Sagrada 4+

Enjoy playing this as a solo option when I can’t play the table top board game Sagrada with friends.

I’m a huge fan of Sagrada the board game so was hyped to see a digital version had been released. The game itself doesn’t disappoint with beautiful graphics, easy to understand tool explanations, excellent sound effects and handy reminders of the goals. However the online functionality has a way to go in my eyes. Connecting / loading takes an age and is a little buggy. The only way to play a satisfactory game is all in one go. If you pop in and out of the app to text the friend you are playing (there’s no in game chat) then it takes forever to load back in. The only other minor gripe is it’s almost impossible to swap between player boards between turns, like it’s almost designed not to be an option but is if you drag hard enough. All in all a great effort but a little way off a perfect 5.

Faithful implementation of the physical game that looks great. Can seem a little sluggish at times, not sure why. After a number of plays you realise that the games sort of comes down to how lucky you are, especially for the last couple of rolls, but that’s down to game design.

Would be cool if the daily challenge mode could allow you to see the finished boards of other players. Some of the scores posted are really high and it would be nice to see how they were achieved. Or even to option to replay the games - were they mostly lucky dice rolls or was there some strategy used?