Leave a Review 7 Wonders
Asynchronous 2 player game play with a specific friend? Where is it?
Just a hint in improving your nice app and why I haven’t played it since I purchased it when it came out———>Most players want to play a private game with their friend online in an ASYNCHRONOUS mode. I know there is a minimum of three players for 7 wonders, but please look at the Le Havre board game app and the way they let you play with a specific friend and add a bot or two, in a glorious asynchronous mode (meaning there is no timed rush to make your next move). That game is almost flawless in app design, ditto with the Puerto Rico, Ticket To Ride, Carcassonne and Istanbul board game apps. You’re up there with a quality app for such a great game, but you have to make it easy and fun for the customer to enjoy.Show lessBinturong24
Error in scoring
I’ve noticed that the purple guild cards do no always calculate correctly. For instance, the rules from the physical game contain a clarification that the Ship Owners guild counts itself as a purple card towards the point total. This happens inconsistently in the app. Other errors I’ve noticed are harder to pin down precisely. In a recent game I played both the Military Guild and the Workers guild. There were five military cards in surrounding cities and seven brown cards, but the end game total only came up as 10. Happened again with just the Workers guild 9 brown cards, total only calculated as 7.Show lessLady_Orpheus
Question about abruptly stopping mid game
This is an excellent adaptation of the board game. When I play live with other people, some games “kick me out” during the middle of the game. I get a message about deserting the game though I initiated nothing to quit. When I try to reconnect it says “unable to join cancelled match”. I’m trying to find out why this is happening- is it an internet connection problem? Or is the host intentionally killing the game? Anything I can do to prevent this? It’s about 15% of games I play with others (not AI).Show lessJmm-rvw1
Another cash grab by hobby bg
I have a couple thousand boardgames in one form or another, this is one that benefits from the company of people on an actual table, though I am playing on a phone and not a tablet.
Interface is rather confused and messy for such a simple game, it took me forever to figure out what a “neighboring” city was. The subleties of point counting are lost, unless you enjoy spelunking through tiny sub menus to see what your six opponents are doing. After winning some and losing some by near random selections of cards to place I started feeling like I really didn’t care how things worked.
The satisfaction of the tabletop game is that this thing is stupid easy, but made fun by playing it with people, negotiating and scheming in real time, etc.
I have tried almost every “hobby bg” in app form on the phone, some are well implemented, but most experience dropped development and become abandonware, or are riddled with bugs and then ported over to Steam— Well, copy pasted to Steam. This is a practice I wish would end, among others.
Buy a copy of Tabletop Simulator. ;)Show lessgrimoire_games
Wonder-ful digital adaptation
I’m a huge fan of the board game, and I think you guys did a great job on the digital format.
My feedback:
There is a bug where Halikarnossus counts the card collected by its wonder twice sometimes. I’ve had it happen a couple times, but people abuse this in online play occasionally if they know how to exploit it.
I would like to see more records kept in game, maybe like a stats page tied to your account (win-rate, number of games played, highest score, wonder win percentages, etc.). Doesn’t have to be too fancy, but this could be a really cool feature that a lot of us more nerdy players would really appreciate.
The user interface is great and I can usually find what I’m looking for, but looking through the card selection history it can be difficult to tell which card was taken. If you held your finger over the icon and it showed the card that would be awesome.
The tutorial was very good and was a nice touch for beginners to learn enough to get started and veteran players to learn the controls.
The games flow very well and are the right pace. It doesn’t feel bogged down by clunky controls or interface. I like the timer in online play and the matchmaking screen is clean and easy to understand.Show lessMkyvcdhkvdd
Errors in scoring
After the most recent update this week, there are errors in military scoring. This bug was not present prior to the update.
Revised - I’ve also noticed the science calculation was off once as well. Not sure how often that happens. The one time I noticed it was after selecting science as the last card through the Halikarnassos special action. So hopefully that will be fixed as part of the next release as well. Thanks.
Revised 2 - I know what the specific bug is now. It does not occur often in standard play, which is why it was hard to pin down. The issue is this. If playing Halikarnassos, and the very last play is to use your wonder ability that enables a search through the cards, if you choose either a military card or a science card, that card value will be doubled. So, a 3 military will count as 6, and a science card will count that symbol twice. But, again, it is only if that is the very last (18th) turn. I’ve now been able to replicate it, so pretty sure this is the issue. Hopefully, you can get you QA team to review. Thanks.Show lessCasualboardgamer1937
Developer Response
Version 1.3.1 is on its way to fixe that. All our apologies for that mis-calculation.Fine
This is a fun game. I love the art and design. Maybe Im just an idiot, but its very hard to win a game. Ive played about a hundred times and have won 6 times. I cant for the life of me figure out what the strategy or goal is supposed to be or how I’m supposed to use my knowledge of what the players next to me are doing to adapt my approach. It seems pointless because apparently you’re supposed to adapt your card choice based on what those around you are doing, but that just leaves you jumping from goal to goal without completing or collecting anything meaningful by the end of Age III, resulting in a loss. This is not the developers fault or anything wrong with the app, just my own personal frustration with the design of the game itself and this is from someone who has played a lot of board games.Show lessSamsunRo
Couple of fixes would make it perfect
I don’t usually write reviews of apps and games, but I like this one so much and wanted to throw a couple of suggestions at the devs. 1)Please make a rulebook accessible in the app so that if someone has a question about why they can or can’t play certain cards, they don’t have to go through the whole tutorial again. Great job of showing what you can/can’t do, but sometimes the “why” helps with strategy. 2)Give players the ability to see how points were counted up in each category to give the category total. Like, if I could hit the purple column and see the cards of that color and how they scored or something. 3)allow for auto log in for online play.
Thanks for a great game. It makes me want to get the board game.Show lessVolman1229
Love the board game - App is okay..
7 wonders is an incredible board game with casual level rules but expert level strategy. The best part about this game is that adding more players does NOT increase the game length as all players make their moves simultaneously. No sitting and waiting.
The app is cosmetically advanced and has the potential to be a great adaptation of the board game. Some things Id like to see improved or added to the app:
- Controls for lobby hosts: allow the host to punt players from the lobby (if they are idle or rude)
- Ability to view non-neighbors board state: its annoying to have to relay on impeccable memory or play the guessing game.
- Record tracking and ladder play: any good strategist would like to see how they rank in comparison to the rest of the world players. Maybe for ladder games make all players anonymous to mitigate cheating or stat boosting.Show lessMrSensei2001
Great IOS port
I’m a huge fan of 7 wonders, I have all the expansions and have probably played this game with my friends several dozen times. This is one of the best translations to the IPhone. There’s no annoying ads, there’s no pay to play subscription fees, each of the expansions are priced at a reasonable amount.
The AI was surprisingly good at keeping you from monopolizing certain cards and I had to play a few times before I started winning. The multiplayer is standard for most iPhone games, I don’t see a way to play with friends or locally. I would love to see that added.
Overall i recommend.Show lessShodan79
