Eclipse - Boardgame

Don’t buy. I finished my first turn and the game freezes with the next AI player “contemplating their turn”.

AI bots become stuck thinking, stalling the game. The developer’s website is down/gone. So sad that there isn’t any support for this game anymore.

This app is built with the original rules of the game, which had some balance issues. Notably, the missiles don’t require power, so loading them up on a dreadnaught with some computers is unstoppable. It also doesn’t implement some notable improvements from the game’s expansions, such as variable turn order. For some reason, the game also considers moving through an allied species’ unoccupied territory as an aggressive action and gives you the traitor penalty. Hopefully, the publisher will upgrade the app and enable content from the expansions some day. The actual board game is excellent in its current iteration.

I used to enjoy this game on iOS, but it had been a couple of years since I’d last tried to play it. Now it just freezes, as other reviewers have said. And what a disappointment it was to find this out. I guess it’s time for the delete button on this one, but I will miss it.

Game is defective. It does not function. Do not buy! Seller is defrauding the public and should be banned from the App market. Apparently the seller is knowingly selling a defective app that will not function. (See the many complaints.) Seller will not correct app so it can be played.

I have had this game for a few years and I decided to fire it back up after a year or so has gone by. Since it was so long I started the tutorial. When it came for the first ai player to go it got stuck on thinking and never proceeded. I could touch other ui elements and they worked but it was stuck thinking. I touched the menu button and the music changed but it was still on the tutorial screen thinking. Restarted the app and tried to resume but now the interface shows all resources at 32 and it is locked up. So sad, I do not want to try getting into a game because I don’t want it to lock up and this is not a quick 10 minute game. I hope the developers read this. I hope they fix it but to see the rating go down to a 2.6 at the time of this writing it does not appear they are taking it serious enough. There seems to be a lot of complaints. Seems like all they did was update this to note that is the first edition version. Since the 2nd edition is out perhaps they don’t care anymore. But then the update before that was 4 years ago. Abandoned? I guess buyer beware.

I saw that this app had an update 2 months ago and a positive review a month ago, so I gave it a try. The tutorial glitched out so hard that I couldn't use the save file, but I know how to play the game, so I figured I could muddle through the interface. My first game vs a few AI had me unable to select planets to colonize after my Advanced Economy research, the map scroll and zoom were frustrating at best, and the turn order never changed based on pass order. Basically unplayable. Hopefully Apple approves my refund.

I have the board game and the expansion. The design undergirding eclipse is one of the best in gaming. I have not had any issues playing the app.

okay, i bought this about a year ago, and the game played great. the ai was challenging but fair. all the combats played out properly. cut to 2017, there has been a couple of updates that ocurred in late 2016 since i last played. first problem, massive lag. i open the app and there is a several seconds of delay before the menu options appear. then, while playing, there's a 1-2 second delay after EVERY action. before the update, this was never an issue. during combat, there's a delay between every shot. the game no longer shows the dice rolls. you can't tell what's going on. then, the ai get broken sometimes. sometimes it gets stuck in a decision loop and just freezes. in one game, i moved my ships and then tried to undo the action and then the game glitched out, put my ships back where they were but then also left duplicates in the new sectors but then i was unable to end my turn. i could slide the button but the game would not allow me to end it. in another game, i saved the game to return to it later and when i reloaded the game, it glitched out and gave me maxed out numbers on every resource but i was unable to execute any commands and had to start over. this update broke the game completely FUBAR. the game is literally (not figuratively) UNPLAYABLE in this state. and it makes no sense, because the game was perfectly fine before. if not for this, i would have given it 5 stars, but in it's current state, i must rate it at the minimum and recommend that you do not buy it because it is broken.

The boardgame is my favorite boardgame. I used to love this app and really want to love it now. But... there are tons of game breaking bugs that flat out prevent you from playing it. I wish the dev would address them. I understand there is no money to be made in supporting a game down the line, but, they could release expansions as DLC. Unfortunately this is neglectware 😢. If the dev comes back and fixes it, I would gladly revise my rating. I currently can not launch a single player game at all. I get to the race selection screen but it will not allow me to select my race. I tried removing and reinstalling the app to no avail.