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Terraforming Mars App Complaints & User Negative Comments 2024
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✓ Lost access to prelude and other planets with new upgradeJust upgraded as would not let me play if i didn’t. Now wants me to repurchase Prelude and Hellas & Elysium - very frustrating..Version: 2.1.0.130060
✓ Lack of internet gaming and social systemAccording to the poor internet connection which often ruined my online playing experience, I will never give the game 5 stars until it fixed. My karma level dropped to 2 only because of online connections. So many times I ran out of time just because I have to always restart the game to refresh the status or just to get into the game room itself. There are still so many bugs and things to improve, in the light of internet. And, why the hell in the world, when I entered a room and ready to play, I got lagged, when I came in again without time runs out, suddenly some sort of AI was playing for me?? Excuse me, why? I never had any these sorts of problem when I playing other games such as Through The Ages. By the way, sliding to check my cards in hand is difficult too. It’s way too easy for me to get back to main territory by mistouch. If the sliding can be more freely, fluently, will be soooo good to operate. And most important thing. I can never add a friend, I don’t know why. I can’t search out the ID of the players I’ve met, it only shows NONE. I also can’t find him inside a lobby over 500+ people. Why can’t we just enter the profile of people who are playing or talking together so I can easily tap heart? Or can I know who I just met in last finish game? Just like HearthStone. I just want to add friends. And the system leaves my almost impossible to do that. I don’t know if it’s a bug, but my experience was surely bad. I’m longing for the improvement of the friend system..Version: 1.2068
✓ Too SmallProbably a great game. Way to small on my iPhone though, I was struggling to see the cards, made this unplayable to me. I checked the settings didn’t see a zoom option..Version: 1.3.6.11635
✓ Downgrading the rating to 2It suffers from issues that renders it nearly unplayable. It crashes every game towards the last generations when passing. Problem is, reloading the game takes a time that’s exponentially longer, the longer the game started, to the point where I had to abandon a game after attempting to load after 15mn. This is not the only issue however, I regularly get disconnected from the online services in the game, meaning I have to re enter my credentials each time. ... and many other more or less game breaking bugs. Quite a disappointment as the experience is generally nice if it wasn’t so bug ridden. (Edit: nearly a year on after my review, the game is still effectively unplayable. The longer the game lasts, the more frequent the crashes, to the point where my last game had a crash every action towards the end of the game, when tapping on ui elements or when the ai is doing its stuff. At least now game reload takes “only” a few minutes as opposed to dozens before. ).Version: 1.1975
✓ Glitches galore!Love the game, but hate all the glitches. When playing on line the glitches where game is stuck means running out of lots of time. Needs to have a time limit for deciding on cards to draft - say 1 or 2 minutes tops so the game doesn’t sit in limbo. Soooo very frustrating. Have to go out and then resume over and over again, while time runs out. After spending an hour of my life playing and then getting stuck in a glitch and then time runs out so unable to see the ending score - much less unable to finish playing - SOOOO FRUSTRATING! Why this hasn’t been fixed already is beyond understanding. Only real way to finish a game is to play the computer. Please, PLEASE fix these issues!!.Version: 2.0.3.12730
✓ Infuriating online gameplayIt just burns when you play a game online with people for 2+ hours and then the server boots you off in the final moments as you’re about to win. I get kicked out or disconnected and have a bot play for me far too frequently than is acceptable. There needs to be considerable improvement for online interactive play, which for me, is the most fun use of the game..Version: 1.1718
✓ Terrible multiplayerFriends have to be online at the same time to be friended. There are no turn notifications. Accounts frequently break locking players out. Games disappear when finished, leaving no way to tell the winner of view your playing history. I will change my rating and review if and when multiplayer is fixed, until then I recommend against buying.Version: 1.1368
✓ Great game- terrible developersThe game itself is great - once you get into it, its a good implementation of the board game - but the developers are rubbish at everything else. Every time they push an update it kills ongoing games. Opening the app from notifications causes the app to freeze and you need to reopen and often log back in. Outside of this, It can’t seem to remember login details so you need to re-enter details every day or so..Version: 2.2.0.130114
✓ Freezes at the endI am not sure I have ever had a more frustrating issue with a game. We have now played through two local games and both times this freezes before the scores can be totted up so you don’t know who wins. We tried quitting out and reloading but it just hangs on the “planet in sight” page. I will be going back to the original board game, and would strongly advise against buying this - it has literally wasted hours of time!.Version: 2.0.3.12730
✓ Great game with lots of “microbes” …Fantastic adaptation of the board game. However, I have to restart it at least once a game because of bugs. I suggest that the developers remove some microbes from their cards … Bug list: (playing with forced animation on) Production phase display Overlapping interface (your hand, show cards played, game state, e.g.) popups that then cannot be closed without a full restart of the game — they persist even if you exit to the main menu. Disappearing cards-in-hand if the previous AI player drew a card. If the game is de-microbed, I’d give it 5 stars..Version: 2.0.1.12595
✓ Good game just poor designTried to play with 4 other people and when it come to me being on the bottom of the list I couldn’t pass my turn as the corporation was sitting over the pass turn, ended up having to forfeit as their was nothing I could do. Better button placement would definitely help. Also couldn’t get back into a game the other night and wouldn’t let us back in/ game was bugging prior that caused us to try jump out and jump back in..Version: 1.4.0.12025
