Want more

Ok so for starters easy isn’t as easy as you’d expect. I like that because you still need to think unlike most apps. Now the down side you’ve buy the base game but the computer still uses cards you don’t have accesses to. Took me by surprise but it wasn’t long till I paid the extra buck or two for the extra cards. Though I own this game and like to play with certain cards so when I went to look to that expansion I found you only have base and one expansion that it. They have a bunch of different. Expansion out there and only two on the app. I want more. It smash up has been playing catch up for to long and when they finally got an app they didn’t put all that were out at the time on the app doesn’t take long doesn’t cost much. So stop being cheap and update your app

FINALLY!!...but...

So excited for this to come to mobile, but it’s missing a key feature! Choosing who you play in multiplayer NEEDS to be there! We need to be able to create a private lobby for online play and invite our friends. Whether it be through unique codes specific to each lobby or being able to add friends on the game in order to invite them. Unfortunately, I’ll have to prevent my friends from downloading this game until that feature exists since it’s the one thing we were all the most excited about. Despite all that, the game plays well. Please make “private lobbies” available, I believe in all you AEG guys!

Professionally designed - AI cheats

Love Smash Up. It’s one of my favorite tabletop games. The app has nice presentation and works fine (for the most part). Not worth playing on higher difficulties because the AI very clearly cheats. I played a game against Princess’s where I destroyed Sleeping Beauty forcing her to be shuffled into the deck only for the AI to play her the very next turn. Card draws happen at the end of the turn, the AI player didn’t play anything to draw cards, simply mysteriously had a ‘one of’ card in hand that should have been in the deck. Played an entire game with Geeks/Mythic Horses where all my actions were top decked and then I played through minions, reshuffled the deck only to have all my actions top decked again. Having that happen once could be attributed to chance, twice in one game is infinitesimal. AI used Geeks to move one of my actions (Hissy Fit) from one base to another base then the game treated that card as though it belonged to the AI player, which isn’t how the Geeks card works. I thought maybe it was just programmed incorrectly but then I made the same play during a game and the card worked as intended. Then I started noticing how often card interactions working incorrectly almost always benefit the AI player. Programmers should legit be ashamed of themselves.

Promising but Riddled w Bugs

This app has the potential to better than the (analog) card game, because of the digital tallying of base points. However, the app freezes often — I’d estimate 20% of all my games played involve a freeze, sometimes recoverable with a quick restart, sometimes not. It reminds me of some of the Magic the Gathering apps, which were/are tremendously buggy. In the cases of both Smash Up and Magic, it’s odd that such established franchises would release half-baked products. 3-Star apps that could easily become 5-star, if developers got their acts together and fixed performance issues. Also, this game has just 8 factions, which is a small portion of those available, so I hope that in the future — after they fix their performance issues — they will introduce expansions.

Solid, but a couple suggestions

Love the game. A fantastic card game, carries over well to mobile. There are a lot of complexities to this game & devs did a good job making the UI pretty decent for all of the options you have. Although sometimes the game pauses expecting me to do something, but it’s not clear (unless I know the cards really well) what action I should be taking. Suggestions: 1. Add the other expansion packs. Would happily pay another .99 for more factions 2. My stats are all jacked up, please fix the stats section. 3. More of an indicator when a special is available or forced move is required what you actually need to be doing. 4. Fix some glitchy interactions. 2nd game I played I had to abandon. CPU was using Steampunks and had 2 bases with a talent to move a minion. The AI got stuck in a loop just moving one of his minions back & forth over & over & over. Had to quit & start a new game. Otherwise well done putting a complicated card game to mobile.

Good foundation, but could easily be better

This game captures alot of the key aspects of smash up. The game is very easy to learn. I've oy encountered a couple if bugs so far, but its been fine so far. Decks like 'killer plants' where you have to do alot f deck searching and reshuffling run so smooth in this app. It saves alot of time that would normally be lost in the normal rl game. My only real concern is the audio. I'm just going to be honest, its terrible. Half the sound effects sound like a radio bugging out. The music is very simple and gets really old really quick. Plus only 2 expansions are out rn. Making the game really dull compared to the rl one. Overall I think this a goodbase, but needs much improvement.

Smashing Good Time

I enjoy the game quite a bit. With being able to play a bunch it helps work on strategies for real life, and finding good factions that fit together. I hope we get more expansions soon. With the limited amount, it can get old only having relatively few to choose from. I want to be able to try more combos, too. Also, the game does still glitch on occasion so you need to quit the game and start a new one in order for it to work again. That can be frustrating, especially when you just pulled off an epic move.

A Limited Implementation With Bugs

Currently the online play (March 6&7) is unavailable because of server issues. Besides that, it’s a limited implementation of a good game. When it works, it’s a lot of fun, but the developer didn’t do a good job implementing features which would help with the errors. The game freezes about once every ten games and won’t let you back in. It will boot you and let a bot finish the game. There should be a re-join feature. The game should also have a pause button that allows you to re-start the same game with a friend. The game needs all the factions, or at least some new packs. Finally the UI could use work. The cards are too small on a phone, and sometimes viewing a card causes an accidental choice. In addition, whenever another player plays an action, the opponent cannot easily read it. I would suggest showing the whole card over the playfield for a few seconds or showing the entirety of the card text in the space between the bases.

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