# Roll for the Galaxy — user reviews > 54 indexed App Store user reviews of Roll for the Galaxy by Temple Gates Games LLC, rated 4.90/5 from 501 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/roll-for-the-galaxy/id1324815218/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/roll-for-the-galaxy/id1324815218.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 461 · 4★ 31 · 3★ 5 · 2★ 2 · 1★ 2 ## What do users think of Roll for the Galaxy? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 👍 Excellent UI/UX design and interface - 🎮 Great strategic gameplay mechanics - 🤖 Challenging AI difficulty levels - ⚡ Fast game performance and load times - 📚 Helpful tutorials and learning aids - 🎨 Beautiful graphics and visual design - 💰 No ads or in-app purchases - 🎯 Faithful adaptation of board game - 🏃 Quick gameplay (5-10 minutes) - 🔄 Good game state saving system **Cons** - 🐛 Frequent crashes in pass and play mode - 🐛 Game crashes during winning moments - 🐛 Online multiplayer stability issues - 🐛 Game state reset and loss problems - 🤖 AI cheats on hard difficulty - ❌ Missing expansion content since launch - 🌐 No language localization (German, French, Japanese) - 📱 Small text/UI on smaller screens - 🔗 Broken links to other games (Google Play vs App Store) - 🎲 Dice roll animation missing in pass and play **Commonly reported bugs** - Pass and play mode crashes frequently - Game crashes mid-turn with server lost messages - Game state loss after crash resume attempts - Resume function causes repeated crashes - Links to developer games redirect to wrong app store - Replicant Robots card doesn't function properly - Forced credit spending bug in recruitment phase - Online multiplayer state reset issues - Dice roll animation not appearing in pass and play - Game unplayable after certain crashes **Most requested features** - Ambition expansion pack implementation - Promo pack and optional modules - German language localization - French language localization - Japanese language localization - Shake cup dice rolling mechanic - Game tile inspection outside gameplay - Mixed AI and human player matches - Improved pass and play logic - Opponent score details visibility - Better multiplayer experience ## Newest reviews (15 of 54) ### 4/5 — The AI cheats on hard mode *2024-03-08, version 1.01* Rather than improve its strategy with the hard level, the AI cheats by drawing the tiles it needs out of the bag and rolling what it needs on the dice. The game is unbeatable at Hard AI, so if you’re looking to improve your game by playing solo vs. the AI, this is a waste of your time. The same problem exists with their “Roll for the Galaxy” app. ### 5/5 — Pass and Play Needs Serious Work *2023-07-28* Very fun game. Single player works great. That said, pass and play has very frequent crashes. If the game wasn’t good at saving board state constantly, it would be unplayable. Also one of the best visuals of the app, the dice roll, is almost never present in pass and play which is disappointing. EDIT: Would love the expansions released on here. ### 4/5 — Great Game, Seems To Be Abandoned Though… *2023-05-30* My wife, friends and I love the physical board game, and I bought this digital game day one. Saw the developers advertising the first expansion and promo cards in the in-game store, and was very excited. Unfortunately, many years later, those have yet to be implemented into the digital game, and even bugs that link their other games to the Google Play Store, instead of the Apple App Store, when playing on an iOS device still exist. This was a near launch bug, if NOT an actual launch bug, that the devs acknowledged after I sent an email. I love the game, but the expansions for the physical version really round out the experience. And it looks like this digital version will not be getting any of those. I’m sure the lack of digital sales was the deciding factor to leave the game as is, which is a shame. **Developer response:** Whoops! Thanks for letting us know, we'll get it fixed! ### 5/5 — I enjoy this game! *2023-04-12, version 1.01* Once you learn how to basically use the dice correctly the gameplay really opens up for a fun casual experience worth the price. ### 5/5 — Pass and Play Needs Serious Work *2023-01-27, version 1.01* Very fun game. Single player works great. That said, pass and play has very frequent crashes. If the game wasn’t good at saving board state constantly, it would be unplayable. Also one of the best visuals of the app, the dice roll, is never present in pass and play which is disappointing. ### 5/5 — Crashes a lot on iPad *2022-12-19, version 1.01* Great game, well done single and online mode. But crashes very often on iPad in pass and play multiplayer mode. Thankfully remembers game state and reload is quick. ### 5/5 — Excellent implementation of a great board game *2022-11-23, version 1.01* A very well done and easy to use user-interface. ### 5/5 — Schöne Umsetzung des schönen Spieles *2022-11-06* Das Spiel läuft fehlerfrei auf Apple IOS und ist graphisch gut umgesetzt. :-) ### 4/5 — Good game but expansion needed *2022-09-22* I’ve played Race for the Galaxy for a few years and it benifited greatly when the expansions were released. Roll for the Galaxy has many similarities although it relies on manipulating your dice to do what you need. I think this game will also benefit from the Ambition expansion but I can’t find a release date for it,any information from the developers would be appreciated ### 5/5 — 唯一無二に近い傑作ボードゲーム *2022-07-04* 他にあまり見ないルールのボードゲームの傑作。 