Power Grid Boardgame Negative Reviews

Power Grid Boardgame App Complaints & User Negative Comments 2024

Power Grid Boardgame app received 8 complaints, negative comments and reviews by users. Have you ever had a bad experience using Power Grid Boardgame? Can you share your negative thoughts about power grid boardgame?

Power Grid Boardgame for Negative User Reviews

✓ Crashes and lost gamesWhat follows are some thoughts I put together while trying out the game before (spoiler alert) I asked for a refund. Async game modes are available, as well as AI and Pass’n’play presumably. The app does capture the look and feel of the physical game with fonts and green-ness of everything. I’ve played it so I’ll work it out, but if you’re new to it I think you’ll need to read the rules or watch a video to help you get into the game. The tutorial is just a UI guide. Screens just flash up, and you don’t really know what round/phase of the turn you are in. I moved a couple of windows and then pressed the help (it’s in English in the game) then it crashed. This will be a bit intimidating if you haven’t played it before. I’ve played a few rounds. If you’ve never played it before you’re going to find it very frustrating. And if you have played it before you will also find it frustrating. It let me place a third city I couldn’t afford, so I pressed a red ❌ to undo, but it doesn’t seem to allow me to start again. I then tried a ? and naturally it crashed again. Now I’ve been playing it for 10 minutes against the AI, will it allow me to reload my game or have I been let down again. Of course my game has gone so that was a waste of time. Maybe in 3 months they’ll fix the crashes and have a good solo player experience. There weren’t any games in the online lobbies. They’ve gone for the right look and feel. It looks a lot more feature rich than other games I’ve played in the past, and I think the achievements are geared to encourage you to try more things. There’s a help page that outlines how to play the game and some tactics to consider (try not to be the first player to much) And more information on the different features of the maps. It needs a little pop up to tell you which stage of the round is happening - power plants, fuel, houses, power, bureaucracy. Without that it’s not so easy to know where you are. The shame of it is that it’s probably nearly there, but online games are going to be hard to find if my experience is replicated elsewhere, because no one will be there to play it online because they’ll have given up like I have..Diesel PioneerVersion: 1.0

✓ AwfulGameplay is absolutely awful..Halez17Version: 1.3

✓ Superlatively disappointingI have hundreds of board games, and have loved this game in print for years. Waiting for this utter disappointment is confusing. I hope it updates to something coming close to playable, but since they already have my money, I doubt this will happen. Non-intuitive interface, lack of guidance on how to use the app (let alone a useful tutorial on the game itself), and middling graphics … well, at least it’s expensive. I look forward to being able to upgrade this score, but am not optimistic. This could be a stellar title, though … the source material is excellent!.Just a teaseVersion: 1.3

✓ Poor instructions and full of bugsI’ve never played the board game, but it seems really good. However, this iOS implementation leaves a lot to be desired. It’s hard to understand how the developer decided to release such a buggy game. There’s still untranslated German text in multiple places, the app crashes when trying to access help for some items, there’s a third player when selecting a 2 player game, the instructions seem poorly translated, and the tutorial is seriously limited, to mention a few things. The game has a lot of potential, so I hope the developer does a proper job of fixing these issues. I’ll be happy to increase my 1 star rating once the game is playable..NcheemuVersion: 1.0

✓ CrashesTitle has crashed twice so far. Some parts are in English and some in German..Cranky777Version: 1.0

✓ Not _really_ German and EnglishIt doesn’t seem to matter what language option I choose, I still have German in the menus..Deathfrog85Version: 1.0

✓ Board game is way betterThe interface is terrible and you are constant moving and resizing. You’ll want to take the tutorial to understand how it works and even then it’s not great. Also, I had to translate several words because German shows up without an option to change to English. Also, the area where you would play online said it did not have a connection. Oh and it crashes all the time..LuketylerjohnsonVersion: 1.0

✓ Garbage appNot user friendly and the app crashes. I wish I could get my money back..Bobbyjones1776Version: 1.2

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