✓ Great game, for the parts that workThe board game this is based on is fantastic. This iOS version is nice when it works, but hampered by a lot of issues. UI The UI is really small, even on a large phone. There’s a lot of game to cram into one screen, so it’s not surprising, but the font choices are poor for readability with very small text. The numbers for resources particularly can be difficult to tell apart (eg 5 and 6). A less geometric, more humanist font would help. The terraforming tracks for temperature and oxygen are almost impossible to tell how many steps remain until bonuses—this is absolutely critical information that can’t be found in game. You need to know the numbers by heart so you can infer the number of steps remaining. Terrible UI design for this element. Single player Solo games work great. The AI is fast, although not challenging, even on the hardest setting. After hundreds of games against the hardest AI, I have only lost once. Multiplayer Updates to the game have made it nearly impossible to play with people you know. There is no longer any apparent way to send a game invite to your friends unless they are actually in the game at that moment. What a ridiculous setup for a game that otherwise supports asynchronous play. Invites often don’t seem to work at all, even with your friends waiting in the online lobby. Once you actually have a multiplayer game going, the experience only marginally improves. Turn notifications are dodgy at best. Players can be randomly dropped and replaced with AI players (though it won’t tell you). If you leave card drafting on, RIP: it will take ages to get through a game, and you constantly get false notifications that’s it’s your turn when it’s not. You’ll end up selecting the same card 5 times in a row. If you all actually make it to the end of a game, sorry, only the player who takes the last turn gets to see the score. The game is just gone for everyone else. If you are playing with random people, in real-time instead of asynchronous, the experience may be better. I haven’t tried it because I’m not interested in that. Overall verdict A great game if you only want to play solo, you don’t care about a challenge, and you already know the boardgame inside out. Not a suitable way to play with friends, unfortunately..Version: 1.1368
✓ Completely wasted my money on a broken game. 😔Bought the game and expansions and halfway through a 2p game with an Ai bot, I passed my turn and the bot then got virtually infinite turns—the game ignoring that it had no credits left and it took continuous standard actions over and over. I watched in amusement as IT TERRAFORMED THE ENTIRE PLANET (the planet was less than half full at the start of my turn). No joke, the glitch allowed the Ai to terraform virtually every empty tile spot on the planet, as well as systematically take milestones and awards that same generation as it did so. Because I had passed my turn and it had a turn left, it just got turn and turn after turn until it literally had nothing left to do. Of course this completely breaks the game and makes it worthless. Total waste of money including the cost of the expansions I paid for..Version: 2.0.3.12730
✓ Game Keeps Crashing After Latest UpdateNormally I love this game, but after getting the new expansions my game keeps crashing. Somewhere in the middle of a match (usually when I have a good engine built) text will pop up and say “Buy up to {0} cards”. It appears under the standard projects menu. When my cards menu is opened text appears over it and says “No cards played”. The cards cannot be sorted by the tabs anymore and they can’t be paged through with the arrow. So frustrating as the only thing you can do is forfeit. I tried closing the app and reopening the game but the issue immediately pops back up. This has happened to me on at least six different occasions. I normally play vs one medium AI player. All occurrences have been on the Hellas map, but not sure if it would do the same on other maps..Version: 1.4.1.12038
✓ Stay Away if looking for Async Online playThis is my second attempt to play a board game in an app with some real life friends. The first was Through The Ages which might have spoiled me with the excellence of that app, and definitely spotlights the shortcomings of this one. I absolutely love Terraforming Mars on the tabletop, so my one star review is not based on the merits of the game itself, but in the implementation of the app. I could not finish multiple online async games. The draft variant, not only is badly implemented, but frequently causes the game to get stuck and you can’t finish. Some quality of life updates wouldn’t hurt either, like being able to see who you are sending cards to, or in what state is the draft. Besides that, having the draft hang in the middle of a game is frustrating and downright not acceptable. If you want to finish an online game, play without draft. The app looks nice, but takes a bit to load and the buttons are small. There is no undo button and no notification that you have unspent actions at the end of your turn. But really, it’s the bugs that kill it. It’s just not with your time or money unless they fix the draft variant..Version: 1.3.6.11635
✓ Too many bugsI love this game and own the board game version as well. They do a great job on representing the physical version with a great UI and informative notifications. However, the game still has too many bugs, in fact it almost unplayable due to how much it crashes. I played against 3 AI and the game consistently crashed every two turns, and the brutal reload times don’t help. I really look forward to this game once the developers fix the bugs. -Update: I have found that the game rarely crashes while playing on my iPhone 6, but it crashes 3-4 times per game on my iPad Mini 2. Both have the latest software updates. Also, the AI will get stuck during the research card draft sometimes. Turning this mode off has worked in mitigating the issue, but it would be nice to be able to play with the draft on..Version: 1.1368
✓ Glitches but Good OverallI’ll start my review with I really love this board game, so I went out of my way to purchase this game. Overall, I like the product. However, now that I’ve played the game many times I really dislike the tags glitch. Specifically, science tags do not get recorded correctly. Many cards have a specific number of science tags as a requirement. I’ll purchase 5-6 science cards and play them, then when I check my tags tab I have 3. This is super irritating. Especially when I’m required to have 4 or 5 to even play a card. From what I’ve seen this glitch is mainly on multi-tagged cards, +-2 cards, or gain one or two cards card. Please fix this glitch. It’s really taking my enjoyment from the game. I almost want to get a return on my money. I even bought the prelude expansion hoping the glitch was fixed. Alas, it’s not. And after spending over $12 I would hope that these things are fixed quickly..Version: 1.1975
✓ Très bon jeu, toujours plein de boguesNouvelle version de l’app, nouveaux bogues. Je ne peux pas restaurer les achats des extensions achetées….Version: 2.1.0.130060
✓ How not to appLost track of the number of issues we have with this app. It makes a good study for user experiences to avoid. Super slow to load app, painfully slower to load game. Resume game? No, it’s gone because developer did something, again. Game board state obviously has to rely on software version? Finished a game? Only one person can see results and now that game is permanently stuck in the resume menu and you can’t do anything with it. Your device can zoom? This app can’t, but you can drag Mars around a little bit, for absolutely no benefit or reason. App remembers your login, occasionally. Undo? No undo!!.Version: 2.0.5.130036
✓ Bugger than everTitle.Version: 2.0.3.12730
✓ Waste of MoneyI bought this specifically to play online with some friends. One of them I can’t even find, the other I can find but can’t add as a friend. It was a complete waste of my money. Well I finally managed to set up A few games but I’m yet to finish one online coz for one reason or another something always stuffs up. Games disappear or connectivity issues occur and cause me to time out. Clunky, messy rubbish app. Wouldn’t recommend. The music is nice though..Version: 1.1368
