Takenoko: the Board Game 4+

There’s a lot to like about the ‘potential’ of this app implementation of the board game, but the multiplayer experience is frustrating. From 3 plays we’ve managed to complete 1 game. For the rest, the game seems to lose track of which player is playing so the game doesn’t move on for all players, so some players are stuck waiting for another player to finish their turn when they’ve already finished and are waiting for the next player to play. We haven’t found a consistent way to recover (Exit and rejoin sometimes works), so we have to abandon the game. This one bug destroys the multiplayer game. What’s the point in playing when it’s a lottery whether you’ll make it to the end. A shame. But ultimately I can’t recommend in its current state.

We love this game and the app design is really good, but we haven’t had a good experience with it. We encouraged our whole family to purchase this app so that we could play together from different houses. The online games we set up keep crashing, the app keeps crashing and closing on our devices, we’ve found it difficult to control the game elements and - while the tutorial is a good introduction to a complex game - the gameplay desperately needs some little dialogue boxes saying things like “are you sure” or “if you do this you won’t be able to...” etc.
Please fix! We want to love this game so much...

A good example of someone getting hold of the digital adaptation of a great game, messing it up and then abandoning it. This game looks fantastic and plays very well (when it works) but it’s got issues that stop you completing a game. It doesn’t seem to be getting any more updates so we’re stuck with a game that’s badly in need of some work. Asmodee / Twin Sails appears to have a habit of doing this.