Steam: Rails to Riches Examine App

Globalement, ladaptation est de qualité mais un prix élevé pour une application avec un seul plateau, une seule IA, un didacticiel buggué et surtout limpossibilité de jouer sans connexion internet (au hasard, dans le train sur iPad) font que je ne recommande pas cette appli, surtout à ce prix (7€) !

Bonne réalisation mais prix un peu trop élevé. Le jeu en lui même à son prix limite mais les addons payantes des cartes, cest abusé

Je suis amateur, joueur et collectionneur de jeux de société sur le thème des trains (jen possède plus de 100...). De tous mes jeux sur plateau, steam est de loin mon préféré, par sa richesse et les possibilités tactiques et stratégiques quil recèle. Steam est une adaptation très fidèle du jeu de plateau, tant par le graphisme que par la mécanique. On y retrouve a lidentique les deux plateaux de jeu, et lintégralité des règles avancées (enchères pour lordre du tour, choix des personnages, niveaux de locomotives, et le choix et cornélien entre rembourser ses emprunts ou gagner des points de victoire ! Linterface sur iPad est très réussi et facile a utiliser, ce qui nest pas toujours le cas dans les adaptations de jeux de plateau. Bref, Steam est devenu mon jeu de train préféré sur tablette aussi, même si jaime toujours "les Aventurieers du Rail" ou, dans un autre domaine, "Puerto Rico" ou ". Jattends avec impatience de nouvelles cartes, et la possibilité de jouer contre des adversaires humain via internet.

Jeu cool. Bonne mise à jour. Merci aux développeurs ! Peut être le multijoueur en ligne pour le futur ?

I cannot progress in tutorial. I’ve now restarted it twice, but it requires me to perform an action that I cannot do. I also found a spelling error in the tutorial text. I want to like this game, but I still don’t know how to play because of the broken tutorial.

You cant invite friends so you need to leave a game open for them to join. The turn notifications also dont work. I was very encouraged when the multiplayer was first rolled out but have struggled to complete any games as friends need to be messaged in another medium that it is their turn

Are you guys seriously pushing out an update when you have a sale so you can put the 'Sale' banner on your icons? Because that's what it looks like.

How do I get the app to let me take multiple turns moving goods in the move goods phase? It always ends the phase after I move one good instead of cycling through all the players’ turns repeatedly. Very annoying

No good tutorial. No written tutorial of any worth.

خیلی زیباست دقیقا تبدیل شده بازی رومیزی بدون هیچ مشکلی

This is one of those games you really have to pay attention while playing. I had to search for tips on the internet how to successfully win or be at least competitive against the lowest Computer players. The tutorial, as mentioned, is not very helpful.

This may be a decent game if you know how to play the board game. The tutorial however is broken and does not allow you to progress after a couple of turns.

The tutorial makes the game impossible to learn. I really don’t understand how the game plays on my devices, so I never attempt it for very long. It’s a very frustrating game.

A good game, but the mechanics around dragging everything are just wrong. Everyone else let's you get close, it's sad that in a game mainly about dragging its so much work to do this here.

The game doesn't place a yellow good on Einhoven, then tells you to transport one yellow good to Njinmegen. It won't let me progress past that. I really want to give this game a higher review, but the tutorial is a dumpster fire.

The game consistently crashes. No response from their "Help" link. The online manual seems more geared to the board game. Poor game play. Request for refund ignored. Why is this garbage in the App Store?

Not much more to say that that.

This is a well made game. There were problems at launch but the developer has fixed them. Strongly recommend. The game does online play well also (it lets you know when it is your turn and it is easy to invite others to play).

Decent game. But at $12 I think the add on maps cost too much. This whole game should be $5.

Games is very complicated, and the tutorial was little help at all. When you first open the app, it takes 7-8 minutes to download "mandatory" maps before you get to see anything about the horribly complicated game.

This game surprised me as to how good it is. As a fan of Carcassonne, Steam is like a distant cousin with trains and merchandise. I enjoy it so much I bought all the expansions when they went on sale. Good stuff!

Latest map, Northern England, will not allow user to complete Urbanization action. Cannot then continue. Also, feedback link won't work either.

I bought this sight unseen because I heard about it on a podcast called Ludology. This is a fun strategy game!

One of my favorite board games ever turned into a wonderful app. There are a few bugs and still waiting on the online play but overall this is a must own.

As a board game lover and someone who appreciates a good strategy game, this one rocks. If you like Ticket to Ride, Catan, or any of the all time greats, this is for you. Only complaint is a couple of bugs but nothing major and I want more maps as soon as possible. Download this game, take the time to understand the rules, and you will not regret it. Oh, and I never do reviews so that should tell you something.

Works fine on iPhone 6 but probably best on iPads. As others pointed out, the tutorial has a bug and can't be completed. I played 4 games but couldn't finish the last one due to a bug (old graphics suddenly got loaded and I couldn't complete the unloading of my train). Great game, well balanced, and good enough graphics.

When you go through the standard tutorial the tutorial stops working right after you upgrade your train to level 3, ship one good, and then put the points into the income track. Wallace is up next but she doesn't do anything.

This ui design is outright awful. The tutorial dismisses tutorial help so fast that it's often unreadable. Big, clumsy game controls & status displays take up so much of the screen real estate; at best, with visual information hidden, you can see about a quarter of the map at once ... still partially obscured by the remaining controls. There's no way to zoom-out to view the whole map. It's frequently buggy - critical legal actions/moves suddenly don't work. Almost unplayable.

