Leave a Review D&D Lords of Waterdeep
Great worker placement game
If you like worker placement games, this is one of my favorite. Each turn, you're trying to complete quests by accumulating units of various professions (and also money). Each player has a secret agenda, which changes what types of questions you'll prefer. There's considerable variety in how each game plays out, and the sounds and graphics add nicely to play. This isn't a D&D RPG. But it's very enjoyable. It's nice to have a game where you turn your mind on rather than off, on iOS. Edit: Minus one star for the update the switched to landscape. This took a 5-star game and worsened playability. In a strange way, it’s a little prettier. But I have a much harder time playing. They had (and no doubt in their codebase still HAVE) and perfectly good portrait-orientation UI. If they wanted to enable landscape, I wish they’d done it by giving is the OPTION which one to use. As I type this, the average rating is now 2.6. When I first reviewed it as a 5-star game, its average was quite a bit higher. Like a lot of things these days, that’s a ridiculous overreaction. It’s still a very good game.Show lessRonbo13
Continuing to wait for portrait
Community has abandoned this game. Just a few years ago it was easy to maintain online games. Ever since the landscape update this game has plummeted in quality and active. The game itself is a portrait board. Forcing this game to be played landscape to “fit in” with other apps is nonsense. This game was fantastic, easy to play, and powerful in portrait. I download this game several times a year, attempt to play, get frustrated, and delete it. The lack of portrait mode breaks this for me. This was the perfect game to play on the train or while walking, but landscape makes that impossible. Developers pushed a minor update to fix some overlapping graphics issues I reported. However, this simply makes text and UI elements smaller. This exasperates an issue that did not exist in portrait.
Game remains unplayable on iPhone. Sigh.Show lessTpudewe
Developer Response
Hi there! So sorry you're experiencing these issues. Please send these to support@playdekgames.com and we'll be able to assist you from there. Thank you for your patience and support!Didn’t like it at first but now I think it’s great!
It seemed weird that a Dungeons & Dragons game didn’t feature you fighting in combat directly. But this game has grown on me. It’s a “euro” style boardgame that’s digitized so you can play solo against AI opponents. I enjoy playing the role of a cunning lord trying to gain power and influence in a city against other lords, using adventurers as a kind of weird “human currency” to achieve quests. I find it much more fun than playing chess to while away time when I am waiting or just want to exercise my mind.Show lessAvnrk
LOVE THIS GAME
Our whole family plays it. It’s so nice to have this game in digital form because there are so many pieces involved with the board game. We still pull out our board game sometimes, but we prefer to use the digital version because it keeps track of everything for us. The graphics are great!! We’ve had the Lord’s of Water Deep app for over 2 years now. It’s a family favorite!!Show lessForhowmuch
Notifications simply don't...
Good game, been playing constantly for years. Agree with the others that the Landscape board was not an improvement. But what kills me is that the Notifications simply don't work. Yes, it annoys me that once a game ends I get no notification, and it disappears entirely from the active games, so I have to go hunting for it- but the app being unable to simply notify a player it is their turn is the worst. We have to maintain a chat on Signal just to update each other on whose turn it is now. Speaks well to the game that we still play constantly. I have full faith this can be fixed, so please do.Show lessPhroob
Lost access to expansions
When I originally purchased the game one of the things that sold me on it was that it came with the expansions. Having played the original I knew that without them the game was pretty boring. After the most recent update the expansions went away. When I submitted a ticket I was told that getting the expansions with the original game was “a bug” that had been fixed. Just know that if you buy the game you’re going to need to spend another 4 bucks to get a decent game.Show lessJudge Colin
One of the best
This is not a 3.1 star implementation of a board game (avg rating as I write this)…it’s a 5 star implementation. I get it’s not great on iPhones, but it rocks on the iPad, in particular for multiplayer. Other player actions are always very clear. The UI is sharp. Graphics are spot-on. If you like the board game, buy the app.Show lessAlienJake
No issues with UI
There are many negative reviews because of a UI change that was made many years ago. It is too bad there isn’t an option to change it for people who preferred the old UI. I don’t know what the old UI looked like, but I haven’t had any issues playing this on my iPhone. It’s been great for asynchronous games with my friends. I’m sure they appreciate me getting my turns done more quickly as well.Show lessItsMerts
Continuing to wait for portrait
Community has abandoned this game. Just a few years ago it was easy to maintain online games. Ever since the landscape update this game has plummeted in quality and active. The game itself is a portrait board. Forcing this game to be played landscape to “fit in” with other apps is nonsense. This game was fantastic, easy to play, and powerful in portrait.
I download this game several times a year, attempt to play, get frustrated, and delete it. The lack of portrait mode breaks this for me. This was the perfect game to play on the train or while walking, but landscape makes that impossible.
Developers pushed a minor update to fix some overlapping graphics issues I reported. However, this simply makes text and UI elements smaller. This exasperates an issue that did not exist in portrait.Show lessFun game , good interface
I have played lords of the Waterdeep on my iPad for over three years now. I love playing the game because I don’t have anyone around me who likes or wants to play strategy games. So this electronic version is an awesome way for me to play. I am working on getting my niece and her husband set up so we can have our own game. I have never had any problems with any hitches any glitches everything works everything does what it supposed to. I love it and recommend it for anybody who likes a good fun strategy game.Show lessAFHands
