# Ancient Board Game Collection — user reviews > 75 indexed App Store user reviews of Ancient Board Game Collection by Klemens Strasser, rated 4.50/5 from 98 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/ancient-board-game-collection/id1510226148/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/ancient-board-game-collection/id1510226148.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 77 · 4★ 9 · 3★ 3 · 2★ 1 · 1★ 8 ## Newest reviews (14 of 75) ### 3/5 — Gomoku game doesn’t work against AI *2026-04-18* Gomoku game AI lets you win with the first five stones all the time just placed in a row without trying to stop you ### 3/5 — No set a role for online poster *2025-07-18, version 1.3* Online’s planet always missing ### 4/5 — Lovely collection *2025-05-15* Lovely implementation of a bunch of great games. I do wish it had a full Go mode on that Gomoku board though. ### 4/5 — Great but one suggestion *2025-04-22* Overall, this is a fantastic game, beautiful music, and graphics, and great variety of ancient games. However would like to see an additional option of playing the computer in a mode where you can then keep head to head game statistics vs the computer, and not just a training mode. Hope that makes sense and thank you! ### 4/5 — Не бесплатно *2025-01-19* 2 игры с компьютеров и 2 игры на одном устройстве. Нельзя даже все игры опробовать. Я бы посоветовал разработчикам, либо сразу делать игру платной, либо сделать так: 1 реклама = 1 игра. Реализация очень хорошая, приятная анимация, доходчиво объяснены правила. Однако выше перечисленные ограничения не дают поставить этому приложению 5 звезд ### 5/5 — Culturally respectful design *2024-09-04* The creator offers a large set of ancient games, with many ways to play, all at an affordable price. The games are styled by skillful folk across the globe, wherever the games originated, and somehow the whole app still feels completely cohesive. Well done👏. Extra points for use of the rumble pack effect. **Developer response:** Thank you for those nice words, really means a lot to me! 🥹 ### 5/5 — Great game *2024-08-21* Fantastic simple board game app tastefully designed by different artists around the world. All the games are fun to play and the rules simple to understand. It costs £2.99 to unlock online and train mode which gives you unlimited access to everything. My only complaint is that many matches you start just end with the opponent not playing there next move. But if you have enough online games on the go you will get play. It’s worth it just for train mode where you can play against 3 difficulty settings ### 5/5 — Great games! *2024-08-09* Beautifully realised representations of old games you’ve probably not heard of. Great fun, great value, recommended! ### 3/5 — One major flaw: *2024-05-12* Beautiful well-made game! Would be perfect except one major problem; a giant picket sign dances around the board blocking your view while you try to play. Looks cute but really impairs the gameplay. Please give an option to remove the signboard. :) save the game! ### 5/5 — Alte Klassiker neu entdeckt *2024-04-14* Wer gern knobelt und Strategiespiele liebt, ist hier genau richtig! Gedankliche Tiefe wird mit wunderschön gestalteten Spielbrettern kombiniert. Für einen kleinen Obolus gibt es einen Trainingsmodus, der einem die Spiele leicht näherbringt und besonders Einsteigern durchaus was abverlangt. Rundherum gelungen! Zudem gibts vom Support sehr schnelle Hilfe, sollte doch mal eine Frage auftauchen. ### 5/5 — Great collection of games well presented *2024-02-26* I have found the collection to have a lot of interesting board games that are easy to play with unexpected challenges. Pleasing to look at with intuition learning method while requiring effort to master. ### 5/5 — Great game *2024-01-26* This game NEEDS a confirm button ### 2/5 — Провал *2024-01-26* Сама идея крутая,игры интересные,но есть одно огромное но. Смысла нет играть ,если приходится ждать буквально вечность пока 2 игрок сделает ход. ### 2/5 — Too many inactive players *2023-12-31* This app is incredibly well designed, with a great selection of games. Unfortunately out of 15 games started, only four of them actually finished. There is no time limit for someone to take their turn and a lot of inactive players, so you end up with a long list of ongoing games waiting on someone else who likely deleted the app. