Good
Loved the game. Very hard but fun and the app run smoothly and with no problems on my SE 2gen
A great game, but a bit buggy
Love the tabletop game and the app is a nice port. But, the zoom level on the iPhone is still messed up. Also, the bugs let it down a bit (particularly when it comes to undoing or moving the crow, but also when resuming games, some strange guard movement such as showing 6 but only moving 2 spaces, and once needing to draw 2 event cards rather than 1).
Overall a good port of a great game when played on the iPad.
Overall a good port of a great game when played on the iPad.
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C’mon, you’ve got to be kidding!
First of all, this is an exceptionally excellent game. For all those saying this is too hard, try all the options before you complain. There are about a dozen ways you can make it easier including giving each burglar more stealth, choosing the level, setting the difficulty of each level and selecting the size of your team. My favorite is Fort Knox on normal difficulty with only Juicer and Hawk on my team. Developers, a big well done. Complainers, try engaging your brain and testing the game properly before engaging your mouth. EDIT- Having just completed Fort Knox on “Hard”, I cannot recommend this game highly enough! If you like a game that you click a couple of dozen times and can then say you’ve won, this is not for you! If however you like a challenge and want to use every ounce of your brain, you will love this game. Think a chess game against a very very good player, and you have an idea of the complexity and level of challenge, My favorite game of 2017 (and I fully expect 2018 also) Again, Well Done Developers!
EDIT AGAIN:
Still playing and still a great game. My favorite game of 2021! :)
EDIT AGAIN:
Still playing and still a great game. My favorite game of 2021! :)
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Some rough edges, but a welcome game
I used to be more of a hardcore gamer - even developed video games for a few years. Nowadays I’m mostly into board games and tabletop simulators. Most board game adaptations have tons of glitzy animations and sound that I find detracts from the game play. I had played this game on Tabletop Simulator so decided to give it a try here. There are definitely some rough edges from a development standpoint. But the gameplay isn’t interfered with by a bunch of animation sideshows. I haven’t hit some of the gameplay issues I’ve seen mentioned, and hopefully there will be updates to fix those at some point. But for a casual game I can sit and play while watching TV or other multitasking, I’m pleased with this for the cost.
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Great adaptation
Burgle Bros is an excellent adaptation of the board game. It is very challenging but with multiple difficulty settings is most certainly winnable. And when you win it feels like a real accomplishment. Some of the UI can be a bit hard to see at times but this is a minor issue that does not prevent enjoyment of the game.
If you want a challenging strategy game that is never the same twice you will be happy.
If you want a challenging strategy game that is never the same twice you will be happy.
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Great game, incredibly buggy
My friend and I play this game every day. As a game, despite a few faults, it’s a lot of fun and literally the only reason I’m giving this three stars. But this implementation has so many bugs that you wonder how any testing was ever done. Where should I start?
If you play a 1 character game and one of the safes has gold bars, you can’t finish the game because there’s no one else to pick up the bars.
Hacking lasers sometimes puts you in an endless hacking loop that you have to quit.
Sometimes the game just stops going. When you quit and continue it has to start on a random player’s turn. I can’t believe they had to put a failsafe in for a condition that should never happen rather than just fix the bugs.
All kinds of other bugs like sometimes the gemstone says you can’t move into an occupied space (as it should) but then lets you anyway. Sometimes going from a laser to a fingerprint doesn’t always give cause an alarm after you hack the laser. If you lose the cat, pick it up but then undo the turn, sometimes you end up with two cats for the rest of the game. The guards on floor 4 of the Tower of Babel cause all kinds of problems with certain events or causing players to lose two stealth instead of one for seemingly no reason, increasing by two instead of one when the guard deck empties, etc.
And why doesn’t the Tower of Babel fit on my iPad Pro 12.9 without scrolling? Are you kidding me?
These are just the ones I can remember off the top of my head. We play almost every day which tells you how much I like the game. But man... the bugs are so frustrating.
If you play a 1 character game and one of the safes has gold bars, you can’t finish the game because there’s no one else to pick up the bars.
Hacking lasers sometimes puts you in an endless hacking loop that you have to quit.
