Terraforming Mars 2.5.1.130143

Reviews

1 ★, on 2021-07-12
Obviously a great board game, but the mobile application is too glitchy and ill thought through to be worthwhile. No ability to undo an action once you have selected it, so make sure you don't accidentally press the wrong card. No ability to skip visualizing an action's effects, which runs down the timer unnecessarily in online games. And often the timers are completely inaccurate, so you have to 'forfeit' a game for running out of time of no fault of your own. What a frustrating waste of time.

3 ★, on 2021-07-02
This is an OK port of the board game, with a critical fault: the timer on multiplayer games. The timer is buggy as sometimes it runs with different speed for different players. Most importantly, the fact that you are given a fixed amount of time that doesn't increase with generations affects your strategy: it's just dangerous to buy many blue cards with actions because you are not going to have enough time to use them. Animations are unskippable and eat your time.

3 ★, on 2021-07-07
I did a two player game with my friend, in the same room but two different devices. It worked well. Only frustrating thing was when their placement went to the wrong location and they were not able to move it to the proper location. It would be nice to have an undo or verify placement button before ending the turn. I haven't tried the other features. It was set up like the steam version though which was helpful. So much easier than setting up the board!

2 ★, on 2021-06-15
This is such a good board game. This port is decent, but there is one big bug that is game ruining for me: when there are no more cards to draw the game gets stuck in a loop and you are unable to finish. It's an easily reproducible bug. It feels like solutions for it would also be pretty simple. Introduce a card counter somewhere on the game state. When cards = 0 Grey out the draw cards button. When you do the initial draw for a round, and you have less than needed distribute cards evenly etc

2 ★, on 2021-07-03
This is an ok adaptation of the board game. It mostly functions, but has serious issues with persistence. Frequently we end up taking the same turn multiple times. And recently, we started a game, and it just disappeared. Now we're starting over. Not sure what's going on on the severs, but it's very frustrating. I emailed the development team about this but was ignored.

4 ★, on 2021-07-03
Great game, very faithful to the original board game version. The only downside is the AI for the computer characters isn't that intelligent. So it can play cards when they don't make a lot of sense. The solo mode takes this away and takes 5-10 minutes so a great game for that period.