SpaceCorp: 2025-2300AD

Great adaptation of the board game, with the Ventures expansion. Plays fairly smoothly, though the AI isn't always the best. It seems there are a few bugs, such as not allowing Team Transport when it should be available, and the Poach card doesn't always put all the cards from the player's discards into your hand. Fully playable on Android, though the HQ text is often too small, and there is no function to expand it to see better. Still recommend if you are a fan of the board game.

Pros: Comes with board game rules PDF. Learning curve is about 3 games. Variety of strategies from confrontational to niche. The space-race feel is well implemented. Claim-jumping keeps the competition wide open. No setup time and It won't clutter your dining table for hours. Cons: Infrastructure sharing is still in development for AI players. Contracts and Bio and tech developments are easy to overlook for new players. Few hints and rule notices make important events like the era ending conditions a surprise for new/casual players.

[h1] A hesitant recommendation [/h1] This review is intended as an evaluation of the digital adaptation for those are already familiar with the board game. A rough-but-functional digital adaptation of the board game. The Ventures DLC expansion is basically a must-buy. To echo many other reviews, there are significant caveats to be aware of: [olist] [*]There is [b]no multiplayer in any form[/b]. No hotseat, no LAN, no nothing. It does include the solo variant (I have not played it yet), and the regular game with up to 3 CPU opponents. [*]The [b]CPU players are bad[/b]. Even on the hardest difficulty, a somewhat experienced player will utterly dominate (think a score of 100+ versus ~30-40). They will make plainly suboptimal plays (the most egregious I saw was sending all available crew Beyond when no Milestones had been claimed in the era, and when the CPU player in question had barely built anything at all. Utterly crippling their entire game.) Your challenge is really a high score against yourself. [*]The [b]UI is amateurish[/b]. This is not a particularly pretty game, and the UI can be utterly opaque at times - most obviously during game setup (to swap between Venture draft/all-pick modes is a single checkbox, whose text actually corresponds to the mode you will change to if you click the box, not the mode you're looking at now; you can't view opponent's selected Venture corp during draft, so unless you have the corps memorized you won't know what they do until you're in-game). Clicking on crew in-game is unreliable; you'll want to use the keyboard shortcuts (Space by default; shortcuts visible in game by pressing Tab). Selecting your final scoring card You'll eventually get the hang of it, but it's never entirely smooth. [/olist] I have not encountered any game-breaking bugs, but I did find an edge case in the Starfarers era that required exiting to the Main Menu and reloading (if you acquire the Entangled Transmitter Breakthrough when there are no valid empty locations to jump to, the game will soft lock). I've also not encountered any apparent errors in the rules implementation that other reviews have alluded to. I'm curious as to what those perceived errors are. Overall, I just really enjoy SpaceCorp and don't have an opportunity to play it with other people in-person that often, so this adaptation is just fine for me. If you want more SpaceCorp in your life and don't care about the quality of your opponents nor about having a polished UI, this is a fine purchase. But if you've never played the game before or if you're looking for a multiplayer adaptation, this may not be the right fit for you.

Great adaption of the boardgame

Quel plaisir !!!! l'adaptation du jeu de plateau est top !

Good implementation of the board game.

Great digital implementation of one of my favorite board games. AI could be smarter but the developers are working on it.