Sometimes the game just stops going. When you quit and continue it has to start on a random player’s turn. I can’t believe they had to put a failsafe in for a condition that should never happen rather than just fix the bugs.
All kinds of other bugs like sometimes the gemstone says you can’t move into an occupied space (as it should) but then lets you anyway. Sometimes going from a laser to a fingerprint doesn’t always give cause an alarm after you hack the laser. If you lose the cat, pick it up but then undo the turn, sometimes you end up with two cats for the rest of the game. The guards on floor 4 of the Tower of Babel cause all kinds of problems with certain events or causing players to lose two stealth instead of one for seemingly no reason, increasing by two instead of one when the guard deck empties, etc.
And why doesn’t the Tower of Babel fit on my iPad Pro 12.9 without scrolling? Are you kidding me?
These are just the ones I can remember off the top of my head. We play almost every day which tells you how much I like the game. But man... the bugs are so frustrating.
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Bof
Encore un achat pour rien. Cela devient difficile de trouver de bon jeu sans se ruiner...
J’ai tenté celui-ci, je n’arrive pas à accrocher.
Le tuto est bien trop court pour comprendre une quelconque stratégie... S’il y en a une à trouver...
Ça amusera peut être les enfants et ados...???
J’ai tenté celui-ci, je n’arrive pas à accrocher.
Le tuto est bien trop court pour comprendre une quelconque stratégie... S’il y en a une à trouver...
Ça amusera peut être les enfants et ados...???
Near great, but guards don’t follow rules.
I’m a fan of the fantastic tabletop board game, and I think the app is a fantastic conversion, but it only took me a couple of plays to notice that the guards completely ignore at least a couple of the event cards that have rules affecting them. For instance, cards that are supposed to generate a new destination for a guard don’t (he just keeps going to his original destination and THEN picks a new destination), and the card that moves guards on other floors but isn’t supposed to have ANY effect on guards that haven’t been revealed reveals and moves them anyway(coulda had something to do with my having already peeked up the stairwell and revealed a tile on the second floor). These are unforgivable glitches as, if anybody should be following the rules, it should be the AI opponent. It’s too bad the developers didn’t make a way to draw whatever card they wanted so they could test if they all worked during play. Camel Up! was another game that was well-received by the board game community where the app had a problem following the rules that was never (to my knowledge) addressed, so the sales went nowhere. Take the lesson and not the page here. I will be DELETING this until it is fixed, at which point I will redownload, return and write a glowing review. Meantime, I have a cardboard version that does everything right.
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Doesn’t support the iPhone X
The game has buttons and controls under the notch 🤦🏻♂️ needs an update
Nice board game
Advanced skill of some characters worse than classical. It would be better in advanced mode to have both classical and advanced skills for choice (use one of them once every turn).
Graphics are not finished. Menus looks ugly. Make entrance, arrest, helicopter pictures full screen.
Graphics are not finished. Menus looks ugly. Make entrance, arrest, helicopter pictures full screen.
Great design but text too small on iPhone 8
I love the art design of the game and it’s a great concept. Probably on an iPad it’s perfect. But on my iPhone 8 the text was simply too small, and that got so frustrating I deleted it.
A fantastic Challenge, well made!
Whew, this game is a blast! Very polished and everything works just like the board game. It is very tough even on easy mode at some of the locations. Great sense of accomplishment when you scrape by with a victory.
Great adaptation!
I own the board game and find this to be a flawless adaptation even the choice of theme music.
Frustratingly meh....
The physical game, and idea of game, is great. Love it.
That being said, this app is just terribly designed in my opinion. It reminds me of a bad 90’s website. Everything is just poorly loaded in these invisible windows/frames, and you need to slide everything around to see all the info. It just feels cheap and lazy.
For example the cards in a players hand appear in a small invisible window frame laid out side by side. And to see all your cards you need to slide left and right. But in doing so the “window” also slides up/down pointlessly, and it shows a scroll bar. Why? It’s just a lazy coding and poor design.
Same thing for the floor map. Some heists don’t fit in view, but you can’t zoom out enough for some odd reason, so you need to push around the floor map.
Other areas of menu and game layout just feel very badly designed to reflect such a great game. Hope the app can be updated to the 21st century.