✓ BuggyWhen it works, it’s great, but 75% of the time, the game hangs after choosing starting cards (with AI players at least) meaning I have to forfeit and try again. Game menus work and the sounds on tapping UI buttons still go off, but the AI players are in a “ready” state and the game never starts..Version: 2.4.0.130127
✓ Expansions?What happened to our purchased expansions? I updated to the newest edition and now it will not restore my purchases of the two expansions I already paid for..Version: 2.1.0.130060
✓ Two major issues on this great appThis app should be getting five stars, from everyone, but I paid $9 for it, my friend paid$9 for it, and neither of us can friend the other in their "chat" page or (probably the "players" tab under Chat is what they meant, but u can't their either). Also, I can't see my cards on other players' turns. Sometimes they are just completeley disappeared. Othera you aren't allowed to click on them, or have to fool the app by checking Cards Played first and then try your hand again. When you can view your own dang cards, the app is constantly interrupting u, but even of just that worked I could play the game. As of now I have an $18 solo game I run out pf time on bc I can only see my cards when it's my turn. I want our money back and a notice when u guys are out of beta..Version: 1.1975
✓ Ran out of timeOnline keeps disconnecting.Version: 1.1230
✓ Crashes every gameI want to give this 5 stars as I think they’ve done a great job and I love this game, unfortunately I have now tried to play 5 times only against the AIs and I have had a game ending crash every single time so never been able to finish a game! It also doesn’t save progress which is so frustrating when you have a good engine going to never see how it finishes! Usually find a crash around generation 7. Please fix this as I really want to play this on mobile!.Version: 1.1205
✓ Extremely buggy...It's such a shame, because it's a great game. My guess is about 60% of the online games I play suffer some kind of issue which makes the game unplayable. Sad because I really enjoy it..Version: 2.4.1.130129
✓ Broke games that we’d already startedThey seem to have no regard for this game. Latest update broken in progress games, seemingly so they can sell the DLC. I definitely won’t be playing this ever again..Version: 1.4.0.12025
✓ Great game, app is frustratingThe app has a lot of frustrating features. For example, you get logged out of an online game if your phone goes dark or you get a notification. Also, online games have you set a time limit per player, defaulting to 30 min, which is much too short. There is no way to keep track of how much time you have left, and it automatically kicks out any player who goes over the time limit. So frustrating for everyone playing, there should be an option to extend the time. It takes a long time for the online games to load if you have to resume. I’ve also had several bugs with certain cards not working how they should, like on my last game, my power infrastructure action just stopped working halfway through the game. Also, I wish you could play locally with several devices, so several people in the same room, but on multiple phones. Finally, in many places it asks you to confirm, but there doesn’t appear to be a way to go back if you don’t want to confirm. I love this game, wish it was easier to play on the app..Version: 1.1368
✓ Can’t play onlineHave tried to play a few games online but there is a problem resuming games (which you have to do a lot as you are kicked out of the game every time you take a call, read an email or switch to another app). Sometimes you rejoin the game but can’t do anything - and the timer until you forfeit the game just keeps going... The only online games I have managed to finish were when I never left the app, even for a second. Solo play works well but as I bought this for the online play, I’m not happy.Version: 1.1368
✓ Frequent crashes and failing to reload in later roundsUnfortunately the game experiences multiple crashes in later rounds and after initially reloading the crashes become more frequent and eventually the game is failing to reload. This makes what is essentially a good game very frustrating and unplayable for longer games. Reading other reviews it appears this is not a new issue and has identified many other times. It is very disappointing the developer is seemingly ignoring what is a very big flaw and has failed to find a solution. This needs sorting..Version: 1.2101
✓ Game keeps crashingThis should be a good game but you never get a game were you are not disconnected from game. This makes playing the game so frustrating as it is not a quick game. In the last few days have got to the last few turns only to have it crash or disconnect from server. I am now considering stop playing the game as it just waste of time not finishing the game..Version: 1.3.6.11635
✓ Bugs kill this amazing gameI have played this game for about 2-3 years, the updates sometime can’t fix the bugs, but make it worse. Bugs kill this amazing game..Version: 2.0.3.12730
✓ Great game, but end game scoring is inoperable for local matches with 2 or more users (iOS)I love the board game, and this digital adaptation is stellar, outside of one relatively major issue, which is that it freezes 100% of the time for me at the very end of the game! It’s like the animation for score tallying bugs just before it’s about to begin counting. I’ve played five rounds now, all with minor tweaks to eliminate variables, and have never made it to the scoring successfully. It does however seem to work with single player local matches, as well as online matches. Is this something the developers have been made aware of? I will happily update my rating if there is a fix, or something I can do on my end to get around this bug! Thanks,.Version: 2.0.3.12730
✓ Too many bugsThis game used to be great but I keep getting locked out of games, both online and solo. Then they get stuck in my game history. It’s impossible to finish a game at a later date, even one you’re playing with other people. I love the game and used to love the app but it’s borderline unplayable. It keeps updating then telling me my saved games are a previous version of the app and no longer playable..Version: 2.3.0.130124
✓ Awesome game, but…This game is one of the best tabletop game ever. But the app is so bugged! I cannot believe that developpers take our money and develop an app with full of problems, not solving them..Version: 2.3.0.130124
✓ Great but comes with bugGreat game when it doesnt bug.Version: 2.0.4.130025
✓ Good game but expensive and improvements to game play speed neededCould make some easy changes to speed game up.Version: 1.3.11244
✓ Update failure!So… I assume that updates are supposed to fix issues that occur in-game - either as complaints from users, or by bug reports from game to developers. Following update 2.05 recently, I have witnessed several issues with the AI in the game. Repeatedly purchasing green tiles, but money does not decrease - to tune of 8 in a row, all on the same turn. Apparent lock ups which will eventually clear after multiple clicks on different buttons on screen, etc. I will verify I have bug reporting enabled in my system settings to ensure these issues are being captured. I have used this app since it was originally issued on the App Store, and enjoy it greatly… but these bugs are becoming obnoxious after several years of development? Maybe it’s also time to implement another expansion as well? Thanks Following update 2.10.13… - lots fixed … but it broke the expansions for those who already purchased them - and the “Restore Purchases” button doesn’t fix it..Version: 2.1.0.130060
