# Twilight Struggle — user reviews > 221 indexed App Store user reviews of Twilight Struggle by Playdek, Inc., rated 3.70/5 from 63 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/twilight-struggle/id942766453/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/twilight-struggle/id942766453.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 32 · 4★ 10 · 3★ 5 · 2★ 3 · 1★ 13 ## What do users think of Twilight Struggle? Overall sentiment: neutral **Pros** - 🚀 Solid implementation of a great game - 👍 Faithful to the board game - 👍 Great PVP experience - 👍 Excellent game design and sound **Cons** - 🐛 Bugs and glitches - 🐛 Slow animations and AI - 🐛 AI cheats and is unbalanced - 🐛 Crashes and stability issues - 🐛 Difficulty changing difficulty level **Commonly reported bugs** - AI gets stuck on certain cards - AI fails to play scoring cards - Inconsistent DEFCON resolution - Tutorial crashes on certain steps - Inability to move map or zoom **Most requested features** - Ability to skip AI actions - Multitasking support - Improved game history/log - Better in-game rules and help - Translations to other languages ## Newest reviews (12 of 221) ### 3/5 — Excellent game - but bugs! *2025-11-08, version 1.4.6* Please fix the ability to suicide by accident this shouldn't be possible; also there is an error where if you place influence and take the move back before committing sometimes one of the influence stays which is unfair. ### 4/5 — Solid Implementation of a Great Game *2025-01-07, version 1.4.6* Love the general mood the game imparts with its design and sound. Sometimes a little hard to easily look at the effects of previous events in the top corners of the screen, but overall pretty solid and fun. ### 3/5 — Versión en Español *2023-12-16, version 1.4.6* El juego está bien pero me falta la traducción al español… ### 4/5 — Great game, UX could be better *2023-06-29, version 1.4.6* The map is sliding a bit too fast under my finger. And animations are too slow even on fastest setting. ### 4/5 — Mais pourquoi ce jeu mythique n’est-il pas traduit en français ! *2023-03-17, version 1.4.6* Twilight Struggle est un jeu absolument génial mais très exigeant. Il faut vraiment s’impliquer et s’investir dans ce genre de jeu. Un jeu historique extraordinaire ! MAIS comment se fait-il que ce jeu ne soit pas traduit en français alors que la version physique en jeu de plateau existe en français et surtout qu’elle a été rééditée en VF l’année dernière en 2022 ? Ce jeu est tellement exigeant intellectuellement qu’il faut absolument le traduire en français. D’ailleurs dans le même genre, le jeu LABYRINTH The War on Terror est traduit en français ! Allez messieurs les éditeurs, traduisez ce jeu et on lui mettra 5 étoiles. ### 2/5 — Disappointed AI *2022-12-18, version 1.4.6* Stupid AI ### 4/5 — Great game, too slow *2022-12-16, version 1.4.6* Can we make the computer much faster? ### 4/5 — bug *2022-11-25, version 1.4.6* it is too unstable，easy to return to desk ### 4/5 — A traduire *2022-09-18, version 1.4.6* Le jeu est excellent mais pourquoi ne pas le traduire en Français alors que le travail a déjà été fait sur la version physique ? ### 2/5 — New bugs *2022-08-08, version 1.4.4* Great game but recently has started developing lots of bugs. I didn’t see these a year ago so not sure what happened but it is making the game nearly unplayable. Space race track is not always being progressed despite having successful die rolls. This is the biggest bug and really hinders the game. Game no longer allows you to take actions to advance the DEFCON track to Level 1, ending the game, when the AI opponent plays cards to allow you to do so (ex: USSR playing CIA with current DEFCON of 2). Multiple graphical issues are annoying but not imperative, such as numbers not being on the adding VP stars. AI in general is very subpar, proceeding with some terrible moves but yet always seeming to know your scoring card. ### 3/5 — Won’t play again until fixed *2022-07-27, version 1.4.4* The last cosmetic update was a disaster - what was previously an outstanding app is now full of distracting graphical mistakes. I am not starting any new games until the developer undoes the damage done by the update. ### 3/5 — New bugs - don’t update *2022-05-29, version 1.4.4* 1.4.4 update (May ‘22) is a bad one. Some of the long-standing bugs you’d think easy to fix have not been (Junta still doesn’t give you mil ops), and new ones introduced (I just lost on DEFCON 1 due to it not resolving Summit right). It also crows Success! on every space race attempt, even if it wasn’t successful. Odd, but not game breaking. