Leave a Review Catan Universe
So much wrong
Hate to write this as it’s fun playing Catan online but...
I’ve lost so many games because of the game bugging out. There’s so little indication of what to do I.e. I couldn’t activate knights because there was kick timer on another player but I didn’t know that until later so no knight activation and we all lose our cities. Just dumb. What do I care if there’s a kicktimer on another player it shouldn’t stop me from playing my turn.
I lose ‘karma’ the rating system based on not quitting games, because the game says I’m offline when I’m at home on good wifi and I get kicked from games I’m winning. Bad karma score no one wants to play you.
Everyone almost every game gets an offline message and the game thinks it’s worth putting up a warning in the middle screen that obscures the game every time this happens. And the message doesn’t go until you touch it so you’re constantly having to dismiss warning messages. And if it’s like my offline messages - incorrect - then it’s just a whole mess of wrong.
A pity cause it could be so good.Show lessc@nopener
Extremely Buggy
EDIT 1: some of the main concerns were addressed and - to some extent - corrected. Game breaking bugs in matches were reduced substantially, from about 90% of matches to a healthy 15% (yep, I kept an excel). The in-game interface is still the same, and in my humble opinion, not very intuitive. Regardless, the app is moving in the right direction. Adjusting stars from 1 to 3. REALLY looking forward to the update that was supposed to happen a few hours ago(?).
ORIGINAL:
The board game is amazing and the app has so much potential. However, it is ridiculously common for a game to get bugged. The problem with that is that it affects all other players, not just whoever got bugged. So the game hangs up thinking no one is having issues, meanwhile this one player is stalling for upwards of 20 mins (and the game cant figure out that something is wrong and just kick him). Kicktimers trigger for no reason when you’re in-game and everything else seems to be doing fine. Not much incentive to level up. Not much to buy in the shop (honestly if there were more items available, with better perks than a viking hat, I’d be throwing money at you guys). Elo visibility is really nice tho, kinda only thing that keeps me and my friends around. Just a tip, elo games tend to not show opponents’ elo in the pre-game screen so that it won’t affect in-game tactics (i.e. 3v1, etc). Really looking forward to an update and hopefully adjusting this rating. Thanks for your hard work!Show lessExperiencedProjectEngineer
Developer Response
Hi ExperiencedProjectEngineer, version 1.4.5 was releasd yeasterday with lots of improvements to the game. Thank you also for your feedback on other issues!BE CAREFUL! (Updated)
Update1: Well, once we’ve recovered the option of resetting the password, I really enjoy the game. Will leave it at 4 stars right now. Expensive in app purchases.
I bought one of the expansions because that’s the only way of playing against computer generated characters. If not you have to play against human opponents and some times that’s not convenient (wanting to be able to pause the game half way through, for example).
Well, after a couple of days, the app asked me for my password. Of course, I didn’t remember and I still don’t remember. I use 1Password and Apple own password storing “app”, but I didn’t this time. Anyway I had seen that they had the option and assumed that I could always reset my password. WRONG!!! They have the option, but it doesn’t work. I wrote to their support email and they told me that the reset password option doesn’t work and there’s nothing they can do.
So long story short I just lost $10 and they’re not willing to give me any solution.
I find terrible that an app that asks you to pay for some of its “services” in 2018, doesn’t have a functioning option to reset your password or something similar. Yes, I know I should remember my password and that’s my bad, but every other app with the need of a password has a reset password option that actually works. That’s why they ask for your email and a bunch of other info.Show lessAstangi75
Glitchy, Very unreliable
I love playing Catan with people from around the world. This is why I paid $10 plus for this game. It however has not held up its end of our transaction. The game constantly freezes and is not able to be refreshed on a phone without leaving the game.