I do agree with others that the game is incredibly difficult. More difficult than “chance’ on the dice rolls, and guard movement. It seems like 90% of the time the game is forcing me to lose, even on the easiest level. But there is customizations that allow you to change difficulty in various ways so I’m not completely dissatisfied.
That being said, this app is just terribly designed in my opinion. It reminds me of a bad 90’s website. Everything is just poorly loaded in these invisible windows/frames, and you need to slide everything around to see all the info. It just feels cheap and lazy.
For example the cards in a players hand appear in a small invisible window frame laid out side by side. And to see all your cards you need to slide left and right. But in doing so the “window” also slides up/down pointlessly, and it shows a scroll bar. Why? It’s just a lazy coding and poor design.
Same thing for the floor map. Some heists don’t fit in view, but you can’t zoom out enough for some odd reason, so you need to push around the floor map.
Other areas of menu and game layout just feel very badly designed to reflect such a great game. Hope the app can be updated to the 21st century.
I do agree with others that the game is incredibly difficult. More difficult than “chance’ on the dice rolls, and guard movement. It seems like 90% of the time the game is forcing me to lose, even on the easiest level. But there is customizations that allow you to change difficulty in various ways so I’m not completely dissatisfied.
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Excellent puzzle with great theme
I've only won on the easy level but I'm having a great time puzzling through this clever game. Fun music, fun caper theme. Don't get if you don't like a challenge!
EDIT: I still have not won on the regular difficulty (I came close once) but I'm having a blast. Very clever trappy game. I will say sometimes you just have bad luck but every game I've also made mistakes so it's been partly my fault AND I've been playing with 3 burglars; 2 would be easier.
EDIT2: I won! Very satisfying. Also now new characters are unlocked.
EDIT: I still have not won on the regular difficulty (I came close once) but I'm having a blast. Very clever trappy game. I will say sometimes you just have bad luck but every game I've also made mistakes so it's been partly my fault AND I've been playing with 3 burglars; 2 would be easier.
EDIT2: I won! Very satisfying. Also now new characters are unlocked.
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Good
Good, hard solo game, quite a challenge but possible and satisfying when achieved.
One point... the manual says you cannot just move back and forth to avoid taking an event card, but the app allows you to do exactly that. Surely one that can be put right developers?
By the way, I can recommend playing the bank heist with the guard level set at -1 and the “Trigger event every turn” setting turned on. Starts nice and leisurely and gets chaotic towards the end... also gets over the “cheat” above.
One point... the manual says you cannot just move back and forth to avoid taking an event card, but the app allows you to do exactly that. Surely one that can be put right developers?
By the way, I can recommend playing the bank heist with the guard level set at -1 and the “Trigger event every turn” setting turned on. Starts nice and leisurely and gets chaotic towards the end... also gets over the “cheat” above.
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iPhone X compatibly
The side of the screen is cut off with the X view
Benched the board game
I loved the BB physical game and this offers the same. The smart design and graphics transfer well. It's so good intend to play this rather than the physical game as it's quicker to set up.
A couple flaws, punishing difficulty, but FUN!
I like boardgames, I play several, and this was indeed an easy purchase. On the plus side, the randomness adds a lot of emergent gameplay, and you wind up with a lot of decisions. On the minus side, it is HARD. I believe I have won 2 out of approximately 30 games. It's fine on the iPhone (cards need to be easier to read), and shines on the iPad. Definitely one to play with a friend at a table, but it's just super difficult.
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Pretty but buggy
It’s a good looking adaptation
BUT
More often than I’d prefer things will just go wonky. Like having two raven icons on the board at the same time or hack tokens or working.
I would also appreciate the ability to unlock characters across devices. I don’t like having an advanced character on my iPad and not my phone.
I also think the map selection should be on the opening screen. I unthinkingly press start, and then I’m at the bank job again.
BUT
More often than I’d prefer things will just go wonky. Like having two raven icons on the board at the same time or hack tokens or working.
I would also appreciate the ability to unlock characters across devices. I don’t like having an advanced character on my iPad and not my phone.
I also think the map selection should be on the opening screen. I unthinkingly press start, and then I’m at the bank job again.
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