Bohnanza The Duel +9

Lost several games because it didn't notify me it was my turn and the time ran out. Often have to exit and go back to running games page because it won’t show any games there. Otherwise works well enough. It feels like, for such a light game, play is slowed by all the turn phases for minor actions. This is not a developer issue as it is faithful to the card game but may be a consideration for some.

I haven’t had any of the problems with freezing or crashing discussed in the other comments. But I have had the AI cheat in some of my games: you’re not allowed to harvest a one-bean field if you have other larger fields, but the AI opponent still does it regularly. Also, more of a quibble with the game itself than the app: the Bohnus cards make the game very lucky and very unbalanced...games are pretty much won and lost solely on those cards, rather than the actual gameplay. Just a warning for fans of the original Bohnanza who are looking for a good adaptation: the rest of this game is a pretty solid Bohnanza experience, but the Bohnus cards totally change (and, in my opinion, ruin) the game.

In the tutorial after a certain point it always just stops and there’s no prompt, no help, no indication of what you do next. I ended up just touching every point on the screen and still nothing happened. And when you’re playing the game there aren’t very many visual clues as to how to progress. I ended up again just touching different parts of the screen to see if anything would happen because there was no clue as to what I was supposed to do or how to do it. I’ve even played the card game in real life before but the app does a terrible job of telling you what phase you’re in, and how to trade cards or plant them or do literally anything. It’s visually messy, overwhelming to look at and confounding.