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — War nicht zu erwarten *2026-03-28* Dass hier sofort bezahlt werden muss. ### 1/5 — Disappointed *2025-10-02* All features are pay walled except the online games, which leaves this as the only avenue to actually, fully learn and enjoy the games. When you start a game it expressly states that failure to make a move in two days results in a forfeit. However, I have been waiting for a week and both games I started have remained untouched by my opponent and I have yet to receive any wins or a notice of a forfeit. The game is a great concept but I would prefer to deal with short adds and actually be able to play the games even if only with bots until it gains enough traction to attract players who may actually play. ### 1/5 — Great but… *2025-05-15* Why do opponents have two days to respond? I‘m sorry but I don‘t really get behind the concept of having to wait ages for a turn. Otherwise it looks and feels gorgous but that is a bummer. ### 1/5 — Avis *2024-07-31* Je suis très déçu par ce jeu L’idée est pourtant géniale Mais je me suis fait avoir en achetant ce jeu, le continu est nul, l’Ia trop facile et le multijoueur vraiment pas pratique Je ne recommande pas. ### 1/5 — Генерал Фейлур *2024-04-15* Это неиграбельно. ### 1/5 — not user freindly *2024-03-11* frustrating mess waste of money ### 1/5 — Only option is to Give Up? *2023-12-17* I tried an online game and my competitor made only one move then never again returned to the game. Now after 3 full days my only option is to “Give up?” Lame. I also give up on this app. 😒 ### 1/5 — Game doesn’t work *2023-11-22* No ability to play online! Can only do training once on one game before it asks you to pay. ### 1/5 — Énervant *2023-08-31* On ne peut pas faire grand chose sans payer ### 1/5 — Онлайн игроков нет, оффлайн только за покупку игры! *2023-03-24* Никому не советую. Помграть вы не сможете ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — hello *2026-08-09* hjeurhueheiehueheurheurhrhrirhruruurhfjt ### 5/5 — Супер, але… *2026-02-02, version 1.3* Додайте, будь-ласка, правила Рендзю для Гомоку і щоб можна було змінювати розмір дошки! Було б круто, якби гра мала більше варіативностей в іграх! Само-собою було б прекрасно, якби додали Ґо та японські шахи! А ще більше всяких тем! ### 5/5 — Amazing! *2026-01-29* Really great app. Good choice of games. We play them a lot. I really appreciate the explanations too. Only two requests - can you put an undo button? Sometimes the squares on the game is so small a mistake is made. It’s really annoying . Also an expert level for the computer would be good. They’re too easily defeated. They’re the only two comments. Apart from that great job! ### 5/5 — Great! Just a few suggestions though… *2025-06-17* 1. Please add some kind of free to play option for those cheapskates whining about it. (I went and paid for the premium dlc and I did not regret it one bit! Worth every cent! If you like it, then buy it!) 2. Please add more ancient board games in the future. Most of these are Scandinavian/Viking but please add more from ancient Africa, Middle East, East Asia, etc. 3. I’ve noticed some difficulty levels from ‘Train’ mode are absent on some games. Why? Please add them and maybe add an ‘Extra Hard’ mode? 4. In ‘Train’ mode, Bagh Chal is missing, Why? Only 8 board games are available in ‘Train’ mode. Is there a reason? How come? 5. Please add Chinese Chess, Fanorona, Go, (Since Gomoku is there) and maybe Mancala? (or its older variants?) ### 5/5 — Great collection of forgotten games! *2025-04-16* I originally found this app searching for a Konane game, but loved the fact it included Nine Mens Morris. I played Viking Chess for the first time in this app and now I’m hooked. I wish it were easier to invite others to play within the app, but other than that it’s wonderful and I highly recommend it! ### 5/5 — Great idea! Premium is fairly priced too. *2025-04-14* Well worth it. Nice to have a collection of time tested classics! ### 5/5 — just awesome *2025-04-01* It‘s a perfect game for a smartphone everything is perfect it starts with that magic sound and it ends with that impressive gameplay ### 5/5 — Лучшая игра в своем роде *2025-01-21* Это буквально лучшая игра в жанре настольных игр. Поля сделаны сочно, красиво. Багов в игре нет. Игра великолепно приспособлена для двух игроков. А так как это еще и сборник игр, но все вообще великолепно. Огромное тебе спасибо, разработчик. Мультиплеер я пока не тестировал, поэтому про него ничего не знаю, но я считаю, что мультиплеер для настольных игр необязателен. Мы играли с другом вживую, и в этом плане игра отрабатывает на ура. Правила понятны и быстро включаешься. Я бы рекомендовал добавить еще игру Сенет в набор, она прекрасно дополнила бы игру. Я бы приятно удивлен ценой игры, так как я ожидал больше. Примерно 2$ за набор игр в которые вы будете играть месяцами (!) не уставая от них, это реально ОЧЕНЬ мало. Еще раз спасибо тебе огромное, разработчик, за твои старания. P.S. Добавь еще игр, можно в качестве DLC, я готов заплатить за них ;) ### 5/5 — Ok *2025-01-05* Cool ### 5/5 — Excellent *2024-12-27, version 1.3* Very good graphics and choice of games . The game play is very good but need some updates Thank you --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. 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