✓ Boring gamePlayed about 10 games of this, hoping it would get more interesting but it never did for me. The theme sounds exciting but in the end is rather dull..Version: 1.1368
✓ Current version is unplayable…Freezes on app startup requiring a full reboot on 7th gen iPad. Game freezes and crashes with “out of sync” error message that repeats when re-entering the game. Dropped in rankings and karma due to these glitches. Recommend rolling back to previous version as a that was mostly playable.Version: 2.0.4.130025
✓ Great game but buggyPart way through a game and a blank cards box shows with no way to finish your turn. Also money subtracted on card play but then won’t accept the subsequent actions. Also sometimes not clear why you cańt play a card or what it’s waiting for. Great game but UI is not helpful enough and bugs quickly become frustrating. Sad..Version: 2.0.3.12730
✓ Great solo game - needs work for asynchronous multiplayerI love this as a solo game (either actual solo mode or against AI). It doesn’t have an undo feature, and it chews up battery like a puppy with a shoe, but it’s still really good. Where this flops for me is on the asynchronous multiplayer online mode. Things that Really Annoy Me: - It can take two minutes to load the game every time you want to play your turn. Even switching to another screen for a moment then promptly returning kicks you out of the server, so you have to do a multi-minute reload. - Turn notifications (i.e., “It’s your turn!”) don’t work for me, and judging by other reviews, it’s not just me. That means I have to spend a few minutes logging in to find out if it’s actually my turn yet. - If it turns out it wasn’t my turn, I have to replay what I just did. Groundhog Day was an okay movie, but I certainly don’t need to live it and keep buying the same cards over and over until all players have taken their buy action. - The server seems a bit unstable. I can be logged in for several days, then have to re-log thrice in 20 minutes. - If it’s true that the final score is only visible to the player that took the last action (still haven’t gotten there!), that is also a silly thing. Solo: 4.5 stars! Asynchronous multiplayer: 2 stars :( I’d still buy it again, though..Version: 1.1368
✓ Nice design, spoiled by poor functionalityThe implementation of the game is good, very nice visuals, reasonably easy to start a game with friends in different countries. But, the game had a time limit for each player (in our case 30 mins), once that time was up, we all individually got kicked from the game! No way to see final score, no idea who won... just.. 30 mins are up, out you go! Incredibly frustrating...Version: 1.1368
✓ Crashes when scoringEvery time we play with AI it crashes and freezes at the end of the game without providing a score. Real waste of 2 hours when you don’t get an outcome.Version: 2.0.3.12730
✓ Brilliant game but bugs in the appI love terraforming Mars and having it in an app is fantastic! The app itself has bugs however and the fact that any multi tasking on an iPhone closes the game and makes you re-enter it makes gameplay very frustrating and disjointed..Version: 1.1368
✓ New versions brick current gamesThe game itself is great, but if you are playing a game with friends and they release a new version of the app, you can no longer join the game. If you have app auto update on as advised by Apple, like most of the world do, you are gambling on whether the devs will brick your game while you’re playing it. Better yet, they rolled this out as a “feature” a few weeks ago. Save your time and money..Version: 2.3.0.130124
✓ Great game but a terrible appBad app.Version: 1.1368
✓ Pass and Play buggedConsecutive games bugged when reaching the final round’s greenspace placement on pass and play. The save file is also then corrupted and can not be reloaded. Pretty frustrating when the games were both 1h + Its a great game when it works, but unfortunately can’t keep committing to 1h+ and having no conclusion. Single player has no issues so if you that’s what you are looking for its a good choice.Version: 2.0.5.130036
✓ Used to be fine- now it glitches so consistently you can’t finish a gameNot sure why it keeps getting ‘updates’ that don’t improve the game *and* with each one the app crashes and glitches more and more often. Love the game, used to love the app, but it’s not possible to complete a game anymore because some element gets stuck or glitches (can’t place an ocean for example)..Version: 2.0.2.12688
✓ Seems Buggy and doesn’t saveThis is a longer game to play and the app seems to like to crash at times The main problem with that is a game you are literally hours into will be wiped out with no save point I’m not sure how in 2019 such a thing could be possible (Erased rant) Edit 1. Rewards for hitting targets on O2 and Temp tracks are not actually rewarded Edit 2. I’ve now completely lost upwards of a dozen solo games due to crashes (and no saves). Whose career defining decision was it to not save games automatically nor allow a manual workaround. Edit 3. the game seems to need an online connection when none should be needed. (Perhaps for the saves that aren’t happening? 😂, I’m not playing multiplayer) Edit 4. The app loses my log in information randomly and there is no ‘remember me’ functionality so full user name and password are required each time for a game which should happily just sit on my iPad with no online presence unless I ask for one. reduced rating to one star Seems sloppy Edit 5. Emailed as requested....... And I’ve deleted the app. Honestly, I assumed at that price point that I’d be purchasing a polished product. Instead I’ll be noting these developers and avoiding their products like the plague. Asmodee; Choose better partners as the buck stops with you ..Version: 1.1205
✓ DesyncsDisappointing that de syncs continues to ruin the experience. When trying to play online, the game frequently becomes unstable... resulting in the servers thinking you have forfeited, whilst your experience is just playing against the AI. I can only assume that my opponents end up playing against an AI as well because sometimes the game randomly re-syncs resulting in my previous moves being replaced by a random selection choices. 0 stars if possible..Version: 1.2096
✓ Crashes OFTENI would love to rate this game 5 stars. It is very fun, even to the point of mildly addicting. This game can make 2 hours feel like 10 minutes. Plus the tutorial is great for anyone new to the game such as myself. Unfortunately the game crashes a LOT. I have gone through about 6 or 7 games now and have yet to experience a complete game that hasn’t crashed on me at least twice. The most recent game I’ve played I can’t seem to go more than 15 minutes without it crashing. This is on two different iPads with fairly different specs too. If this was a free game I wouldn’t complain. However, since I’m paying almost $10 for it I would expect a crash free version, especially since there are plenty of other game options out there that can offer better results. To any developer who reads this, please fix this issue and I will gladly change this review to 5 stars..Version: 1.1799
