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The Castles Of Burgundy
DIGIDICED · 568 ratings · ★ 4.3
4.3
★★★★★
568 ratings
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Top complaints - extracted from 28 negative reviews
Recurring phrases mined from 1-2★ reviews. The bigger the percentage, the more users have the same problem. Fix the top 2-3 in your version and you have product-market fit on day one.
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"game"
20 negative reviews mention this · 71% of all complaints
★★★★★ "While the game itself is decent (once played the tabletop version years ago), this mobile port has a horrible tiny interface, disastrous tutorial, and if you need to close the app for whatever reason, you are unable to continue your game. I…" - ian kaplow
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"play"
7 negative reviews mention this · 25% of all complaints
★★★★★ "While the game itself is decent (once played the tabletop version years ago), this mobile port has a horrible tiny interface, disastrous tutorial, and if you need to close the app for whatever reason, you are unable to continue your game. I…" - ian kaplow
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"money"
5 negative reviews mention this · 18% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Nearly impossible to play. The tutorial doesn't show you how to play clearly, it's hard to select things to do, and I'm still not sure how to even attempt to play this game. Honestly, I want my money back this Gane feels geared towards peop…" - Kristin Bunner
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"board"
5 negative reviews mention this · 18% of all complaints
★★★★★ "even though I already paid for this game, only 2 boards are available while the rest you have to buy as DLC. horrible cash grab" - a n
5
"google"
4 negative reviews mention this · 14% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Alas after the update I need to change my rating and review. The update is bad. It constantly tries to get me to sign into my google acct. I don't want to sign into it, quit asking! The pop up avatar figures are annoying and I can't find a …" - Paul Pomykala
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"freezes"
4 negative reviews mention this · 14% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Great game except since the update it freezes on the chromebook so it is no longer playable" - michael raleigh
7
"love"
4 negative reviews mention this · 14% of all complaints
★★★★★ "I love this game but the app is useless. I can't play any ships. Please fix this 😃" - Mary Holden
8
"played"
3 negative reviews mention this · 11% of all complaints
★★★★★ "While the game itself is decent (once played the tabletop version years ago), this mobile port has a horrible tiny interface, disastrous tutorial, and if you need to close the app for whatever reason, you are unable to continue your game. I…" - ian kaplow
9
"years"
3 negative reviews mention this · 11% of all complaints
★★★★★ "While the game itself is decent (once played the tabletop version years ago), this mobile port has a horrible tiny interface, disastrous tutorial, and if you need to close the app for whatever reason, you are unable to continue your game. I…" - ian kaplow
10
"account"
3 negative reviews mention this · 11% of all complaints
★★★★★ "While the game itself is decent (once played the tabletop version years ago), this mobile port has a horrible tiny interface, disastrous tutorial, and if you need to close the app for whatever reason, you are unable to continue your game. I…" - ian kaplow
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"doesn"
3 negative reviews mention this · 11% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Nearly impossible to play. The tutorial doesn't show you how to play clearly, it's hard to select things to do, and I'm still not sure how to even attempt to play this game. Honestly, I want my money back this Gane feels geared towards peop…" - Kristin Bunner
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"player"
3 negative reviews mention this · 11% of all complaints
★★★★★ "While the game itself is decent (once played the tabletop version years ago), this mobile port has a horrible tiny interface, disastrous tutorial, and if you need to close the app for whatever reason, you are unable to continue your game. I…" - ian kaplow
📋 All 28 negative reviews
Every 1-2★ review we fetched. Use the copy button to grab them all for your own analysis (paste into ChatGPT/Claude with a prompt like "summarize core user problems, group by theme, ignore bugs, focus on missing features").
Nearly impossible to play. The tutorial doesn't show you how to play clearly, it's hard to select things to do, and I'm still not sure how to even attempt to play this game. Honestly, I want my money back this Gane feels geared towards people who already know how to play it.
I want a refund, keeps crashing on my phone. Edit: Creator emailed me saying they could provide a key for another game as they can't refund, I asked for a key but haven't heard from them since. So all in all a terrible experience.
even though I already paid for this game, only 2 boards are available while the rest you have to buy as DLC. horrible cash grab
Great game except since the update it freezes on the chromebook so it is no longer playable
Save your money... Hasn't been updated in >2 years and won't run on modern phones
Not working. Unfortunately the player board/ map will not load up on my tablet! I just get a black screen!
