Catan Universe 4+

I do really enjoy playing this: it is my go to relaxation app, but as I play it on the phone , I find it quite frustrating that the contrast between player colours and scores are so poor. It makes it really hard to keep
Track of everyone’s progress if you have to keep ducking out of the game to check on scores in the details! Also, purple and brown, and pink and red are scarcely able to be distinguished- so I’ve taken to aborting a game where those colours come up together - I just can’t tell the difference between them unless I really zoom in! Just altering the intensity/ shade of the colours so they are less similar, and adding a contrast colour for the scores ( white would probably work best on most colours, rather than black or a deeper self colour as seems to be the case at present! ) would be a simple fix to improve the game! Thanks in advance!

The game is flawed! I thought the dice role was biased towards the AI and I was suspicious how the AI rapidly expanded. In particular in games where I was 1 point away from winning, the AI was 5/7 points away - in 4/5 turns I had lost! The AI steals regularly from the player even though the player is 5 points behind everyone else. The statistics of the dice throw regularly show the AI collecting on numbers where it has no settlements- hence the rapid builds I guess. I played a game where I had developed on all but 3 numbers (7 being one) yet I didn’t collect a resource for 7 throws. I documented the dice throws and found that the AI could never have built what was on the board having needed 26 resources but only collecting 20. Yes I get trade but also there is the Robber it was impossible. The AI never moves the boat robber unless the player has moved it. The AI doesn’t target the leader and trades are clearly unrealistic if they happen with the player at all (for a trading game its bizarre). I have screen shots of games where 2,11,5,4 make up over 50% of the dice throw followed by a 7 taking the lion share of what is left. Stopped earning xp. Doesn’t record achievements e.g. win 5 games of seafarers, achieve level 5. This game is massively floored and a huge disappointment. I am returning to the original.

First of all this game is amazing and is a great representation of playing the physical board game. The major downside, is that recently maybe within the last month or two, the game is almost unplayable!!!! Now whether playing multiplayer or single player, often the game will hang and force you to close the app and re open it, but only to find that when the game reopens, it has a message at the top of the screen stating ‘find running game’ and no matter what happens you cannot get back into a game and are forced to delete the app, re download and start again. The process is unbelievably frustrating and having spent all the money for the expansions… you don’t want to have to deal with this on an app that’s cost you nearly ten pound.
Worst of all having had to delete the game I’ve lost all my purchases for the expansions… so even though I’ve paid and should have it all, I now have nothing with no way to restore purchases because of the coin purchases format for the expansions. Utterly disappointed.