you go into the autumn season. Small glitches but annoying. I don’t see how you can choose your character either as it seems to be assigned randomly. I’d rather be able to choose. I love Everdell and this is a great way to play when you can’t get together for the actual board game. Can’t wait for the extensions to get added!
Big fan of studio, big fan of Everdell
Fri Sep 16 2022 VirtuoAdanteOwn physical Everdell and expansions. Big fan of the Root adaptation by this co, bought and purchased Raiders of the North Sea just to support these (really happy with that purchase as well!), and was ecstatic to learn Everdell was being adapted and glad to finally play it.
Really happy with the adaption, I expect it will be another regular for digital board game nights. Hope to see some improvements, and more future adaptations!
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Off by 1 Bug: Decrease by 3 effects work fine if the selection amounts exactly to 3, but when you have to choose yourself how much it only allows a decrease by 2.
Some improving notes:
- Would prefer not having to drag my critter to go to a location, it’s unnecessarily cumbersome. Would at least like an option to toggle this behavior.
- Would really like the ability to choose my critter. Would also like, in general, if more critters are available.
- When hovering over the special event cards, it would be nice to see the card text as well — it helps to strategize.
A work in progress
Thu Aug 17 2023 Johnny VasquezThis is my favorite table top game and the port here is overall great. It looks beautiful, the animations are well done, and it’s nice to have music and sound effects to give life to this world. I LOVE the challenges. They provide some much needed variety of game play to the base game and are genuinely challenging. Being able to play other people in real time is great though the ranking system could be improved. Currently you gain points for how many games you play and it would be nice earn points for beating higher ranked players.
The development team has done a great job of dealing with bugs and there are rarely issues with glitches.
Regardless, I’m so glad to have an Everdell app and I can’t wait for the expansions to be added.
Smooth and clean (w/a caveat)
Sat Mar 01 2025 LoosepgThis app is very smooth and interacts very seamlessly locally and online. Great color and visuals. We have the analog version of the board game and this is like the arena equivalent to MTG. Works like a charm.
There are a couple quirks with some of the cards if you don’t play them in the exact sequence they would go ideally (stacking, occupying, free cards, etc.) but it’s a once in several playthroughs type of thing. Also, it can be a bit small and hard to read if it’s on your phone. Several of us downloaded to tablets because our phones couldn’t handle the small text and images.
It’s a 4/5 for me. But a STRONG 4. We’ll not get bored of this anytime soon.
Dire Wolf *Mostly* Back to Form
Tue Aug 02 2022 FEB777I’m really thrilled to see Dire Wolf back to form, the form of Raiders of the North Sea, Root, and Yellow and Yangtze. Everdell is a fantastic board game translation to digital. Has a lot of the hallmarks of the classic dire wolf digital board games. Great game, really like this app. Only gripe I have is that they apparently just reused music they had done original for Root and Raiders of the North Sea. Sounds like a mash up of those two. It’s rather jarring, and unfortunate since those original scores from those other games I thought were so wonderful and really added to the experience, would be nice if this had its own nice new score to complete the experience. But otherwise fantastic app.
