Faithful to the Boardgame; minor glitches
Great value! Highly repeatable game play. AI is a bit wonky where the AI players sometimes don’t take obvious overrun opportunities. Occasional glitches with event cards. Mostly faithful to the board versions (but I haven’t played the most recent versions, so take that with a grain of salt).
USA broken
The event card won’t let me use the event action which means it’s not as worth having.
Boring
Was really looking forward to play this game, saw it was on sale (from $5 to $1) and got it. Got disappointed quickly. Maybe I was looking for something like Civilization, which this is definitely not the case.
Great game, but currently broken
I’ve been playing this for a few years, but currently I can’t pick areas to affect with events, which may be a bug related to one of the recent targeting patches.
Update: A year later and I still can’t use Sea Power because no matter where I click it still won’t deploy a ship
Update: A year later and I still can’t use Sea Power because no matter where I click it still won’t deploy a ship
Tutorial
I can’t get past the tutorial. This is my 3rd complaint with zero support. I am on an iPad Air2.
Ok, but some of the features don’t work
Great map and overall concept, but the execution and factory testing is somewhat lacking. Some of the event cards don’t work. Example, I chose a disaster event card, the interface then told me to select a province to apply the disaster to (it even highlighted the eligible provinces), but when I clicked on a province nothing happened. I clicked everywhere on the map, nothing happened. Now I am stuck in the event card transaction with no way to get out of it except close the app and start a whole new game. Very frustrating.
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One of my favorites
Great transport of a great board game. One of my all-time favorites!
Addictive
I’ve been playing this game pretty addictively for about 9 months. It combines a high level of difficulty (even playing against the AI) with a short (10 minute) playtime, so you always want to try just once more. The primary game dynamic is that if you’re winning in one time period, you get last choice for civilization during the next period. This creates an always topsy-turvy game that defies easy wins; but it also goes the other way, giving you a chance if you were losing to suddenly be the Romans or the British Empire and kick some booty. It’s fun! Great sound design and interface. Originally I had difficulty selecting provinces or naval zones. I tried the game on the iPad which makes it much easier although it’s still a little tricky. It is playable on the iPhones...you just have to know -exactly- where to tap and to tap for just the right length of time. Once you get it, the game becomes completely playable. My only other complaint is that playing online against people is too slow so no one waits around; instead it becomes a “play by mail” type game almost, where you take one or two moves a day. The way they’ve designed the turns you may wait a whole day for your opponent to make his move and then all you do is get to select a card before waiting some more. Despite these frustrations, this is a great board game!
Here’s my original review:
It’s too hard, as certain cards and abilities don’t work (on my iPhone 8 with the latest iOS). Namely, placing navies or playing cards that require you to select a country to play on such as Pestilence don’t function because there’s no way to select the target...and I’ve tried every combo of tapping and dragging, etc. The same goes for abilities that require tapping on them to activate or selecting a target. There seems to be no way to proceed so I have to pick undo. Please fix so that you can actually pick things!!!
Here’s my original review:
It’s too hard, as certain cards and abilities don’t work (on my iPhone 8 with the latest iOS). Namely, placing navies or playing cards that require you to select a country to play on such as Pestilence don’t function because there’s no way to select the target...and I’ve tried every combo of tapping and dragging, etc. The same goes for abilities that require tapping on them to activate or selecting a target. There seems to be no way to proceed so I have to pick undo. Please fix so that you can actually pick things!!!
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Buggy. Couldn’t get past tutorial.
It got to a point during the tutorial where it said I should end my turn, but pressing the hourglass did nothing. Skip this buggy game.
Very good adaptation of the board game
History of the World is a very good board game. This is a fun adaptation. You can pass and play with others or play solo against AI players. However, you need to correct some spellings. It is “siegecraft” not “seigecraft”. LOL
Great game, but...
A bunch of the event cards don’t work—can’t place navies, can’t select targets for pestilence, and so on. It makes the game sort of frustrating
Favorite game
Been playing this flawlessly for years and long been one of my favorite iPad games, a combination of Civ and Risk. A bug was introduced in a recent updates but they responded quickly to fix it (thank you!).
