Bohnanza The Duel

I struggled a little bit at the beginning with the interface, but once I understood how everything works it became my favorite app! Not too complicated, more an efficiency puzzle. I finally start to beat the easy AI!

This game is not very user friendly at all! The tutorial leaves a lot unexplained and my game keeps freezing or I get stuck and have no idea where to find help. The old Bohnananza app was excellent. I miss it.

In the tutorial after a certain point it always just stops and there’s no prompt, no help, no indication of what you do next. I ended up just touching every point on the screen and still nothing happened. And when you’re playing the game there aren’t very many visual clues as to how to progress. I ended up again just touching different parts of the screen to see if anything would happen because there was no clue as to what I was supposed to do or how to do it. I’ve even played the card game in real life before but the app does a terrible job of telling you what phase you’re in, and how to trade cards or plant them or do literally anything. It’s visually messy, overwhelming to look at and confounding.

Do not purchase. Pure junk.

The reviews are a little more dramatic than the current state of the app, which is fun and well built. There are some annoying bugs yet though, specially one that prevents users from deleting old games.

I love this game. I own regular Bohnanza and was excited to learn of this version through the app. I don’t have problems with AI cheating as others have mentioned, but I do have to force close the app after each game to start another game because of a bug, and can’t finish old games anymore in the current version. I can deal with those two bugs because they don’t happen during gameplay, but would love to see more AI personalities added. :)

I was a little reluctant to purchase this game, due to some of the negative reviews. I am so glad I took a chance because I love this game! Very well-designed, and so much fun. No problems at all.

Lost several games because it didn't notify me it was my turn and the time ran out. Often have to exit and go back to running games page because it won’t show any games there. Otherwise works well enough. It feels like, for such a light game, play is slowed by all the turn phases for minor actions. This is not a developer issue as it is faithful to the card game but may be a consideration for some.

I haven’t had any of the problems with freezing or crashing discussed in the other comments. But I have had the AI cheat in some of my games: you’re not allowed to harvest a one-bean field if you have other larger fields, but the AI opponent still does it regularly. Also, more of a quibble with the game itself than the app: the Bohnus cards make the game very lucky and very unbalanced...games are pretty much won and lost solely on those cards, rather than the actual gameplay. Just a warning for fans of the original Bohnanza who are looking for a good adaptation: the rest of this game is a pretty solid Bohnanza experience, but the Bohnus cards totally change (and, in my opinion, ruin) the game.

I just purchased this game and it won’t fully load the welcome page. Unplayable. I was really looking forward to this game...