Catan Universe User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience12.7% of reviews
Neutral13.9% of reviews
Negative experience73.4% of reviews

~ Based on 3,265 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say

Is Catan Universe Safe?

Catan Universe appears mostly safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Catan Universe is 76/100.

This assessment is based on 30,848 user ratings, with an App Store average of 3.8/5.

Safety Analysis

68.8% of ratings point to a safe experience
6.2% of ratings suggest some concerns
25.0% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 30,848 App Store ratings for Catan Universe.

Is Catan Universe Legit?

Catan Universe appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Catan Universe is 90/100.

Based on 90 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

the servers bug all the time

at least 50% of the games get corrupted, players can't play, spiny wheels and freeze.
(update) I wrote that review months ago, still true. Worst app on my ipad

Fix the CPU player bugs

I love this game irl. The app sucks because the cpu bugs out so often. The timer shouldn’t reset every time a cpu player trade offer expires. And other bugs occur all the time, for example player clock timeouts expire and the code isn’t written to move on to the next player’s turn properly. These bugs have been around for years and your code hasn’t been addressed in updates. Pretty pathetic.
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Annoying bug

Love the game but there is one persistent bug that’s not been fixed. If you hit a trade too quickly it seems to freeze the whole game and you have to exit and abandon it.

PLAY COLONIST INSTEAD

Paid for the full game version and very disappointed. Game constantly crashes. Timer doesn’t apply to their own bots when someone quits the game or loses signal.

Crashes 1/3 games

Literally just bugs out and crashes 1/2 games out of 3

Ai

The ai for some reason acts in a way that it knows what numbers will be rolled for each turn and will also know what development cards are next. Very frustrating to play with ai players simply because it just feels stupidly rigged. Would recommend the ai be reviewed. I understand that the ai is simply choosing the most logical play but it seems as if the AI constantly targets me when getting robber or knight. Game is stupid with the ai.
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Paid and lost access

Paid for this yrs ago and now some of the features r gone. It says I need to pay for it.

Frustrated

I’ve been playing the solo version for years. Since the last update, if I don’t finish the game in one setting, it closes down and I lose the game when I open it back up. So I have to use another sun and start a new game. And if I don’t get that one finished in one setting, I have wasted two suns and never get a game completed. It used to be that the game would save and I could go back into it and finish the game if I didn’t get it all done in one setting. And the sun would show how much longer for it to recharge. Now it doesn’t. Very frustrating
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Not Random

The odds are stacked against you in this.

Buggy

The bot will glitch out and keep offering a trade without accepting, stopping the game from progressing. Often times game will crash😒

Years and Still Poor AI Programming

Game could be great, but the bots have never worked. Freeze your game, screw up your rating, leave you locked. Game is a good example of why bots and AI should not be relied upon. Game would be better just leaving a quitters pieces on board and skipping that players turn the remainder of the game the way humans would do if they were in person.
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Frustrating Robber

The number of times 7 is rolled is ridiculous and the bots absolutely target the non-bots. Completely unenjoyable!

Don’t purchase!

How is it possible that a game so simple to program and set up, is so poorly created? The thing bugs out, you get kicked, and you have to start the game all over again. If it takes less than a grand to get this fixed, I will personally donate to whoever the developer is so that we can all play this game virtually once and for all.
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Deception

Es practicamente terminar un partido. Sí estás jugando y se va un jugador ponen a un Bot q se frisa y no se puede terminar

Bots break game

Nothing worse than when someone leaves a game(it happens often) and a bot replaces them only to send me the same trade over and over(i insta decline) causing a never ending turn. For some reason the time limit will reset over and over for the bot to try to force me to trade my 1 stone for a goat just to make the game continue. Horrible game breaking bots.
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More bugs than Starship Troopers 3

This app has fatal crashes almost every day.

When game works, it’s fun

Every fifth game or so, there is a glitch and ruins a game. Also the AI players are terrible. How hard is it to have logic to steal from the player with the most points? It just randomly targets one of the players regardless of points

Games freeze often

Really disappointing. In the middle of a game and timer freezes, or dice freeze. Far too often you have to quit a game because of the issues.

Good quality but so hard to beat the AI

The game quality is great but the AI is so hard to beat. They refuse to trade with you no matter what but indiscriminately trade with themselves. 7’s roll almost every time you have over 8 cards and it feels like the dice are not random at all. It’s a great game & a lot of fun but so difficult to beat the AI it gets really frustrating. Feels like 3 against 1.
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Constant bugs

The game itself is great…..when it works. About 20% (1 in 5 games) of the time it glitches out to where you cannot place your resource, the timer finishes but it doesn’t move, or you get “frozen” where you can’t play the game but can chat, send emojis, etc. it seems to require a delete and reinstall, of the app and that still doesn’t always fix it. There is no mechanism for report errors or communicating with the developers, and it doesn’t adjust your drop in ELO or rankings to account for “losses” that occur because of an error on the software side.
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