A Game of Thrones: Board Game

I reviewed this game as a 1 star near when it first came out, it was nearly unplayable. Now however, they have fixed many (not all!) of the bugs. This game is playable and somewhat enjoyable now, but there needs to be some more effort from the developer. Instead of game breaking bugs, there are bugs like not being able to see the end of the game score in async games, sometimes the game pauses for a day or two and then randomly continues, sometimes the game decides to play your fight card for you. The worst part, however, is the 7 day player turn. This badly needs to be upgraded to at least 14 days, if not 45 like many other async board games. Most of our games end due to player timeout because if they stop earlier than the other players at night and work most of the day then they inevitably run out of time. This is how most of our games end, to someone timing out and being replaced by a bot.

UPDATE: v0.9.5 didn’t appear to fix much. 1st async multiplayer game got stuck trying to bid on Turn 2. Still a 1-star release. Great single player experience, terrible and broken multiplayer. When it works, it’s awesome, and when it inevitably breaks, it’s super frustrating. My group of friends have yet to complete a game because of the horrendous sync issues. Most turns involve restarting the app to fetch the latest updates. Or maybe it won’t fetch updates and you’ll just have 2 players stuck in combat with the game telling each player it’s the other’s turn, but nobody can actually take an action so the game just stops. Or maybe the AI bot won’t know how to break ties when bidding and kick everyone from the game. Or everyone will just be kicked out for no good reason at all. This game is yet another example of terrible software design practices where they ship a product without proper testing, and use us, the paying players, as their QA. I don’t recommend buying until they release a proper patch that fixes these unacceptable bugs.

Before I give a review, I’m having an issue with syncing my DWD purchase between my iPhone and my iPad. I purchased DWD (and the app) on my iPhone, and then launched it on my iPad. However, while I have an Asmodee account which is synced on both devices, it’s requiring me to pay for DWD again on my iPad. Is the intent that we have to pay for DWD multiple times or is this a bug? Follow-up: Unfortunately, my issue was never solved. While their team tried to help, it felt nominal at best. I paid for the game twice in the hopes of getting MoD as my way of investing in this game. Review: I’m sad to say that this version just isn’t as strong as the free version on the internet. Until they release a bug-free game with Mother of Dragons, I believe the other free versions online are far superior to this paid version. The animations are nice, but I’d rather see a much simpler and more strategic overview of the map rather than scrolling just to see what other players are doing. There is hardly any online presence, and it seems difficult to keep games in a PBEM state for a group of friends. I’m rooting for this team because I want to see MoD, but I’ve been disappointed so far.