Leave a Review D&D Lords of Waterdeep
Great game even on iPhone
Great port of an awesome game. On the iPhone is actually how I learned the game and then went out and bought the physical game. If playing on iOS, Its better on an iPad but you can manage on iPhone if you have good vision or glasses. If I had one complaint, I wish on iPhone cards could be tapped and made larger as the font is so small. Still, a great game I keep coming back to time and time again. I play vs AIs mainly and I find them challenging and competitive. Recommend if you like worker placement games and/or D&D. This is my favorite worker placement as the theme rocks.Show lessBabysaygorays
Frustrating UI
The app lets you play the game, and that’s great.
But the user interface is surprisingly terrible, as if the author set out to make the worst UI on the iOS store.
* on the game select screen, buttons are rendered *on top of* other UI elements making it impossible to read the text underneath or tap buttons that are now obscured from view
* when ingame, all of the custom buildings are clustered *on top of each other* huddled in a tiny column on the right side of the screen, while giant swaths of unused screen real estate are left wide open on the left side of the screen
* when a game finishes, it disappears. It doesn’t tell you who won or who lost. You have to dig into inactive games in order to find any stats about the game you just finished playing
Despite the developers’ successful attempt at making the most frustratingly-difficult app on the iOS store, it does allow you to successfully play a game of Waterdeep so at least that’s something.Show lessMiek18829
Ignore the old reviews and try this game!
This is a great game with some flaws, but if you like the game you’ll overlook them. First, I hope you won’t let the older reviews scare you off. I play this game on an iPhone and have no problems reading the cards and spaces. If the card appears small, touch it and it will enlarge so you can read it. Touch it again to return it to the board.
I would recommend turning down the animations if you play it a lot, FYI, otherwise the game can be a battery killer though.
This is a fun, engaging game with just enough strategy to be fun but not so much that you can’t multitask. You can play a game in 30 minutes which for me is perfect.
If you enjoy board games, light strategy and/or fantasy settings, I would recommend giving it a try. Start with the basic game with two other players (if you play with one generated player, you will be relentlessly attacked so play with two). The Undermountain expansion adds a lot to the game without creating complexity, so I always play with it and I also recommend the extended play.
The Skullport expansion is confusing in the app. I don’t play it. I don’t find it to be user friendly. But I never liked it all that much to begin with.
Hope this review helps!Show lessMonkey Conspirator
A well built app
Seeing the lower rating I was expecting the app to have a lot of bugs but having played so many games over the past few weeks, I must compliment the developers! So glad there is an app for the game I love so much. Even with the pandemic situation I can play it online with people.tanvi6
Fantastic Port of the Board Game
I’ve been playing the app for years, and actually bought the physical game because of how much I enjoyed it in digital form. I know people are complaining about the new UI, after the update, and as an old school player it did take some getting used to, but I really like the update now. Gameplay is smooth and easy. Multiplayer works well. The little touches such as the animations of birds flying overhead and ships coming in and out of port, as well as the thematic sounds effects just go to show what talented developers can do in digital to bring an analog game to life. Playdek rarely disappoints and they live up to their reputation in this adaptation. I have no complaints and highly recommend this app.Show lessNick Hayes
Why Auto-Forfeit? And then I can’t view the game??
So there I am—playing a game online with two friends, and I’m running out of time on the 30-minute clock that was inadvertently set by the person who set up the game. Then, despite being near the end of the game, and despite having friends enjoying that I’m playing with them, the timer runs out of time in the middle of my turn, and automatically forces me to forfeit the game.
I try to go back in to watch the rest of the game, and I can’t do that either. But rather than just eject my player from the game, the AI takes over my game. I can’t play with my friends anymore; I can’t watch their game finish up; and they still wanted me playing with them.
Why not include a way for the other players to choose to boot a player who has run out of time (like Board Game Arena), rather than forcing them out? That’s just dumb. Some of us like to take our time when we play.
And it looks like they haven’t updated the fame for years, so it’s unlikely that anything useful is going to happen on this front. Dumb app design for a fun game.Show lessGzilla37
Excellent game and expansions, just one thing.
You can tell great care went into creating this with the smooth gameplay flow, retinal graphics and sound. Well done Playdek.
Only issue is that you can’t add bots to an ONLINE game with a friend. Would be a nice update if you could, as bots add a different dynamic to the game.
Otherwise a flawless interpretation of the worker placement board game.Show lessBinturong24
Getting us through COVID-19 Quarantine!!!
My siblings and I love this game! Anytime we get together we always break it out. However, we love in different states so this has been great to keep the fun going. We're also all in Quarantine because of COVID-19 and this is help keeping us sane...
So far no major issues. It can be a little laggy, but we've all been able to play through just fine. Now if my sister would just freaking go when it's her turn!!!!!!Show lessJeccinna
Great game (but update offline play)
Love the game, and the layout is great on the iPad. If you’re familiar with the actual board game, this was a great port.
I would like to recommend updating offline play, though. I have the base game and all expansions. However, when not connected to the internet (my iPad is wifi only), the expansions are not available. Can you please allow the expansions to be played when not connected to the internet? That’s my only gripe with this. Otherwise, great!Show lessKyrajen
Great game, deep game, interesting game.
I’ve read the reviews that the UI update sucked. I will never know, b/c I just got this game in a sale & I never played the old UI. I also learned to play the game by doing tutorials. Game seems really strategic, lots of possibilities, skill seems to matter a lot, and the opponent can really throw a monkey wrench into your plan. This game is pretty awesome! I’d suggest to devs that they allow old players a toggle to switch back to portrait UI and cards visible (I might try it out myself), but the game seems perfectly playable with this UI.
Sidenote: I had similar experience with Pathfinder — early player, loved it, was hammering on Quest Mode & loving it — and then dev’s removed Quest Mode & the players rebelled, essentially killing the ratings & loyalty of the players. While I think this is also still a great game using D&D IP, I don’t understand why dev’s would intentionally alienate their loyal players just to push gamers to do more IAPs (which they won’t bc of the hate). GAMEDEVS: LEARNING OPPORTUNITY!!!Show lessRekz
