Egyptian Senet (Ancient Egypt Game Of The Pharaoh Tutankhamun-King Tut-Sa Ra) Reviews – Page 4
5/5 rating based on 57 reviews. Read all reviews for Egyptian Senet (Ancient Egypt Game Of The Pharaoh Tutankhamun-King Tut-Sa Ra) for iPhone.
Egyptian Senet (Ancient Egypt Game Of The Pharaoh Tutankhamun-King Tut-Sa Ra) is paid iOS app published by Mohammed Ezzat
Awesome Game and Well Designed and Programmed
WRS15743
This is the best of the Senet games I've come across. The developer did an incredible job. Game play is smooth, challenging and fair. Design is gorgeous. This is one of my favorite iPhone games. There's a reason Senet has been around for thousands of years; it's not hard to learn, but the strategy is challenging (without being overly frustrating). Great job, developer, on a great implementation of this classic!
Possibly more fun than the actual board game.
palmcvp
Might be more fun than actual board game, although I bought this and the other competing one available (Deluxe, which doesn't offer a two player option) to help me learn the game, rules & strategy. Graphics are definitely five stars and the moving pieces on this game sound like heavy blocks of stone scraping across the tomb floor, which is very cool. Egyptian Tomb Music is entertaining, but can be turned off if desired. Highlighting option to show available moves is clean and helpful in learning the legal moves under various board situations. A little more detail in the rules might be helpful to those serious about learning the game strategy, but that would just be icing on the cake (or gold leaf on the mummy's shrine as the Egyptians would have expressed it). This is really a nicely done package !! UPDATE:After playing for a few days, I became aware the rules of this game version do not require the top row to first be emptied of a player's pieces for the player to score by removing any pieces off the board, nor does it feature the rule whereby three or more pieces in consecutive spaces create a total block such that an opponent cannot pass, regardless of the throw count. These are both important features in the commonly accepted game rules referenced by scholarly students of the game on-line, and make it more complex, which is helpful in giving a fairly short track race-type game a more strategic component. I'm not changing my star rating because the game is still fun and otherwise deserves it, but developer might want to consider these modifications or offer them as optional settings.
Rigged in favor of opponent
Real Suede Fan
This game is well designed but the rolls are f&&$ing obviously rigged to give the "house" the best numbers and multiple rolls in such a way that is beyond chance. Makers need to check their random number generator. Aggravating.
Faithful and Fun Recreation!
hugebrain
Very enjoyable game with fun details. It also seems like a very faithful recreation to the original game!
This game makes me happy *updated
vemonator
The game won't load after opening it, playing a few rounds and closing it. I get a blank white screen instead. I've had to reinstall the game twice. I just wish the pawns on the back row were more responsive when touched. When they're blocked by a pawn in the row in front, it's hard to get them to move
It's almost on point
SnakeGirl202
This game is awesome! I love Egypt and their mythology, this game does have it's weak points the worst aspect of the game is that 1)you don't get rewards or anything that may change up the game a little to make sure you don't get bored with it 2) not all the rules are the right ones from the Egyptian game "Senet", you usually don't have to wait long to take your turn and when you toss the sticks and you can't move any piece that number you have to move back that many squares and if you are in the in between world then you can bump people back to the house of birds and things like that. The problem is all you do is knock them into the house of water. Other than that this game is awesome! I played pharaoh mode (you can pick a mode) and I won! This game is almost on point.