Needs better monster # management
Having the monster numbers populate automatically is very annoying. You need to kill off the monsters and re apply them to select the #s, since drawing from the stack IRL is random. If this app let us choose the monster #s when you open a door or start a scenario I would use it over xhaven.
Good app
Any chance the instruction book could be added in the future?
One step forward, two steps back
This app does a phenomenal job at eliminating the tedium associated with gameplay, particularly the enemy management. It determines their turns, deals with their damage and conditions and it even helps digitally track your own characters’ status.
The real problem though comes with what it doesn’t do. Frosthaven added a ton of tedium over Gloomhaven with the post-game cleanup managing the settlement and crafting. The app doesn’t help at all with that and if anything that’s where it’s most needed. What tedium this app saves is far outweighed by the tedium the game added. I’d rather it replace the town management than the combat management.
What’s worse about the town management stuff is that you do it AFTER having already played a couple hours and finishing an encounter. Your game night feels like it’s ended but then you have all the cleanup you don’t want to do because you’ve already played a couple hours. It feels like cleaning up the table is just massively more tedious but the app doesn’t address that.
This is probably more of an indictment of Frosthaven as a game than this app itself but the app is intended to smooth out the experience with the game but it ends up not going nearly far enough.
The real problem though comes with what it doesn’t do. Frosthaven added a ton of tedium over Gloomhaven with the post-game cleanup managing the settlement and crafting. The app doesn’t help at all with that and if anything that’s where it’s most needed. What tedium this app saves is far outweighed by the tedium the game added. I’d rather it replace the town management than the combat management.
What’s worse about the town management stuff is that you do it AFTER having already played a couple hours and finishing an encounter. Your game night feels like it’s ended but then you have all the cleanup you don’t want to do because you’ve already played a couple hours. It feels like cleaning up the table is just massively more tedious but the app doesn’t address that.
This is probably more of an indictment of Frosthaven as a game than this app itself but the app is intended to smooth out the experience with the game but it ends up not going nearly far enough.
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Just runs cards
This is not an app that helps you manage the scenarios or outpost. All it does is help with card management. Waste of money.
Rare updates, app has display issues
It seems they’ve released this half-baked app in tandem with the release of the game. I opened a bug report for this “weird” thing that happens to me and my friends where the app covers half the screen with a zoomed-in card.
Support non-responsive, no updates to app in almost one year. What a drag. The non-official app has better update cycles hopefully
Support non-responsive, no updates to app in almost one year. What a drag. The non-official app has better update cycles hopefully
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