Leave a Review Catan Universe
Glitches with the new version
Here are a few glitches we discovered last night when a group played the new app version on iOS. Initially one player could not log in even with resetting password. During the game, the dice roll statistics were not formatted properly. Only dice rolls 2-6 were displayed on the screen with 7-12 not visible. There we’re also I believe connectivity issues. Each one of us experienced a situation where we could not pass the dice or take an action. Only after cycling through the different menus, did the game allow the player to pass the dice. One item of preference, we wish there was a way to turn off the “water droplet feature” that appears around a settlement/city when you place it on the board. Overall though we still really enjoy Catan Universe!Show lessTim 153
Okay but struggles with trading
So far I’m yet to have a single successful trade with the AI. If I offer to trade they always decline even if it’s things they need. Example, I had most of the ore and both AI players kept offering me trades for that said ore for things I didn’t want. When it comes to my turn and I initiate a trade with Ore for something I want it never takes it even if I offer a ridiculously high amount which they are getting the better deal. Even when I’ve offered a high range of things it seems to always say no which means the only trades you can pull off are the ones which they offer you.
Other than that it runs okay and seems a good version but the trading needs to get sorted out!Show lessAbaxy77
Broken, buggy, hacked mess
I love Catan, it’s a great board game, well crafted, and well balanced. This abomination is buggy as hell with the AI refusing to trade on offers it made, AI spamming the player with the robber, and statistically bizarre dice rolls. But then other times the AI being an absolute cakewalk with it only sticking to a very limited play style and being beatable every time.
All this however pales into insignificance when compared to the cheating issue, players running dual accounts where they use on account to cripple you and feed resources to another, and having now observed the other player somehow managing to get 6 cards on their first turn.
It could have been great, but it’s actually not very well designed, has poor UI and aesthetics, and with the plethora of game breaking programming mechanics and player hacking it’s impossible to win, so why bother playing?
All of these issues have been flagged on the forums for a very long time and nothing seems to have been done to resolve them.
Certainly don’t spend any money on this, sadly we will have to wait till it gets licensed to a developer that knows what they are doing before something enjoyable comes out.Show lessiChappers
Too many glitches
I love this app and have found it a great way to continue playing Catan with friends during lockdown. I’ve had problems with the kicktimer, which I don’t think should even exist in a game between friends. I’ve also had issues with the turn not progressing and having to abandon the whole game.
My latest issue is with not being able to add friends to a game. Yesterday I agreed to meet friends online to play. It’s tricky as they are in a different country so we had to deal with time differences. When I tried to add them, they just wouldn’t appear in my list. When I went to my profile and checked, they were there and were online, but when I returned to custom game, they were nowhere to be seen. We were all using the iPad app and all had updated, but it made no difference.
Very disappointing and it discourages me from recommending this to anyone else.Show lessMisterMisterSir
Glitchy but worth it
My friends and I used to have “Catan” nights often for our game nights. Now that we are in Covid crisis it’s been a nice supplement - and with all the practice I am getting much better at the game strategy. However it is a very glitchy product. Once I reached Level 9 and went to switch devices and the game forgot my account. I literally tried to reset my password and no matter how many times i attempted to reset I got a “this account does not exist” message. I believe it because I was able to make a new account with the same user name and my fiancé still has my old account as a friend but the name changed to John Doe. My fiancé also had issues with logging back into his account after changing passwords and we had to reach out to the support email. From the online community it looks like there have been a ton of issues but I still find it worth playing because it is free and kills time. Because of the glitches I would not invest in the full game. Maybe if the support team gets it together I will reconsider but for now the free version is enough for the hassle.Show lessStefani <3
Dice Rolls are not good
This game is great but the random generator for dice rolls seems offjmchowie
This app takes the fun out of Catan
I love playing catan and enjoy having the freedom to play it on my phone whenever I want. However, this app is absolutely terribly designed and makes it infuriating to play. You have to pay in order to get the full game and even then 3/4 of the time you are forced to play on the same beginner island. The developers have no common sense and even the most intuitive concepts such as displaying buttons which are used to perform actions in the game are done terribly. I have been to the official catan forum with issues on the game multiple times and the customer service and admins on the forum are terrible and offer very little advice. The advice that they do offer is often advice which instead of answering your question and satisfying you, makes you wonder what the hell was going through the developers minds when they created this. I recommend you download this app if you are fine playing the same map over and over again but do NOT spend any money of it as it is a poorly designed game and they do not do refunds.Show less12345678975329582829582
Poor interface
I like the fact you can play online, but the shoddy interface just means it’s confusing and not very enjoyable to play compared to the original Catan app.
I really miss the sound effects when you get a new resource, it helped you to track what was going on.
But right now It’s never clear which resources you or the other players just gained, because it shows them all using tiny dots which scatter all over simultaneously.
Likewise when you get robbed, you’re left trying to figure out which resource was stolen because the app doesn’t bother to tell you what is going on.
Trade interface is not great either, klunky to use and sometimes you accept an offer from the AI, but then it changes its mind and decides it doesn’t want to trade with you. Again, the app doesn’t even tell you, so you think you got some resources you needed but turns out you didnt.
The graphics are pretty, but sadly it seems like the devs are very inexperienced at designing intuitive interfaces. This is a real shame, because with a bit of work and some design input, it could be an awesome app.Show lessCarpii
Sticking w/ Catan Classic until Stack Mode Improved
I tried this again after all the improvements since its release when I found its gameplay far too slow compared to the Catan Classic app. I really wanted to like it given the community potential w/ guilds, chat & ELO and the gameplay was much improved but its "Stack" mode is too limited for competitive play IMO. You can't activate "Stack" mode unless you invite a friend so it’s not even an option for your usual quick auto-match games & even if you do the implementation of "Stack" as explained by the Almanac is far worse to the simple but effective "Full Stack" & "Stack minus 5 random tiles" options from Catan Classic. What's even the point of tracking ELO in a game driven completely by RNG dice roles??? Probability is a central aspect of Catan and Cities & Knights has ample strategic depth but all of that is wasted when you can't normalize the dice rolls to some approximation of expected probabilities via decent "Stack" options. Me, my potential revenue & all the friends I recruit to play will be sticking w/ the Catan Classic app until Catan Universe supports "Stack" at least as well as that very old app :-/Show lessacallan1
Game breaking bugs
The game itself is fantastic, but only buy this if you’re ok playing against computers to pass the time. The online experience is unacceptably buggy. Every other match I play ends with either players stalling for half an hour (!!!) and the game can’t figure out that something is wrong, or I get disconnected for no reason. My network will be running just fine, and the game will give me a notice that my “kicktimer” has started WHILE I’M STILL IN THE GAME WATCHING EVERYTHING HAPPEN. I keep coming back to this app, hoping that one day, the next update will finally fix the bugs because the game is honestly so much fun. But I’ve been playing for 2 months now and every match is the same, “flip a coin: you either get to play the game, or the game breaks halfway through and you automatically lose.” Unacceptable in its current state.
Edit: raised to two stars because the devs are pretty active in the comments and clearly trying to fix things. It’s nice to see devs that care.Show lessi kan spel qood
