Backgammon Galaxy Reviews: Is It Legit?

Customer Experience

Positive experience30.8% of reviews
Neutral9.2% of reviews
Negative experience60.0% of reviews

~ Based on 695 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say about Backgammon Galaxy

Is Backgammon Galaxy Safe?

Backgammon Galaxy: Play Online appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Backgammon Galaxy is 89/100.

This assessment is based on 1,916 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.4/5.

Safety Analysis

85.9% of ratings point to a safe experience
4.1% of ratings suggest some concerns
10.0% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 1,891 App Store ratings for Backgammon Galaxy.

Is Backgammon Galaxy Legit?

Backgammon Galaxy: Play Online appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Backgammon Galaxy is 88/100.

Based on 88 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

AI Opponent → Perverse Reinforcement

This game excels in aesthetics, QoL, and matchplay variety. I don’t have many bad things to say about real-life opponent gameplay. AI opponent gameplay, on the other hand, promotes perverse reinforcement:

Play correctly → get punished.
Play poorly → win.
Therefore, the game emotionally trains you to repeat the inferior move.

That is the exact opposite of useful practice. Even if the cause were ordinary variance rather than a responsive script, the practical damage is the same: the results are teaching a different lesson than the analysis engine. Your mind naturally remembers, “Every time I leave that objectively correct shot, the computer rolls the joker—so next time I’ll make the inferior safe play.” Then Galaxy grades the defensive move at 15–20 ER while the scoreboard rewards it. What the hell are you supposed to learn from that?
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アプデでさらに使いやすくなった

良くなった点
フリーズがほとんどなくなった
縦と横でプレーできる
ベアオフがとてもスムーズになった
レッスンで問題を解きながら学べる

改善点
エラーレートやラックの計算方法を教えてほしい
日本語で学習できるようにしてほしい
統計の「オープニング勝率」などわからない用語がある
「レート2000に到達」みたいな称号がほしい

細かい改善点
クラシカル、ノーマルなどのモードごとの時間を対局前に教えてほしい
レートが1600未満のときに「相手の最低レート」をスライドできずバグだと思っていたので、スライド式ではなく選択式にしてほしい
対局画面の文字を大きくしてほしい。特にタイマー
日本語のフォントがダサい
ログアウトして再度ログインすると「ライトモード」が「ダークモード」になっている
1ポイントマッチが3ポイント以上に比べてダブルがない分圧倒的にエラーレートが低いのはどうなんですかね


もしかして自分の意見が結構反映されてる...?(自意識過剰)
少し中毒になりつつありますが毎日楽しく遊んでいます。友達にも広めるつもりです。これからもよろしくお願いします!
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Response from developer

ご意見ありがとうございます。フリーズが減ったと感じていただけて嬉しいです。マッチング時のネットワークエラーと統計が表示されない件は開発チームに共有しました。エラーレートや統計用語の説明、日本語での学習についてのご要望もチームに伝えます。お困りの際は support@backgammongalaxy.com までご連絡ください。

Mise à jour ratée

Des dés qui donnent le tournis, un tableau de bord illisible tellement il est chargé mais qu’avez vous fait ???

Update is far worse, less functional.

Update is less functional with fewer options and in addition, it won’t work horizontally if rotating my iPhone so board is too small to view.
How do I revert back to previous version?

Response from developer

Thanks for the feedback! Turn off rotation lock in Control Center and turn your iPhone sideways during a game: the board then uses much more of the screen. We can't bring back the previous version, but we're improving the new one with feedback like yours.

Fav Place To Play

Thanks for making a one of the best backgammon apps in this galaxy!

This upgrade has wrecked it

It was great before, but so much about this update is confusing and very poor UX/UI

Response from developer

Hi. Within the next weeks the login problem will be fixed for good, and never happen again! Could you please consider changing your review to 5-stars. And if you have any critique or feedback we are always listening, just write us at support@backgammongalaxy.com. Best regards, Marc Olsen, CEO

Hat mit Backgammon nichts zu tun

Von update zu update immer schlimmer. Leider nicht mehr spielbar. Zielgruppe Sind Kindergarten und Grundschüler.

Unfassbar schlechtes Spiel

Also was dieses Spiel als Luck bezeichnet ist kompletter Schwachsinn, man sollte hier grundlegend etwas ändern. Die Würfel sind teilweise sehr fragwürdig. Es macht keinen Spaß hier zu spielen! Spielt lieber in anderen Apps!!!

AI Opponent Dice Roll → Fishy

This game excels in aesthetics, QoL, and matchplay variety. I don’t have many bad things to say about real-life opponent gameplay. AI opponent gameplay, on the other hand, promotes perverse reinforcement:

Play correctly → get punished.
Play poorly → win.
Therefore, the game emotionally trains you to repeat the inferior move.