ダイスに支配されながらも効率よくマネジメントをする必要があり、 また、アプリとしても操作性などがとても素晴らしい。 ### 5/5 — Fabulous port *2022-02-15, version 1.01* The game is a fabulous port of the physical board game. Can’t wait for the first expansion. The only addition I’d like to see would be to add a way to inspect all of the game tiles outside of playing the game (possibly as part of the rules section?). ### 5/5 — Better than the board game *2022-01-30, version 1.01* Because it takes care of all the tedious dice mechanics and leaves you to enjoy a unique, beautifully designed strategy game. The app is as clean and user friendly as they come, and the game is sharp, fun, and endlessly replayable. Give it some time — my first few tries I felt like I had no idea what I was doing. But the terrific tutorials and helpful app prompts enabled me to play through anyway, and after a couple of games all the lightbulbs turned on and I understood it all completely. Since then it’s been nothing but pure strategy delight. No ads, no IAPs, nothing to unlock, just an expertly ported implementation of an outstanding game. ### 5/5 — Beautiful and well implemented *2022-01-20, version 1.01* I’ve been enjoying this app a lot, the UI is beautiful and slick. I’m starting to get the hang of Roll. This app is also great for learning and preparing to teach/play the physical game too! ### 5/5 — Love the board game the app is amazing *2021-06-09, version 1.01* Big fan of the board game and this app is very well made and done. ### 5/5 — Great app for a fun board game *2021-04-28, version 1.01* I have nothing other to say than I’ve been completely satisfied with this app so far. It’s just as good as the Race for the Galaxy app. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Total deception *2020-08-28, version 1.0* How can you port an existing boardgame translated in many languages and do it only in English No efforts guys translation is already done. ### 2/5 — A lot of fun when it doesn’t crash *2025-09-15, version 1.01* This is a great strategy game, but it’s hard for me to recommend it since every time I start winning, the game crashes on me. (Playing on iPad mini A17 Pro - your results may vary.) ### 2/5 — Game ending crashes on iPad *2023-10-19, version 1.01* Another review mentions frequent crashes playing pass and play on iPad. They say it’s annoying but you can quickly open the app and resume. Except… like I just experienced, when pushing resume causes the game to crash again, every time, and your game is completely lost. Additionally, there is truly terrible logic about how to handle pass and play. This game is 95% synchronous play and you could reduce the number of passes required by half by just being slightly less stupid. In aggregate, it’s a digital adaption of an otherwise fun game that clearly wasn’t play tested properly and needs many more updates before it deserves a good score. Given it’s twice the price of the race adaption, I find it very hard to recommend. ### 2/5 — Total unstabil und leider keine Deutsche Oberfläche *2022-03-26* Während unseren Online Partien stürzt die Oberfläche ab. Das Spiel lässt sich nicht wider starten. Zudem vermissen wir die deutsche Oberfläche. Der Preis ist für diese entwicklungsversion zu hoch. Gerne biete ich mich für Tests an . ### 3/5 — Still no Ambition *2025-07-26, version 1.01* It’s unfortunate that we still haven’t seen the promo pack or Ambition expansion. They’ve been “coming soon” since the app released. I’d engage with the app much more frequently if the expansions were available ### 3/5 — Glitchy as *ell *2023-01-12, version 1.01* For a $10 app, you want it to be reliable. Unfortunately, far too frequently, the game will crash. Kick you right out in the middle of a turn and take you back to the homepage with a “server lost” type message. Then either your game won’t show back up. Or the play online option will be greyed out. Even shutting the app down and relaunching it doesn’t help. I have several complex game apps on my phone (Everdell, Lords of Waterdeep, Catan, Splendor, etc). This is the only app that crashes at all. And it happens, like I said, 10+ times per day. Far too frequently for the cost. The game itself is very well done. The auto button for obvious moves saves time (I always double check the work before I save, but it’s always right where Iwould play the cubes). And it has succeeded in even giving me a better understand of the game as a whole. Great game. Great app. All ruined by poor tech. ### 3/5 — Game is great, app needs work. *2020-09-11, version 1.01* The app frequently crashes and has issues maintaining game state. Often when trying to continue a multiplayer game, the state will reset to the beginning and the app will crash. On restarting the game, the correct state will display, but it’s very frustrating. It’s disappointing that you still cannot view opponent score details, as was the case in Race. ### 3/5 — Bug Needs Fixing *2020-09-07, version 1.01* The game closes for no reason and will not resume the game that was in progress. Very frustrating, especially