Burgle Bros Negative Reviews

Burgle Bros App Complaints & User Negative Comments 2024

Burgle Bros app received 17 complaints, negative comments and reviews by users. Have you ever had a bad experience using Burgle Bros? Can you share your negative thoughts about burgle bros?

Burgle Bros for Negative User Reviews

✓ Doesn’t support the iPhone XThe game has buttons and controls under the notch 🤦🏻‍♂️ needs an update.ChrisrowenetVersion: 1.01i

✓ Holy crap it's impossibleFriends and I love the board game. We play it quite often and win occasionally. I've played this over 40 times TODAY! And haven't come close to making it through. I talked to my friends and they have the same thought. It's impossible.Jagstang1939Version: 1.0

✓ CrashesI thought that requiring iOS 6 it would work on my ipad 2, it doesn't. I get a couple of steps into the tutorial and it crashes back to the desktop screen..Jasmines dadVersion: 1.0

✓ Agree... can't win.I agree with other reviewers saying you can't win in this game. My wife and I have together played 200 some games using different maps, tactics, characters, etc and have never won this game. It's fun, but don't get it thinking you'll ever win in it..Tfan15789954322Version: 1.01b

✓ Near great, but guards don’t follow rules.I’m a fan of the fantastic tabletop board game, and I think the app is a fantastic conversion, but it only took me a couple of plays to notice that the guards completely ignore at least a couple of the event cards that have rules affecting them. For instance, cards that are supposed to generate a new destination for a guard don’t (he just keeps going to his original destination and THEN picks a new destination), and the card that moves guards on other floors but isn’t supposed to have ANY effect on guards that haven’t been revealed reveals and moves them anyway(coulda had something to do with my having already peeked up the stairwell and revealed a tile on the second floor). These are unforgivable glitches as, if anybody should be following the rules, it should be the AI opponent. It’s too bad the developers didn’t make a way to draw whatever card they wanted so they could test if they all worked during play. Camel Up! was another game that was well-received by the board game community where the app had a problem following the rules that was never (to my knowledge) addressed, so the sales went nowhere. Take the lesson and not the page here. I will be DELETING this until it is fixed, at which point I will redownload, return and write a glowing review. Meantime, I have a cardboard version that does everything right..DeadbeardVersion: 1.01i

✓ Great design but text too small on iPhone 8I love the art design of the game and it’s a great concept. Probably on an iPad it’s perfect. But on my iPhone 8 the text was simply too small, and that got so frustrating I deleted it..WRS15743Version: 1.01i

✓ Several updates have improved it but...I own the board game and love it. I bought the app a few days after it came out, but was disappointed to learn it has several bugs that are beta-level and really should have been caught prior to official release. Some bugs have been patched by updates, some remain, and the latest version won't let you finish the final and biggest layout - about half or two thirds through it locks up, even though it's your turn and you still have actions left to use, and you can't go back and try the last action again....nothing. One bug i noticed is on sometimes the hack tokens don't work, and you have to take ten move back and trip the alarm. Also, the acrobat spends three or four actions to climb the outside wall, depending on if you take an action first or not. I.e., if you have four actions, you spend all climbing the wall and have zero left. BUT If you spend an action first and have three left, it takes three actions to climb the outside wall. Also, sometimes the tools flat out don't work, regardless of if I have the Egyptian mummy loot or not. Overall, it's a fun game in itself. I love it. But the bugs render it very frustrating considering they're the type of things that should have been caught much earlier. Relying on reviews and bug reports to give the product polish isn't a good idea. Hope the updates keep coming because I love the game itself..DnalkeredVersion: 1.01b

✓ Pretty but buggyIt’s a good looking adaptation BUT More often than I’d prefer things will just go wonky. Like having two raven icons on the board at the same time or hack tokens or working. I would also appreciate the ability to unlock characters across devices. I don’t like having an advanced character on my iPad and not my phone. I also think the map selection should be on the opening screen. I unthinkingly press start, and then I’m at the bank job again..BrarianVersion: 1.01g

✓ It works great on iPad not on iPhoneI love this app. But it stopped working on my phone. I rebooted my phone, I updated my phone, I deleted and redownloaded it and lost all my progress only for the same problem to happen again..Ktw102085Version: 1.01e

✓ Dull and UnwinnableI play a lot of digital board games, and this one looked interesting. Unfortunately, it's extremely confusing, the tutorial is borderline useless (think a chess tutorial where they show you how the pawn and bishop move, then you're on your own), and it is completely unwinnable. Already deleted it..JkeitzVersion: 1.0

✓ IPhone X compatiblyThe side of the screen is cut off with the X view.Crardin13Version: 1.01i

