Cartographers 4+

I was sad to find that this digital implementation doesn’t have pass and play or online games. Additionally a way to use the app as a simple board would be greatly appreciated. My review will jump to 5 stars if they add these features! Even if they simply make multiplayer based on a random seed (like the iOS version of On Tour!) I think the app would be greatly improved.

When I play with the physical game and the cards are truly random, I very rarely get more than one monster in a row or two per game. Occasionally, but not almost every time. It ruins the game. Sometimes 3 in a row, usually the last round. Sometimes early on… You either spend the majority of the game working around the monsters or they all come in the last round where you don’t have time to do anything. Complained about this a year ago. Forgot I had the game, started playing again and was reminded how bad it was. I see that others have complained about it too.
It would be great if it weren’t for the monsters being so ridiculously over done… the other thing that happens a lot is getting ruins spaces right after the monsters where you can’t fill in the spaces properly: Randomly and Occasionally would be fine but this is almost every game.
Also, a true option for multiplayer would be appreciated. I wonder if the developers even pay attention to our pleas given that the same concerns are echoed over and over.

I love the board game and have all the map packs and mini-expansions. So I knew I had to get the app version. The app is very faithful to the game and I have spent hours and hours playing it. The only tiny thing I miss is that the flavor text included in the rules manual for each scoring card is absent in the app. I love reading about the world and miss those little details being in the game, but I also understand it is probably a pain to figure out a way to include something that isn’t needed.

I hope the rest of the map packs and skills come to the app in the future! I’ll buy them all!