
Dive into the world of the energy industry with the Power Grid app, designed by award-winning author Friedemann Friese.
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Languages: English*, German**languages with full audio support
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The negative reviews really soured me to this, but I really like the physical game and I was hoping this could give me some practice and just keep up my knowledge of the game since it's hard to get to the table. $10? I've paid way more for games I haven't even played. The first time I launched this I was completely in agreement with the negative reviews. The UI is really clunky and I couldn't figure out what was going on. I quit the game and figured it wasn't worth it. Fast forward to today. I've been itching to get the actual game back to the table for game night and so I watched a few YT game play videos in preparation. At some point during the video, it dawned on me that I have the steam app. I fired it up, dug in. After getting a refresher in the rules, this version opened up to me and I got through a 5 player (AI) game and it was smooth as butter. You have to fiddle around with the menus, know to double click the resource window so it looks like the board game version, then scroll wheel to increase size. But once, you get beyond the quirky UI, the game is there. It's a faithful recreation of the board game. Would be nice to have a log of the game actions, because it's a little difficult to analyze what the opponents did that round. Once you finish your action there is a loud SOUND and then all AI players take their turn in an instant. Yes, the UI is clunky. Other than that, if you're looking for a digital version of PG so you don't have to wait to play this with your game group once a year, this game works and then some. I feel like some of the negative reviews come from people not knowing how to play and expecting the game to hand hold them (not unreasonable). But this game slaps your hand if you extend it out expecting it to be grasped. You need to know how to play Power Grid to play this. And if you do know, you will be rewarded.
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I love power grid the board game and I desperately want to like this so I can play. However, it's a really bad PC game. UIs are not very intuitive, windows are floating everywhere, and sometimes the game doesn't even work... Would not recommend, sadly.
OK, so the UI is about the worst thing i've ever seen, so if you're coming to this having never played the board game it's a hard pass However......being a massive fan of the board game the UI still sucks so hard but i can live with it to get to play this classic board game OK, updating my original review of only a few days ago........... The UI is still trash, however.................I can't stop playing this game, the original games has enough strength to carry this mess of a conversion and I'll be playing this one happily for a long while
买游戏就是为了找3-5个电脑朋友陪自己玩,单机玩一局就十几分钟,还可以,虽然没中文,但是游戏本身无文字量,玩起来没什么问题。 目前的地图有基础的美国/德国,还有法国/意大利,荷比卢/中欧,中东/南非,游戏规则是新版2020的规则,可以选择是否初始规定起始位置,牌库是基础的,背面分插头插座,不过没有新电厂卡的扩。
If you have played the board game version of Power Grid before, you will have no problem catching on after a game or 2 to learn the strange UI. If you have never played the board game version, I strongly suggest you do that first as this game does not really offer much to a new player. Or at least watch a video about how to play before playing this version. During your first game you will probably lose, even to a baby AI. Not because of bad strategy, but because you are trying to learn the interface. At least that was my experience. A couple turns of (Your Name) spent 0 on buying houses or resources or whatever even through you swear that you clicked on the right buttons. Once you get the UI down, the game is pretty good. I honestly think the developers just ported the mobile version straight over to PC without really making any changes, the UI has mobile version written all over it. This is why many of the menus disappear and stack as well as the hold the mouse button down to bring up the main menu stuff exists. Unfortunately, this is often the case, whatever platform is made first gets to decide how things work and then the code just gets ported to whatever platform they can support.
The user interface is brutal and barebones but the game seems to play right and is lots of fun. Honestly, I like the simplicity of it.
need chinese . need updte.
I love Power Grid IRL, it's one of my favorite board games of all time... BUT the app is just terrible.... awful..like its made in 1995.. so dated... I hate posting negative but is game is to be avoided....
Great board game, but this implementation heavily lags, and sometimes the action boxes close themselves without reason
The user interface is mediocre. Can't zoom the map in and out.
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