It costs so much money and doesn't even work, please fix your app.
I love this game but the app is useless. I can't play any ships. Please fix this 😃
UNPLAYABLE. Tried multiple times to get even a single game passed phase 2 and a whole tile just disappeared from a player's board. The game was so buggy that you couldn't avoid resetting the game multipe times in a single turn if you dared to look at your opponent's board. Do not waste your money. I also want a refund.
This game is aggravating to play. Die results are predicated on what numbers would require the human player to use a worker action to place a tile in the board. I've been able to predict the dice roll based on this superficial method of increasing the difficulty that would otherwise defy the odds if the roll was actually random - which dice rolls should be! It's very maddening.
Castles of Burgandy App crashes during play. Even the Refresh Button freezes up. Tags: Waste, Of, Money, Google, Play, Too Much Detail On Graphics, RAM, YouTube, Reddit, Facebook, Censorship, Communist, Unamerican
Unable to connect to Google Play account. Once this is fixed, I'll happily re-purchase and review. The game design and controls are great.
Error on the scoring system. The animal tiles of different type within the same area would accumulate victory point, which is contrary to the rulebook.
While the game itself is decent (once played the tabletop version years ago), this mobile port has a horrible tiny interface, disastrous tutorial, and if you need to close the app for whatever reason, you are unable to continue your game. I have no idea how well multiplayer works, my attempts at creating an account were foiled. EDIT re: developer reply: yes, I realize there is a menu option to continue games, however - as others have also reported - this feature is broken in my version
The game is fun, but now every time I open it it asks me to enable notifications which I will not do for a game like this... very annoying!
A technically proficient adaptation of the game, but one of the must needlessly busy, over-designed UIs I think I've ever seen. The BGA implementation is miles ahead.
Pretty random game, pretty boring
Alas after the update I need to change my rating and review. The update is bad. It constantly tries to get me to sign into my google acct. I don't want to sign into it, quit asking! The pop up avatar figures are annoying and I can't find a way to turn them off! The color difference between the building and mine hexes seems even closer than before. This went from a five star review to a two star review. The only improvements are the new maps and the fast forward button. 😞
I love this game but the app can be rather frustrating. From bugs which don't allow you to take a free move after placing a castle, to not being able to take a go at all to the point where I have timed out. Constantly losing connection, freezing so you have to log out and back in, sometimes repeatedly. Hitting a milestone for the achievements but not being awarded the achievement. Very frustrating for the £8+ price tag.
The game freezes sometimes. It tells you to take an action after you have taken both and will not let you go any further. You have to quit the game.
Please fix the online. You select an online game but doesn't let you choose how many to play against. Games against computer work fine
The game looks gorgeous and the fact that the game is able to be played on a cell phone screen is great. My tablet cannot handle the animations and transitions. It runs very slow. Not really the developers fault, but just know on older equipment it can lag and shut down. On my Samsung 3 Chromebook, it ran for a a few rounds and then crashed. The game was not saved. On my Android One phone, it works well so far. I think for the price, it should be able to run smoothly on my devices.
Buggy. Crashes frequently
The board layout is so confusing, I've played CoB for years and I cannot for the life of me figure out where my resources are or what is what and what things are going on. Whose dumb idea was it to revamp the entire board so it looks nothing like the game. Can't tell whose goods are whose, who has workers, can't see what goods are in any of the ports, everything is clunky, nothing makes sense. Mad I payed $10 for this. Should have gone to yucata to play.
This game freezes A LOT. I have to exit the game multiple times a round, as both mine and my opponent's screen says "waiting for opponent". It is very frustrating, especially considering the price. I love the concept of the game, and I like the board game version, but this app needs work.
Great game! Unfortunately I get an error message when trying to log in with my Google account.
Lost friends list, can't add new ones.
Love the game but the interface is so bad its almost unplayable.
Sentiment summary
80%
Positive (4-5★)
9%
Neutral (3★)
11%
Negative (1-2★)