# Burgle Bros — user reviews > 48 indexed App Store user reviews of Burgle Bros by Fowers Games Inc., rated 3.90/5 from 31 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/burgle-bros/id1244169929/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/burgle-bros/id1244169929.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 19 · 4★ 2 · 3★ 3 · 2★ 3 · 1★ 4 ## Newest reviews (13 of 48) ### 4/5 — A great game, but a bit buggy *2023-05-28* 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. ### 4/5 — Some rough edges, but a welcome game *2021-01-30* 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. ### 3/5 — Great game, incredibly buggy *2019-10-12* 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. ### 3/5 — Near great, but guards don’t follow rules. *2018-11-04* 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. ### 3/5 — Doesn’t support the iPhone X *2018-09-30* The game has buttons and controls under the notch 🤦🏻‍♂️ needs an update ### 4/5 — Nice board game *2018-06-29* 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. ### 4/5 — Good *2018-02-13* 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. ### 4/5 — A couple flaws, punishing difficulty, but FUN! *2017-12-14* 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. ### 3/5 — Pretty but buggy *2017-11-27* 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. ### 4/5 — Great, but tough *2017-10-05* I backed the board game on Kickstarter, and love it. So as soon as I heard there was an app, I had to get it. It's a very faithful conversion which helps you along pretty well. I didn't bother reading the rules, but did run through the tutorial, which I thought could have been just slightly better. Anyway, I must have played it ten times now, but only won once. So be warned, this is one tough game. UPDATE. Many more plays later, I’m still loving this. Maybe it’s because I’m getting better at it and using the characters better. But if I could wish for one thing, it’s that there was a mode where you have an infinite amount of stealth, so you always succeed, but your stats record how many stealth you did lose. This might help people new to this game. ### 5/5 — Addictive, fun, excellent *2017-09-19* This port of the board game is so fun and well implemented. Highly engaging and addictive. It's a phenomenal board game here playable in all it glory with none of the set up and clean up or storage of pieces in the cardboard and wood game. ### 3/5 — Several updates have improved it but... *2017-09-14* I own the board game and love it. I bought the app a few days after it came out, but was disappointed to learn it has several bugs that are beta-level and really should have been caught prior to official release. Some bugs have been patched by updates, some remain, and the latest version won't let you finish the final and biggest layout - about half or two thirds through it locks up, even though it's your turn and you still have actions left to use, and you can't go back and try the last action again....nothing. One bug i noticed is on sometimes the hack tokens don't work, and you have to take ten move back and trip the alarm. Also, the acrobat spends three or four actions to climb the outside wall, depending on if you take an action first or not. I.e., if you have four actions, you spend all climbing the wall and have zero left. BUT If you spend an action first and have three left, it takes three actions to climb the outside wall. Also, sometimes the tools flat out don't work, regardless of if I have the Egyptian mummy loot or not. Overall, it's a fun game in itself. I love it. But the bugs render it very frustrating considering they're the type of things that should have been caught much earlier. Relying on reviews and bug reports to give the product polish isn't a good idea. Hope the updates keep coming because I love the game itself. ### 5/5 — Wonderfully thematic and hugely replayable *2017-09-14* One of the best board games on the App Store, has a real "heist movie" feel. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Bof *2019-04-05* 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...??? ### 1/5 — iPhone X compatibly *2017-12-30* The side of the screen is cut off with the X view ### 1/5 — It works great on iPad not on iPhone *2017-10-10* I love this app. But it stopped working on my phone. I rebooted my phone, I updated my phone, I deleted and redownloaded it and lost all my progress only for the same problem to happen again. ### 1/5 — Crashes *2017-08-12* I thought that requiring iOS 6 it would work on my ipad 2, it doesn't. I get a couple of steps into the tutorial and it crashes back to the desktop screen. ### 2/5 — Great design but text too small on iPhone 8 *2018-06-26* 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. ### 2/5 — Frustratingly meh.... *2018-04-20* 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. ### 2/5 — If only... *2017-09-11* While a good port of the board game, the app is still pretty buggy. Add to this the difficulty and luckiness of the game, and it makes for a frustrating experience. I've come very close to finally winning only to have the game lock up, or skip a players turn, or some other nonsense, and make it all come crashing down. So disappointing!! What the app does well is make a fiddly game easy to set up and play. It will always be hard to win, but I would probably give this 4 or 5 stars, if it would only work properly. Once they make improvements, I'll be ready to try it again. ### 2/5 — Impossible or just very hard? *2017-09-09, version 1.01b* Like others, I have yet to win this game. It appears to be far too hard to win. It's particularly annoying when the guard sees you two times on the same turn. If the game were better balanced it would be a nice game. The idea is good and the implementation is well done, but it's frustrating to lose every time. ### 2/5 — Agree... can't win. *2017-09-07, version 1.01b* I agree with other reviewers saying you can't win in this game. My wife and I have together played 200 some games using different maps, tactics, characters, etc and have never won this game. It's fun, but don't get it thinking you'll ever win in it. ### 2/5 — Dull and Unwinnable *2017-08-13, version 1.0* I play a lot of digital board games, and this one looked interesting. Unfortunately, it's extremely confusing, the tutorial is borderline useless (think a chess tutorial where they show you how the pawn and bishop move, then you're on your own), and it is completely unwinnable. Already deleted it. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Good *2025-01-19* Loved the game. Very hard but fun and the app run smoothly and with no problems on my SE 2gen ### 5/5 — C’mon, you’ve got to be kidding! *2021-06-27* 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! :) ### 5/5 — Great adaptation *2020-01-27* 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. ### 5/5 — A fantastic Challenge, well made! *2018-04-30* 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. ### 5/5 — Great adaptation! *2018-04-21* I own the board game and find this to be a flawless adaptation even the choice of theme music. ### 5/5 — Excellent puzzle with great theme *2018-03-12* 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. ### 5/5 — Benched the board game *2017-12-16* 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. ### 5/5 — Отличная пошаговая стелс настолка! *2017-10-12* Любителям настолок и стелс жанра посвящается! Выбираешь себе в команду персонажей с разными способностями и вперед! Грабить корованы!!!! ### 5/5 — Très sympa *2017-10-03* Excellent portage du jeu de plateau avec la possibilité de varier la difficulté, et la possibilité de jouer en mode solo Très bon jeu !!! Fortement recommandé ### 5/5 — Excellent *2017-10-01* Really great co-op board game app. Perfect if you like pandemic or forbidden desert/island. The app works really well on my iPad 2. Satisfyingly difficult and great fun :) --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-09-01.*