✓ Private multiplayer not showing cardsDoesn’t do what it says on the box. Bought to play with friends but when we start a game only the person on the PC can get cards and Corp cards. Both mobile users just see the floating Mars. Our names are tagged on left and it says the pc user is ready but we get nothing showing up. All we can do is ‘chat’. Terrible. Will update if I figure out what’s wrong or they fix this major issue..Version: 1.1368
✓ UnstableGood game, but frequent crashes or freezes..Version: 1.3.4.11480
✓ Needs refinementNotifications don’t work, and there’s no undo button. So easy to mis-tap something on a tiny phone screen. How was this an oversight in the development process? Pretty disheartening to play a 2-3 hour game only to be crushed by a mis-click that you can’t undo..Version: 2.0.1.12595
✓ Good strategy board game but too priceyBeautifully crafted board game that is a bit complicated to start with but fun and demanding once understood. It falls down a on price though as it really needs more content if you are going to charge close to 10 pounds. Maybe more single player scenarios or alternative game modes required..Version: 1.1205
✓ 2.2 update won’t resumeSince 2.2 update attempting to resume a solo game results in a version error… still saving in 2.1 version so not recognized by update?.Version: 2.2.1.130115
✓ FreezesGame freezes when viewing cards while also viewing game state. Hangs at loading screen when trying to continue a game. These are only recent problems for me.Version: 2.0.3.12730
✓ Favourite board game but glitchy +++I love TM but have had multiple issues with glitches over the years. Recently got Venus Next and now I can’t even open the game up. Lost various 2 player games to the ether over the years too. Need to sort out stability and glitches cos it’s a clear 5 stars if they can..Version: 2.2.1.130115
✓ Good adaptation but bugs ruin gameplayThere are a couple of bugs that make this really annoying to play. It’s too bad because the game is good and it’s adaption is well done in general. The biggest issue is science tags not being counted properly. Seemingly at random, you will play science cards and your tags don’t increment. This is incredibly frustrating when your strategy is based on unlocking a certain card. Another issue is that the AI players are not very good. They have very simple basic strategies and it is too easy to beat them on the advanced setting. For example, in deciding what prize to purchase they look at the resources players have and not at their production. Hope the developers can address these basic issues and make this worth playing..Version: 1.1368
✓ Bad implementation of a great gameCouple of the bigger issues so far: Adding friends is not clear or simple - both need to be online at the same time. Can’t start an asynchronous game unless all players are online simultaneously. No notification it’s your turn, we have a separate chat group to keep track of who’s turn it is. Very poor. Lose connection from the online part of the game as soon as you minimize app. Not an earth shattering problem but poor for a game released in 2019. Not great user experience. Using drafting for cards - the game will allow you to make a selection but won’t save it unless it’s your turn. It doesn’t tell you this, we had to figure it out. Bad experience. But for no added cost not only is it a digital recreation of Terraforming Mars, it’s also got a meta game where you figure out how to make the game work properly - wheels within wheels... Needs work to do justice to this great game..Version: 1.1368
✓ Disappointed with the updateI was excited to use the update today. As you can see, the list of bug fixes was wildly extensive. This app not only has a lot of bugs, but a very unintuitive interface as well. A huge frustration came for me when it didn’t recognize I already had additional purchases, and the “restore purchases” button did absolutely nothing. When I went to look, for how to report a problem of course it’s a long and arduous process that no one wants to bother with. Just give me my prelude cards back, and stop having the world’s worst interface. This is a great game and when the app is working it’s super fun to play. I just can’t believe how poor the development of the application is..Version: 2.1.0.130060
✓ Needs UpgradedI really love this game. The only problem I’ve seen so far is: when you are playing five player online and last in the turn order the corporation logo covers the skip/pass button. This is very annoying making you leave the game and rejoin each round..Version: 1.4.1.12038
✓ Extremely difficult to add friends to a gameCan’t add friends to a game, impossible to login and repeatedly asking for a password, can’t play online sometimes, have to reset password each time I sign in. The desktop version isn’t that much better!.Version: 1.1368
✓ Good implementation needs a few thingsFirst my brother and I have both played their actual board game so it was fairly easy for us to learn the digital version. As much as we loved it we couldn’t help but mention how difficult it’d be to learn the game because there were multiple things we had to search for in the Ui. However we were able to do everything we expected to through the game, it is a great digital version as it’s not lacking in any features we could find. My largest complaint is that it has no notification system so it is really only worthwhile to play if both players are going to play live. The online component gives the option to put time limits on turns but that doesn’t work great because you have to constantly go back into the game to check if it’s your turn. Even that wouldn’t be awful but it takes a good 15-30s to resume your game if you leave the app for ANY reason, even a switch to a respond or view a text message you have to sign back in and wait to reconnect. The game needs to implement notifications or have a way to see from the main menu whose turn it is. The only other flaw of the game is there is no undo, if you play a card or an action there is no way to back out of it even if it is still your turn. If those two issues were resolved it’d be a 5 star game.Version: 1.1368
✓ Almost great, but async is terribleAsmodee and its async. They just don’t know how to do it. Small World, Ticket to Ride and now years later Terraforming Mars, all with the same issue - to create an async online public game, you all have to be online at the same time lol... crazy. Create a game and leave the app, it disappears. So, it boils down to creating a game and ensuring the app and iPad are running for hours in the hope players will join, and stay, until you start it... totally ridiculous. Otherwise, single player is good, that is until you can beat the AI with regularity..Version: 1.1205
✓ Enough already - how about some fixes?This is a great game... when it works. Playing multiplayer with friends and have yet to have a game without any issues. Usually, it is the turn notifications showing its your turn, but it isn’t. If you are drafting, you end up having to re-do your drafts each time. Something new today, after continuing to get notifications but no turn to do (action indicator absent), i got a message ‘You ran out of time’. I’d wait until the glitches around turns notifications get fixed before buying this. UPDATE to my post last week and reiterate my DO NOT BUY message. So many glitches with turn notifications and finished games that stay on the game list screen that a friend now refuses to play until fixed. These have not been new issues as can be seen by the many comments from many months ago. How about an update to fix this crappy coding. Don’t understand the high rating this app gets..Version: 1.1718
