Like a FPS like Lost Planet/Halo/Marathon
Has the feel of the old time dungeon crawling alien first person shooters but mix in some deck building action. Love the card designs; enemy units; different weapons. Great game would love an Xbox one port with achievements.
Almost Great
I really like this game as the coop is awesome. But it’s freaking buggy and there’s no way to undo some things you are stuck with it. It’s hard so these frustrating broken ai choices it forces you into break the game. Good job on the game, keep at it. It’s almost there.
Years later, still not balanced
I like the idea of this game. I like the styling of this game. I like the system used by this game. I do not like the balance of this game. I get that the game creators like games that may be impossible to win even even if the player was clairvoyant and used perfect strategy. I don’t.
Great visuals, Asmodee’s same terrible interface
This game looks great and keeps in the spirit of the board game. However, trying to play cards and/or their abilities is atrocious. Typical from Asmodee games on the phone that I have played. Spend more time trying to perform functions and actions than making strategic decisions.
challenging game! Crying out for local play or pass n play
I want to play this with friends, at least as pass n play or better still, with both of us on our own iPads. I am not interested in online.
However as a solo game it is still great, really tough, good visuals and simple mechanics, you can also play as the other players by simply controlling their resources- it works fine.
This is a very good implementation of the board game
I.E. a thematic alien vs man survival deckbuilder, easy to learn and a game takes between 5-25 minutes, although only if you survive that long! Not won yet, not because of poor or unrealistic AI, but because it is a really hard game!
However as a solo game it is still great, really tough, good visuals and simple mechanics, you can also play as the other players by simply controlling their resources- it works fine.
This is a very good implementation of the board game
I.E. a thematic alien vs man survival deckbuilder, easy to learn and a game takes between 5-25 minutes, although only if you survive that long! Not won yet, not because of poor or unrealistic AI, but because it is a really hard game!
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Excellent game. No bugs I can see
A well made game of co-op troop management. Usually I find deck builders to have pasted on theme but this one has mechanics that decently reflect the theme it is trying to convey. Though this is weakened with the psyonics and gen mid expansion a bit I feel.
A little practice has us winning easily at 2 division. Game is rather hard at 1 division. The difficulty settings are well gauged with easy being quite easy, normal being a decent challenge and hard being insane.
I definitely suggest getting the elites expansion. It’s a couple bucks but gives a lot more theme and strategy to the game by allowing surviving troops to level up.
My only complaint involves the UI for activating the expansions you have bought. There are expansions to the base game, an expandalone game, and expansions to that other game. Some of the expansions work with the base game some work on both and some only on the second game.
This is the nature of the game, very complicated, but the UI doesn’t help at all by explaining the difference between playing Onslaught with the Dreadmire expansion and playing Dreadmire with the Onslaught expansion. It’s very confusing with no information to decipher the puzzle.
A little practice has us winning easily at 2 division. Game is rather hard at 1 division. The difficulty settings are well gauged with easy being quite easy, normal being a decent challenge and hard being insane.
I definitely suggest getting the elites expansion. It’s a couple bucks but gives a lot more theme and strategy to the game by allowing surviving troops to level up.
My only complaint involves the UI for activating the expansions you have bought. There are expansions to the base game, an expandalone game, and expansions to that other game. Some of the expansions work with the base game some work on both and some only on the second game.
This is the nature of the game, very complicated, but the UI doesn’t help at all by explaining the difference between playing Onslaught with the Dreadmire expansion and playing Dreadmire with the Onslaught expansion. It’s very confusing with no information to decipher the puzzle.
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Fun but crashed first time I switched apps.
It’s gripping. I’m buying the board game. But this thing crashed. I was in my way to winning. I don’t even think it saved that I was winning, so a total waste of time.
Update: crash the second time I played and I did not even switch out of the app. Considering asking for a refund because this is unplayable.
Update: crash the second time I played and I did not even switch out of the app. Considering asking for a refund because this is unplayable.
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Buggy Mess
Buttons are tied to animations. So hitting the done button twice too quickly will skip entire phases, bypassing the game’s own warning prompts. An easy fix to this would be the ability to go back to acquire phase from deploy phase.
A few cards need more detail, such as the Prototype Heat Lance Shotgun which doesn’t specify that it only targets it’s own lane. There are also other bugs such as being unable to discard certain cards during wrap-up phase, which ended up costing me a Hard game on the very last round.
A few cards need more detail, such as the Prototype Heat Lance Shotgun which doesn’t specify that it only targets it’s own lane. There are also other bugs such as being unable to discard certain cards during wrap-up phase, which ended up costing me a Hard game on the very last round.
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Must be fixed! Works great!
I took a chance on this, seeing all of the negative reviews, but the crashing issues are fixed! I had no issues on my iPhone X or iPad Air 2. It requires patience learning how to activate abilities/card effects (play the tutorial). Of course it's more fun co-op, but solo mode is a blast. This game is alot of fun and very challenging. Good luck!
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Ver 2.0.2 crashes after deploy phase.
Updated review for 2.0.2. iPad 4 iOS 10.3.3 - game crashes but after deployment phase.
Response from developer
Hello, We are deeply sorry about this. In order to solve this, could you please contact the support: https://asmodee.helpshift.com/a/xenoshyft/ best regards, Asmodee Digital support
