Lux DLX 3

I’ve played risk-style games for years and understand there is a certain element of luck when playing any of these types of games. However, the probability factor of this game is WAY off. I’ve consistently had many times the armies of an opposing AI player and still lost, curiously at a higher rate of loss every single time I am about to “eliminate” another player. Which is interesting knowing that a basic probability generator (aka roll of a dice) is fairly basic to code. Whatever the developers have done here is overly complicated and downright unfair. I’m surprised they’ve spent so much of their time rigging the game.

This is my third time reviewing. My previous reviews have been deleted - very unethical. I used to love this game but the AI makes it unplayable. My last game I had 140 plus armies against none and almost all of the map. The last opponent had 2 cards and 5 territories with no armies. On the next turn the computer opponent wiped out all of my armies and had taken all of the territories except 3. This kind of unbalanced play is ridiculous. Rolls almost always go in the computers favor. Computer opponents get random army draws. It is nearly impossible to win unless the board is severely staked in your favor to start. Thanks for ruining what was a good game.

I’ve played Lux on and off for like a decade, mostly on desktop. The iPhone version is one of my favorite mobile games and easily worth the asking price.

What happened? I’ve been playing this game for years and I love it, but it just stopped working. I deleted it and downloaded it again but now I can’t download any maps. I just get a server error. Is it no longer supported?

Game crashes without a network connection. What data does it steal?

In the real game of risk the defense has the advantage because all ties on the roll go to the defense. If they would fix this problem I would give it 5 stars. Until ten 1 star.

This games was awesome. I quit playing for awhile but now you have to have an overwhelming numbers advantage to consistently win. Routinely a country with 1 or 2 armies defends against an attack with 8-12 armies. Happens more than half time.

The game is great if you are learning risk. But once you are semi competent you’d obviously want to increase difficulty. All of the AI is essentially the same and can be easily beaten until you reach reaper difficulty. This is where the game becomes tiresome and ridiculous. when you are in a position of strength and could easily win, the AI will then intentionally suicide itself and when questioned the creators of the game say that’s what it’s designed to do. So you want to start planning for that, and working on a strategy to play an AI that just has no strategy to win well then the game will begin to have cheating dice where the AI could have a ten troop advantage and come out 20 troops on top after attacking.

Waaaay better than solitaire and the added maps are awesome. The game certainly shows why “you should never attempt a land war in Asia”

Buyer beware. They must be knowingly or unknowingly installing Lux DLX with a virus. Whenever I fire up this app, I causes my iPad Pro to slow down and the screen becomes insensitive to touch. It only happens with the Lux DLX app but impacts all of my iPad apps after I play Lux DLX for a few minutes.