Clever game
In Codenames, you need to analyse, summarise and think outside of the box. It is also a lot of fun.
Game is great, hate the nagging gamification though
I enjoy it. It’s Codenames. Finding a game is slick. But its gamification is pretty gross. I do not care about xp, or events. And the nagging and screens about it all are quite wearying.
Good but…
Good game but sucks having to always wait hours for other players…… really sucks the fun out of it.
Updated: Well polished and ad free
This is the best conversion of a board game to app I've ever played. I like that the more you level up the more you get to do.
Update: after months of playing the number of non-American players have made this game unplayable for me. Some players don't grasp the most simple cultural references. There should be an international option if you wish to play this way, but I should be able to choose to play with Americans that understand what I'm trying to convey. If you tried to play the real board game with people that didn't understand because they're not from this country it would be just as frustrating and no fun. Shame because this game was so well made.
Update: after months of playing the number of non-American players have made this game unplayable for me. Some players don't grasp the most simple cultural references. There should be an international option if you wish to play this way, but I should be able to choose to play with Americans that understand what I'm trying to convey. If you tried to play the real board game with people that didn't understand because they're not from this country it would be just as frustrating and no fun. Shame because this game was so well made.
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Response from developer
Thank you very much!
Great, but missing one thing
This is a great port of an already great game! I love both it and the original. I would give it five stars, but there is one thing that irks me. The jury is a great way to test new additions to the game, but a lot of words get voted in that really don’t follow the original rules. It would be great if the developers could make a tournament mode with strict guidelines that doesn’t allow jury additions and has a base dictionary/card collection that is more similar to the original board game.
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Missing Gamemodes
Was using the online version of the app to play Codenames Duet with my mom. Was expecting the paid version to provide more game modes such as the Codenames Pictures version, or more words, or even Codenames Duet. But there’s less functionality in the paid app than the free online version.
You have to play to unlock more words. But I expected to pay to be able to use those expanded word collections instantly.
As much as I love Codenames, I would strongly recommend just using the online version on your web-browser.
You have to play to unlock more words. But I expected to pay to be able to use those expanded word collections instantly.
As much as I love Codenames, I would strongly recommend just using the online version on your web-browser.
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Response from developer
Thank you very much for your feedback, we will discuss your points.
Brilliant fun alone or with others
Worth buying even if you have the board game. If you don’t already know the game, it’s the most widely enjoyed group game there is! But this app allows you to play solo if you want.
Response from developer
Thank you for the review :-)
Outstanding app with one stupid design choice
This app is a wonderful digital adaptation of an excellent game. The many little variants they came up with add some fun variety and new interesting decision-making. You should absolutely buy it and play it! So why 2 stars? Because after months of playing on this app and loving it, I suddenly unlocked a feature that I can't turn off and is wrecking my experience; I basically need to stop playing until they hopefully remove this (and then I will happily replace this with a 5-star review; 6+ if I could!). Specifically: you 'collect words' from different categories, and when you collect enough you get a figurine from that category and games related to that category start showing up in your selection of game variants. Since these new variants displace some old options and the app developers recognize that not everyone likes them as much, they sensibly let you 'disable' figurines that you don't want active. I disable them all, so far so good. But then once you unlock your 9th, with no warning suddenly you can't disable them all anymore! So I can no longer reliably play the games I loved anymore :( Note that as a new player you can avoid this problem by just not earning more than 8 figurines, so you should still buy and play this game; just don't make the mistake I did unless you like the collectors missions and want them appearing in your queue forever.
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Great but missing a couple features
The game as it stands is a very good game and has a nice clean interface. There are a few things that could be added to make it really great.
1. Add a mode to play with friends and bots.
2. Add an option to play in a live, non-asynchronous game. Async is fine for the default, but I would like to have a choice to play through a full game in a single session rather than wait for other players to move the game forward. Sometimes the wait is days long for a single person’s move.
3. There is no excuse for a time barrier for single player missions in a one-time paid game. This seems like it draws from games with IAPs, which is completely out of place here.
1. Add a mode to play with friends and bots.
2. Add an option to play in a live, non-asynchronous game. Async is fine for the default, but I would like to have a choice to play through a full game in a single session rather than wait for other players to move the game forward. Sometimes the wait is days long for a single person’s move.
3. There is no excuse for a time barrier for single player missions in a one-time paid game. This seems like it draws from games with IAPs, which is completely out of place here.
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Fun but needs some improvements
First, the team versus team and team versus assassin are fun. But the writers should worry less about being diabolically tricky in setting up the boards so as to create overlapping words. Instead, the writers should bring many more words into the game. I have seen the same words over and over again. Egypt, pyramid, Pegasus, military terms, black hole, big bang, and so on. Over and over again! Just increase the number and diversity of words and randomize. Second, I'm not interested in the games with variations like symmetry, special themes, etc. I just want to play "regular" Codenames. Third, the daily challenges are so-so/pretty repetitive. Overall, good start but needs work.
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