See title. Every other board game adaptation has online play, usually through game enter. Give me a live back-and-forth experience so I don't have to hand my iPad back and forth and you'll sell 3-5x more copies!

I have never played the board game version of this game but I can tell the mechanics will transfer very easily. I got this app to practice for a Euro-League I joined recently and I can't wait to put my practice to the test!

Devs made many promises of updates and content but instead took the money and ran. This game has been abandoned, sorry I bought the POS, and will never buy another game from these phonies.

I haven't played a train game since Euro-rail crayon game back ages ago. I have always enjoyed Railroad tycoon video game. This one interested me from Suz review on board game breakfast. Not familiar with the board game but I enjoyed this app.

Interface is horrible, a waste of time and money

Other reviews cover the issue, but why do I have to download a map as soon as I open the game? Aside from that, several frustrating issues. The initial loading screens take far too long. Multiple rules are implemented incorrectly, such as taking loans at the beginning of a turn (from AGE OF Steam, not Steam). A good effort, but misses the mark. Disappointing.

This is a great version of the game and they did a wonderful job. The updated version takes care a lot of the flaws from the first.

Steam is one of my all-time favorite games. But: the iOS version has a couple flaws. The first is that track laying is fiddly. If you don’t drag the track just right, the game complains and doesn’t give you a chance to correct it. Second is that the AI is *very* disappointing.

Strategic yet relaxing train game. Colorful graphics and nice background music. The additional map to purchase is cool. A definite for fans of Age of Steam or Railroad Tycoon.

For $7 you can be the proud owner of a very dramatic picture of a train that says now loading under it, if however you wanted a game you should save your money

I'll revise this when I can use the tutorial. I loaded the maps but the tutorial sat there for 15 minutes. I shut down the app and reloaded it with the same result. I deleted the app and tried again with the same result. IPad 3 with the most recent iOS.

After they fixed some of the release problems, this game is awesome! A very good strategic railroad game. This is an excellent port of the board game.

Game doesn't work on download; two thirds of it requires being downloaded. Which took an hour, because servers weren't ready for people buying the game. Why not make it part of the initial iTunes download? Ok, so I have the maps, ready to play. Open the tutorial. "Loading" screen comes up. And stays up. No progress bar, nothing. Thirty minutes, still a loading screen. I've paid $7 for a "Loading" screen.

It took a while to download the maps the first night, but now the app works great. The app has the standard version of the game but not the basic version.

I own the board game but have never played. After playing 3 games of this implementation, I'll twist arms to play the board game! Really enjoying this version. Looking forward to playing others online and buying expansions. Plays very smoothly.

Issues corrected. Plays very well now. Highly recommend. *old review* Takes several hours to download resources for the game, and if your device goes to sleep in the process, you're back to square one. Wait for an update before purchasing. Unplayable at the moment.

First of all, the core experience is great. Good presentation and artwork, great gameplay with no bugs or glitches. There are a few things that could be improved though... •The initial download takes a while, and you can't exit the app while it takes place. Took an hour or so on LTE in North Atlanta. •The app doesn't even multitask on the iPhone, which is bonkers. But with the game saving your progress after every move it's an annoyance, not a deal breaker. •The game manual is a link to a PDF instead of built into the game. •Tile placement can be a little bit finicky. In summary, if you really want this game, go ahead and buy it. If you're not totally sure, waiting for the first major update is completely reasonable.

I was glad to see this game for the ipad, but I haven't been able to play it as the maps take too long to download. An early glitch in distributing the game? I'll update my review when I can play the game. Update 1: I was able to download the maps today, but could not get the tutorial downloaded. Will check back. Update 2: The game seems to be working now.

I love Wallace's games, especially Steam and Age of Steam. This implementation is pretty slipshod, however. The game needs to download additional data after installation, but that only works on a solid Internet connection. If anything goes wrong it just crashes and is unplayable. Once it's working it ... is very slipshod. The UI conventions are inconsistent, inexplicable, and unintuitive. I m familiar with the board game, but get confused constantly by the UI. There's a lot of potential here but the developers need to put some real effort into user experience, especially given the price point ($10 with two maps).

This loaded fine for me, including the map and the rules pdf, so apparently whatever issues they were having at launch have been resolved. The graphics look great and the UI is polished and intuitive. And (hooray!) they included a colorblind-friendly graphics setting, a huge improvement over the original cardboard game. It remains to be seen whether the AI plays well, and there are still a number of features waiting for a future release. But so far this seems to be a worthy addition to the IOS board game genre.

Steam is miles away from being a premium app with a premium price. Missing basic functionality, too reliant on Internet access, and can't even play the game without downloading the first map. Do not buy this app, wait too see if the devs can fix before being frustrated with its current state.

Game is unplayable. It attempts to download your initial map but gets an http404 error and then quits. Wherever they are storing their map is down. 1 star for crappy delivery and inability to play. It is my hope this is just temporary and will be resolved soon. Update. Next day, map downloaded in 3 seconds. No issues, no crashes. This app just had a very bad first day. Don't let the first day reviews scare you. I changed my rating from 1 star to four. It is now working great.

I've tried downloading the map 3 times, and every time it fails

Keep getting 404 error. Thinks no internet ... I have Internet! Completely unplayable?

Won't download maps. Keeps saying 404 not connected....