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Cultures Northland

This is a great little game a lot like settlers of old and what that should have become. Great fun to play and hours of fun! Some minor issues with the controls but other that a top game!

Requested a refund!

The tutorial and in-game help both reference key combinations such as using Shift, Ctrl, and the number keys to select, deselect and assign a number to a group. And the scroll settings are edge, tile, and "Third Mouse Button". You will use the arrow buttons and the mini-map to scroll instead (ugh). Text appears underneath where you tap, so is unreadable, and so forth and so on. Basically, the game is unplayable and Apple should have refused it.
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Horrible controls

The tutorial is nearly impossible to complete. Several steps refer to keyboard shortcuts, as does the help menu. I had to click on icons through trial and error to figure out what they did. The very first step, to move a person across the field, took many tries to finesse into working. Later, new characters need to be selected but they're hiding behind trees.

Hopefully this game will get updated controls. Do not buy for now.
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Game requires a keyboard to play, but doesn't recognise the bluetooth keyboard.

The help files and tutorial all refer to keyboard shortcuts and commands but the game doesn't recognise the bluetooth keyboard (and I couldn't find a way to bring up the onscreen keyboard).

I could not complete the tutorial because around the 4th step it required me to create a group of villagers using SHIFT-1 and recall them using CTRL-1.

The controls that are usable by touch are too small to touch easily and the tooltips required to understand what the different commands do are hidden by your finger while pressing the buttons.

I loved this game on PC, but it is unplayable rubbish on iPad.
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Pathetic and buggy!!!

My gosh, don't you devs know how to test games before selling?! What a frigging mess this is. Even your help and some of the settings are for a PC! I set the screen for lower resolution so I can read things and I lose the directional star behind a menu so I can't move. There are so many problems that it's a waste of time to describe them all. Another $6 down the drain. Jerks. Don't buy this game until they patch the heck out of it.

iPad 4 with iOS 7.
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Terrible so far

Horrible user interface. Apparently ported from PC, but not updated for touchscreen devices. For example, the help file shows only keyboard commands, and tooltips pop up under the user's finger and are almost impossible to read. No instructions that I could find other than those in the tutorial. Save your money.
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Not good for iPad

This has been ported from a PC version of the game. This has not been reprogrammed or designed for a touch interface. Even the tutorial tells you to use keyboard commands but there is no digital keyboard that I could find. You have to use arrows or touch the corners to move the map. Not touch and drag like you would expect. All the icons and buttons are tiny. I'm very disappointed and want a refund. It's sad because I was really looking forward to this game. Don't waste your money unless they redo the user interface. I'm sure it's a good game on a desktop computer but playing it on the iPad is painful.
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