Edit: Had to add that twice I reported an AI bug with the Arabs and both times they fixed it right away. Great support from Sage!
Edit: Had to add that twice I reported an AI bug with the Arabs and both times they fixed it right away. Great support from Sage!
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Bug
This is one of my favorite games but there seems to be a bug. I can play through about five epochs and then the game crashes. Is this a known issue?
Please update this to 64 bit!
Please update this to 64 bit! I've played the board game version of this forever and am so very glad to see it available now as an app. I have played a few games so far and it's great. Thank you very much!
Wouldn't recommend
I've been able to complete under half of the games I've played due to glitches. That alone has frustrated me enough to stop playing, even though it is a fun table top game. If doubters must know, I have an iPhone 6. I don't have these problems with any other app, game or not. I've contacted customer service and received no reply. I'm convinced that this game is a money grab, and that the developers don't care about anything beyond cash dollars people.
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Glitchy, but great!
This is a great game, and well worth a few dollars. It has a nice feel of escalation, and it is overall an enjoyable area control game. I like the twist of choosing a different empire every round, in addition to the events. Despite the great game, it is a bit glitchy. For example, if you click the undo buttons at certain times, it will skip your turn. This is very irritating, and if it wasn't for this, this would be a 5 star app. Very fun!
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Excellent App!
I love that hobby board games are getting such awesome representations in digital format. This is not the classic HotW, if you played the original Avalon Hill game - this is essentially the second edition of that game, and it is great! If you played the old board game, or are looking for a game like Risk with more strategic depth, check this out!
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Excellent implementation
30+ year boardgamer, heavy iOS user. Played only on iPad Air, with no problems (other than Game Center which seems to never report turns correctly, however is suspect that is Apple's issue).
Really enjoyed this one, fast, great async play, an interesting set of decisions each turn. Easily 25+ hours of play online for me, with no issues. A few of the special powers seemed strange, but after a while of play I figured out everything fine and grokked the interface.
Considering the return for the developer on a niche title like this, I'd say there is little to complain about if you have a hobby tabletop perspective and come at this looking for that kind of feel and experience. In fact this is as well done as Puerto Rico, La Havre, Tigris, Tikal, etc. Multiplayer even better than those, mostly because of the design of the board game itself however.
Non-hobby gamers might gripe about the interface here or there, but this is really a great boardgame, and I am grateful we even have these on iOS.
They will never make anyone a lot of money on iOS or in physical form (a best selling physical boardgame might sell 5,000 copies!), so considering they are mostly a labor of love, I'm very happy.
Serious designer/euro/German-style/hobby gamers will find this to be a strong offering.
Really enjoyed this one, fast, great async play, an interesting set of decisions each turn. Easily 25+ hours of play online for me, with no issues. A few of the special powers seemed strange, but after a while of play I figured out everything fine and grokked the interface.
Considering the return for the developer on a niche title like this, I'd say there is little to complain about if you have a hobby tabletop perspective and come at this looking for that kind of feel and experience. In fact this is as well done as Puerto Rico, La Havre, Tigris, Tikal, etc. Multiplayer even better than those, mostly because of the design of the board game itself however.
Non-hobby gamers might gripe about the interface here or there, but this is really a great boardgame, and I am grateful we even have these on iOS.
They will never make anyone a lot of money on iOS or in physical form (a best selling physical boardgame might sell 5,000 copies!), so considering they are mostly a labor of love, I'm very happy.
Serious designer/euro/German-style/hobby gamers will find this to be a strong offering.
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Great Game
Although most electronic board games aren't very amusing this one is a lot of fun. It's not one of those over done games either. It is mostly basic and easy to play. I would certainly recommend anyone interested to get the app.
90 percent
Great game, must buy for fans if the board game.
I would give it 5 stars except some of the empire special abilities do not work. Very disappointing because it breaks some of the game balance. Also the AI does some silly things like alternate attacks between two regions. This negates the bonus the attacker gains for losing.
But overall minor flaws.
I would give it 5 stars except some of the empire special abilities do not work. Very disappointing because it breaks some of the game balance. Also the AI does some silly things like alternate attacks between two regions. This negates the bonus the attacker gains for losing.
But overall minor flaws.
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