BoardGameGeek User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience37.6% of reviews
Neutral16.5% of reviews
Negative experience45.9% of reviews

~ Based on 85 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say

Is BoardGameGeek Safe?

BoardGameGeek appears mostly safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for BoardGameGeek is 77/100.

This assessment is based on 114 user ratings, with an App Store average of 3.9/5.

Safety Analysis

70.2% of ratings point to a safe experience
7.0% of ratings suggest some concerns
22.8% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 114 App Store ratings for BoardGameGeek.

Is BoardGameGeek Legit?

BoardGameGeek appears legitimate, with a few gaps. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for BoardGameGeek is 73/100.

Based on 73 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

The new twitter

This app isn’t even a place to rate board games properly anymore. If you’re not a blue haired screamer then you’ll quickly get banned for voicing an opinion. The moderators on this app are RIDICULOUS!

Barely functional

The app deletes what Im typing randomly, all by itself. Other times there is infinite lag, the words I type simply never show up on the screen. Threads ive subscribed to are impossible to find.
It is impossible to contact app support through the link in the app store. The only reason I gave it more than one star is out of loyalty to BGG, ive been a member for years.

Recently it got so much worse, its nearly un-useable anymore.
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Religious Nutters

A company run by religious zealots. Avoiding at all costs.

Need a feedback flow

Got a few points.

1. Is there a better way to submit feedback about this app than updating App Store comments?

2. Caching issue. I started to edit a comment I made (to add something). Decided to just make a fresh comment, so I backed out and tapped the “reply” button instead. When I submitted my new comment, it registered as editing my old one, and deleted all previous content.

3. When coming back to the app, the text blocks are sometimes just blank. Navigating away and back doesn’t refresh. This can be particularly annoying if in the middle of a long post or geeklist.

4. The profile “top 10” cannot be edited in the app (or on mobile devices at all). It requires “click and drag,” which cannot be done with taps.
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No Weight Shown?

How can you not show me the average weight of the game? This is a major criteria when choosing a game or researching it. Huge miss here.

Excellent for Boardgames

As an avid board gamer, I find BGG truly critical to access the robust community that posts reviews, comments on rules, and a wonderful repository for community-created content for specific games. Overall, a tremendous resource !!

Mac

Such a useful app for all things board games! Always so much new content! A tremendous source for reviews, new games, events, how to’s, blogs, community, crowdfunding, etc. I love tracking my personal game collection on here as well!

Great…to a point

For quick lookups on the go, this is better than a mobile browser, being tweaked enough to give it an app-like feel.

Read, write (some things), research, and more. It isn’t as easy as a computer, and that’s fine. This is a curated version of the site. The interface is mobile-enabled web rather than mobile front end with mobile-first choices.

It isn’t luxury so much as Craigslist, but it gets me what I need, when I need it.
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New Update Causing Consistent Crashes

See title. iPad mini 6

Less Useful Than Desktop

The mobile version of the app is a lot less useful than the desktop. A lot of of the features, such as a functional homepage, editing, and viewing all parts of a profile, and using all features of writing a comment are either different diminished or unavailable. One of the major bonuses of this app is that people track their board game playing statistics, but the app features those statistics differently than the desktop version. For example, the desktop version tracks the number of individual game plays, Whereas the mobile version will track game sessions. So if I play one game three times in a sitting, the desktop version will count that it’s three plays, but the mobile version will only have it show up as one session.
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Faltan opciones

No puedes acceder a los geekbuddies y otras opciones

Tabletoppers Rejoice!

This is one of the most-used apps on my phone. BGG is an invaluable resource for board gamers for so many reasons: reviews, rule clarification, news, and more. But the best part is the community. Nothing but love for this site and the app.

Не работаем поиск

Невозможно по поиску найти игру на прямой запрос выдает не результатов

Can’t search for games at all!

I use this app and website mostly for searching for games. I can’t search at all with the app right now and it’s been like that after update!

Kann gespielte Spiele nicht mehr erfassen

Heute aktualisierte ich Ihre iOS-App auf die neueste verfügbare Version für mein iPad der 9. Generation. Danach konnte ich den Dialog „Log Play“ nicht mehr öffnen. Es öffnet sich und schließt direkt wieder. Ich kann keine Spiele mehr protokollieren! Bitte beheben Sie es so schnell wie technisch möglich.

Today I updates your iOS app to the latest available version for my 9th generation iPad Afterwards I couldn’t open the „Log Play“ dialogue anymore. It opens and directly closes again. I cannot log plays anymore! Please fix it as soon as technical possible.
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Mods Have a Power Trip

The mods deactivated my account for simply voicing disagreement on a hit button political issue.

I never once said anything hateful or name called. I simply didn’t agree with their views and since I wouldn’t bend the knee to them, they totally deactivated my account. Terrible company if you ask me. Should not be able to just deactivate an account over something like that.
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Horrible Woke Moderators

Disagree with anything an LGBTQ person says? It is labeled hateful/disruptive and taken down. The forums appear to be an echo chamber, but only because moderators make it so. They do not allow the “wrong opinions”.

One sided community

If you guys are going to silence and remove peoples comments over speaking against the group of hatful shakers we can easily come on here and leave a negative review. You guys are a joke and most of us don’t care about having politics on our games. Leave that stuff out of it!

Good but needs update

It’s great to have the app on my iPad and quickly look up games, read news and forums, etc.

My only pain is that I can’t log my plays in the app. I was able at first, but now whenever I click on “log play” the window pops up and closes instantly. I tried to uninstall and reinstall but the bug still there.
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A great app!

This app is a must. Well designed and integrated with BGG to manage your own collection, simplifying the way you record your plays… etc
All you need in your pocket.