Takenoko User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience13.0% of reviews
Neutral16.9% of reviews
Negative experience70.1% of reviews

~ Based on 77 written reviews from the US App Store.

Is Takenoko Safe?

Takenoko: the Board Game has mixed safety signals based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Takenoko is 51/100.

This assessment is based on 53 user ratings, with an App Store average of 2.2/5.

Safety Analysis

20.8% of ratings point to a safe experience
13.2% of ratings suggest some concerns
66.0% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 53 App Store ratings for Takenoko.

Is Takenoko Legit?

Takenoko: the Board Game is no longer available in the App Store. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Takenoko is 35/100.

Based on 35 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Score capped because this app is no longer listed.

Top reviews

Titre

On peut pas jouer si on a pas d’amis qui rentre dans la game faque si t’as personne pour jouer t’a payer pour rien

Disappointed

I was excited to play the digital version of this game but unfortunately the app is complete trash. I got through the tutorial and then the app crashes. I have to uninstall to get anything to happen and go through the tutorial again where it crashes in the same place. I never even got to play, just went through the tutorial several times. Can’t someone from the developers just fix this app?!
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Really good fun

Really good fun, also I don’t understand why it’s rated so low either. Can by the extension pack too if you want to add the babies etc. very happy 👍

Online glichey

Couldn’t get through a game with online friends. Kept kicking one of us off, then you have to restart and watch the game from the beginning with no fast forward. Requested refund.

Local game needs a way to save and return to it

Would be great if you could save the local games so if you look at other apps or pause for a few hours you don’t have to restart the game.

Visually awesome but has some frustrating bugs

I bought this game a few days ago and have enjoyed learning how to play. The layout and graphics have been really well done so that part is a win. Unfortunately every couple of games my game play would “replay” the game from somewhere near the start and from that point onwards the game is unplayable. Obviously this is very frustrating as by that point you’ve obviously invested a lot of time in your game.

There are other small issues that could be improved upon also, but the frequent loss of playability mid game is the killer. If this gets addressed in a future update then this would easily be a 5 star game.

Fingers crossed the developers are still invested in the game and will update soon.
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Should be better

A good example of someone getting hold of the digital adaptation of a great game, messing it up and then abandoning it. This game looks fantastic and plays very well (when it works) but it’s got issues that stop you completing a game. It doesn’t seem to be getting any more updates so we’re stuck with a game that’s badly in need of some work. Asmodee / Twin Sails appears to have a habit of doing this.
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Still needs some work

I was really excited to see a mobile app for this game. Unfortunately, it’s just not very well executed. Game flow is very slow with no option to speed through other players actions when playing against the AI. User interface is also missing some basics - there is no back option for example when you click on an action, so if you accidentally click the panda action instead of the gardener, for example.. too bad, you’re moving the gardener. You start with the same three cards every game. No option to reopen a existing game - you close the app, you have to start a new one. I haven’t been able to complete a full game after multiple tries.. something always goes wrong (see UI comments above) or I just lose patience.
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Complete Failure of A Game

It simply will not advance to the next turn. The ai starts and then does nothing. Worthless

Does not work

Please do this game justice and make the app work.

Stinks

This game stinks. You start with the 3 same cards every game. The online play is non existent, I’ve tried to create several rooms for friends and none have been able to find the created room. The game also seems rigged against you. After the first couple of rounds the A.I. players satisfy their tasks every round after that which isn’t very realistic.

This a really a poor execution of my favorite tabletop game.
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Not sure why rated so low…

Everything is just like the real game, good effects, plenty of different options to play, either online, with the computer or with people at home. Never had any issues with game play like the previous review suggested. Really good game!

AI too lucky with pulls?

My lil one loves the panda on the title screen, though she presses the other buttons to see the chibi pandas., then needs me to click back…

Could we just add an interactive panda thing aimed at 2-3 year olds 😅

Pretty much every game., the AI is able to complete objectives twice as fast as me.. have to wonder if it has extra cards or picks from 4 tiles (so if it started with 5 cards - so more likely to have something to claim, though would always keep 2 hidden and need to draw to more before it could claim..

We all know AI needs to cheat., but I like my AI thick unless I pick hard… 🎸
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The very worst..

Very useless waste of my money. The AI doesn’t work, you can’t play with friends because that doesn’t work either.. nothing ducking works but you put a price on it, who does that? You can only play with yourself

Slow A.I

A. I is painfully slow, almost unplayable on your own

Does not work

When playing with the AI it bugs out and it doesn’t do any of the actions and you can’t play. It just locks you there without any options to skip or do anything. You’re not even able to play a turn

Broken

The whole game is broken. Will not play at all. I want my money back. Sad cause the board game is so good.

Online sucks

Cannot play with others. We bought this to play with other friends we could not get together with and play the real thing and it just glitches. Not even possible to play. Please fix!!!

Buggy

Wonder if it was even playtested lol

Visually stunning, atrocious back end

I seriously don’t know what they’re doing! For such a good looking game they’ve messed up the game play so bad.
I won’t list all the flaws because to be honest I could have lived with them and wouldn’t have minded.
However, 9/10 starting hands are all the same.
(Gardner:4 green bamboo. Panda: pink,yellow,green. Tile: 3 yellow curved)

This is completely unacceptable. All they need was to put the full list of cards in the game (which they may have, who knows) and put a decent random starting hand selector and this game would have comfortably got 3/4 stars.
The way the game currently is, it doesn’t even warrant 69p let alone £2.99 (what I paid).
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