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Literally unplayable *2026-05-16, version 1.4.11.167* Even if you do struggle through the needlessly steep learning curve, you still won’t get to play the game because it just crashes and dumps you at the Home Screen. It’s hard to see how the events really makes sense together, but I’ll never know because I’ll never be able to finish the game, obviously ### 1/5 — DO NOT BUY *2026-01-14, version 1.4.11.167* Such a cool concept, but the AI cheats and is brutally difficult. It’s impossible to change the difficulty, and even if you give yourself the advantage at the start of the game, the AI always knows what cards you have and always has a better hand than you. Would actually be fun if the game was fair. ### 1/5 — Tutorial crashes *2025-08-30, version 1.4.6* The only way to get the tutorial achievement is to win it, but it’s not saved so you will have to play it in one go. Problem is: if you are doing well and are in turn 6 or 7 for example the game crashes to the background and you lose all progress. Crashes are bad but happen, but we should at least be able to save the tutorial instead of losing all that playing time. I also suspect that the AI knows your cards during its decisions, there were some remarkable and strange changes in strategy which indicate prior knowledge ### 1/5 — Bugs and unskippable yet slow animations *2025-08-03, version 1.4.6* The animations are so slow they make me nauseous. It also just makes the games so slow to play through. We got the game because we thought it would be faster than tabletop but the slow animations make it just about the same but more infuriating because of the bugs ### 1/5 — PL? *2025-03-05, version 1.4.6* Gdzie jest język polski? Był odblokowany podczas kampanii na Kickstarterze, a gra jak była od początku tylko po angielsku, tak nadal jest tylko po angielsku… ### 1/5 — UNPLAYABLE BECAUSE EVERYTHING MOVES TOO SLOWLY! *2024-04-19, version 1.4.6* PLEASE RELEASE UPDATE TO FIX THIS! And I’ll play it everyday and recommended it to everyone ### 1/5 — If I could I would give it 0 stars *2024-04-05, version 1.4.6* Very unbalanced game with dice rolling. In my opinion no game can be a “strategy” game if you have to rely on dice. The app itself contradicts its own rules. People who enjoy this game are enjoy tedium and the color beige. ### 1/5 — Solo is very poor *2023-07-28, version 1.4.6* Solo mode is a mess and multi player is full of rage quitters. Basically serves as an expensive tutorial for the board game. Not recommended. ### 1/5 — Not Random rolls *2021-11-13, version 1.4.2* Played countless times to coup north korea on first play with 4 ops card and never succeeded. ### 1/5 — Gute Umsetzung mit einem Riesenmanko *2020-11-01, version 1.4.2* Das Spiel ist gut umgesetzt jedoch für mich unspielbar aus zwei Gründen. 1. Die AI braucht eeeewig zum überlegen. Wir reden hier von 2-3 Minuten zum Teil. 2. Noch schlimmer wiegt die Tatsache das die AI nahezu JEDE Würfelprobe besteht und man als Spieler diese nur ganz selten (Rekord hier bei 8 SpaceRace Versuchen nur 1 erfolgreich). So ist das Spiel für mich unspielbar und Rückerstattung wurde beantragt. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Sólo falta su traducción en español... *2025-12-07, version 1.4.10 (165)* ...para que sea uno de los mejores juegos para iPad. Totalmente recomendable. Y hoy por hoy, traducirlo es fácil. Yo pagaría algo por la traducción, si eso les motiva. ¿Leerán los comentarios? ### 5/5 — Great for PVP gaming *2025-01-06, version 1.4.6* Fantastic PVP experience, especially for seeing the impact of most game moves before they are made final by confirming or rolling a coup or realignment. The single player AI is lousy and very simple to beat unless you set a heavy influence in favor of the AI. ### 5/5 — Add *2024-03-20, version 1.4.6* Polish language pls ### 5/5 — Rewelacja *2024-01-18, version 1.4.6* Chcemy Polską wersję !!!!!! Red Sea taką posiada ### 5/5 — Fiel a la versión de tablero *2023-09-02, version 1.4.6* Juego que reproduce la versión de tablero al 100%, para jugar en solitario o en la comunidad de jugadores. Muy recomendable para los amantes de la guerra fría, o para niños adolescentes a los que quieras explicar el mundo de esos años. ### 5/5 — Awesome *2023-06-27, version 1.4.6* Love it! ### 5/5 — Great app *2023-03-18, version 1.4.6* Amazing online game ### 5/5 — Pl lang *2023-03-03, version 1.4.6* When update with polish language? ### 5/5 — Sorprendente *2022-12-28, version 1.4.6* Juego muy bien implementado y fiel al juego de mesa. El único pero e radica en que no está rraducido al español. Por lo demás altamente recomendable ### 5/5 — Great game. Needs new update *2022-05-30, version 1.4.4* This is a fantastic game. However, the latest update seems to have caused more problems than it fixed. The victory point animation doesn’t work correctly, displaying the wrong or no value. The new black text on red and blue background to show what cards have been played is low contrast and harder to read than the previous white text. 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