Destinies

I played with my bf and we had a great time! I thought everything was very well thought out. To preface, we are new in this kind of game play (both of us are beginners) it was easy to understand and very entertaining. It does leave no room for mistakes (scanning the wrong item, clicking the wrong button) but that didn’t bother us because it was our mistake not the game’s fault. Be aware that you should block out 2-3 hours to play and play to finish as you never know what can happen with saves on game apps. Not just on this game but many others have issues with saves. Overall we had a great time and are excited to bring this out on our next game night 🤩.

There should be more attention given to this app by the board game publisher. There needs to be an undo action option, and the promised ability to make your own scenarios is a flat-out lie. The fan-created stuff is comically bad and broken in places. It would also be great to see map and event locations shuffled to some degree, but I don’t know if that will ever happen.

So far, I have been playing Destinies with my parents, and they are enjoying the gameplay just as much as I am. From a gameplay standpoint, I give the game an 8/10 on BoardGame Greek. The reason for my three-star review is due to how the automatic saves happen. The saves happening only at the start of each day have bitten me twice now. My phone either was acting strange while screen sharing to my parent's TV, which caused the game to close and then we had to restart at the start of day 5. This app would get an easy 5/5 from me if there were an automatic save after each person took their turn. This feature would eliminate the issue of a day being wholly reset due to an app issue or someone closing it. Another cool feature for phone users would be to make a wifi-shared lobby so everyone can use their device.