Lost Cities

Dobrá prerábka stolovky pre dvoch hráčov. Bohužial počítanie skóre je pokazené. Prehadzuje skóre hráčov a tak pokiaľ si to nezapíšete neviete koľko ste nahrali. Podľa komentov to nefunguje už od roku 2022 a tvorcovia s tým nič nerobia. Za ďalšie - už nefunguje online multiplayer. Takže ak si chcete zahrať so živými hráčmi doporučujem radšej BGA, kde je to zadarmo a všetko funguje ako má.

Clever strategy game. Quick, relatively easy to play but not easy to win. One significant issue - you play three rounds against the ai. Often, after the 3rd round, the computer switches the scores - so, if you are winning by 20 points after the second round, when the final score is calculated you are 20 points behind for the first two rounds. Many comments directed at the developer have received no response. It appears the developers have abandoned the game - too bad, an excellent, popular board game with a tarnished pc legacy.

Just crashed on a good hand, but I was thinking of reviewing anyway... This version of Lost Cities (fortunately bought in a sale) is basically only even half-playable when viewed as a totally solitaire-style experience, but you'll eventually realise that even playing that way the implementation is just too flawed to be ultimately worthwhile. The big problem is that you just cannot form any kind of game strategy due to the AI being so poor. It's very probably the worst I've ever encountered. The online documentation claims to have different level settings, but that is 100% not the case - there isn't even a 'low' level of AI on display here, just 4 broadly different approaches to play. And who in real life goes hellbent on one approach across all the 3 rounds of Lost Cities? As long as you play reasonably well, all of the AI approaches usually get minus scores for all 3 rounds! One of the AI 'approaches' will even suddenly discard a 10 for you to grab, when it has say a 6 and a 7 and you have 3,5,8 etc.. As a consequence it is next to impossible to predict what the AI may or may not do, or even worse what cards it might be keeping in its hand, as sometimes it never even plays its high cards the whole game even though it should be scoring well off them. It's not just that it gets stuck with cards (which can happen of course), it's that it does not use proper (ie even semi-decent) AI. So even played as solitaire it has the fatal flaw of you never being able to work out what cards are likely to be left in the deck. And when you realise that you'll likely uninstall. But I suppose you could have some fun for a while completely shooting the moon trying make 300, until you start to play the cards too quickly and it crashes on you like it did me today. Rubbish, eh? PS. There's actually a decent online version out there with very tough AI and access to online players too, but it will cost you money for game points after you play it for a while.

I bought this game, played it, and returned it. While the UI is OK, the game does not implement scoring correctly, which results in the game being unplayable. This issue was identified long ago; I made the mistake of thinking that the developer would have fixed such a crucial feature, but they have not. I would STRONGLY suggest avoiding this game, and avoiding any other games from BlueLine Games.

It is like competitive solataire on steroids.

I say yes out of hopeful optimism. The operator controls and flow are well done and I've played several games. But I've also had it hang on me when playing remotely with a friend. We played the first of the 3 games and then it hung shortly after starting the second. We aborted and the RESUME worked so we played the second game. It completed so we started the third game and it hung again. After this the RESUME would not work. Every attempt to use it tried to load the game from the server but on both of our systems we would get a pop up window that says "Object reference not set to an instance of an object." We tried 3 times and then gave up. I hope the author of this game will read this and can come up with a fix for I like the game and hope it can be fixed.

DO NOT BUY. The multiplayer is completely broken. Lobby causes crashes and if you're lucky enough and actually get in game despite error messages of blue line server trouble, you'll crash the moment you pass a turn. Tried on different PCs and even from a different account and on different network connection to eliminate that my connection/pc could be the problem. Same result. Literally unplayable, unless you want to enjoy 5% of the game by only playing against dim and dumb AI - that works. But the AI is really stupid and easy to beat (gave me an 8, which I needed to turn my triple wager 24567 column into profit)

Light and fluffy, more in line with a game like Uno or Mille borne. family friendly, a fun romp.

Great game

This game is simply a masterpiece. It's even better than the board game.