The Castles of Burgundy

The newest update has two map packs as DLC. But even if you disable them on the options screen, the game will still randomly assign you a DLC map and you’ll need to abandon the game. It’s pretty frustrating and now impossible to play the game unless you purchase unwanted DLC.

I regret buying this game. The tutorial froze multiple times at the exact same spot, so I couldn’t finish it. So I read the rules and watched videos. The game is complicated, but I figured it out enough to play a few times against AI. There were times I should have been able to place a certain tile, but it wouldn’t let me, even though I knew I should be able to. But because there is zero feedback or pop-ups telling you why you can or can’t do something, you’re stuck with a bad tile you can’t place, with no reason why. I really wanted to like this game, and the actual physical game is surely fine. But at $8.99 I expected a better user experience. I can’t recommend it, especially to a new player.

Love the game, but almost every time I play, I have to restore my purchases for the new map packs. That gets a little irritating after a while. It’s especially irritating if you’re not currently near wi-fi.

Love this game implementation! However, it seems a little suspicious though, when it rolls the same unwanted numbers over 4 or 5 times in a row, all that perfectly scout out the hexagon numbers around me that I don’t need. I get that same Spotify randomization feeling when it plays the same 10 songs over and over out of a 2000 song playlist. Yeah, maybe you should work on a true randomized dice throw. Playing hard opponents doesn’t mean you give them the rolls they need and the main player what they don’t need. It needs to be truly random.

I got this app, even though it doesn’t have great reviews, because I love this game. First time I opened the app it was buggy. Had to turn my iPad off just to get the apps music to stop playing. Very sad. It’s 2023 guys! You can do much better than this. Especially for the price! Smh.

This is, overall, a good adaptation of the Board game. Generally speaking, the AI is a solid opponent. But there are some improvements would be greatly help the game: 1. The board game has been updated with expansions / extra tiles. Seeing those extra tiles added to the app (even as an IAP) would be great. 2. I’ve experienced an odd bug when playing a castle tile. It has to do with playing a tile, wanting to buy a tile for 2 silver and then taking the 2nd action. For some reason, you have to buy the other tile before placing the castle and taking the second action. (Perhaps this is following the rule book, but perhaps it’s a bug?) 3. The expansions also have a lot of different player boards. Only having the original 8 gets old. Adding new boards would be a HUGE improvement to the app. 4. Similar to #3, having more choice over which board to play. Going random is…random. Being able to choose from a couple of different boards would be a nice touch. Overall, it’s one of my most played board game apps. If you’re on the fence, you should get it. But it hasn’t been updated in quite a while and it could use some TLC to update it with the current releases of the tabletop game (expansions, player boards, etc.)

If you go back to main menu in the middle of a game played with an AI, the AI will freeze when you resume the game, you will have to start a new game

When it runs, this is a good implementation of the game. However, it crashes way too often, and when I open the app again the game is completely gone!

This is a great game, I don’t want to diminish that. However in a two human player (2 human + 1 AI) game the animations waste 15 minutes of total time for a single game! That’s being generous as I am undercounting and rounding to the nearest 5 minutes. That’s with the game speed set to the highest and also on an iPhone 13 pro and iPhone 14 pro max (not old or slow devices). From the first player to the last player is more than 10 seconds waiting for the animations and watching the replay. From the last player back to the first player is well over 30 seconds of animations of switching maps, showing die rolls, and watching replays. Sadly, 40 seconds of watching animations multiplied by the 25 turns there are in the game really add up! Amazing game but with human players it just takes too long. We haven’t encountered any defects or any glitches that caused us to lose any games either. The problem is it’s not much faster than playing the physical board game. All we are asking for is a way to disable animations and replays. If I really need to know what the other players did I can just look at their board.

If you already know the game, the learning curve to the app will be pretty easy. The scoring is a little different than the board game - yellow tiles are scored throughout the whole game, for example.