# Raiders of the North Sea — user reviews > 146 indexed App Store user reviews of Raiders of the North Sea by Dire Wolf Digital, rated 4.70/5 from 669 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/raiders-of-the-north-sea/id1439244088/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/raiders-of-the-north-sea/id1439244088.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 554 · 4★ 59 · 3★ 21 · 2★ 8 · 1★ 27 ## What do users think of Raiders of the North Sea? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 🚀 Smooth gameplay - 🎨 Beautiful graphics and animations - 🕹️ Faithful digital adaptation of the board game - 👍 Great campaign mode - 💻 Runs well on mobile devices **Cons** - 🐛 Buggy online multiplayer - 🔍 Difficulty balancing issues with AI - 🔍 Lack of difficulty options - 🔍 Missing basic features like undo and player color selection - 💰 Expensive for a mobile game **Commonly reported bugs** - Game crashes and freezes - Issues with picking up workers - Cartographer card challenge not working - Compatibility problems on some devices **Most requested features** - Add expansions and additional content - Implement pass-and-play local multiplayer - Improve notifications for online games - Add more difficulty settings and AI options ## Newest reviews (12 of 146) ### 3/5 — Solid, but AI needs balance and at least SOME of new expansion add-ons *2025-10-04* so base game is great, but the AI is either skewed with them starting with a TON of armor or too easy. There is no in between. The skew of giving them armor instead of attacking fortresses early and getting the early resource early seems like an easy fix. was lazy on the developers part. The AI will have enough gold, power and provisions and not take out fortresses. really silly as the game otherwise is beautiful and very relaxing to play. Out of all the ways to artificially make up for the AI weakness, iron would be my last pick. Finally, it would have been easy to add at least a few of the expansion features that makes the game better. For example, when you beat a spot by 10 points etc. you should get some extra points. would be nice to have some new cards as well. again, doesn’t require much development at all. however, like most online games, they NEVER get improved. they don’t realize that for such minimal development word of mouth is powerful in this industry. they just figure why spend good money after bad without realizing in this situation, like many other, is takes money to make. money. just poor business decision. Didn’t need to add full expansions. I wonder if the devs actually are even board gamers sometimes or work with the design of th3 games at ALL? ### 4/5 — Extension ? Maj? *2024-11-06* Dommage que ce jeu n’ait pas évolué depuis 3ans , il fonctionne très bien, respecte le jeu de plateau , c.est un super jeu mais ça manque une petite mise à jour et de pouvoir profiter des extensions ### 3/5 — Good Game but horrible online version *2024-08-23* Playing the game solo is awesome but online is a desaster :-( ### 2/5 — Great game - but online fails *2024-03-18, version 1.4.6* Wife and I play digital board games together regularly. We enjoy raiders expect online games drop 2-3 times each game. Recently couldn’t reconnect, game just disappeared. App is worse than worthless when this happens - actively a negative experience. ### 4/5 — Load times kill this game *2024-02-20, version 1.4.6* The load times for my games are by far the most frustrating aspect of this game. If this was fixed and I could actually load games at a decent pace I would love it. ### 2/5 — Really disappointed they haven’t bothered to optimize it for all modern device sizes *2024-01-24* Pretty sad that one of the biggest digital board game developers can’t be bothered to optimize any of their games for all modern devices. ### 4/5 — Great game. Where are expansions? *2023-12-03, version 1.4.6* Needs expansions ### 5/5 — Just like the Board Game *2023-01-02* Only played against the AI and this game is excellent. ### 3/5 — Doesn’t play in airplane mode *2022-12-08, version 1.4.6* Super awesome game. Just so frustrating that I can’t play this game in airplane mode 😆 ### 5/5 — Well designed app *2022-09-21, version 1.4.6* I give the app a 5.0. Everything works flawlessly and I’ve never had a problem with it. I’ve never played the board game though I own it but Ive played many games of this. It’s a great game and the computer players are pretty good. Hopefully expansions will come out. I would also like to see some options for this ap game and the board game that you can trigger on or off such as hidden plunder on each settlement. You don’t know what’s underneath before attacking or in the case of this app could be just a ? instead of gold iron or cows and they are not revealed until you commit to the attack. The only glitch I’ve experienced is the computer will often re roll dice it doesn’t need to and frequently even the rolling the higher of the two. ### 4/5 — Top Titel aber Erweiterungen fehlen bei 10€ *2022-07-24* Spiel läuft super macht Bock sieht gut aus gut Spielbälle auf Handy und iPad Abeeer zuu teuer bzw sollten bei 10€ schon Erweiterung kommen auf kurz oder lang…. Dann 5 Sterne ### 5/5 — Absolutely great *2022-06-07, version 1.4.6* I’ve never played the board game but I’m buying it because of this app. Great implementation. So many board game apps miss the mark and this one did great. