Leave a Review Catan Universe
Love it but , expansions need some upgrades
I love the visual representation of the game. It’s fun and addictive! Lots of great options for play. Good graphics. Some things take a bit to figure out because there no directions on them but if you know the. Base game it’s fairly easy to figure out.
The base game works pretty well the only thing I would suggest is being able to kick out those with weak connections or have the kick timer at 30 seconds and a limit on how many times it can get activated. Additionally, when playing ( and I love that you can live play against others and also just vs AI ) but against AI two will steal from you even when you have less points than both of the Ai’s.
I would also like to undo selections when discarding cards. Sometimes I hit the wrong cards and you can’t undo your selections.
I would like to see the bugs with cities and knights fixed. I love that game but my settlements will disappear. Lately it will crash my city when the barbarians strike even though I have an active knight to cover it. Sometime it will roll. Resource I’m on but not give me the card. I also had one game where the 7 was rolled 28xs.. need a cap on that, it was like 3x any other number.
I would also like to be able to pause or recall when my cards get stolen or another player does something that effects my hand so I can see what was lost. It will go so fast I don’t even know it’s gone.
Overall I really love the games and the Ap! I play it all the time.Show lessMany4gamea
Clicking small tiles is impossible
Let me preface this: I’m a new player who just wanted to truly get into this game. I had played it once in college, but I never went past that. The board and game were cool, but it was expensive and not many of my friends knew about it. Years later I want to learn the rules and pick it up to introduce it to my awesome younger cousins.
Here’s the issue; there very little feedback on your clicks. No “you can’t place that ship there because you need a settlement.” It’s just a poof and you don’t know if you misclicked or forgot a rule. I had one game where I tried to place a ship 9 times in a row, and eventually looked to other strategies. Turns out next turn, I learned I could have placed a ship there like I wanted to and felt like my time was wasted.
It’s definitely not as intuitive as joining a group of strangers and having them help me “pick it up as you go.”
As a final complaint related to strangers, they would trade with you more often than the AI would. I got so frustrated that I had to let the AI come to me with trades since none of them would accept my 6 card pleas. You just feel against the whole world which is a terrible atmosphere for community driven game that Catan is.
This game could have a Civ. Style of play where certain characters would act in specific ways (gunning for longest roads and 4 cities), and I really hope it gets there. Fix the UI and the AI, and I’ll be back for more adventures in Catan.Show lessVircelaire
Unfriendly to touchscreen users.
Couldn’t control the camera properly, couldn’t find any instructions on how. The game was very limited in GUI which isn’t the problem unless you’re a beginner. Worst problem being how I couldn’t select different options for building roads or settlements in the game, whenever I tried it wouldn’t allow me to change from ending my turn.
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Update: The camera rotation works, making it more comfortable to play.
To give an example of it not allowing me to build, apart from the start of the game when I can place a settlement and by extension road, I can no longer build anything regardless of having enough materials. This is because it won’t let me change the icon at the bottom right from “end your turn” to anything else. Of course I could probably have misunderstood the game, given that I only spent an hour on it.Show lessLookinAtYouEA
Developer Response
Hi LookinAtYouEA, you can tilt the camera by swiping up and down with two fingers on your screen. You can zoom in our out by using the pinch gesture. Regarding the issues during building or ending the turn, it would be helpful if you could give us more info about it. You can always reach out to us via support@catanuniverse.com we will happily answer your questions.So close, but too buggy and some bad UX
This game is so close to being one of the best apps on the App Store but it has way too many bugs and issues. A few games in a row now I’ve been foiled by a bug where if you have two ports, a 3 -for-any-resource port and a 2 for something specific port, trading with the bank forces me to pay 3 even if I’m buying the good I should be able to get for 2. Also if I tap the face in the right (which I think might be Arrival on Catan) it asks me to register, even though I’m currently already logged in. And if I log in again it still asks me, forever.
Also there’s some really weird UX. Besides the board being a bit unintuitive at first, the game mode buttons at the bottom are also completely unlabeled. They keep telling you to play Arrival on Catan but give you no indication of what this is or how to do it. And you can buy the full version of the game at the shop but it’s very vague what exactly you get from purchasing it.
I don’t know if this is a bug or a penalty for paying free but I also get the same map with the same resource and number placements every time. If that is an incentive for upgrading, it’s not doing its job because they don’t make that fact clear.Show lesscfreeley
Great game and well integrated, though expansion tutorials are needed.
