CataclysmDDA is a fantastic game. It definitely has a learning curve, and you really need the wiki to learn to play it. You can construct a ton of stuff, and do a ton of stuff. The negative things about this game is that 1. This port is years out of date compared to the far superior PC version. 2. The game is intended to be played with a PC. keyboard. Because of this, the touch controls are klunky. I can’t think of a way to improve or change this though. 3. The font and tilesets are EXTREMELY small on an iPhone. If you have poor eyesight, the game is near unreadable. Everything is way too tiny. I would say that unless you have great eyesight, or don’t mind squinting to read text, or see the graphics, I probably wouldn’t recommend this game on a smaller iPhone. This game would benefit from having some type of screen zooming or magnifying feature. But since this game hasn’t been updated in years, I doubt that anything like this will ever come. This game would obviously look much better on a larger screen, like an iPad. On my iPhone 6s, everything is really too small for me to see. Another problem that I’m constantly running into is that for some reason, the game keeps saying, “External keyboard detected” and it pops up the iphone, on screen, keyboard. And then the keyboard gets stuck on the screen. I can’t get it to go away when this happens. It’s happening so much that it’s making the game unplayable. I’m wondering if this might be the result of an iOS update or something that created some kind of incompatibility with this game. Since the game is abandoned and hasn’t been updated in years, there is a good chance that this is the case. I don’t recall this ever happening before. Six years with no update is a very long time for an app that’s on a system that gets an updated OS every other month.
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