I’m totally frustrated by this game and would not have spent my money if I’d have known how unreliable it was going to be!Show lessKiwi educator
Catan App
Love that i can now have Catan on my phone so I can play wherever I go, overall a great app! Only minor critique here as a long term Catan player, the trade options are limited, like you can’t counter offer and that’s a pretty big oversight, you also can’t offer trades to players when it is not your turn, also would be nice if there were pre set dialogues that you can use like Catan online used to have, and the messaging option is only accessible by going into a screen separate from the view of the board, maybe that’s not a big deal to some but it would be helpful to see the chat on the board screen, and last, my only big gripe with the app is the obnoxious angles, I often get stuck at a really awkward viewing angle and I still sometimes can’t get it to show a top view of the board, I mean it’s kind of cool the board view is interactive but it really is more of an annoying feature, if they could add some controls to the view that would be great or just eliminate it altogether, anyways it’s cheap so can’t really say it’s a bad app just needs a few renovations and it will be supreme!Show lessKnowLockz
Sooo frustrating
This game has so much potential but is driving me crazy-it is fun til it freezes or glitches which is nearly every game. Other players say it is the same for them so not a device issue. iPad, pc, same deal. Such a shame because I love playing it and it would be such a good game if it worked reliably. I see another reviewer has said you can’t see what is happening very well but I find the graphics fine. It just has lots of problems with working! Nearly every game a player has connectivity issues and is replaced by a bot and if the game continues for a period without freezing it will usually stop working near the end. When it’s frozen on me I’ve tried reloading and that works sometimes but most of the time it still doesn’t work and boots me out. Please work on stability or there’ll be no one left to play. developers, You have done a great job setting it up now I hope it can start to work reliablyShow lessjasmwamba
Glitchy and Slow
For the most part this an amazing game. However the reason I’ve given this 1 star is because the game is horrendously glitchy and loaded with bugs. There are some issues that need reprogramming as well. For example, the kicktimer is a whopping 2min. The game does not proceed until these 2 minutes have passed. This needs to be shortened to a maximum of 1min. Also each player is allotted 1min per turn, again this is much too long. I can understand that some turns take that long but there should be a separate “idle” timer for turns. If a player hasn’t clicked the screen or demonstrated some activity then his turn should be skipped after 30s. As far as bugs, sometimes you will load into a game and the screen is black showing only maxed out commodity cards, only way to fix this is to reboot the app. Other times after a 7 is rolled (the robber) the turns freeze. This shows only on some players screens but not others. For example, some people will be waiting for player 3 to go but on his screen he thinks it’s still player 2’s turn. Again this can only be fixed by exiting and rebooting the app. Overall great app and I still love playing it but it can be tremendously frustrating at times. The app need technical maintenance and bug fixes ASAP. Hope this helps.Show lessLFarya
Crashes or glitches 99% of the time
I’ve never experienced an app that glitches and crashes so much. At first I thought it was just my wifi connection or phone but everyone I talk to says the same thing. It’ll boot you from the game when your connection is fine etc... and just glitches a whooole heap. Very disappointing. Great layout though... and very easy to play and fun on the rare occasion that you can play through a game with no issues.Show lessCasscunningham1
Full of bugs...but will be great when fixed
I have played many free multiplayer games on the fixed setup. About half of these have ended unsatisfactorily when one of the many bugs in the game hangs it up. I would love to become a paying customer and move on to new options but that will have to wait until enough of the bugs are fixed such that games can consistently finish without hanging up. At that point, I will happily become a paying customer. In the mean time I will play free games to monitor the hoped-for progress on the bug fixing.
Update. Here is a tidbit that is essential to be able to use this app to play multiplayer, online games while the publisher is (hopefully) fixing the severe bugs that affect this usage: If the game hangs up or, to say it another way, gets stuck, then you can swipe the app closed and then restart it. Usually, you will be given an opportunity to rejoin the game and when you do, it will likely be unstuck and making progress. Good luck!Show lessBiaunm
Too many problems
**Update***
Tried again today. Played for 30 mins... Then kick trimmer activated with 2 min count down... Each of 3 players made 2 turns each in this time yet it still clicked down... With 10 seconds left and having played two goes and just built a settlement it was so disappointing to be kicked out the game. That is 3 or 4 times now.. and I guess my profile is losing kudos for not finishing a game? ****
PLEASE RESPOND
My Husband is military deployed away from home on active service. Playing CATAN on line together was a weekly treat. Since switching to this version this week we were so disappointed.
Each time we played we would get 10-15 mins into a game and them my Husbabd would tell me I was off line and kick timer was running. I would have my go and trade with the third player (computer) and my husband played and I rolled again but my kick timer was still counting down according to my husband.
This happened again with a new game we started playing. My alarm went off during - I don't know if this started the clock ticking.. but as It was just a two player game plus a computer - there should be a kick timer over-ride or disabled option. If the other player is happy to wait... Why kick out?
Also there are other issues. The computer has his go too fast so you can't see what is going on.
There are others but until these are fixed we can't waste more precious time on this app while he away!Show lessSallyanneF
Developer Response
Hi SallyanneF, thanks for your feddabck. You can turn of the turn-timer if you want when playing a custom match with your husband. We are looking into the mentioned issues with the kick-timer if e.g the alarm of your device starts. If you want to see step by step what the AI has done in its move, you can always open the Game-Log where you can find a detailed description of every move someone has done in the game.