given the price of the app. Hope the developers can find a way to prevent this from happening because it is otherwise a good game. ### 3/5 — a clean, fast and fluffy port of the boardgame *2020-09-05, version 1.01* you can whip through games in five minutes. AI does what it does in in Race: sells goods (rather boring). It’s not a development game, but a race for who can complete a tableau and who is selling goods the fastest. I always think the franchise would be more fun if it was more about building and less about selling goods and putting whatever cards you can down... oh well. Always kind of bugged me about RftG actually. If you want an even faster more random experience than Race, try this. one of the cool things about the hardcooy is all the cool dice, somehow doesn’t translate to a phone well. it’s actually kind of annoying watching the AI just place whatever they can and sell goods. come to think of it i hate this game. ### 3/5 — 建設戦略と生産出荷戦略のバランスについて *2020-08-28* アプリのAIについては、かなり強くて問題ないと思います。 ただ、ボードゲーム ギークでも議論が盛んなように、元々のゲームバランスが悪いため、vpポイントを稼ぐ出荷戦略がほとんど空気のような扱いをされるゲームがほとんどです。たいていのゲームではキーとなる6コストのディベロップを建設できれば勝ちという、単調な競争でゲームが終了してしまいます。 できることなら、基本ルールの改訂版を出して欲しいと思います。出荷のvp獲得を増やすなり、生産の時にクレジットを獲得できるようにするなり、生産出荷戦略の底上げをするか、探索フェイズがフェイズセレクトされた時に、一緒に出荷フェイズが誘発されるとかすれば、もっと面白いゲームになると思います。 とにかくもっともっと面白くなる可能性のあるゲームだと思うし、このゲーム大好きなので、制作者様には考えて欲しいと思います。 ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Super replayability *2026-08-17, version 1.01* I struggle to find challenging strategy games that are quick but keep me coming back. This game has a lot of depth and the hard AI is hard. I love it. ### 5/5 — Great adaptation, but wish it could get exps. as well *2026-02-20, version 1.01* They did a good job with the interface, along with a very good AI difficulties (from challenging, to easy). Performance is good too (iPad Air 1st gen, and 9th gen baseline). REALLY wish expansions (along their optional modules too really) could get implemented since they really round out the design space, replay ability, and fun factor. ### 5/5 — I wish they had the expansions!!!! *2026-01-09, version 1.01* A good port or an all time favorite. I typically play quick games against the AI and love this game. ### 5/5 — Awesome and waiting for the extension *2025-05-17* Excellent game and great restitution of the board game version. The graphics and music are on point. The only problem is that the extension still isn’t available… ### 5/5 — Good adaptation but the print is small *2025-04-12, version 1.01* It’s a good adaptation of the game and a great way to learn the tiles and combos. I have only played AI mode, and it seems challenging enough. It does what I want o a mobile game- plays in under 10 minutes and no in app purchases. ### 5/5 — Pass and Play Needs Serious Work *2024-09-27, version 1.01* Very fun game. Single player works great. That said, pass and play has very frequent crashes. If the game wasn’t good at saving board state constantly, it would be unplayable. Also one of the best visuals of the app, the dice roll, is almost never present in pass and play which is disappointing. EDIT: Would love the expansions released on here. ### 5/5 — Great Game, Abandoned Though… *2024-09-24, version 1.01* I love the physical game and have all the expansions. I was excited for the digital game because I don’t always have people to play with. But the digital version is just the base game, which while not bad, is still not as fun with any of the expansions. The first expansion and promo pack have been listed in game as “coming soon” since the game launched 4ish years ago. Not to mention, links in game to the devs other games, actually link to the Google Play Store and not Apple’s App Store. A bug since day one. ### 5/5 — Every game is better with dice *2024-05-13* I own both race and roll for the galaxy as board games and apps and I have to say that dice make a superior game. Three thing I would love to see: 1.where are the extensions 2.in time of deepl it should not be a huge problem providing other languages. Me daughter inly speaks German but would love to play RfG. 3. One there was a yahtzee version which did let you shake the cup. It felt so much more immersive. Any chance to implement it? Hand the text over I will support you with a translation! ### 5/5 — Great Game, Abandoned Though… *2023-12-22* I love the physical game and have all the expansions. I was excited for the digital game because I don’t always have people to play with. But the digital version is just the base game, which while not bad, is still not as fun with any of the expansions. The first expansion and promo pack have been listed in game as “coming soon” since the game launched 3ish years ago. Not to mention, links in game to the devs other games, actually link to the Google Play Store and not Apple’s App Store. A bug since day one. **Developer response:** Whoops! Thanks for letting us know, we'll get it fixed! ### 5/5 — great game and implementation! Looking forward to expansions! *2023-09-11* Good implementation! Powers and abilities are highlighted which helps remind you to use them. I really wish they could get around to getting the expansions in. --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. 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