# Paper Tales - Catch up Games — user reviews > 18 indexed App Store user reviews of Paper Tales by DTDA Games, rated 4.30/5 from 4 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/paper-tales-catch-up-games/id1532072012/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/paper-tales-catch-up-games/id1532072012.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 3 · 4★ 0 · 3★ 0 · 2★ 1 · 1★ 0 ## Newest reviews (1 of 18) ### 2/5 — Bare bones app, needs much more polish *2020-11-09* This app probably works fine for people who already know how to play the game. As someone who has never played Paper Tales but has played hundreds of board games in physical and digital implementations, this app needs a lot of work. The tutorial is a slide show that doesn’t explain how to do things or the user interface. The player information bar floats over your draft picks so you can’t see what you’ve already taken. There is no in app feedback on why something isn’t working. I think I’m going to ask for a refund on this. It looks pretty and I think if you know the game it might work for you. It doesn’t work for me. **Developer response:** Hi, We added more informations to learn how to play during the game and help new players to understand the game. We are still working on the UI to keep it clearer ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Nul *2024-08-21* Ne fonctionne pas, impossible de défausser des cartes. ### 1/5 — Big bug need to fix *2023-05-30* If zero cost doubleganer change to some card can stay to next gen, in next gen game will freeze and have to reset ### 1/5 — Sa marche pas *2021-03-28* Nous somme trois compère à l’avoir acheté suite à une vraie partie en physique, mais malheureusement : - l’application ne fonctionne pas En solo comme en ligne, le jeux n’est pas codé pour IOS mais il est quand même vendu, c’est du joli ! Nous somme donc blazé. Salut **Developer response:** Bonjour, Nous sommes étonné de votre retour. L'application est bien développée et testée pour iOS, pouvez-nous donner plus de détail sur l'erreur que vous avez ? ### 1/5 — Inutile *2020-12-20* Quelle déception ! Grand fan de ce jeu, je me suis précipité pour l'acheter. IA d'une nullité incroyable et jamais personne pour jouer en ligne...plus de 5€ pour cela....aïe ! **Developer response:** Bonjour, nous sommes en train de travailler sur l'IA afin de l'améliorer et se baser sur des choix de vrais joueurs. Concernant le nombre de joueurs en ligne, l'application étant encore en phase de finalisation, le nombre de joueurs pourra augmenter lors de la sortie définitive. ### 1/5 — Good game, but needs a ton of work *2020-12-12* I really enjoy Paper Tales as a game, but the app is extremely underdeveloped. Tutorial is completely barebones and isn’t sufficient for a new player to learn the game, you can’t see the available buildings until the building phase, etc. Needed way more testing and development before they started accepting money from people. **Developer response:** Hi, We added more informations at the beginning of each phases, and now you can tap on your avatar to see your kingdom at any moment, or see these of your opponents by clicking on their name. We are still working on the ui to keep it clearer ### 1/5 — Money down the drain *2020-11-07* Tutorial is a joke. No rulebok. Not intuitive. Makes no sense. Trying to learn by playing, but nothing is explained, it’s a huge waste. And it’s not like I haven’t played 1000 different strategy board and card games before or 100s of board game apps. In the deployment phase in Age 2, I deployed cards that I can afford and the green checkmark doesn’t enable. I tried different combinations of cards, nothing. No direction from the app as to what I’m doing wrong, it just sits in this state expecting me to do something, assuming I know and understand the rules, but the app never taught me the game. Not sure if the app has bugs or I don’t understand the rules. I suppose I could seek out the rules online, but I shouldn’t have to. Horrible. Zero stars. **Developer response:** Hi, We added a tutorial and more informations at the beginning of each phases to explain how to play. You can also tap on your avatar to see your kingdom at any moment, or see these of your opponents by clicking on their name. We are still working on the ui to keep it clearer. Thank you ### 2/5 — Très moyen, décevant *2023-04-14* Grand fan du jeu, il y a beaucoup d’incohérences et de défauts sur cette application. Le jeu est mal fait et mérite d être amélioré. Pour les initiés, parfois avec les ressources nécessaires, on ne peut acheter les bâtiments correspondants. ### 2/5 — No tutorial *2021-11-02, version 1.1.31* It is a good game, but you’ll have to learn how to play