✓ Lots good, but lots brokenMy review is similar to many here - the single player version way exceeded my expectations. The graphics are nice, interface makes sense, and it a great adaptation of the board game. The online version is really difficult to use because it is riddled with bugs. The main two that have made it close to unusable for me and my friends: 1) Authentication. About 80% of the time a reopen the app to play my turn it logs me out so I need to sign in almost every time I want to play one turn. It also takes a bit of time to enter each game 2) Time limit. This got us a few times but there is a default time limit to an online game which is set to a low value. Since it takes about 10 minute per turn with all the other issues you need to set this to the highest value to get even close to finishing a game.Version: 1.1230
✓ Great game, shame about the crashesGreat game and a decent implementation of it, but on my iPad Mini 3, a local game vs AI players would crash increasingly frequently as the game went on to the point it was crashing every turn, and when I switched the graphics to High the app crashed and refused to open again..Version: 1.3.4.11480
✓ AI is horrible, Asmodee can’t keep multiplayer server upAs much as I love the boardgame and want to like this app, the quality just isn’t there. The AI on “hard” isn’t much challenge and does stupid things like buying ghg bacteria when heat is already maxed. Or upping energy production on the final turn. This would still be fun practice for real games but it requires your app be logged into a horribly unreliable server. My profile is constantly getting “logged out”. And about 1-2 a month it spins forever and doesn’t let you log in. A friend has had to reregister his account four times now. The game also has occasional crashes (worse on older devices like an iPhone 6) and reloading the game takes 4x longer than starting a new one..Version: 1.1368
✓ Needs improvementI love terraforming Mars the board game, so was really looking forward to the iOS release. Unfortunately the asynchronous multiplayer is lacking, notifications now happen but no indication of what game it’s your turn in within the app. Still no play back of turns so you have to go to the history. Card selection and starting selection is in player order but let’s you select them before your turn and then just forgets. And after a game is finished the last play is the only one who sees scores unless your online at the time. Need a lot of work to be good as asynchronous game.Version: 1.1230
✓ Great app but can’t resume after crashThe game state should be continually saved so that it can be resumed after a crash. It has crashed on me several times and just reverts to a new game. There is a resume button but it doesn’t work. Very frustrating when 80 or 90% through a game.Version: 1.1205
✓ Great game but buggy appI love the tabletop but this is frustratingly buggy. The timer doesn’t turn off in opponents turns and doesn’t count fairly- I played an hour round where my timer ran out ant the other player still had 58 minutes. I wish there was a timer free mode, there are a lot of cards to read. Sometimes it doesn’t let you play eligible cards or give correct awards. Sometimes it freezes altogether. Once I thought I was playing and AI took over my game even though my internet was fine. My last game froze completely and didn’t let me play or pass but the timer keep counting. It’s also frustrating that you can’t easily see your cards and plan your move during opponent’s turns. The only thing that has sorta consistently worked is solo mode..Version: 1.4.1.12038
✓ Love the game but the app doesn’t work properlyI love the game- I have the board version which then lead me to purchasing this app. They’ve recreated it very well. However, it just doesn’t work! I’ve played the game three times and it’s glitched every time. This evening, i had to restart the app 6 times in order to finish the game. Another player had to restart twice. As you are timed, I eventually ran out of time and was kicked out. Very disappointed. They really do need to complete their beta testing before releasing..Version: 1.1799
✓ BuggyRevising my review. Failed to finish my last three games because either people leave and you literally have to sit there for 30-45min waiting for ai to take over - or is so buggy that it freezes and your own timer runs out. Constantly having to restart. Only buy this if you want the game to freeze on your last round! Oh and good luck playing against the ai. Basically impossible..Version: 2.0.1.12595
✓ Ok now TM completely brokenAs has been previously reported the chosen cards often disappear. In order to get them back it was necessary to look at the played cards and then close which caused the chosen cards to reappear. This will not work now as the played cards persist on screen, or the box which contained them. Plse fix as a matter of urgency or refund.Version: 2.0.1.12595
✓ Workable to ClunkyCome on now… A slew of new improvements for this release advertised in App Store convinced me it’s time to reinstall, only to finally update and find it less stable than my 6+ month outdated version. I play this regularly on the solo challenge, and this update downgraded an already just okay user interface. Please test your application before releasing updates. That multiplayer bug you list “fixed issue where first player in X map freezes” about says it all. That’s a pretty absurd error. I’m stuck on a solo, where it won’t let me place a greenery and is flat stuck. Can’t click anywhere. Never happened before in my 2-3 dozen games. Yikes, man…. Love this board game, enjoyed the app enough to play before, disappointed to the point of actually getting my lazy self to type out a review. Edit/Update: downgrading to 1 star, do not buy if you plan to play solo with current release. Just froze and failed on a different game, different map, different tile placement and cannot move past error. The game worked well enough prior to update but is now failing 1/3 matches. Not playing going forward until update - very poorly QA folks..Version: 2.0.1.12595
✓ Great game, but filled with bugsThis is a great game and would be a generally good implementation, but there are so many bugs. New updates introduce new bugs. Most recently, playing Deimos Down to raise the temp from -6 to 0 forced the player to place 3 oceans instead of the 1 it should have been, completely ruining the rest of the game. Edit: Another bug we’re running into: the terraforming tracks don’t match up for me and my opponent. Really frustrating..Version: 1.3.3.11453
✓ Notifications not working and broken saveThe game has been generally improving over the last couple of years, but now notifications no longer are being delivered on iOS. I mostly play async so this breaks games entirely as people don’t know when their turn has come up. Would be great to have this fixed. Update: notifications are working now, but not consistently Update: with the latest update, my current online game can no longer be loaded. iOS updated automatically, so I got no choice and as far as I know no way to go back to finish the game..Version: 1.4.0.12025
✓ Tags do not always count when they should.The game uses a prerequisite system in order to get some cards played. You need tags of one or more specific types printed on already played cards. The problem is that the tags on cards do not always evaluate properly leaving you unable to play some cards. Otherwise it’s quite a good game..Version: 1.2068