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Lieblos fallengelassen *2026-05-15* hatte potenzial, wurde aber lieblos fallengelassen. Keines der zwei AddOns wurde je realisiert. Also,Finger weg, hier bekommt man nichts gutes verkauft. ### 1/5 — Unplayable online *2024-08-23* The Game is not playable online. Servers crashes everytime. Please fix the problem . ### 1/5 — Online spielen nicht möglich *2024-08-23* Wir haben das Spiel als App gekauft um es online gemeinsam zu spielen. Das Spiel stürzt immer bei allen nach wenigen Zügen wieder ab. Fehlkauf! ### 1/5 — Should be 5 star *2024-06-15, version 1.4.6* Good game, but when playing online game constantly crashes, freezes, needs you to rejoin, etc. not the most technically complicated game, but budget an additional 20mins to all your game times because of the constant issues, almost not worth playing ### 1/5 — Multiplayer doesn’t work *2023-06-11, version 1.4.6* My friends and I all recently downloaded this game. In trying both multiplayer modes (online and friends) the game fails and never starts. For a friend game, the game never loads when trying to access from the available games list. For online games, we all get kicked out as soon as the host hits start game. The game is basically unplayable except against the AI ### 1/5 — Not working *2022-11-11* Since IOS 16, impossible to move worker. Very disappointed. ### 1/5 — Not intuitive *2022-10-18* It takes too long to figure out how to play. Hard to play on iPhone because drop location is too small and your finger gets in the way ### 1/5 — Hard to use, got stuck and had to quit *2022-09-09* A finicky game play with unnecessary graphics. It is not intuitive and I hit a point in the game when a card action was asking me to do something and there didn’t appear to be away to do the action so I had to resign the game. Very frustrating. I love the board game and I am disappointed that this app isn’t playable. ### 1/5 — Online doesn’t work *2021-04-27, version 1.4.5* Online does not work at all anymore. Real shame as this is a great app when it works! ### 1/5 — Recent update won’t let you play AI *2020-08-28, version 1.4.1* Used to work well. After the recent update when I try to play the AI it asks me if I want to continue my previous game, don’t have one. But regardless both options crash the app. Making it unplayable. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Haaland Haaland! *2026-07-28, version 1.4.8* This is a great little game I continue to enjoy. Recommended. ### 5/5 — Well implemented board game *2026-06-30* The game runs smoothly, the AI plays well enough and it doesn’t require a constant internet connection to play. Online against doesn’t work well but a subscription model would have to be introduced to maintain this. In a four player game, the AI opponents will gang up against you. ### 5/5 — Great game – more, please! *2024-12-05, version 1.4.6* I’m a big fan of Garphill Games and I’m having a blast playing this. You should consider making a Raiders of Scythia version. ### 5/5 — Great App Version *2024-05-26, version 1.4.6* This is great if you know how to play. Learning via the app is not ideal. They need to make the tracks visible and add the expansions ### 5/5 — To arms! *2024-05-16* I’m a little late in finding out about garphill games. We picked up the board game a while back and we love playing it. Then we found it here and now our lives are complete. Well… almost. If you guys would go ahead and include the expansions, and Explorers of the North Sea and it’s expansion, and Shipwrights too, that’d be great! **Developer response:** Thank you for your wonderful review! ### 5/5 — When are the expansions coming? *2024-02-23, version 1.4.6* This is the best euro board game adaptation on there. When are the expansions going to be implemented? ### 5/5 — Favorite board game gets an app! *2024-01-03, version 1.4.6* I’m such a fan of the board game. I love how great this one works. The campaign mode is a pretty cool twist and has some fun challenges. Highly recommended. ### 5/5 — Top, une super découverte *2023-02-10* J’ai hésité croyant à un Âge of Empire like sur iPad et non, un vrai beau jeu de société (je ne connaissais pas le jeu de plateau). Sympa, facile à comprendre, une très belle surprise, par hasard. À jouer sans hésitation ### 5/5 — Fantastic Port *2023-02-04, version 1.4.6* This game is ported beautifully and perfectly in this app! Couldn’t be happier ### 5/5 — Perfect *2023-01-17, version 1.4.6* Really love the app. Now if I can only beat the campaign! --- *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 2026-08-24.*