MONOPOLY: The Board Game

This is an amazing game and it’s the only game I play on my iPad. I’ve been playing this game since the pandemic hit. Here are a few fixes that can greatly improve the online game play: 1 - Players Bank Accounts should be hidden. 2 - The online game needs a mandatory time limit. When players are losing they purposely slow the game down. 3 - $1 trades need to be rejected there should be mandatory minimum fixed amounts 4 - Train stations on the orange and red side overcharge. This has been going on since I’ve had this game (they fixed the glitch) 5 - The in-game chats are great but there should be a kick a player out option for those players that are slowing the game down or cheating. Then have their properties auctioned off. 6 - A social feature to play or host a game with friends would be great (Facebook link or phone contacts that have the game) 7 - when the game is frozen it seems like it’s frozen on one specific player. I think it would help to add in another chat button that says “Everyone Please Refresh Your Game it’s Frozen” or a refresh button this will help solve the frozen game issues instead of forcing players to just quit. 8 - The game will freeze every now and then but players have no idea what to do. For me I switch on app manager and go back to the game without quitting. This always fixes the game. like I stated above “REFRESH” chat option to let the player that’s frozen would really help these freezing issues. Or the ability for remaining players to dismiss a frozen. Update August 2023: I’m no longer able to log in.

I have been playing this game for just about two months now and I can honestly say that the frustration is outweighing the fun. Other people reporting that there is nothing random about the dice rolls are 100% correct, in my experience. I’ve played dozens of single player games since buying this and I notice the exact same patterns that others are reporting. I don’t mind losing a fair game, that’s part of the fun. I’m also not saying that the AI makes you lose every game. But it does feel like a good number of games you just see the AI sail past multiple blocks of properties you own, not just once but over and over. Only once you lose all your houses and are bordering on bankruptcy do they start landing on your property. This happens quite frequently. I have I’ve seen developer feedback back to this on other reviews and they say, we would never intentionally want the player to have a negative experience. I believe them, but I also wish they would take another look at the single player AI, algorithms. whatever you want to call it, because there is a balancing issue and it’s ruining the experience, at least for me. Again, nothing wrong with losing, it’s what makes winning fun. But when you’re losing to the same recurring patterns and it gets to a point where you can predict the AI rolls, that’s just not fun. I hope the developers read this and consider the feedback as I will continue playing the game in hopes that changes are made.

I’ve been playing this mobile edition of Monopoly for quite some time and I figured I’d give my official review. I would like to start with a brief list of suggestions to make the game a little more enticing to potential players as well as current players! The maps currently playable are wonderful and creative (as I’ve got the season pass) but if you could try to bring some of the more up to date Monopoly boards that we see in stores such as the Rick and Morty board or the Monopoly Cheater Edition, that would really make the game pop. Adding a section for players to create more custom rules on their private games as well as allowing players to group up with friends and adding other random people from online rather than AIs. Some smaller suggestions would be to allow the players to click a button for random token/name selecting in AI games. Also, being able to look at properties on the board when it’s not your turn as well as a “free view” giving the ability to zoom in on the city and appreciate the architecture while other players are taking their turns. Aside from the occasional lags in the game during online play, I would still rate this game at a 10/10 and will continue to play!

This game is my favorite game. I’ve liked the traditional board game ever since I was young. The board game is very fun to play with family and friends. I think that it’s very convenient to have a digital version of the board game on the App Store, that’s why I bought the game on the App Store with my money! For them to have finally make it easy for us to just enjoy the game without actually setting the game up with the traditional board game is pretty convenient. My aunt always says that I take up too much space setting up the traditional in-hand board game and always told us to play outside where the wind will then blow all the money away, and then we’d have to run to retrieve the money on the ground. Until, she suggested me to just buy the digital game on the App Store. Although I really like the digital version of the game, I still want my own, in-hand monopoly board game since the one I always use belongs to my uncle. Very great and convenient game. Though, I’d suggest the developers of the digital monopoly board game to add digital rewards in the game every time you win a match. I’d also want the developers to allow us to see our statistics that we and other users can view such as how many loses and wins we have in total. Maybe even have a statistics of how much rent we paid and earned. Overall, it’s a very entertaining game when it comes to playing with friends and family.

tl;dr: great game, good ghost story, dice feel weighted at times. The game itself is alright, at times however it feel like the computer controlled pieces are using weighted dice but this is somewhat remedied by the user being able to go back to the main menu and rejoin the single player game thereby getting a new chance to roll. Beyond that the game plays fine and looks great, I find the board skins and tokens to be a bit pricey to buy but are wholly unnecessary. Now then, the octopus. Why is it this review’s title? When this particular token wins the game and is spinning on the victory screen - the metal reflects what appears to be the scene of a long and empty room with a window at the far end and an open doorway on the left, this room is either abandoned or under construction/renovation as it is devoid of anything, even appearing as to have unfinished sheetrock on the walls. As far as I can tell no other token has this unsettling reflection which begs the question: why? Why does just the octopus appear to have this reflection when no other pieces seem to? Why is this room so empty and in disrepair? Is this the room we play monopoly in in this app? If so, are we - in this app, forced to play monopoly? By whom? What’s the prize for winning? What happens to the three losers? Will there ever be a time when these damned souls are released from this Hasbro-inspired purgatory? Is this where the souls trapped in the ouija boards are sourced from? The public demands answers, Marmalade!