MONOPOLY: The Board Game 4+

Highly recommended

My sons and I all bought this at the beginning of the pandemic when they couldn’t visit. Now we still play it regularly - I am extremely vulnerable to serious illness if I catch covid so this game means we can all play while in our own homes. I love that you can customise the rules to popular House Rules, such as double money for landing on GO and bills going into Free Parking, to be won if you land on it. And a choice to automatically auction properties when landed on. Players can personalise themselves with a nickname and cheap in-app purchases give you a wide choice of pieces and boards. 2 years of playing it has worked perfectly. If I had to have one small gripe it would be that there aren’t enough houses. If we all have sets with houses on, sometimes we get stuck because you can’t just pay for hotels without filling up with houses first, (like we would if we ran out of houses in the physical game, so you either have to sell houses from one set for the benefit of another set, or we just kind of go round in circles and can’t advance our game. That said, we do prefer this to the physical game - no piles of money to try to keep neat, plus it’s shorter - with 3 of us it’s usually 45 - 90 minutes per game. This really has been a pandemic lifesaver and I highly recommend it!

Developer Response ,

Hi Lellynelly and thank you for taking the time to write such a kind, personal review. We are delighted to hear that Monopoly helped you through these tough times and let you to stay in touch with your family! One of our main goals, when creating digital adaptations of popular board games, is to bring families and friends together to enjoy a gaming experience very similar to the physical version, so we love to hear these stories! Thank you for sharing :).

Regarding the number of houses available, I'm afraid we follow the official Monopoly rules which only allow for a total of 32. However, I will pass your feedback along to the team as a possibility would be to add a custom rule which would raise that number to a higher one.

Thank you for playing Monopoly!

Fantastic Game but needs some amending!!! dev’s listen up!!!

I love this game and enjoy it a lot as it reminds me of the old days when the family will get together and play the board version of it. HOWEVER, there is some room for improvement which will help weed out the sore losers who ruin the game for others. I have been in multiple online games where some players (sore losers) are not able to handle losing so they decide to just close the app or not roll the dice. There should be some sort of timer implemented or something so that if the player is inactive for X amount of seconds/minutes the dice is rolled on behalf of them and after 3 rounds of inactivity they are removed from the game - not sure how it would work if they land on a property and have to mortgage because they do not have the funds (maybe this can be done automatically for them?) or they miss a X amount of turns and if anyone lands on their property they do not have to pay rent (this will stop players from deliberately being inactive to miss turns). I hope the developers read this and take it into account on the next update as this is a really fantastic app.

P.S - For all you sore losers who cannot comprehend losing do not play this game as you are ruining the fun and I hope your Christmas is ruined because of this.

Thanks thats my rant over. Feel free to reach out me if you want further information or need me to test anything :)

Love the game but suggestions

Had the game a while now and love the gameplay each game is different had games last 20/30 minute and others lasting an hour or two. Love the fact you can play monopoly fast without having to worry about handling money and on the go. I do feel similar to others who’ve mentioned biased game play with some games tending to lean towards certain players where Iv had games with players landing on every property with multiple doubles mean while I’m hitting every non property and low numbers for multiple rounds the board. Still love the game. Suggestions would be introducing the ability to use custom game modes online with random people whether it be join random online custom games. Or have the ability to select a few must have features in a game lobby to join the basic house rules are fine but it would be nice to have house rules without having to end the game early online and not having to play against AI if You want them. Another suggestion is I like the idea of a season pass and being able to buy new pieces and themes it could be good to also include the different game modes of monopoly in the physical world such as sore losers, cheaters edition and longest game ever. Even if you had to buy them, Something to spice up different game

Developer Response ,

Hello Buxey and thank you for your constructive feedback! These are all very good suggestions - I have shared them with our design team for discussion and possible implementation in a future update. Please don't hesitate to get in touch with us at help@marmalademail.com if you have any more suggestions or other concerns to share. Thank you!