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Fantastic game - long enough to develop strategy short enough for when those strategies don’t workfush n chups
Loaded dice?
Started a cities and knights game against the AI. 90% of the time the rookie AIs will set up their property next to the sixes or eights. This game had one rookie AI set up his city on a 12 and two 4s. His settlement was on another 4. First dice roll, I accurately predicted it to be “4”. Second roll I accurately predicted to be 4. Third roll was 7 but do you know what the 4th roll was? Yeah, that’s right, another 4. We rolled 4 several more times until I got inventor and took a four away from the AIs city. Then it was rolled a lot less. This not uncommon. I’ve seen 12 get favored a lot when the AI has property setup on it. I’ve seen 11 get favored a lot. This is especially true when the AI sets up on double numbers like in the example game I gave. I did win that game, but it doesn’t make it okay to have us playing with loaded dice that favors the AI. I have both Aztec and Special scenarios unlocked, but I am reluctant to buy the other expansions if this game is set up to cheat me.Show lessCadenceMatah
Really buggy and doesn’t follow the game physics right
There are a lot of issues with this game that would be really easy to fix if the developers cared to try. The board doesn’t set up right (the actual game rules specifying the numbers be put in a specific order) so you end up having areas with 3 6’s and 8’s bunched together which makes the game impossible for anyone who doesn’t get that spot. There also aren’t the proper ratio of development cards meaning there’s just as many monopoly cards as years of plenty as knights as road builders as whatever else which just makes the game extremely frustrating. As for bugs, the main ones I’ve noticed were one that covers up 2/3 of your screen so you can’t actually see the board and one that doesn’t let you place your starting pieces so it then auto places them in terrible spots. Otherwise the game is okay but a bit more frustrating than the real game since you can’t talk to the people face to face.Show lessGive.my.money.back
Inconsistent enforcement
I feel like this game has potential. But there’s several glitches and no way to report them or get help. There’s also “tournaments” that you can register for-but never get accepted into. There’s also clans-but they are pretty much dead too, even the 200+ ones. There’s the inability to really customize some of the rules but that’s okay. Lastly-the dice rolls are beyond random. Every single online match there are the same dice rolls 4x+ in a row but others get ignored entirely (for example 6 gets rolled 4x in a row). Odds are that this will happen at some point. But it happens way too consistently for it to be tolerable.
Here’s some example of the glitches. 1-Seen bases placed one space apart. 2-there are times it won’t allow a base to be placed when opposing roads lead up to each other, but other times it will. 3-the harbor master doesn’t always get filled, have had a city and town on ports with no points given. 4-bots can offer trades on your turn but you can’t do it?
I paid for the expansion to enter into tournaments which was a mistake. Can’t enter tournaments, deleted the game a few days later.Show lessWill5925
Fine but could be so much better
This does the job but it seems like they stopped short of putting much polish on the game. There are almost no audio/visual cues when something happens. Other players can place new buildings, etc and you won’t notice unless you’re paying extremely close attention to your screen the entire game. I also wonder why you have to choose from static game boards. Why can’t the tiles be completely randomized?
The biggest problem though is the opponent AI. They really easy to beat even on Master level, they make nonsensical decisions regularly, and sometimes one of them will take half the game to score a single point. You can play online of course, but it’s nice to play with AI players who don’t take forever to take their turns. The Xbox 360 version of Catan had better AI if you can believe it.
I have no idea why this game is about 2/3 of what it could be. It’s fine and we enjoy it, but it’s obvious there’s only so much replay ability here when it could’ve been almost infinite.Show lessMjk28014141
Super fun, good rendition of the board game, but there are some quirks
This is really enjoyable and you don’t have to pay anything to be able to play and experience all the types (you only get to play the expansions once if you don’t pay for them, but at least you can “test drive them”). The tutorials are good with one exception; the one-on-one tutorial is almost non-existent. Lastly, for some reason, on this game, you can build between someone else’s roads. It was my understanding that you could not do this on the board game, but you can here. All in all, this is a well done app that you can play with family and friends who have their own account. Oh yeah, to be able to play, you don’t have to pay but you do need to set up an account to play with others. Happy Settling!!Show lessBigAlBurger
This isn’t a good game
(Editors note: I love the board game but I’m talking about the mobile game for this but I love the real life board game) I was only able to get one game in because for one: it doesn’t even let you build a settlement for me and only roads so I have no way to win the game. 2: the AI’s always get the advantage and everyone else has said things already for me. The dice are clearly not random and the dice always go bad on my end and good for the AI, and how you said your fixing the game? I don’t believe it. The game is obviously super glitchy and broken and don’t waste your time playing this game it’s honestly is a bad game and I have only played a bit of a game and everyone else has already been saying bad stuff for me. This game is honestly super buggy and glitchy and I already deleted it within a hour or so of first getting time of playing it. Honestly I can see why they have so many bad reviews and I agree with each one that says bad stuff about the game. And luckily for me somehow the game was free for me so yeah luckily it was and a good thing it was too Becuase this game is horribleShow lesspikbrodyG1
Lots of glitches, leveling, and dumb game dynamics
1. There are numerous glitches including: a brief highlight of a resource card you will be dealt, constant freezes on the seafarers expansion map Oceania, and weird grey floaters that appear when two AI’s trade over your trade offer.
2. Just like the previous rendition of the Catan app, there is serious “leveling,” where a statistically impossible amount of 7’s are rolled and all the AI’s dump all their resource cards into development cards to knight steal you when you’re winning. It’s so ridiculous that even when you don’t have anymore cards, the AI will still choose to put the robber on your space.
3. There is a dumb rule where you can only play 1 game a day, at the expenditure of a “sun.” Of course there is a pay wall to buy more “suns.” 🙄 It’s like the game dynamics want me to move on and play something else, cuz that’s what I’m going to do.Show lessAverageJoe😳
Randomize the dice
I love Catan but this game is frustrating. I played free for as long as I could stand it and finally made the switch to get the random board and a couple of the add ons (cities and knights/ harbor master). You can have great board placement with all the right resources and lots of good numbers and no matter how many roles you are getting nothing. When you finally get a couple roles and just get over 8 cards a 7 roles. Meanwhile other players with terrible placement get the same number rolled 4 out of 5 rolls. I’m competitive by nature but this really needs to be fixed. Dice are random but certain numbers should show up more. I just played half a game and while the other players had two or three settlements, I had one road and bought a development card to stay below 8. I just needed two roads from the beginning of the game to move past another player. He is going the complete other way one his other settlement, I then finally get the wood I need for the road and he blocks me. I start the road to go around and on his next turn he places 3 or 4 roads to block me again, without a road building card. Please fix this and make the game about the board placement like it is in real life. Also when is the tournament play supposed to be added?Show lessNavywifeandmommyoftwo
New additions are extremely buggy & completely unnecessary
I love the game of Catan! I was introduced to the board game several years ago, which in my opinion might be the greatest board game I’ve ever played. During the pandemic I downloaded the app, and have enjoyed the ongoing rivalry with my wife. Recently however, there have been some additions to the game that are completely unnecessary. Examples include: Having the AI characters make faces while they are waiting, upset, or excited about a score they made. I don’t really care. With that said, most of the bugs I’ve experienced with this game have been in the last few months. I find it more disengaging when I’m booted out of the app, and have to relaunch the app. So to the developers of this app, not every addition is good addition. Especially when these things create more problems, causing the app to be a headache to use.Show lessJ@ckst1r