✓ Can’t Finish a Local GameApp is great, beautiful, runs well. It would be 5 stars EXCEPT THE GAME LOCKS WHEN YOU GO TO THE END OF A LOCAL GAME. You hit the final “turn plants into greenery tiles” step and the game just locks..Version: 2.0.5.130036
✓ Such a shame..Terraforming Mars is an awesome board game. However, the app version is rife with bugs. To name a few…Frequent need to reload the app, AI not consistently following the rules of the game, and worst of all…there is no game summary at the end so I have no idea who won or what the score was. I have also noticed the developers stopped commenting on reviews about a year ago which makes me think they are no longer focused on quality improvement, which for a paid app is extremely disappointing. This app could be such a perfect game with a few improvements..Version: 1.4.4.12262
✓ Too many bugsWell implemented computer version of the famous board game. But severely let down by no effort to resolve simple bugs..Version: 2.1.1.130062
✓ I want to play this game SO BAD!Developer: please let me play this game, I’m begging you! I just want to play this game with my friends, that’s it! But your game fights me trying to play it at every turn. If i close and re-open the app sometimes the entire UI disappears, rendering the game useless. If i close the app and come back, i have to go through 3 - 4 steps just to get back in the game *if* the UI sticks around for me to play. I’ll pay you money and evangelize for your product and get you lots of new customers if you will just make this game work. Please improve the multiplayer experience. Why do i have to add my friends to my buddies list before i can start a game with them? Why do they HAVE to be online at the same time as me before i can add them as friends? Why do i have to click “done” the “send” when sending chat messages? Really, all i want to do is play your game that you made, and tell others about it, but your game makes that practically impossible! I’ll give it 5 stars and get hundreds of people to buy it if you will just fix ALL the problems!.Version: 1.1230
✓ Great game, app is okayOftentimes when I try opening the app, it just doesn’t work. Sometimes I have to try opening it ten times just to get in. And even when it’s working, you have to wait maybe 20 seconds for your game to load. For multiplayer games, the card draw has to be performed in order. If you choose your cards before it’s your turn, then you’ll just have to choose them again. Sometimes I mis-click when I try to place a greenery or city in a specific spot. I was able to get around this by immediately restarting the app, but it’d be nice if there was a confirmation or undo option instead of having to do that..Version: 2.0.5.130036
✓ Crashed at game endFor a premium product that’s been out a while it’s not acceptable for simple bugs like this to still exist. Played through an entire game for it to freeze at the last plants stage - saved game also won’t load now either. It’s a shame as it’s otherwise implemented well..Version: 1.4.0.12025
✓ Card Not WorkingThe ‘Power Infrastructure’ card was taking my energy but not increasing my money. Hope other card effects are working properly. iOS iPhone 6+.Version: 1.1205
✓ Beautiful Adaptation, Terrible MultiplayerThe game looks and plays beautifully. The app did a great job presenting the information of the game and the animations make it engaging and fun. Unfortunately, the multiplayer system leaves a lot to be desired. Playing online was the reason I bought this game, hence the 2-stars. The entire multiplayer system is premised on the assumption that players will play one game at a time and stay in the app for the duration of the game. This makes sense if you’re playing Starcraft or League of Legends but makes little sense if you’re playing a long board game. Every other app adaptation of a board game seems to understand this. I would much prefer to be able to join multiple games and play my turns as it became my turn, which I would be notified about with a push notification. Perhaps the draft mode wouldn’t work well this way, but that’s why it’s optional..Version: 1.1368
✓ Crashes during final productionSince new update I’ve had two games in a row freeze before plant conversion, if I close game and reopen it will never launch! I play to record results! Won’t play until this is fixed…..Version: 2.0.1.12595
✓ New update is so so buggyNew update has so many bugs but the worst one is that none of my expansion purchases show that I’ve bought them. The “restore purchase” button doesn’t work, it’s super annoying. Please fix it soon, I’m so sick of only playing Tharsis..Version: 2.1.0.130060
✓ Fix needed after updateHey, love the game, recently downloaded the Hellas and Elysium expansion, but after all players pass it will randomly freeze gameplay and not distribute the new patent cards for purchase; restarting the app does not fix. Has happened all three attempts now. Update: one day later, after purchasing the Hellas and Elysium expansion, now all my expansions are missing?! Please fix..Version: 1.4.0.12025
✓ Don’t waste your money!It’s beyond me how this got released- it is just a terrible, sloppy piece of work riddled with bugs and glitches and issues. Did no one test this? Are you all really ok with such an unstable and crappy product? ISuch a great tabletop game but so poorly executed here. There are other asmodee games that I’d like to buy, but based on this I would never even consider wasting my money..Version: 1.1368
✓ Solo mode no longer endsAfter the last generation the solo game never ends so players can’t get a final score in game history. This used to work as I do have finished games from the past..Version: 2.0.3.12730
✓ So frustratingLove the original game and had high hopes for the online version but it is a complete waste of money. I have yet to be able to complete an online game. Every time I get booted out at least once and then the server seems to crash and I can’t log back in to finish the game. Extremely disappointing..Version: 1.1368
✓ Can’t restore purchasesI like this app but with the latest version I’m not able to restore my purchase of Prelude. When I then try to buy it again, the app recognises that I have bought it already and asks if I want to get it again for free. After confirming the app simply doesn’t download/unlock the purchase..Version: 2.1.0.130060
✓ DO NOT BUY. Read the recent reviewsThis game is loaded with bugs and recent updates have not addressed all the issues they have. Most notably, multiplayer. Turn notifications, adding friends, adjusting the turn timer, and everything else you’d expect in a turn-based game is not there. Check back on this app in a year, maybe two at the pace they’re going at....Version: 1.1975
✓ Crashing on iPad 6th generationUpdate: this game and its developers are a disgrace for every develop in the world and I am surprised this game is still available on App Store because it is also tarnishing Apples own reputation. I own both the AppStore and Steam game for which I payed twice. The fact those two platforms are not synced says all about the developers competency. Context: Played a local game with my partner for 3 hours and the game hangs just after the last generation, before the score was supposed to be shown. We tried restarting the game numerous times, restarting the iPad, nothing and it is still under the saved games. And this is only one of many bugs…. At a time of ChatGPT and AI these developers cannot get a board game working properly. Who can bring my time back… This game reintroduced some news bugs with the last update including game crashing on iPad 6. It happens 3-4 times during a 90 minute game, more often during last 15 minutes. Disappointing….Version: 2.0.3.12730