The game is a great adaptation of the classic strategy board game. However, the tutorial introduces you to many different expansion themed game modes. While these are great when explained (Seafarers for example), the rest have minimal to no tutorial. The gamemode involving upgrading your cities in terms of politics and science offers no explanation as to how to get the resources required to do that or what happens if you can’t defeat the pirates. Even worse, the Rivals of Catan tutorial prompt says “Let me show you the two person card game, Rivals of Catan.” Then, with no explanation, it just throws you into the middle of the game and offers no information as to how this (only slightly similar to the board game) version is even played. It just keeps expecting you to know what to do with no prompt like the prior tutorials had.
As for everything else game related, the app is incredible. No bugs. No glitches. Very well integrated and very well explained. Easy to play with friends. All that is necessary is some explanation for the new game modes introduced before just throwing them into the players’ faces.Show lessZynga luver
Password reset does not work and Customer Service does not respond
I switched phones recently so I needed to re login but it wasn’t recognizing my password. When I tried to reset, the app did not move past the terms and services agreement. Ok, so I created a new account. All was fine and I even upgraded to an expansion pack, which I paid for.
Then this week I was logged out of my new account. Not sure why that happened, but when I tried to reset my password, same issue. Even locked me out after a few tries. I wasn’t going to create a new account this time because I have the expansion so I emailed customer support. That was three days ago and I haven’t heard back. Stand behind your product.
EDIT: they got back to me this morning and informed me that it is a known bug and that I can reset my password on my desktop. That resolved my issue, but that is a critical bug that seems to have been around for a while. They should prioritize it. Upgraded to 2 stars.Show lessswimmy19
Good bye Catan
It’s so sad because this could be an amazing game, but with the countless constant glitches and crashes and freezes , it makes it impossible to play. Why publish a game with so many problems is beyond me! This was my fav game, after installing their update it wouldn’t let me play. They said they were going to fix it and over 1 month went by and still nothing ! I’m majorly disappointed with these game creators! I believe they need to take serious look at their entire game and the fact that they are probably losing hundreds of fans. Not impressed guys, I made it so far and bought expansions only for the game to stop working. I would say fix your game and make it free of like all the hundreds of glitches before you ever put it on the market.Show lesswhy?....
Developer Response
New Patch available! The App now runs more stable on devices featuring a very limited amount of RAM. This includes older iOS devices like the iPad Air 1, iPad 4 and iPhone 5s, 6, 6s and so on. Thank you very much for your patience and feedback regarding this topic. Please let me know if the update works for you now.The Duel and The Game
I mostly play The Duel (card game) now. My main comments are the following: I find that when certain events take place they happen so quickly that it is very difficult to follow what is going on. I like certain aspects of the interface of the old Catan where the graphics of the dice were nicer (they were bigger and colorful). Also in old Catan I liked the fact that when something happened the player was prompted with a dialog box. In general Catan Universe is a good start but the interface needs to be improved. I also do not mind the 3D feel of the card game, however I must say that I tried to play the board game and the 3D feel makes it too distracting and not user friendly. Also the aesthetics of the wooden game pieces is not as nice as the graphics of the old version. Another point I would like to make is that not all scenarios that I had paid in the old Catan are transferred in the new version. the Great Canal, the Enchanted Land and the Islands are missing.Show lessKatanikos
Fantastic game except the connectivity
I absolutely love this app and play it probably more than I should. Like other reviewers I have had multiple issues with timeouts/no internet messages/ game stuck on other players all of these end up needing to quit game and start a new one impacting your kharma score or all other players disappearing when you’re in the middle of a great game - highly frustrating either way.
For me this has just become part of the norm and I shall continue to play but it would be great if this could be fixed with it impacting so many users. Please!Show lessDesignarchy
Excellent game :)
I am running on iphone 8 plus and looks great, plays very well. The AI is more realistic in this one and the dice algorithms seem more realistic. Also the visuals are impressive and moving the board around while finicky is excellent. The one thing i cannot workout is how to share it with my family. I make the majority of app purchases in the family and we have sharing on, but i can’t get a second device to access what i have already bought as additional apps, other apps
allow me to restore purchases i can’t see it in this one... can you please advise if i need to buy all packs and expansions on each device?Show lessE-D05