✓ Great game, incredibly buggyMy friend and I play this game every day. As a game, despite a few faults, it’s a lot of fun and literally the only reason I’m giving this three stars. But this implementation has so many bugs that you wonder how any testing was ever done. Where should I start? If you play a 1 character game and one of the safes has gold bars, you can’t finish the game because there’s no one else to pick up the bars. Hacking lasers sometimes puts you in an endless hacking loop that you have to quit. Sometimes the game just stops going. When you quit and continue it has to start on a random player’s turn. I can’t believe they had to put a failsafe in for a condition that should never happen rather than just fix the bugs. All kinds of other bugs like sometimes the gemstone says you can’t move into an occupied space (as it should) but then lets you anyway. Sometimes going from a laser to a fingerprint doesn’t always give cause an alarm after you hack the laser. If you lose the cat, pick it up but then undo the turn, sometimes you end up with two cats for the rest of the game. The guards on floor 4 of the Tower of Babel cause all kinds of problems with certain events or causing players to lose two stealth instead of one for seemingly no reason, increasing by two instead of one when the guard deck empties, etc. And why doesn’t the Tower of Babel fit on my iPad Pro 12.9 without scrolling? Are you kidding me? These are just the ones I can remember off the top of my head. We play almost every day which tells you how much I like the game. But man... the bugs are so frustrating..PbeasiVersion: 1.01k

✓ Frustratingly meh....The physical game, and idea of game, is great. Love it. That being said, this app is just terribly designed in my opinion. It reminds me of a bad 90’s website. Everything is just poorly loaded in these invisible windows/frames, and you need to slide everything around to see all the info. It just feels cheap and lazy. For example the cards in a players hand appear in a small invisible window frame laid out side by side. And to see all your cards you need to slide left and right. But in doing so the “window” also slides up/down pointlessly, and it shows a scroll bar. Why? It’s just a lazy coding and poor design. Same thing for the floor map. Some heists don’t fit in view, but you can’t zoom out enough for some odd reason, so you need to push around the floor map. Other areas of menu and game layout just feel very badly designed to reflect such a great game. Hope the app can be updated to the 21st century. I do agree with others that the game is incredibly difficult. More difficult than “chance’ on the dice rolls, and guard movement. It seems like 90% of the time the game is forcing me to lose, even on the easiest level. But there is customizations that allow you to change difficulty in various ways so I’m not completely dissatisfied..BenderbendsVersion: 1.01i

✓ 3.5 Stars (...for now)As somebody who owns and plays Tabletop games regularly, snagging the Burgle Bros app for $5 was an easy decision, and one I don't regret in any way. As somebody who doesn't have much experience with the physical edition, the app is missing a couple of things. 1) No rule book - sure, the tutorial works well. But in my first couple of plays, I had questions that a quick glance of the rules likely would've solved. 2) Guard Movement and Event Cards - When do guards go to a new pattern? Is there a stack of cards indicating how they move? Can you look at the discard pile to determine how they may move next? And how many Event Cards are there? What are the different events? -- Again, a rule book built into the app would've been helpful to answer these questions. 3) Progress during a game wasn't automatically saved. I left the app and came back, only to have all progress gone, and no save file. Maybe this was a fluke, but I was a little disappointed to lose progress in a game. These quibbles are minor, and the app is still worth the $5 asking price. But I am hopeful that future updates will continue to make the app better. Assuming they do, this will be one of my top 3 apps of 2017. And with all the excellent Tabletop Game ports being released on iOS this year, that's really saying something!.Music-meisterVersion: 1.0

✓ Excellent implementation but still needs polishWe love the physical game so buying the app was a no-brainer. OTOH, there are a number of issues which I suspect will be rectified in the inevitable v2.0. 1) The start screen has a large graphic glitch in the character montage image. 2) When rolling a single die for the first time on a tile, a second die (un-earned) will sometimes roll immediately after. 3) The bug report tab is hidden away and not easily discoverable. It also drops to the desktop when you hit send..Robrob2Version: 1.0

✓ Impossible or just very hard?Like others, I have yet to win this game. It appears to be far too hard to win. It's particularly annoying when the guard sees you two times on the same turn. If the game were better balanced it would be a nice game. The idea is good and the implementation is well done, but it's frustrating to lose every time..Gplayer769Version: 1.01b

✓ If only...While a good port of the board game, the app is still pretty buggy. Add to this the difficulty and luckiness of the game, and it makes for a frustrating experience. I've come very close to finally winning only to have the game lock up, or skip a players turn, or some other nonsense, and make it all come crashing down. So disappointing!! What the app does well is make a fiddly game easy to set up and play. It will always be hard to win, but I would probably give this 4 or 5 stars, if it would only work properly. Once they make improvements, I'll be ready to try it again..Laoshi75Version: 1.01b

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