Only solo
If I had known only solo was available, I’d have never purchased it. I can play solo with the physical copy.
Irreführung
Das man hier lediglich gegen den Automa des Brettspiels spielt, wird vorm Kauf nicht deutlich kommuniziert.
Sterbenslangweilig! Ganz schlechtes Kino
Sterbenslangweilig! Ganz schlechtes Kino
Needs computer AI
While the automa offers a good solo challenge, AI challengers would change this to 4 or 5.
Response from developer
Thanks very much for the honest review!
Best Game On the High Seas
Never any issues with my iPad. This game is deep and brilliantly brought to life. Misses out on the multiplayer front.
No CPU opponents, Automa only.
For the most parts this is a really good - if very perfunctory- adaptation of the board game. No more, no less.
There’s basically no animation beyond icons sliding around the screen, sound effects are very basic, and most people will mute the short music loop within the first 5 minutes.
Worse than all of this however is a complete like of computer controlled opponents. The experience is like playing the board game solo, where the single opponent is controlled via a card draw in the exact same way as the tabletop. It can’t plan, it can’t anticipate. It just does its own random thing which may include rushing around the map within 3 turns doing very little, and playing entirely within its own unique rules.
It’s a great replica of the (fantastic) board game, but it’s totally reasonable to expect a little more than that in the move to digital, and it fails to deliver on that.
There’s basically no animation beyond icons sliding around the screen, sound effects are very basic, and most people will mute the short music loop within the first 5 minutes.
Worse than all of this however is a complete like of computer controlled opponents. The experience is like playing the board game solo, where the single opponent is controlled via a card draw in the exact same way as the tabletop. It can’t plan, it can’t anticipate. It just does its own random thing which may include rushing around the map within 3 turns doing very little, and playing entirely within its own unique rules.
It’s a great replica of the (fantastic) board game, but it’s totally reasonable to expect a little more than that in the move to digital, and it fails to deliver on that.
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