Carcassonne – Tiles & Tactics 4+

Carcassonne functions, but it missing some features that hold it back from being truly great.

1) There really isn’t a simple way to play with your friends. Currently without a turn based option/notification system you’d all have to be available at the same to play a game together.
Which isn’t ideal since people are busy.

2) The interface isn’t as intuitive as it should be. I had to stumble around all sorts of menus to try and find out how to change my color.

3) When waiting for your turn, you can’t plan ahead, since the interface is showing the AI’s tile. I suppose that’s the way the rules are written, but it’s a shame that you sometimes think it’s your turn and you have a great tile, only for you to realize that it was just showing you the computers instead.

Finishing with some positives:
The game plays smoothly and the placement options for where to put a tile are made to be obvious which I appreciate.

I like the graphics and the animations.

Options for playing with and without farmers is appreciated as are the toggle switches for being able to glance and see how the fields are currently owned/shaped.

Carcassonne is a great game with nice new look that is lacking some features that keep it from giving you more value for your purchase.

Finally downloaded this new version now that some of the “issues” earlier reviews had have been fixed (zoom and 2d mode). Overall my family feels this plays well and we have not gone back to the old version, except for the main reason we are giving it 4 stars and not 5.... My wife LOVED the solitaire mode of the old app which is missing in this new version.
The only other issue is when we play as a family, the player color does not seem to stick. For example, I am always green, my wife is always yellow, and my son is always blue. If I start the game I am green but the two of them end up being some random color. If my wife starts the game she is always yellow but then my son and I end up being a random color. Not a huge deal but after playing the physical version that way for almost a decade it’s a little hard to remember that you were a different color.
Other than that, we are really enjoying the game and think the app is worth the time and money.

I LOVED the old Coding Monkeys version of the Carcassonne app. It looked and played just like the real game, and its online play was flawless. This version from Asmodee pales in comparison. It’s terribly glitchy, and on the rare occasion they release an update to “fix” the bugs, it actually ends up making things worse. The app used to have to reconnect to the servers and reload the map every time you closed the app. Then Asmodee released an update to supposedly help keep the app connected to the servers even when it’s running in the background. Great, right? But it actually made the game LESS stable. Now I constantly have to re sign-in to my Asmodee account because I get an error saying the game failed to connect to the servers. This rarely happened prior to the update. I contacted Asmodee support several weeks ago to let them know about this issue and never heard back. I’m on the verge of deleting the app from my phone and never touching it again. I will never trust another Asmodee app again. Shame on them for ruining what used to be an amazing Carcassonne experience on iOS by forcing us to switch to this faulty app.