# Smash Up - The Card Game — user reviews > 165 indexed App Store user reviews of Smash Up by Nomad Games, rated 4.20/5 from 662 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/smash-up-the-card-game/id1195821282/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/smash-up-the-card-game/id1195821282.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 410 · 4★ 114 · 3★ 47 · 2★ 42 · 1★ 49 ## What do users think of Smash Up? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 👍 Smooth gameplay - 🚀 Fast-paced matches - 💡 Potential for expansions - 🎮 Faithful digital adaptation of the board game **Cons** - 🐛 Bugs and crashes - 🔍 Difficult card selection and UI navigation - 🔓 Online play issues - 🤖 Overpowered AI **Commonly reported bugs** - Compatibility issues with newer iOS versions - Incorrect card interactions and base effects - Freezing during gameplay - Inaccurate game statistics **Most requested features** - More faction expansions - Improved online multiplayer functionality - Undo/replay options - Larger card displays and better readability ## Newest reviews (17 of 165) ### 2/5 — Very fun game, but the UI is really bad *2026-02-08, version 2.2* Smash up is a fun card game that I enjoy a lot, so I thought I would pick up the digital version. However, space is used very poorly. In most digital card games, the cards are front and center and the game makes an effort to make it easy to see them. In this one it feels like they made the odd decision to hide them whenever possible even though there is a lot of empty space on the screen. IMO your hand should take up at least 1/3 of the bottom of the screen and should be easy to see, with the bases in the middle smaller but with it easy to zoom in on cards there if needed. Since that’s basically all the info needed in the game I’m not entirely sure why this is designed to hide all of that information. It somewhat feels like the designers have never played another digital card game before and weren’t sure how to layout the screen. Anyway, it’s a fun game but not really worth playing digitally on this UI ### 4/5 — Love *2023-08-22, version 2.2* Like the game, but sometimes freezes up. Ready for more expansions ### 3/5 — No one plays online anymore *2023-07-07, version 2.2* I love the table top version and own all of them but it gets boring playing AI. ### 2/5 — Great game badly programmed *2023-05-07, version 2.2* Great game that is almost impossible to play due to the way the app has been programmed. Buyer beware. ### 3/5 — Online play broken *2022-11-13, version 2.2* Local games work well ### 2/5 — Professionally designed - AI cheats *2022-09-06, version 2.2* Love Smash Up. It’s one of my favorite tabletop games. The app has nice presentation and works fine (for the most part). Not worth playing on higher difficulties because the AI very clearly cheats. I played a game against Princess’s where I destroyed Sleeping Beauty forcing her to be shuffled into the deck only for the AI to play her the very next turn. Card draws happen at the end of the turn, the AI player didn’t play anything to draw cards, simply mysteriously had a ‘one of’ card in hand that should have been in the deck. Played an entire game with Geeks/Mythic Horses where all my actions were top decked and then I played through minions, reshuffled the deck only to have all my actions top decked again. Having that happen once could be attributed to chance, twice in one game is infinitesimal. AI used Geeks to move one of my actions (Hissy Fit) from one base to another base then the game treated that card as though it belonged to the AI player, which isn’t how the Geeks card works. I thought maybe it was just programmed incorrectly but then I made the same play during a game and the card worked as intended. Then I started noticing how often card interactions working incorrectly almost always benefit the AI player. Programmers should legit be ashamed of themselves. ### 2/5 — Good game but freezes *2022-07-15, version 2.2* Freezes too often on my iphone 13 ### 3/5 — UI still not improved *2022-05-16, version 2.2* Reviews from 4 years ago note how terrible the card selection and playing is, with developers noting they respond to feedback. Well, the card selection and playing is still terrible. Use a drag method! SmashUp is a great game, and it’s a shame the app makes it very hard to play. Will report bugs separately though I have little confidence they will be fixed. ### 4/5 — Why so few expansions available? *2022-02-10, version 