A great 4x board game, but this digital implementation is a little barebones. If you're familiar with the board game you'll probably have less of an issue with it, but it's just not new player friendly. The tutorial is okay, but the game has no tooltips once you leave the tutorial. Not having tooltips is bad enough, but then when you're not sure about an action and need some help, you have to actually leave your current game to get to the help menu. I hadn't played in quite a while so I downloaded the rulebook in pdf and alt-tabbed to it for reference. I don't understand why a simple f1 press couldn't have been implemented to have the rules pop-up in game.

Multiplayer lacks turn timers and notifications which is something that definitly needs fixing; devs should take a look at Ticket to Ride to see how Multiplayer is done.

I give it a recommendation based on the solid mechanics of the board game and am kind of hoping the game gets some much needed updates added in the near future. If it doesn't, I'll probably come back and switch the review to negative at a later date.

Sadly, its got the iOS port blues. I curse you! Apple.

A great 4x board game, but this digital implementation is a little barebones. If you're familiar with the board game you'll probably have less of an issue with it, but it's just not new player friendly. The tutorial is okay, but the game has no tooltips once you leave the tutorial. Not having tooltips is bad enough, but then when you're not sure about an action and need some help, you have to actually leave your current game to get to the help menu. I hadn't played in quite a while so I downloaded the rulebook in pdf and alt-tabbed to it for reference. I don't understand why a simple f1 press couldn't have been implemented to have the rules pop-up in game. Multiplayer lacks turn timers and notifications which is something that definitly needs fixing; devs should take a look at Ticket to Ride to see how Multiplayer is done. I give it a recommendation based on the solid mechanics of the board game and am kind of hoping the game gets some much needed updates added in the near future. If it doesn't, I'll probably come back and switch the review to negative at a later date. Sadly, its got the iOS port blues. I curse you! Apple.