*BC4L* 6
Tuesday, April 1, 2025
The current version, April 2025, is worse in almost every way. I played the HECK out of this game for years. acoming back to it is disappointing —and that ain't the nostalgia speaking. this game doesn't work. I KEEP getting totally frozen during my turns, unable to interact with anything except reading tile descriptions. Also, SOMEHOW, it is slower, like WAY slower. To salt that wound: often, on the AI's turns, the "waiting for AI" loading bar will slowly fill, then SLOWLY FILL AGAIN.
Dave Tumarkin 13
Tuesday, December 12, 2023
I was excited to see there was an update for this game, a favorite. Hope multilayer (even just more bots) has been unlocked. Nope, just an attempt to extract more money. I'd even buy it, but only once I had basic original function back. It's been years! 3 star rating is back to 5 when game is back. Perfection was mangled. Edited
G 25
Monday, September 20, 2021
Updated September 2021 after the port to Portal Games. Feel really ripped off at not having access to the armies I bought previously. Also, the AI is now unplayably bad, even on hardest level. Feel like there are usability issues too. Really want a refund because the base game is so degraded. Original review 2013: Introduced to the basic game by a friend. Love the replayability, good balance, effective ai.
Tom Mollison 153
Wednesday, November 30, 2022
This was my favorite game. Played thousands of games. Purchased all the expansions. It was great for killing a few minutes, waking up your brain the morning, relaxing before bed, etc. Then, without notice or explanation, they forced an update that ruined the interface and, more importantly, took away all the expansions I had previously purchased to extort a second round of payments. That's customer abuse. I am certainly not going to pay again for expansions that may well be taken away. Edited
Rick Tanis 25
Wednesday, September 29, 2021
I love this game. I have the actual board game as well and sometimes we will use this game just for rule clarification. Still, a solid game with lots of unique play through. EDIT: The new update removed all my purchased armies, the new graphics are hard to read, and the game plays much slower. Maybe someday it will be good again. I will update my review if/when that happens.
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