Unmatched: Digital Edition

I have a lot of board games. Unmatched is my favorite of them all. I play it with anyone willing, I watch videos, I look for all the clues and spoilers as to what’s coming in the next sets…I love the game. This app though, seriously disappointing so far. On launch I immediately bought it and the season pass. Since then it’s just sadly been one disappointment after another. Each new character that comes out is basically unplayable at launch and patch after patch still can’t seem to fix a multitude of things. The vast majority of my games end in the game crashing or freezing or the AI on “hard” doing a variety of nonsensical things that make it not fun. And I would play with my friends instead of the AI, in fact I got it to do so and encouraged all my friends to get it. I’m sorry I did. I’ve barely completed any games, they are disappointed with me at the waste of money, and unless they have an IPhone, I can’t find even find them to play. It’s supposed to be cross compatible but it doesn’t work. The app looks beautiful which is why I give it two stars, and I so badly want it to be good, but after waiting and waiting through delay after delay for it to launch, then waiting and waiting as bug after bug is fixed… I think I may be giving up on it. Maybe I’ll come back in a few years and see if it’s better. Sad day for this massive unmatched fan.

I love playing the board games with my family. It has been an amazing chance for me to spend time with them. We all decided to get this digital version, so we could practice in our free time. While the digital version is a lot of fun, I found many bugs/issues with the game as I play. The biggest issue happens when the AI Dracula is playing. It will unpredictably stop the game and send to a loading screen. From there, it reopens the match but it won’t allow me to play the game. It gets stuck on the loading map and the AI won’t finish its processing/decision making. This happens with other characters but it stands out most with Dracula because it happens almost every game. The game will only function properly if Dracula is not played at all. Other than the bugs, this game is great.

I’ve currently arbitrarily given this a 3. The tutorial hung when it asked me to “Tap the EXCALIBUR card.” I’ve tried to report this directly to ACRAM but the message form continues to fail. So both the support web site and the game have issues. Hopefully both will soon be rectified or maybe someone can tell me if I’m doing something wrong in the tutorial. Updated to a 4 (really a 3.5) mainly due to quick response by the developer. The game seems to play well (I don’t know the board game). The interface is pretty clunky and at times the images can obscure the board. The size of the fighter’s bases can be so large as to make seeing the underlying space difficult. Additionally the online interface has issues. I play mostly async. It’s cumbersome to re-establish your game. Additionally if you don’t exit the online section before ending your session, when you come back you will either be plunked back into the starting menu, or if you are still in the online section if you try to go to lobby, it will crash. None of these are terrible but should have been identified via beta testing. I assume live online play is cleaner.