elsewhere. The tutorial just gives you a basic overview of the phases. It doesn’t tell you what the symbols on the cards mean. It doesn’t even tell you that you can only keep one card every round. It took me ages to realise that the reason I couldn’t click to end the phase was because I needed to discard down to one card. I thought the app was broken. It doesn’t tell you how to score. If they fix the tutorial, so that it teaches you how to play like a tutorial should, it would be a great app and I’d give it five stars. ### 2/5 — The least impressive of my BG apps *2021-08-17, version 1.1.31* Not a lot going on here. Where some BG apps really help you learn the game and track what you are doing, this one barely sustains the gameplay itself. If you don't know what you're doing you can stall out the app, unable to complete a turn. There is no undo feature. ### 2/5 — Non existent rules and poor graphics *2021-08-11, version 1.1.31* You really need to know how to play the physical game. If you don’t know how to play this game already, you will have no hope in learning how to play for this game. The tutorial is virtually non existent, and no explanation of what the icons on the cards actually mean. I have no idea if there is a good game here or not. ## Most praised reviews (7 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Slick Game, Why No Building Reference? *2025-08-19* This is a great version of a great game, but it’s hard to plan purchases with no ability to see the buildings before the build phase **Developer response:** Hi, now you can tap on your avatar to see your kingdom at any moment, or see these of your opponents by clicking on their name. We are still working on the ui to keep it clearer. It's an interesting thing for the building levels, we will see how to improve it. thank you. ### 5/5 — Great game! *2022-09-22* First of all, thank you, developer, for making this in portrait mode! I used to have a similar game but it was landscape, and I just don’t like playing landscape, so I deleted it. Portrait is easier to hold. So thank you! Also thank you for a fair premium price with no ads. The file size is also small and the app is good on battery. The game also looks nice. You did everything right here. For those saying they had a hard time figuring out the mechanics, I found a really good video online of a reviewer doing a play-through with the app. If you watch that, and then play a game or two, you’ll know what to do. I lost my first game, barely, and then won my next game, barely. That means the app is balanced. Very good job developer! The only thing I think that could be clearer is the fact that you have to discard the rest of your cards before you deploy, and at first I wasn’t sure what to do because it wasn’t clear to me how to discard them and that I had to drag them all to discard one by one. But I figured it out. Very well done. I highly recommend this enjoyable strategy game that is challenging without being too hard or frustrating. Thank you! ### 5/5 — Please include a reference tab for buildings *2021-11-15* This is the biggest missing feature for me. I need to know which buildings to target without memorizing it. **Developer response:** Hi, now you can tap on your avatar to see your kingdom at any moment, or see these of your opponents by clicking on their name. We are still working on the ui to keep it clearer. It's an interesting thing for the building levels, we will see how to improve it. thank you. ### 4/5 — Good one *2021-02-05* No one to play with online, all the time. So it could be cheaper. No Russian language, but it’s okay. Apart from that, I like this game and this app. ### 4/5 — Très bon deck building *2020-11-26* Très bon jeu de deck building mais souffrant encore d’un manque de finitions et de clarté évident. Toutefois, je salue le studio de développement pour l’effort de proposer ce type de jeu sur support numérique. **Developer response:** Bonjour, Merci beaucoup pour le retour. A noter que nous continuons de travailler sur l'interface pour rendre cela toujours plus clair et ajouter des animations plus précises. Nous allons également ajouter un système de ranking en ligne :). ### 3/5 — Uninspired *2021-02-21, version 1.1.23* This is a functional adaptation, but not much else to speak of. The UX isn't terribly intuitive and the rules and tutorial aren't worth mentioning. Go watch a video playthrough of the original game first. ### 3/5 — Rule book? *2021-02-11* The tutorial for Paper Tales is incredibly basic and leave a lot unexplained. You need to include a full rule book to make the digital version of Paper Tales playable. Please sort on the next update. --- *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 2026-08-21.*