2.2* Please see above. ### 3/5 — Fun game that really needs an undo option *2022-01-02, version 2.2* A ### 2/5 — Great game, but gets some things wrong *2021-10-15, version 2.2* Did the app designers even read the rules? Jammed Signal works improperly wth Cool Cat Alley. It should make all players ignore the bases ability. Including the player who played it. Magic Ward is supposed to prevent actions being played on a base and on minions on that base. This app interprets that as minions can't be played on the base, which is incorrect. Ornate Dome shouldn't block Invisible Bicycle or You're Pretty Much Borscht but it does in this app. Glymmer has the ability to lower a minion's power -4 until the start of the player's next turn. Sometimes, the -4 stays in effect several turns later, including long after Glymmer and the target minion are in the discard pile. If a player has the ability to retreive cards from the discard pile (like the Zombie faction) the retreived card will sometimes come back into play with -4 power. This seems more like a bug than a rules oversight. This isn't the end of the broken rules, I'm just tired of listing them. ### 2/5 — Better, but still some major problems *2021-07-06, version 2.2* Downloaded again after first disappointing try. AI still uses the same flood one base to break strategy. Also, Problems with special event cards like zombie lord ( no option to place minions on unoccupied bases, Rhodes Bally mall base gives NO victory points when breaks) ai Can use packs you haven’t bought. Still needs work. Get on it. Oh and no contact support feature. ### 2/5 — Keeps crashing *2021-06-27, version 2.2* The game is super nice but it keeps crashing for no reasons… would be nice to have an update on this game. It’s really cool nonetheless ### 4/5 — Bigger FONT option please *2021-06-05, version 2.2* Good game. The stats are a nice touch that will keep me coming back to play. More games like this need to follow and add SOLO stats, wins/losses etc. The main problem with this game is the poor use of screen realestate. On iPad its probably great but on iPhone, the text is too small. The app should be able to upscale, display larger popups that make full use of the screen, with BIGGER FONTS. Waaaay too many iOS card games have this problem while the smarter apps detect and display easier to read, larger fonts. ### 2/5 — Buggy *2021-05-22, version 2.2* Great game and great digital version. Only problem is it is very buggy. Makes an illegal move almost once per game, and on my stats it still says I’ve only won once when I’ve won at least 5 times now. ### 3/5 — Digital game needs work *2021-03-26, version 2.2* I love smash up and I’ve owned the physical game for a long time and have had the digital version for a little while now. The AI cheats at times. Like certain cards you play have no effect. I’ve made sure to watch several times to ensure it’s not me and I’ve confirmed the AI negates certain actions. It’s a shame because a single card can make all the difference and when the AI can just go around your actions it puts a damper on the whole game. I still enjoy the digital version as it lets me play when I can’t find real people to play with but just be warned about the AI. ### 3/5 — A Limited Implementation With Bugs *2021-03-07, version 2.2* Currently the online play (March 6&7) is unavailable because of server issues. Besides that, it’s a limited implementation of a good game. When it works, it’s a lot of fun, but the developer didn’t do a good job implementing features which would help with the errors. The game freezes about once every ten games and won’t let you back in. It will boot you and let a bot finish the game. There should be a re-join feature. The game should also have a pause button that allows you to re-start the same game with a friend. The game needs all the factions, or at least some new packs. Finally the UI could use work. The cards are too small on a phone, and sometimes viewing a card causes an accidental choice. In addition, whenever another player plays an action, the opponent cannot easily read it. I would suggest showing the whole card over the playfield for a few seconds or showing the entirety of the card text in the space between the bases. