Lanterns: The Harvest Festival

Great version of the original. I just wish you could toggle off the animations. also would be great to have one level more difficult AI, but all in all it’s great

I have really enjoyed this game and rated five stars, but I’ve only played it solo against the app. But I like it so much that I’m going to try to get the physical copy again even though I’ve traded away once before.

A great translation. The audio, the visuals, the intuitive interface….I wish all tabletop games were done this well in digital.

This is a good example of how an app can breathe new life into a great card game. The bookkeeping is all done for you, all the color and beauty remains. The two player game is the most strategic. It is really just an abstract card game, simple rules and a bit of a take that attitude.

When you’ve set yourself up perfectly to make the game winning dedication on the last turn and the current version of the game is broken so you never get that last turn, it takes all the joy out. Fix the last turn already! Clearly it has been broken for 6+ months. It isn’t too much to ask to expect that the digital version follows the rules of the game.

Update: still unplayable on iPhone 12 pro max and iPhone 12 pro after update. On both iPhone 12 pro max and iPhone 12 pro, the screen is all blown up and you can’t scroll around. Support responded once a month ago and then radio silence. Plays well on iPad. But, final round is broken as many others have reported. Very disappointing for a $5 app.

I do like this app a lot as for the 4- Stars but the latest update has really hampered multiplayer game play over time. While we do play often in a normal 1-HR game it works fine but sometimes, we just want to play a free flow game when we have time. We’ve noticed with the update it just scrubs the game. We log in with the game gone... just frustrating when you had played the way for so long. A timer visible would at least give us some visual. Hope the multiplayer is fixed in the next update.

Great game though the last round is glitched. After placing your last tile, you can’t do your final round.

This is a great game, and the app has been enjoyable for years; however the most recent update has problems that have not been addressed by the developer. The game doesn’t follow its rules with the last update. There is no final turn-in round, and players can use the Emperor’s lanterns twice in the same turn.

The new 2.0 version has more bugs than the previous version. Users were forced to update to play online games. Exiting games were lost. There are serious game play issues as well, for example not being able to play the last dedication round. Minor bugs with things like the “back” button’s localization string being “button.back”. I’m not going to play again until at least the next update.