That is the exact opposite of useful practice. Even if the cause were ordinary variance rather than a responsive script, the practical damage is the same: the results are teaching a different lesson than the analysis engine. Your mind naturally remembers, “Every time I leave that objectively correct shot, the computer rolls the joker—so next time I’ll make the inferior safe play.” Then Galaxy grades the defensive move at 15–20 ER while the scoreboard rewards it. What the hell are you supposed to learn from that?
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Great game but….

Dice are not random. Algorytm allows weak players to win so they don’t run out of credit and stay engaged meanwhile players with very high ratings seem to always get perfect rolls assuming their opponent has sufficient credit to remain engaged. Despite this the platform is top notch and although it does bug out every so often and you have to log out and back in hopefully in enough time to not time out and lose.
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Response from developer

Thank you for the kind words about the platform! On the dice: Every roll is made on our server by a cryptographically secure random number generator, the same for every player. Membership, coins, rating and purchases have no effect on the dice. You can check your own rolls any time in Stats, where your dice averages are shown next to your opponents'. If you see the app glitch, please send details to support@backgammongalaxy.com so we can track it down.

Scammers

Do not spend one dollar on this game, it is completely rigged. The statistical probability of the dice, giving your opponent exactly what he needs every single time is almost impossible yet it will happen almost every game you play. Just type in “Backgammon Galaxy” rigged in Google and you will be able to read hundreds of testimonials. They should be ashamed of themselves, as they say, money really is the root of all evil.
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Paid members always win

I was smashing this paid member them suppressing they got all my pieces and beat me big and when I originally saw it was another paid member I was going to cancel at the start ,

Now anytime I see a paid member come up I will NEVER EVER PLAY A PAID MEMBER EVER AGAIN I PROMISE

IT IS STAGED FOR THEM TO WIN
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Response from developer

Sorry about that game. Star members get extra features, but never better dice. Every roll is made on our server by a cryptographically secure random number generator, the same for every player. Membership, coins, rating and purchases have no effect on the dice. You can check your own rolls any time in Stats, where your dice averages are shown next to your opponents'.

Love it!!!

I love playing on this!!

Buggy and fixed

It’s very buggy and also 100% the dice is favoured for people who pay !!!

Wants you to pay

Good app, well executed. In common with most of these types of games that allow free play it will only let you win for a certain amount of time. Once you have built up a decent stack of coins, you will begin to go on long losing streaks. I imagine there is an algorithm that kicks in to try to make you start paying. As long as you realise this it’s fine. I just play other games and keep logging in to collect the free coins until I have enough to play again. I would be much more likely to pay if I didn’t feel I was being coerced into it because some of the paid benefits are great.
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Response from developer

Thanks for the fair review! There's no algorithm that changes results when your coin stack grows. Every roll is made on our server by a cryptographically secure random number generator, the same for every player. Membership, coins, rating and purchases have no effect on the dice. You can check your own rolls any time in Stats, where your dice averages are shown next to your opponents'. Long losing streaks happen to every player now and then, and we know they sting.

Parfait pour progresser

Cela fait à peine un an que je joue sur cette plate-forme et vous n’imaginez pas combien de fois elle a été mise à jour et à quel point le jeu a été améliorée depuis mes début sur Galaxy. L’application est clairement pensée pour être facile à prendre en main, et apprendre de ses erreurs.
Le vrai upside de cette plateforme (d’après moi) c’est l’analyse ; après chaque partie vous pouvez analyser vos erreurs, hyper simplement.
Transparence : oui le jeu a quelques bugs parfois ; par exemple ça peut arriver que les stats ne soient pas visibles après la partie. Parfois ça peut être un peu lent pour trouver un matchup, mais rien d’alarmant. Je recommande à 100%.
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Response from developer

Merci beaucoup pour ce message ! Nous sommes ravis que la plateforme vous aide à progresser et que vous ayez remarqué toutes les améliorations. À bientôt sur le plateau !

Almost perfect

Play is great and the dice feel realistic. I love the AI feature, it really improves your game and thinking. And the fact that you play for coins but it’s free is awesome. The constant network errors when trying to start live play are doing my head in, hope you can fix that soon.

Response from developer

Thank you, we're so glad you enjoy the AI analysis! Sorry about the network errors when starting live games. We've passed this on to our team. If it keeps happening, please write to support@backgammongalaxy.com with your device and connection type, which helps us track it down.

Play like a Master

The great thing about this site is you can play a human, a bot or a Grandmaster. There are lessons and so many perks to being a Star member. Love it, a must buy.

Dice are ridiculous

What a con of a game. Dice are fixed. Don’t play match games as the dice are so fixed it’s laughable. Why do developers think it’s a good idea to fix the dice for so called excitement. Absolute rubbish

Engaging fun

I like the speed of the game