The game is far to slow. The creators should compare the speed to the ASO Brain Games desktop version. I can whip through a game of C&K on that in 10 minutes when playing the bots. Obviously it is harder and slower to play on a smaller device but I’m sure they could make gameplay faster.

For starters I would recommend simplifying the graphics. The board looks reasonably pretty but needs much less detail – simple coloured blocks would actually make it much more playable.

Roll on V2…

If you don’t like the review go read another one.

Your obviously a a nark for these lame garage developers, trying to plant bad comments about Catan!

You are all now dumber for reading my post. I am awarded no points and may god have mercy on my soul.

Rjak – I make no claims about being a professional writer. I am an iPhone user, that’s it. Thanks for pointing out the missing parenthesis, I have corrected it in the review. If something in the review is unclear, by all means post a comment and ask, I will be happy to clarify.

In addition, I find that they’re more likely to go for bigger trades, like my offering a stone and a wood in exchange for a sheep and a brick, instead of just a stone for a sheep.

I have two UI frustrations. The first is the needlessly slow animations of the dice and the distribution of goods. The dice one seems to be due to basically bad animation concepts: they generate a random (or not-entirely-random, if you’re using the stack or stack 5 rules) number and then tumble the dice into the center of the screen, and THEN try to rotate them to match the needed numbers. And to make it worse, they insist on straightening them out. Bleh. The distribution slowness comes from the little circle animation designed to be played while the resource sound is played: even if you turn off the sounds, it still ensures there’s time for the sound to be played, which bites.

My other UI problem with it is that there’s no way to “peek” at the board during a trade. Very often an opponent will offer something like a grain for one of my wood. I need to know if that red-colored opponent is the one that’s about to horn in on the area where I want to build a road or if he’s off somewhere else entirely. If the former then I don’t want to make the trade no matter what (since I may well be enabling him to build the road that screws me), but if it’s the latter it may be fine. I can’t easily remember who’s encroaching on what so I end up rejecting trades that would probably be quite helpful for me, just in case.

Your review is unreadable by the third paragraph. You’re missing brackets, you have run on sentences that look like you took two complete sentences and deleted a big chunk in the middle, and a confusing misspelling.

“For a quick review (for anyone who doesn’t know what Settlers of Catan is, is a strategy board game where you goal is to amass a certain amount of points by building cities, roads, trading with colleagues, and using the games resources to your advantage.”

When I read a review here, I want an idea of what an app is like, I don’t want to decipher a secret message. I expect this kind of writing in the comments, but it SUCKS to read it in the actual review.