✓ Broken Since Latest UpdatrThis app now routinely stops the game when looking at cards already played (which you need to do from time to time) and occasionally when new cards are drawn mid-turn. The only fix is to close out of the game (and for the first problem, restart the entire app), and then reload the game, which takes an amount of time proportional to how far into the game you are, so sometimes a very long time. Also, every game, even the ones you win, don’t complete. I tells you you’ve won, then won’t close and update. It just hangs until you forfeit the game. It has done this since the last time an update was published more than two months ago. The developers replied to my support request that they were aware of the problem. They have not fixed it. I tried to follow up, but they closed the ticket. I can’t highly rate an app where the publishers knows about a major game play problem and can’t be bothered..Version: 2.0.3.12730
✓ Update is a downgradeThe original version was a 5 star - and still a great game to play; but the new update has made it less enjoyable: there are new bugs (a blue box overlays the card selection at the right; the wrong player data appears at the base when AIs are playing their turn) but the new ‘flashy’ score boxes, flashes when a card is played etc. reduce the experience. Wish I could go back to the earlier version :(.Version: 1.1799
✓ Decent adaptation crippled by poor onlineThey really nailed the vibe. It feels great! The UI is slick and fluid, the sound is fantastic .. I actually like playing with headphones on! Where it complexly falls down is online multiplayer. First you will constantly be logged out.. want to login and use password auto fill.. logged out.. switch over to resend to a text.. logged out.. if the app basically isn’t ever the foreground active app It logged you out of the game and you have to go through the menu and join again. There is little to no indicator of it being your turn! You may get a push notification but that’s it. There is no app icon badge, in the resume games list there is no indicator of whose turn.. you have to actually load the entire game.. the maybe it will one of the players is play.. depending on the game state. There is no replay of what happen sense your last turn.. there is a game log buried in a menu in the top left but it it’s a tiny log not the animation of actually flow of actions like you get it your online while the turn happens. I could go on and on.. Go play “through the ages” even if you don’t like the game.. it is the best online async intuitive digital adaptation I’ve experienced. Getting async play down is critical for these games especially on a phone!!.Version: 1.1230
✓ Glitchy buggy garbageBarely works.Version: 2.2.0.130114
✓ Many issues with the last updateUnable to play correctly after the last update ! Do not buy it.Version: 2.0.2.12688
✓ Great game getting worseDevs, this is an awesome game. It’s beautiful, captures the essence of the board game, and is so smooth. However, with each update the time between starting a game and unplayability decreases. I’m struggling to make it to the third generation before the game crashes in multiplayer. You have to take care of the core multiplayer functionality before the player base moves on to something else. The most common issue is the game will crash and then freeze when loading in, frequently at the 89% or 94% load point. Please fix these issues sooner than later; the patches and hotfixes take way too long to get pushed out. I miss my 2 hours a day playing with friends and would prefer to not have to move on. Thanks-.Version: 2.1.1.130062
✓ Great single player, terrible multiplayerIf you are looking for a good solo mode or single player mode, this absolutely is one of the best digital adaptation. Terraforming Mars ranks amongst the top 3 in board games and the digital adaptation is just as satisfying. There can be some feature improvements like an undo button but there really isn’t much to knit pick on. Game is solid. In multiplayer mode, however, the game crashes almost every time. This is particularly frustrating especially right after you have spent 40 minutes building your engine. It either displays “you’ve been logged out” which is still reconnect-able or it’ll state “you’ve ran out of time” in which case you can no longer re log in again. I’m using an iPad Pro and my wife is using iPad Air, so I don’t feel like it’s my hardware issue. We are also dedicated gamers, so we do not shut/or switch to other apps while in game. So far we have gave the game 3 tries, and all 3 times we were logged out and unable to reconnect. Very, very frustrating, will not ever play multiplayer again online. If you are doing single player, this is great. IF you are buying for multiplayer, stick with the actual board game..Version: 1.1368
✓ Bugs pas réglésJe pensais que les bugs auraient été réglé mais je n’est pas été en mesure de finir une la mission sans que le jeu crash une seule fois. Je joue avec mon I pad pro. J’ai jamais réussi a finir une game. La dernière que j’ai joué, j’avais 18 minutes d’écart sur le temps imparti. Mon temps diminue quand l’autre joueur joue. C’est incompréhensible. Je ne recommande pas le jeu. Très frustrant!!!.Version: 1.4.4.12262
✓ Jouer en ligne est une pure perte de tempsPour toutes parties privées que nous avons fait à la maison, aucune d’elles ont pu être terminé. À chaque fois on vient de jeter 40/50 minutes de notre temps au poubelles. Est-ce qu’un remboursement serait envisageable? Si je ne peux jouer en ligne avec les gens de ma famille, j’aime mieux désinstaller l’application Merci.Version: 1.1368
✓ Online unplayableOnline keeps kicking us out and crashing. Boo. Unplayable. How frustrating..Version: 1.1368
✓ GlitchyWhen it works, which is most of the time, it’s excellent but when it glitches, like it has today (Aug 23) it is so frustrating, especially after playing for 45 mins. The Ai is good- if you swear at the iPad for the computer doing a dickmove it’s got to be doing something right!.Version: 2.0.5.130036
✓ BuggedThe game won’t let me restore purchases.Version: 2.1.0.130060
✓ Endless problemsThe game has been plagued by bugs since it’s inception 4 years ago. The developers and programmers do not seem to care. They don’t listen to customer feedback, and the game and gaming community suffers. Many players cannot even start a game because of glitches in the program. Many games, once started, crash before completion. There are broken cards, incorrect rules, poorly designed timers, and terrible User interface decisions, All of which make a terrific game very frustrating. The programmers release patches, updates, and new DLC without even doing a single play-test, thus missing severe and obvious game-breaking errors. They repeatedly create new bugs and problems that aren’t even related in any way to whatever they were “trying” to fix. It’s shameful, and you can’t even ask for a refund if you play more than 2 measly hours, which most people do..Version: 1.4.1.12038
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