Lost Cities Reviews

This is a flat-out terrible game. I hit a major bug in my first play that has apparently been known and unaddressed since 2017, and the AIs are *insultingly* bad--as in, "discarded a 10 on the last play instead of playing it for +20 points"-level bad. It is a highly polished wrapper around a pile of steaming garbage.

Recommended because lost cities is a really great game. However, this rendition of the game is fundamentally flawed as the game does not keep scores properly and the winner is sometimes actually the player who lost. The scores for each round flip randomly between P1 and P2 when tallied for the final score. Soon I'll play online with myself to check if the scores tally correctly or if it is glitched like playing vs ai is.

I have played this card game forever. I was very excited when I saw it here. I played against the weak AI. It works fine, but the AI is horribly weak and lacks any strategy. I played against my friend online and the game keeps glitching and wont work at all. BlueLine Cloud issue of some kind.... Bottom line... buy the old card game. Don't buy this. It is broken and unplayable. If anyone has a fix I would love to play it and will change my review.

DO NOT BUY. The multiplayer is completely broken. Lobby causes crashes and if you're lucky enough and actually get in game despite error messages of blue line server trouble, you'll crash the moment you pass a turn. Tried on different PCs and even from a different account and on different network connection to eliminate that my connection/pc could be the problem. Same result. Literally unplayable, unless you want to enjoy 5% of the game by only playing against dim and dumb AI - that works. But the AI is really stupid and easy to beat (gave me an 8, which I needed to turn my triple wager 24567 column into profit)

DO NOT BUY if you plan to try multiplayer. You can be dealt over 10 cards and myself and the person I was playing with kept getting a "Object reference not set to an instance of an object" error message. This made the game unplayable. The developers obviously don't care. Don't waste your money.

Plays just like the card game. Only negative thing is if you are playing hot seat there is no way to NOT see your opponents hand. It also doesn't allow you to change the other card holder to a different ID so in effect for names you are playing yourself. Fix that and i'd be happy to give it a thumbs up.

Really good game and great to play with friends, but it still has a lot of issues the developer needs to fix. 1. I have played with a friend and won all three games, and had highest overall score, yet he got the win in his stats. 2. The game often glitches and I end up with 9 or 10 cards in my hand. 3. We have had games where in our stats, we both got the win, even though clearly one of us had lost by a large margin. 4. Local multiplayer doesn't work, and instead requires both people to be using the same PC, which is just the same as pass and play. 5. When playing the bots, the scores seem to 'swap'. So for example, I won game 1 with a score of +30, and the bot had -4. After game 2, the scores had switches, so the bot had +30 for game 1, and I had the score of -4. The list of issues I keep finding are piling up. These all seem like basic things that should have been noted in testing. I have unfortunately had to change my recommendation to not recommended, because of them. If these can be fixed, I would highly recommend this game.

Yes, I enjoyed this. Plays just like the card Game, The AI makes a few strange moves and although I have not played all the different ones available I have won the game by a rather large margin. Think the AI needs to be a bit stonger. Not many playing Online at the moment and so there is no-one around to give a challenging game. Hopefully this should improve as more people purchase the game. So, Yes, very good but needs to be bit tougher in order to make the game really exciting. Update. Seem to be having problems playing an online game. Message read "Object reference not set to an instance of an object" and then the game crashes. Pity really because I was looking for some good online players. Obviously needs a little more work to fix this bug.

I have enjoyed playing the card version of this game and hoped to enjoy it electronically, too. Although there are a number of frustrating elements, the deal breaker is that it keeps swapping points: when it goes to total up the points at the end of the game, it swaps my points with the computer's! From a just frustration perspective, there are some odd design decisions: 1. card in hand are unsorted (and unsortable as far as I can tell) making it more difficult to easily see what's available 2. why put opponent's cards upside down (as if there was a person sitting there?). 3. haven't figured out a way to look back at the cards after the round has been scored. Would be nice to check them I was going to encourage friends to buy it so that we could play across distance, but I'm not about to give the company more money after seeing how poorly this was done. Lost Cities is a great card game... this program is not. Would not recommend until these issues have been patched.

Just like the boardgame, EXCEPT THAT SCOREKEEPING IS BROKEN in the Mac version. Alas, it's a fatal flaw -- it gives you the same score every time, no matter what your actual score is! It's pretty weird that this major bug escaped their notice. Obviously it makes the game unplayable. That's a pity, because the mechanics are good.