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Doesn’t work with new iOS 18 *2024-12-19, version 2.2* Great game. Unfortunately isnt working with latest iOS 18.1.1. Works once after download then freezes at startup next time you play. Please release patch so I can come back and give 5 stars ### 1/5 — Online doesn’t work *2022-01-12, version 2.2* I got the physical version of the game for Christmas and was really enjoying it until my brother left for college and I had no one to play it with anymore. We decided to get the game online so we could play together, but it seems the online servers aren’t even supported anymore. It defeats the whole purpose of buying it and I really wish they had it listed properly that online doesn’t work. Unless they somehow return to supporting the servers I won’t ever use this app. Biggest waste of $2 ever. I would get a refund if I could. ### 1/5 — Online play has been down for months *2021-11-14, version 2.2* They charge for the game which is supposed to be playable with people but they kill the servers. ### 1/5 — No online play *2021-10-23, version 2.2* The game is dead ### 1/5 — Nul! *2021-03-16* Dégoûté je n’arrive même pas à gagner une partie. Mes créatures on toujours entre deux et 5 PV l’AI a toujours plus. J’ai mis longtps à comprendre les règles j’ai du regarder une vidéo sur YouTube sur le jeu plateau. De plus, il faut toujours lire les cartes, y a vraiment aucun plaisir à jouer. J’aurais bien mis zéro mais une étoile est le minimum autorisée. Ciao!!! ### 1/5 — Incompatible device? *2021-01-25, version 2.2* Don’t know if it’s good or not, it won’t run on my relatively new iPad which is running the latest IOS. It installed, but when I try to run it all I get is a little box that says “Incompatible Device”. Pretty useless. ### 1/5 — Pas de joueur *2020-09-29* Impossible de jouer car aucun joueur en ligne :/ Dommage de payer 5€ pour ne pas pouvoir jouer ### 1/5 — Waste *2020-01-09, version 2.0* Bought it. No active players each time I’ve searched online so therefore no way to play it. $8 for nothing. ### 1/5 — Servers *2019-11-21, version 1.10.00* I am never able to connect to the servers in Hawaii ### 1/5 — ONLINE DOESNT WORK WASTED MY MONEY *2019-10-17, version 1.10.00* AHHHHHHH ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Smash up *2023-10-03, version 2.2* Every game is different, very fun and challenging to play. I just wish more people would play because it’s hard to find an online game. The games are fast. I wish you could play all the different factions. I highly recommend this game thanks for making it available online ### 5/5 — Fun Not Perfect *2023-07-31, version 2.2* I really enjoy playing this game. I stayed up until like 5 am last night playing it and have been playing it all day today. It’s kind of a problem lol. It does freeze sometimes and it’s disappointing that when I tried to play online no one else was playing. Guess I’m the only loser playing it. Could also use more factions. I recently bought the Marvel version of the actual card game and wish I could use them on the app too. ### 5/5 — Great game needs more expansions *2022-08-31, version 2.2* Please upload more expansions and take my money, thx ### 5/5 — Fantastic *2022-06-24, version 2.2* Love it. Perfect as is but would always love to see more factions added. ### 5/5 — Very nice please update it!!! *2022-05-01, version 2.2* Sometimes the app crash. The potential is there. Please keep it updated! ### 5/5 — Really fun when it’s working, but online play is down. *2021-11-10, version 2.2* I messaged Nomad support, as the online servers seem to be down. In the past this has led to them fixing the issue, but not this time. No reply, and it’s been nearly a month. You can still play against the AI opponents, but I wouldn’t recommend buying this app until the issue is resolved. Perhaps Nomad is no longer supporting this game? That would be a shame. ### 5/5 — Server failure *2021-10-19* Guys, it stopped workin. And there’s nobody online. Maybe some ad? ### 5/5 — The best game ever needs some improvements! *2021-07-05, version 2.2* Smash Up is such a good game… Please add ALL the factions!! Gameplay can be smoother and faster as well. Needs lots of love and attention because this could introduce more people to this amazing game. Don’t give up on it devs! I went with 5 stars cuz it’s smash up. It’s that good. 4 is more accurate. 3 if in 6 months you guys don’t try here… ### 5/5 — Loving the expansions *2020-06-14, version 2.2* Really enjoying the expansions can’t wait for more ### 5/5 — One of my fav card games *2020-05-01, version 2.2* Smash up is a nice card game, nice it’s mobile so I can practice --- *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 2026-08-27.*